How can we develop a passionate love for God? These Old Testament books unveil a wealth of information.
How can we develop a passionate love for God? The Books of 1 & 2 Chronicles may seem like an unlikely place for the answer, but a close look at these two books unveils a wealth of information that can change our lives. This six-session course looks at how we can live up to our potential, experience God's presence, learn to listen to and talk to God, and help the children of today be the leaders of ...
This seven-session course will remind us of how to live the basic Christian life.
When Paul wrote to the Corinthians, he knew they needed to be instructed in the basics. Today, we also need to be taught the basics of the Christian life. This seven-session course from 1 Corinthians will remind us why we go to church, how to use our bodies to honor God, how to find unity in diversity, how to love, serve, and worship together, and how to face death.
This course reveals that abundant life is possible when people respond in faith and obedience to Christ.
The Book of Haggai is about how God's prophet stirs up the Israelites to get back to work on the rebuilding of the temple. There is an analogy between temple building and the Christian's focus on being disciples, making disciples, and serving the church body. There's also an analogy between the literal drought the Israelites experienced and what God's people may experience—the dryness of dissatisfaction ...
Work through the pain of divorce to find new hope in Christ.
How can a divorced Christian work through guilt, overcome it, and find restoration and new hope in Christ? How can divorced Christians reconnect with God and find their way back to a healthy spiritual life and relationship? Are your friendships over, or can you take steps to forestall a complete disaster? How can you assure your children of your unchanging love for them? How do you put your life back ...
This 4-week course will help you and your group explore modern cultural heresies.
The following 4-week course will help you and your group explore modern cultural heresies by posing questions like: Are people from other faiths who don't believe in Jesus still God's children and will they go to heaven? How can we evaluate practices like yoga and their compatibility with Christian discipleship? What are some of the heresies of today's culture? How much truth is there to claims made ...
Discuss important and controversial questions that surround homosexuality.
The following 5-week course will help you and your group think about important and controversial questions that surround homosexuality like: What does the Bible say about homosexuality? Is there any evidence that a homosexual can change? What is the proper response of Christians to homosexuals?
Week One
Is There Hope for Homosexuals?The retiring head of Exodus says gay transformation ministries are ...
How the church treats homosexuals has eternal consequences.
How God's household treats homosexuals can have eternal consequences. In this three-session course, we learn that God transforms us through our struggles. The road to change is a slow, but worth the effort. As God's ambassadors, we need to learn to express our own weaknesses so that others will learn to trust us. Finally, we need to give God room to work, because only he can truly change someone.
Use this 13-session spiritual growth course to discuss how to pursue a intimate relationship with God.
Use this 13-session spiritual growth course to discuss how to pursue a intimate relationship with God. This course looks at how to repent, manage anger, imitate Christ, let go of guilt, and forgive others. It also covers topics such as grace and sin, spirituality today, and keys to spiritual growth.
Week 1
Spirituality for TodayModern spirituality begins and ends with the self; Christian spirituality, ...
Discuss key questions Christians have faced over two millennia - and provide answers for those questions for today.
The How We Got Our Bible course provides more than an introduction to church history. It helps people ask the key questions Christians have faced over two millennia—and provides answers for those questions for today.
Session 1
Discerning What Is ScriptureThe Bible contains four accounts of Jesus' life, but Christians in the first few centuries knew of at least fifty. Sorting out which books were ...