Sermon on the Mount Leader Guide
Sermon on the Mount Leader Guide

Author: Amy-Jill Levine

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 1501899929

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How is the follower of Jesus to understand the words of the Old Testament? How are those words relevant to the New Covenant he is establishing? What might the words of the Lord’s Prayer have conveyed to his initial followers, and why is that historical information essential to the prayer two millennia later? In Sermon on the Mount, Dr. Amy-Jill Levine takes a detailed and colorful overview of Matthew 5-7, collectively known as Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Through Dr. Levine’s engaging method of biblical interpretation, readers will come away with a solid understanding of the Sermon on the Mount in its historical and theological context. Chapters include: The Beatitudes The Extensions Practicing Piety Our Father Finding Your Treasure Living into the Kingdom Explore the major topics in the most popular sermon ever delivered and unpack how Jesus makes his points using a solid knowledge of Hebrew Scriptures and moral teachings. The Leader Guide includes session outline for each group meeting with Scripture, prayer, opening activity, discussion questions, activity, and ending call to action.

Seven Words Leader Guide
Seven Words Leader Guide

Author: Susan Robb

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 1791007848

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While many of us naturally wish to avoid the reality of the cross, it’s from the cross that Jesus speaks and shows his deepest love for us. It’s from the cross that Jesus' full humanity draws us closest to him. It’s from the cross, as Jesus breathes his last breath and speaks his last words, that his deep trust in the Father and his divine glory are revealed. Those who listen to Jesus' last words from the cross will discover what he most wants them (the world) to hear and will experience an intimate and divine awe only available to those who are willing to draw near his cross. In Seven Words, Susan Robb looks at the seven last words of Christ on the cross through a lens that finds life and hope in his final sayings, while exploring each from a biblical and historical perspective. The book brings a hopeful and contemplative take on the cross during the weeks of Lent. The Leader Guide contains everything needed to guide a group through the six-week study including session plans, activities, and discussion questions, as well as multiple format options.

The Birds and the Lilies: Leader Guide
The Birds and the Lilies: Leader Guide

Author: Willow Weston

Publisher:

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9781727854220

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We live in what some are calling the "Anxiety culture" We worry as daughters, mothers, and grandmothers. We're getting gray hairs because we're nervous Nellies. We're taking chill pills because we're worried sick. For some of us, one second we can be doing okay and the next a Facebook post sends us into Anxiousville. Worry is a friend to all, stopping by for visits all too often and for some, it has actually moved in and become our roommate. But what if there is another way than worry and anxiety?In this beautifully designed, colorful ten-part Bible study, we will center around the passage in Matthew 6:19-34 where Jesus speaks into worry. The God who made us put on flesh and blood, skull and brain, a heart and the ability to feel indigestion, anger and emotion, and He could not watch worry strangle our lives and not suggest another way. As you engage Scripture, read personal stories, and reflect on questions that invite you to new places, you will be challenged, encouraged and inspired by this study. Included in this study is a Leader Guide that will help you facilitate life-changing dialogue for your small group, bible study, or book club! This Bible study experience is authentic, honest, sassy, engaging and transformative. Walking through this study will challenge you to dig deeper in your faith and look for God's peace and promises in the midst of worry and anxiety. It will encourage you to reflect on your relationship with worry and invite you into a new one. As you spend time colliding with Jesus in this Bible study, we are confident you will experience hope, freedom, and life! This study's author, Willow Weston, is the founder and director of Collide, a non-profit ministry based in Bellingham, Washington that creates events, curriculum, gatherings and conversations for women to collide with Jesus and and leave those collisions forever transformed. For more information about Collide, please visit wecollide.net.

Leader's Guide for Primary Source Readings in World Religions
Leader's Guide for Primary Source Readings in World Religions

Author: Patrick Tiernan

Publisher: Saint Mary's Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 088489827X

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Studying world religions is an intellectual challenge coupled with an emotional endeavor to grow in sensitivity to the mystery of human nature. Teaching world religions requires an openness to new languages, cultures and beliefs. By exploring the history of dialogue, students can begin to appreciate the unique contributions of each tradition without forgoing their own. Primary Source Readings in World Religions introduces your students to foundational texts of many of the world's main religions. This leader's guide brings you the expertise of a veteran world religions teacher who not only provides helpful insight into the readings but also lends the wisdom gained from years of guiding young people in deepening their understanding of different faith traditions. The leader's guideprovides you with continuity and variety. Each chapter includes these elements: summaries of the primary source readings from the student book an activity to help you guide students through each of the readings additional activities to further explore the issues suggestions for prayer related to the chapter topic action ideas related to the chapter topic

Names of H.O.P.E. Leader's Guide
Names of H.O.P.E. Leader's Guide

Author: David R. Grimm

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2006-08-08

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 059584684X

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Help Overcoming Painful Experiences (H.O.P.E.) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to help people experience a life transformation through their emotional pain so they can live the purpose-filled, victorious life God intended and designed them to live. We set people free from emotional bondage and empower them to live a transformed life. To accomplish our purpose, the H.O.P.E. program was designed to help people 1) resurrect hope, 2) overcome emotional pain from a variety of issues, 3) build a safe and healthy support network, 4) comprehend the truths about God in the midst of pain while exposing and replacing lies, and 5) experience a life transformation through the healing and restorative power of Jesus Christ. Our transformation model consists of three levels. Names of H.O.P.E. is Level 2 and centers on Names of God that meet the needs encountered while going through painful experiences. Each lesson relates a Name of God to His principles and purpose for pain, His character in the midst of pain, and how He can transform us through our pain and empower us to fulfill our purpose in life.

Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World
Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World

Author: Joanna Weaver

Publisher: WaterBrook

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0307569020

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CBA BESTSELLER • More than a million copies sold! An invitation for every woman who’s ever felt she isn’t godly enough, isn’t loving enough, isn’t doing enough. “Easy to read, personal, and well-written with a message much more than surface deep. Joanna probed, challenged, and encouraged me to live day by day as Mary in a Martha world.”—Carole Mayhall, author of Come Walk with Me and Here I Am Again, Lord The life of a woman today isn’t all that different from the lives of Mary and Martha in the New Testament. Like Mary, you long to sit at the Lord’s feet . . . but the daily demands of a busy world just won’t leave you alone. Like Martha, you love Jesus and really want to serve him . . . yet you struggle with weariness, resentment, and feelings of inadequacy. Then comes Jesus, into the midst of your busy life, to extend the same invitation he issued long ago to the two sisters from Bethany. Tenderly, he invites you to choose “the better part”—a joyful life of intimacy with him that flows naturally into loving service. With her fresh approach to the familiar Bible story, Joanna Weaver shows how all of us, Marys and Marthas alike, can draw closer to our Lord: deepening our devotion, strengthening our service, and doing both with less stress and greater joy. This book includes a twelve-week Bible study for individual or group use. A Study Guide and a corresponding ten-session video series on DVD or online are available separately.

Get Out of Your Head Bible Study Guide
Get Out of Your Head Bible Study Guide

Author: Jennie Allen

Publisher: HarperChristian Resources

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0310116384

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Stopping the spiral of toxic thoughts by learning how to become imitators of Christ. Are your thoughts holding you captive? Jennie Allen--the visionary behind the million-strong IF:Gathering--knows what it's like to swirl in a spiral of destructive thoughts, and she knows that from those thoughts, beliefs begin to form: "I'll never be good enough." "Other people have better lives than I do." "God couldn't really love me." We spiral down and down. Changing the way we think seems nearly impossible. And yet the apostle Paul tells us in his letter to the Philippians that conforming our minds to Christ is possible, and it's the ultimate goal for every follower of Christ. In Get Out of Your Head, a six-session video Bible study (DVD/streaming video sold separately), Jennie gives us tools from the book of Philippians to transform our emotions, our outlook, and even our circumstances, by taking control of our minds. We can find freedom from the downward spiral by: Taking every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ Shifting the focus of our minds from our circumstances to God Fighting toxic thoughts with weapons of humility, silence, and delight Escaping our comfort zones with weapons of connection, intentionality and gratitude Learning to forget what's behind so we can move ahead Defeating anxiety with a mind like Christ's Our enemy is determined to get in our heads to make us feel helpless, overwhelmed, and incapable of making a difference for the kingdom of God. But when we submit our minds to Christ, the promises and goodness of God flood our lives in remarkable ways. The Get Out of Your Head Study Guide uses projects, stories, and Bible study in the book of Philippians to engage the mind and heart. Sessions include: Introduction: Spiraling Out Make the Shift Weapons We Use, Part I Weapons We Use, Part II A New Way to Live A Mind Like Christ Designed for use with the Get Out of Your Head Video Study available on DVD or streaming video, sold separately.

Field Guide to the Birds of Ghana
Field Guide to the Birds of Ghana

Author: Nik Borrow

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-01-09

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 147298109X

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Ghana is one of the safest and most accessible countries in Western Africa and is rapidly becoming a top tourist destination. This dedicated country field guide uses illustrations from the acclaimed Birds of Western Africa, which have been recomposed into a new set of plates, with new text and maps specific to Ghana. The result is a compact and up-to-date guide to all the birds of Ghana.