Fearless Small Group Discussion Guide

Can you imagine your life without fear? In his book Fearless, Max Lucado offers hope and calm in a time of unprecedented fear in our nation and the world. Now Max's timeless messages are also available in discussion guide and DVD (each sold separately) that can be used for individual reflection or small-group discussion. Fearless draws from Jesus’ encounters with people in frightening situations giving evidence that we can trust God through these scary times. In six sessions, Max takes a close look at our greatest fears and offers scripturally based reassurance and guidance through even the toughest moments of our lives. This discussion guide can be used for personal journaling or as a prompt for open-hearted discussions with your small group. Let Max Lucado show you how to find a sense of peace and security in today's troubled world. Sessions include: Why Are We Afraid? Fear of Not Mattering Fear of Disappointing God Fear of Life's Final Moments Fear of Global Calamity Fear of God Getting Out of My Box Designed for use with the Fearless DVD 9780718008758 (sold separately)..

Can you imagine your life without fear? In his book Fearless, Max Lucado offers hope and calm in a time of unprecedented fear in our nation and the world. Now Max's timeless messages are also available in discussion guide and DVD (each sold separately) that can be used for individual reflection or small-group discussion. Fearless draws from Jesus' encounters with people in frightening situations giving evidence that we can trust God through these scary times. In six sessions, Max takes a close look at our greatest fears and offers scripturally based reassurance and guidance through even the toughest moments of our lives. This discussion guide can be used for personal journaling or as a prompt for open-hearted discussions with your small group. Let Max Lucado show you how to find a sense of peace and security in today's troubled world. Sessions include: Why Are We Afraid? (8:00) Fear of Not Mattering (8:00) Fear of Disappointing God (9:00) Fear of Life's Final Moments (10:00) Fear of Global Calamity (10:30) Fear of God Getting Out of My Box (9:30) Designed for use with the Fearless Video Study (sold separately)..

Can you imagine your life without fear? Max Lucado presents six DVD sessions that offer hope and calm in a time of unprecedented fear in our nation and the world. Designed for individual study or for a small group experience, Fearless draws from Jesus’ encounters with people in frightening situations giving evidence that we can trust God through these scary times. Features Include: One DVD with six 5-to-7-minute video sessions Fearless Small Group Discussion Guide Fearless Small Group Leader's Guide CD-ROM with sermon tips, guidelines for implementing a churchwide campaign, and materials for promoting your group study or sermon series Spanish track included.

Fear is the greatest block to the freedom of love and life. Christ came to bring freedom from the fear of suffering and death. What is the antidote to fear? It is love! “Love casts out fear.” (1 John 4:18) The scripture goes on to tell us, “The one who fears is not perfected in love.” In other words, when God’s children mature in love they have less fear. When fear grows, it drives out love. “Fearless love” means less fear and more love. It is the essence of courage. This book has teaching and stories regarding Biblical martyrdom, Islamic martyrdom and Christian persecution. But do not be intimidated. These are powerful subjects and they are written with the intent to bless you and change your life forever. It is first written for Christians who are looking for purpose and hope in these days of worldwide terrorism and second for Muslims seeking the heart of God in true worship. Our hope is that the fruit of this book will produce a fearless love to help you enjoy the journey of an obedient life that God intends for all His children. You’ll learn: · About basic Muslim beliefs. · How to reach out to Muslims. · How to share the gospel with Muslims. · How God gives faith that overcomes the fear of suffering and death. · How a close relationship with Jesus Christ gives us fearless love. · How to battle the global war on terror from the spiritual battlefield. The Biblical teaching of Christian martyrdom is a call to intentional, purposeful living and a bold witness of faith. These fifty true stories of courageous Christians will bring encouragement, inspiration, and hope in the coming days of terrorism in America..

Like the flip of a switch, Chickening IN created an epiphany or “God Moment.” Where there was once hopelessness, fear, and doubt . . . now there is new found hope, courage, and strength. We live in an unpredictable, uncontrollable world where things change often, and fear can plant itself deeply within our hearts. Chickening IN is a practical approach to defeating the fear and doubt that is preventing us from becoming brave, bold women of God. Do you long to overcome the fear and doubt that is sabotaging the life God has for you? Are you ready to grow in courage and put feet to your faith? You’ve come to the right place! I’d like to invite you to join me on a transformation journey to stop chickening out and start Chickening IN. By accepting my invitation you will embark into the land of transformation. A place where fear-filled lives can be reconstructed into courageous faith-filled lives. Chickening IN will require hard work and honest assessment, but I will lead you step by step through the eight pillars of Chickening IN that have changed my life and that can change your life, too!.

Fearless Love equips designated leaders to expose the lies that our culture tells about sexual choices and gives high school students a solid grounding in what God says about sex. Candid lessons provide frank information and answers to the questions teens ask. Program culminates in an opportunity for students to pledge their purity, and honor God in their sexual choices. Features: Eight step-by-step lessons and -- help leaders tackle delicate topics. Supplementary material for groups and -- provides extras for groups that want to go deeper. Rich biblical perspectives. Reproducibles for hands-on activities and -- provide valuable information today's youth need. Reproducible Parent Pak and -- equips parents to talk about tough subjects with their kids. Up-to-the-minute statistics on Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Cross culturally appropriate..

4 true stories of people who asked the hard faith questions and discovered that God is bigger than any doubt. Every title in the Lifetree Small Group Series provides your small group with four powerful video-based sessions, each focusing on a compelling, relevant topic. Each session features a real-life story related to the topic, a deep Bible connection, and on-screen questions designed to draw group members into thoughtful discussion and bring them closer to each other--and to God! No leader guide or participant guide required. In this title you get four true stories of people who asked hard faith questions and discovered that God is bigger than any doubt. Engage your small group with these edge-of-your-seat stories... Can God Love a Mess Like Me?--Join the best-selling author of The Shack, William Paul Young, as he describes a life of abuse, scandal, and shame. The Bible--Meet Eugene Peterson, author of The Message, as you consider whether the Bible is really all it's said to be. Science and Religion--Listen as the pope's astronomer weighs in on whether faith and science can truly mix. Only One Way to God?--Hear one woman grapple with whether Jesus really is the only way to God. With every title in the Lifetree Small Group Series, leaders get all this: -Biblical depth--There's no hopscotching from one verse to another. Instead, each session zeroes in on one relevant passage and invites honest, authentic conversation. -No-prep plug-and-play--Compelling questions and video segments for all four sessions are on one ready-to-use DVD. No leader guide or participant guide needed. -Flexibility--Every session reinforces the theme but stands alone. Perfect for busy people who can't make every small group meeting. -Relevant topics--These are the topics small groups want to explore--topics that build faith...grow hope...and draw them closer to God. Includes an easy-to-follow user's guide and onscreen questions designed to take your conversations to a whole new level. Each one-hour session in the Lifetree Small Group Series features the filmed story of real person--sure to draw small groups into deep, life-changing conversations. DVD run time: 59:33.

6 ready-to-use lessons on topic of living fearlessly. Each lesson consists of 20 or so ready-to-use questions that get groups talking. Answers are provided in the form of quotes from respected authors such as John Piper, Max Lucado and Beth Moore. These lessons will save you time as well as provide deep insights from some of the great writers and thinkers from today and generations past. I also include quotes from the same commentaries that your pastor uses in sermon preparation. Ultimately, the goal is to create conversations that change lives..

As the workforce ages and younger trainers and managers emerge, facilitation skills take on a new importance and, with the increased use of social networks, new facilitation skills are needed. Written by two facilitation gurus, this book shows how to make any learning environment come alive. It outlines proven guidelines any trainer can use to unify groups, inspire creativity, and get audiences, teams, and colleagues to speak up, talk back, participate, and engage in meetings..

Ignite a deeper, more vibrant relationship with God that impacts not just your spiritual life but every aspect of your daily life. John Ortberg calls readers back to the dynamic heartbeat of Christianity--God's power to bring change and growth--and reveals how and why transformation takes place. The Life You've Always Wanted offers modern perspectives on the ancient path of the spiritual disciplines. But it is more than just a book about things to do to be a good Christian. It's a road map toward true transformation that starts not with the individual but with the person at the journey's end--Jesus Christ. As with a marathon runner, the secret to finishing a race lies not in trying harder, but in training consistently--training with the spiritual disciplines. The disciplines are neither taskmasters nor ends in themselves. Rather they are exercises that build strength and endurance for the road of growth. The fruit of the Spirit--joy, peace, kindness, etc.--are the signposts along the way. Paved with humor and sparkling anecdotes, The Life You've Always Wanted is an encouraging and challenging approach to a Christian life that's worth living--a life on the edge that fills an ordinary world with new meaning, hope, change, and joy..

This book identifies the six fearless decisions that school leaders need to make to be successful. The author analyzes the top fears that impede effective leadership and lower student achievement, then provides a step by step antidote that will change fear into intention, increase confidence, and produce positive results in your school. In this book, you’ll learn how to: • approach difficult classrooms and solve the problem of low-performing teachers • gain the strength to accept judgment when making controversial decisions during the change process • offer trust and gain it from your staff • use reflection questions and techniques to align thoughts with your best intentions • "re-wire" your thinking as you examine the risks that come with change • take action on standardized test results to improve student learning • feel comfortable making and implementing tough decisions Learn how to change fear into intention so you are able to act with confidence and get the results you really want..

The last 30 years of American church life have played a familiar refrain: “The church is old, out of touch, dying, and it’s too late.” Why bother? What if the church is not old enough, not out of touch enough, and not dying enough? When survival-rooted panic is supplanted with calm, spirited creativity, that may be exactly the moment your church was made for, that your community was hoping for— and that God is waiting for. First Christian Church of Odessa, Texas made a radical choice and was reborn as Connection Christian Church, with a new view on ministry and new energy. Breakthrough: Trusting God for Big Change in Your Church tells the story of what happened when this church dared to place their desperate, dying selves into the hands of a God whose middle name is “Surprise!” — and hints how readers might find that audacity in their own congregations..

Move Out: Warriors on a Mission is a curriculum that, over the course of an intense weekend retreat or spread out over several weeks, prepares teens for the mission field..

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Packed with tools and practices, this study guide takes us deeper into Simple & Free: 7 Experiments Against Excess by New York Times bestselling author Jen Hatmaker, helping us combat the areas of overindulgence and excess in our lives, freeing us to feel less stressed and more fulfilled. In Simple & Free, first published as 7, Jen Hatmaker gave readers the story of how her reckoning with excess and materialism turned into a social experiment—which soon propelled a spiritual movement. Now, in this study guide, Hatmaker invites us to delve deeper into solutions and practices for our own seven areas of excess—from stress to spending to social media. This nine-week study guide walks us through these excesses and equips us with practical tools for creating solutions—and making this idea a way of life, not just an experiment. Taking the best from Simple & Free and packing these points with Scripture followed by prompting questions, this resource is broken down into focused, thematically organized weeks for readers to explore patterns and solutions around sustainability and gratitude in greater depth. What’s the payoff from living a deeply reduced life? It’s the discovery of a greatly increased connection with God—a call toward simplicity and generosity that transcends social experiment to become a radically better life..

Using piloting as an engaging framework for organizational transformation, Trimble addresses the process of planning, executing, and completing a church revitalization project in 10 easy-to-read chapters: · Decide You Want to Fly · What Kind of Pilot Will You Be? · The Fundamentals of Flight · Your Flight Crew · Charting Your Course · Preflight Checklist · Funding Your Flying Habit · Managing Comms · Mayday Moments · Making a Successful Landing Trimble is the executive director and CEO of the Center for Progressive Renewal (CPR) and has years of experience helping to start new congregations and revitalize older congregations. Piloting Church reflects her learnings as a congregational consultant and national faith leader. Having worked with twelve denominational partners and their congregations, she believes the Church's best days are ahead..

*Foreword written by Nancy Pearcey* "Parents are the most important apologists our kids will ever know. Mama Bear Apologetics will help you navigate your kids’ questions and prepare them to become committed Christ followers.” —J. Warner Wallace "If every Christian mom would apply this book in her parenting, it would profoundly transform the next generation." —Natasha Crain #RoarLikeAMother The problem with lies is they don’t often sound like lies. They seem harmless, and even sound right. So what’s a Mama Bear to do when her kids seem to be absorbing the culture’s lies uncritically? Mama Bear Apologetics™ is the book you’ve been looking for. This mom-to-mom guide will equip you to teach your kids how to form their own biblical beliefs about what is true and what is false. Through transparent life stories and clear, practical applications—including prayer strategies—this band of Mama Bears offers you tools to train yourself, so you can turn around and train your kids. Are you ready to answer the rallying cry, “Mess with our kids and we will demolish your arguments”? Join the Mama Bears and raise your voice to protect your kids—by teaching them how to think through and address the issues head-on, yet with gentleness and respect..