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Dr. Moore uses key Scriptures that distinctively shape us as United Methodists. There are two sessions from the Old Testament and four sessions from the New Testament. Each session also lifts up and uses core terms and life application topics taken from the Wesley Study Bible to help you grow as a faithful follower of Jesus as you practice your faith in everyday life.
Sessions include:
1: God Takes a Reluctant Shepherd and Makes a Bold Leader: The Story of Moses
2: God Takes a Harem Girl...
3D is a Christ-centered health program founded in 1972 by Carol Showalter. Your Whole Life is a 12-week plan that is designed to help people balance three different areas of life - health, daily lifestyle, and spiritual growth.
This package includes one copy of each resource, and is intended for the leader who is starting a YWL group. Includes:
Your Whole Life: The 3D Plan for Eating Right, Living Well, and Loving God
Your Whole Life Journal
Your Whole Life Inspirational...
Humor, compassion, and practical principles to enhance your marriage. Sessions include:
1 – THE PERFECT ANSWER TO A COMMON QUESTION
Why Did We Get Married in the First Place?
2 – WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Why Some Marriages Work While Others Don’t
3 – THE DIFFERENCE YOUR DIFFERENCES CAN MAKE
Why You’re So Normal and Your Mate Is So Weird!
4 – WHAT GOES ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
How Men Think and What They Need (That They’ll Probably Never Tell You)
5 – ...
Puts a practical, relevant face on five deep biblical truths.
Topics include:
A Camel, A Needle, And A Rich Guy
The Most Important Word That You Hardly Ever Use
Jesus
Paul Who?
Jesus Calms the Storm
A fresh look at who God is and how he relates to us. Learn how God’s story intertwines with ours, from the moment of creation to the challenges of daily living your students wrestle with right now.
Topics include:
Honoring God with Our Creations
Living in God’s Boundaries
Communicating with God
Coming Face to Face with Jesus
Living God’s Story in My Life
One of the most widely-used diversity training videos, Jane Elliott's method challenges viewers to confront racism at work, in communities, & in ourselves.
Includes 3 versions:
*BLUE EYED - the original 93 minute version.
*THE ESSENTIAL BLUE EYED - an abridged 55 minute version with a 35 minute debriefing.
*THE 30 MINUTE BLUE EYED - the 30 most dramatic minutes of BLUE EYED.
*A brief trainer's guide to BLUE EYED.
Develops teenagers for a lifestyle that looks past themselves…and sees the needs of others. And even more importantly—responds to the needs of others with an externally focused life!
Includes:
VIDEO TEACHING SEGMENTS—18 segments in all (three for each session), including teaching, ‘teen on the street’ interviews, and wrap-up videos!
SIX PRINTABLE LESSON PLANS—each designed especially for youth.
Learn the do’s and don’ts of small group leadership. From skits with everything from “bad leaders” to “problem students,” the Skit Guys portray eleven scenes that will have leaders laughing and learning. Provides practical training that will help your leadership team understand how to better lead teens in small groups.
Life Hurts God Heals is an 8-week recovery program that provides tools for youth with pain and addiction. This kit is a comprehensive training program on how to implement Life Hurts God Heals within your ministry. With over two hours of video training from Megan Hutchinson (Life Hurts God Heals champion), you'll learn how to start your program, support your participants, and work with leaders.
Also included is a PowerPoint presentation to help you teach this same material to leaders in your...
Doug Fields challenges students to put their faith into action in ways that are meaningful, practical and godly. This is an easy-to-implement way for you to help students embrace living a gospel lifestyle, not just talking about it.
Love Out Loud topics include: Love Out Loud, Love Risks,
Love Serves, Love Multiplies, Love Forgives and Love Lasts.
Features 40 short lessons based on clips of MAYBERRY TV Show.
Illustrations include:
Ambition, Boasting, Concern, Courage, Example, Generosity,
Help, Humility, Judgment, Longing, Love, Meddling, Parenting, Revenge, Scheming, Teaching and Wake-Up
Participants will learn how God's perfect vision for your life is not just that you are saved by grace, but that you also learn to live by grace, flourishing with the Spirit flowing through you. Ortberg helps you gauge your spiritual health and measure the gap between where you are now and where God intends you to be. Then follow the exercises he presents to help you live in the flow of the Spirit, circumventing real-world barriers—pain and sorrow, temptations, self-doubt, sin—to flourish even...
This series provides children with a comprehensive view of what it means to love. Upon completion, children should be able to provide some answers to what is love?, what does it mean when we say, “God loves us?”, and how do we love one another? With lively, humorous characters and an intriguing storyline, children will be delighted as they encounter themes such as: strength, faith, encouragement, humility, service, sharing, honesty, and empathy.
Watch Doug Fields & Jim Burns present the Pass It On - Helping Hurting Kids conference and get every single resource they use in a 5-disk set. Use this material to host your own training for other youth workers, parents, and volunteers.
Sessions Include:
Intro with Doug & Jim, Help for a Generation in Crisis, Counseling 101 for Youth Ministry, Dealing with Suicide, Sexual Abuse...the Unspoken Epidemic, Understanding Divorce, and Bonus Session: How to Lead Great Seminars.
Also included are...
Covers the steps necessary to build a healthy youth ministry, recruit, train and empower volunteers and develop student leaders. This will enable you to not only learn for yourself, but also to teach others material crucial to sustaining a growing, vibrant youth ministry.
Session include: Personal Preparation for Youth Ministry,
Building a Youth Ministry Foundation, Empowering Student Leaders, Creating a Strong Youth Ministry Team, Developing an Evangelistic Environment, Pursuing...
Features 40 short lessons based on clips of classic “primetime TV show parables" - Mayberry , Beverly Hillbillies, Dick Van Dyke Show, Lucy, and Gilligan’s Island.
Lessons include Alertness, Appearances, Blessings,
Dishonesty, Forgiveness, Grace, Materialism, Money,
Problems, Purity, Respect, Selfishness, Trust,
Uncertainty, Unity, Values, and Wisdom.
Experience the PDYM Conference. Doug Fields and other youth ministry veterans sharing what they've learned.
Sessions include:
Important vs. More Important, Discover God's Purposes, Evaluate and Communicate, Identify Potential Student Targets, Do It! Reflect Biblical Purpose (- Evangelism / Community- Worship / Crowd- Fellowship / Congregation- Discipleship / Committed- Ministry / Core), and Closing Thoughts. Bonus Sessions by Duffy Robbins "The Reality of Youth Ministry" and Jim Burns "The...
EXPLORING THE WORDS OF JESUS
Students dig into the words of Jesus himself, the “Red Stuff”. They’ll take a look at five of Jesus’ parables, uncover what His message was, and see how it still applies to their life today.
Lessons cover what Jesus said about:
The Bible
Our Talents
Pride
Persistent Prayer
Eternity
Trusting That God's Way is the Wisest Way
Ready-to-use lessons on some of the most profound and applicable pearls of God’s wisdom. Turns out God knows what he’s talking about! And few books of the Bible bear that out, verse after verse, like the book of Proverbs.
Lesson include:
God’s Way is the Best Way—8:44
Sticks & Stones—8:17
Frogs & Friends—6:37
Eeew… Puke!—9:51
Give It Away—9:31
Zondervan partnered with World Vision and the C2 Group to present this unprecedented initiative to help Christians live out Christ's love in world-changing ways right where they live. It helps small groups, families, entire churches, and organizations of every size explore the most pressing issues of our time — then start actually doing something about them. This study takes Christians out of the pews and into the streets where, as the hands and feet of Christ, they will live out the gospel,...
