It is recommended that groups do a Spiritual Health Assessment in order to see where they can benefit from a Spiritual Health Plan. See Clovis Barnett or Kerry Hughes for more details.
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| Majesty of the Maker: Evidence for Design |
Leader's Edition
Participants Edition |
Sharon Doyle |
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Description: This study guide includes a series of five lessons, each featuring Scripture discussion questions, a short DVD presentation, and additional questions and readings to introduce participants to key science-and-faith issues.
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| Be a World Changer | World Changers Resources | Not Evaluated |
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| Doing Life Together, Experiencing Life Together | LifeTogether.com | Not Evaluated |
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These easy to follow participant study guides take your group into the progressively deeper waters of community and life together.
Twelve volumes with 6 sessions in each volume. Check out the web site above for full details, sample chapters, and video clips.
Participant study guides and companion DVDs.
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| Small Group Curriculum | Saddleback Resources | Not Evaluated |
Lots of different ideas for small groups, broken into six categories:
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| Small Group Curriculum Pathway Ideas | PDF File | General Syllabus, but no details |
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This PDF file suggests an annual curriculum calendar for use over 4 years to ensure a healthy small group diet.
Use it as a framework, but you'll have to come up with the actual study to use in your own group to implement the topic suggested.
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| One Month to Live | Christianbook.com | Jeff Worman |
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What if you only had one month to live? How would you make each day really matter?
What would you start, or stop, doing? How would you relate to others?
"One Month to Live" empowers you to focus on being who God created you to be--passionate, fully alive, living without regrets.
Written in 30 short insightful chapters, this is one month's journey you'll never forget. 226 pages, hardcover from Waterbrook.
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| Celebration of Discipline |
Book
Study Guide |
Kerry Hughes |
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I've used this book and study guide in a small group and found it one of the more enlightening, challenging, and effective studies I've had in a small group.
When Richard Foster began writing Celebration of Discipline more than 20 years ago, an older writer gave him a bit of advice: "Be sure that every chapter forces the reader into the next chapter." Foster took the advice to heart; as a result, his book presents one of the most compelling and readable visions of Christian spirituality published in the past few decades. After beginning with a simple observation--"Superficiality is the curse of our age.... The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people"--Foster's book moves to explain the disciplines people must cultivate in order to achieve spiritual depth. In succinct, urgent, and sometimes humorous chapters, Foster defines a broad range of classic spiritual disciplines in terms that are lucid without being too limiting and offers advice that's practical without being overly prescriptive. |
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| Repurposed: The Memoirs of Nehemiah | Book | Penny Beatty |
Nehemiah heard about the devastation of the city and people of God . . . and he acted. In 52 days he accomplished the remarkable feat of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. But in doing so, he repurposed the project so that it wasnÕt just about building a wall of protection around the holy city. As the walls went up, Nehemiah rebuilt a community of faith, compassion, and hope.
Across the spiritual landscape of the 21st century, the walls are down again. Statistics reveal that many in the modern church are cynical, jaded, and disenfranchised. But this five-session study of the book of Nehemiah can provide lasting principles to rebuild our communities of faith as well.
In his second release from Threads, Mike Hurt examines the memoirs of Nehemiah, builder of walls and communities, and applies principles from this regular manÕs life that can restore the faith of the modern Christian community.
Hurt examines such issues as:
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