Just before dawn on Saturday morning, a few neighbors gather in my driveway bearing dozens of eggs, gallons of orange juice, fruit, bagels, and cheese. We drive to a women's shelter in the city, then cook and serve breakfast to the 30 or so women who live there. Two hours later, we head back to the suburbs in time to get our kids to their various activities. It's the perfect service project for a ...
A call for a broader and more missional approach to small-groups ministry.
Harvey Carey
The following audio clip has been excerpted from a keynote presentation delivered by Harvey Carey at the 2006 Small Group and Evangelism conference in Lombard, Illinois. Harvey will again be a featured speaker at this year's conference, which will take place July 18–20.
"In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men…."
The Widow and Judge is an emotionally powerful re-telling of Jesus' Parable of the Persistent Widow. Filmed in the style of To Kill a Mockingbird, the story follows the persistance of a woman in demanding justice from a judge who embodies the opposite of God's compassion and grace.
This is a bundle of two movies, a PDF discussion guide, and an announcement poster.
War, poverty, despair—the world's problems seem overwhelming. Where do we even start? Bono, Oprah, and other celebrities have the resources to make a difference; should we just leave it up to them? Or does God have a role for each of us?
In these four video sessions, Todd Phillips travels to Rwanda and the Republic of Congo to explore how he will make a difference to people looking for hope and ...
This six-session course asks how Christians can live as a counterculture of Christ-likeness.
The Christian Vision Project, sponsored by Christianity Today International, is asking a select group of creative Christian thinkers—pastors, scholars, artists, and activists—one big question: How can followers of Christ be a counterculture for the common good? This project highlights Christian leaders who model faithfulness, creativity, and commitment at a crucial moment in the history of the church. ...
Discuss important and much-debated laws that are of specific interest to Christians.
The following 4-week course will help you and your group think about important and hotly debated laws that are of specific interest to Christians. The course will initiate questions like: What does the "separation of church and state" mean to you? What's our church's policy about sending missionaries to closed countries? Should jails and prisons focus more on reforming criminals, while punishing them ...
What does a relationship with Jesus look like day-to-day? The Book of James tells what it means to follow Christ.
What does a real relationship with Jesus look like day-in and day-out? The Book of James is all about what it means to follow Christ 24/7. It explores spiritual maturity, and how to grow up in the faith. Every verse is easy to understand but not at all easy to implement. This book teaches us about real faith by giving us God's Word on some of the most daily realities of following Jesus, including ...
Use this 13-session course to take a deeper look at God in our culture.
This 13-session course on God and culture will be ideal for your Sunday school quarterly curriculum or to use in your small group. It covers such topics as how to be counterculturally relevant, how to have righteous anger, the value of human life and faithfulness. Most of all it will help us learn how to live for Christ in today's culture.
Week 1
The Kingdom and Our CultureHow can Christians live for ...
This six-session course looks at how a passion for social change can change the world in which we live in, as God’s power works through our availability.
William Wilberforce took on the entire British Empire to fight the slave trade. Although it took most of his life, cost him great wealth, and nearly destroyed his health, he persisted until he saw success. This six-session course looks at how a passion for social change can change the world in which we live in, as God's power works through our availability. Through looking at Wilberforce's example, ...
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