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Illawarra UCA Presbytery Media Catalogue
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Everything Is Spiritual Rob Bell |
In the Hebrew Scriptures there is no word for "spiritual." And Jesus never used the phrase "spiritual life." Why? Because for Jesus and his tradition, all of life is spiritual. Rob Bell explores what this means in this live recording of his 2006 tour.
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Jesus The New Way DVD with PDF Curriculum Tom Wright |
Wright's acclaimed scholarship is delivered in a winsome and understandable way, showing how Jesus is the fulfillment of Israel's ancient hopes and humanity's deepest dreams. You will see Jesus as you have never seen him before in the context of his Jewish and Roman world. You will find explosive new meaning in his familiar words and deeds as Wright unfolds his incomparable life and shows how it remains an unavoidable summons to our world and way of thinking. "Jesus the New Way is a magnificent account of the life and message of Jesus of Nazareth. N.T. Wright is truly one of the most outstanding contemporary Jesus scholars, which is evident throughout this entire production. I highly recommend this series for youth and adults alike." - Josh McDowell *Program 1, Getting the Kingdom Started: Into what kind of world was Jesus born? What do we learn from the Dead Sea Scrolls, John the Baptist, and the kingdom announcement of Jesus? *Program 2, Startling Surprises: How did the kingdom announced by Jesus parallel the expectations of the Jewish people that they derived from their study of Scripture? Why was Jesus' news shocking and offensive? What was he really saying? *Program 3, Longing for a King: In a Jewish world weird for the welcome and recognition of a Messiah, how did Jesus redefine what that should mean? What were the implications for the main symbols of Israel’s life such as the Holy Temple? *Program 4, Why did Jesus die? What were the charges? What was the real and great battle being fought? How was history racing toward its climatic moment, and how did Jesus understand and undertake his role therein? *Program 5, Who was Jesus? How do we begin to understand the meaning of Jesus by reexamining what we really mean by God? How did Jesus understand himself? How did the early church view Jesus? Was Jesus divine? *Program 6, The New Claim: Was Jesus really raised from the dead? What about all the skeptics’ explanations as to why that is impossible? What did resurrection mean to first-century Jews? How does the resurrection of Jesus address our individual lives? PDFs Included on the DVD: - 96-page leader's guide with background information, discussion questions, and program scripts - 16-page participant's workbook - Questions and answers by Bible teacher Dr. Ted Coleman
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Life Stories-Great Journeys Kit |
Life Stories is a five-week exploration of how Christianity works in the nitty-gritty of real life. Watch the inspiring stories of people who have put the teachings of Jesus into practise, and see how faith changes their life and their world. What does the course cover? - Week 1 Why should I forgive people who hurt me? - Week 2 Where is God when it hurts? - Week 3 How do I make good choices in life? - Week 4 Loving others - what's the point? - Week 5 Prayer, the Bible and other stuff. Life Stories is hosted by investigative journalist Rob Harley, producer of the award winning TV series Extreme Close Up, and presenter of the Journeys course, which has been seen by thousands of people around the world.
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Crossing with DVD |
Crossing features five stand-alone episodes based on stories from the book of Joshua. Each story illustrates a situation that could either be controlled by fear and insecurity, or where God can reach out and help His people cross to a better place. Crossing always calls for uncommon courage, faith, and obedience, just like Joshua exhibited when leading nearly two million people across the Jordan River. But the results are always beyond what was imagined before crossing.Liquid is a DVD-based experience featuring five 10-minute episodes in each series, as well as a 96-page Reflection Guide with questions and leader's tips. Each episode introduces present-day characters whose problems and struggles mirror biblical stories, illustrating that God's word is as true today as it was when it was written. With emotionally provoking videos, introspective questions, and tips for leading a small group, Liquid is the perfect experience for individual growth or small group study.
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Fork in the Road with DVD John Ward |
Fork in the Road is a modern retelling of the life of David. From his legendary triumph over Goliath to his greatest downfall with Bathsheba, Fork in the Road portrays one man's crucial moments of decision that either lead him to victory or defeat.Liquid is a DVD-based experience featuring five 10-minute episodes in each series, as well as a 96-page Reflection Guide with questions and leader's tips. Each episode introduces present-day characters whose problems and struggles mirror biblical stories, illustrating that God's word is as true today as it was when it was written. With emotionally provoking videos, introspective questions, and tips for leading a small group, Liquid is the perfect experience for individual growth or small group study.
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Live at Five with DVD John Ward |
Live at Five is the story of Natalie Neff and her struggles to discover purpose and direction in her life. Just out of college, she's faced with daunting challenges both personally, and professionally. Based on the book of James, Live at Five portrays the practical advice of James in a light-hearted, culturally relevant way. Liquid is a DVD-based experience featuring five 10-minute episodes in each series, as well as a 96-page Reflection Guide with questions and leader's tips. Each episode introduces present-day characters whose problems and struggles mirror biblical stories, illustrating that God's word is as true today as it was when it was written. With emotionally provoking videos, introspective questions, and tips for leading a small group, Liquid is the perfect experience for individual growth or small group study.
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Mirror Image with DVD John Ward |
Mirror Image is the story of a family from Orange County who faces dramatic events and must choose how to respond. Based on some of the most famous biblical parables, Mirror Image reminds us that Jesus' teachings ask us to change the way we think in order to be salt and light in the world. Liquid is a DVD-based experience featuring five 10-minute episodes in each series, as well as a 96-page Reflection Guide with questions and leader's tips. Each episode introduces present-day characters whose problems and struggles mirror biblical stories, illustrating that God's word is as true today as it was when it was written. With emotionally provoking videos, introspective questions, and tips for leading a small group, Liquid is the perfect experience for individual growth or small group study.
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Nooma: Rain 001 Rob Bell |
Things don't always work out the way we want them to, or the way we think they will. Sometimes we don't even see it coming. We get hit with some form of pain out of nowhere leaving us feeling desperate and helpless. That's the way life is. Still, it makes us wonder how God can let these things happen to us. How God can just stand by and watch us suffer? Where is God when it really hurts? Maybe God is actually closer to us than we think. Maybe it's when we're in these situations, where everything seems to be falling apart, that God gets an opportunity to remind us of how much he really loves us.
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Nooma: Flame 002 Rob Bell |
I love those shoes. Really? The same way I love my wife? Whats up with the word love? It doesnt have much meaning when we use it so loosely. Maybe we dont really get it. Maybe we dont understand what real love is. What it involves to really love somebody. What it means to give yourself to someone else. We mistake things like friendship, commitment, or lust for love, but God wired us a certain way to experience all that love was really meant to be. Not to hold us back or to make us miss out on the best that life has to offer. God created love, and wants us to feel it all in the way its meant to be felt.
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Nooma: Trees 003 Rob Bell |
We want to know why we are here. If our lives really matter. How our religion is relevant to this life. Today. We want to understand what significance this minute, hour, week, month, and year has to our lives.To our world. We need a God who cares about this life, in this world, right now. We want to understand why everything we think, everything we say, and everything we do matters. We dont want to just sit back and wait for something to happen or someday to come. We want to know if all the choices we make now will shape our world and lives for eternity. Because we want our lives to have meaning today, and our lives today to have meaning forever.
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Nooma: Sunday 004 Rob Bell |
Why do we do the things we do? Why do we go to church or give money away? Because we're supposed to or because we think God needs it? Do we honestly put on our best clothes for an hour once a week, stand and sit at all the right times, and sing all the appropriate songs for God's sake, or because it'll make us look better to the world around us? We're tired of all the empty rituals and routines. And so is God. God hates it when we call ourselves Christians but ignore all the things He really cares about. He hates it when we go through hollow religious routines out of some feeling of duty or obligation. God doesn't want the meaningless rituals. God wants our hearts.
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Nooma: Noise 005 Rob Bell |
Why is silence so hard to deal with? Why is it so much easier for us to live our lives with a lot of things going on all the time than to just be in silence? We're constantly surrounded by "voices" that are influencing us on how to think, feel, and behave. Movies, music, TV, Internet, mobile phones, and a never-ending barrage of advertising. There's always something going on, always noise in our lives, but maybe there's a connection between the amount of noise in our lives and our inability to hear God. If God sometimes feels distant to us, maybe it's not because he's not talking to us, but simply because we aren't really listening.
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Nooma: Kickball 006 Rob Bell |
We always think we know what's missing from our lives in order to really make us happy, don't we? If only I had that car, or that job, or if only I could lose those 8 kilos, then I'd be happy. Really? How often do we want something only to find out that it wasn't that great after all? Sometimes we ask God for things and if He doesn't deliver right away, we start questioning whether God really understands or even cares. Do we really trust God? Do we trust that God is good and sees a bigger picture than we ever could? It's easy to want what's right in front of us, but maybe God knows what's better for us, and sometimes we just can't see it.
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Nooma: Luggage 007 Rob Bell |
Maybe a friend turned their back on you. Maybe someone you loved betrayed you. We all have wounds and we end up carrying around these things that people have done to us for weeks, months, and sometimes even years. It isn't always easy to forgive these people and after a while these hurts can get really heavy. So the only way to feel better seems to be somehow getting back the people that hurt us, to get revenge. But does revenge ever truly satisfy? Maybe forgiving isn't something you do for someone else to let them off the hook. Maybe forgiveness is about you. God didn't create you to carry these wounds around. God created you to be free.
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Nooma: Dust 008 Rob Bell |
Believing in God is important, but what about God believing in us? Believing that we can actually be the kind of people we were meant to be. People of love, compassion, peace, forgiveness, and hope. People who try to do the right thing all of the time. It's easy for us to sometimes get down on ourselves. To feel "not good enough" or feel like we don't have what it takes. But maybe if we had more insight into the culture that Jesus grew up in and some of the radical things He did, we'd understand the faith that God has in all of us.
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Nooma: Bullhorn 009 Rob Bell |
God loves everyone, so a Christian should, too. In fact, Jesus said that the most important thing in life is to love God with everything weve got and love others the same way. But its not always easy to love everyone around us, is it? Sometimes we strongly disagree with other peoples political views, religious beliefs, behaviors, or something else, and it makes it hard to love them when we feel like were right and theyre very wrong. But Jesus doesnt separate loving God and loving others. So maybe the best way for us to show our love for God is actually by loving other people no matter how hard it sometimes is. Maybe its the only way.
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Nooma: Lump 010 Rob Bell |
A lot of us have done things in our lives that we're ashamed of. Some are small things, and some of us have really big and devastating things. Some of us even have things that people close to us don't know about. Personal junk that we keep to ourselves so we don't have to deal with it. Because we don't know how to deal with it, do we? We're afraid that if we try it's just going to make everything worse. But no matter how big our junk is, no matter how much what we've done has impacted the way other people feel about us or how we feel about ourselves, it hasn't changed how God feels about us. God loves us, he always has and always will, and there's nothing we can do to change that.
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Nooma: Rhythm 011 Rob Bell |
Is how we live connected to something that has been in place since the beginning of time? Maybe Jesus didn't come to start a new religion, but to show us how to live in tune with the life God has always planned for us.
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Nooma: Matthew 012 Rob Bell |
Losing someone we love can be the most difficult thing to go through in life. All the explanations and comforting words in the world don't really help and everything can seem hopeless. But what might help us is to know, that in facing this kind of loss, Jesus wept. This DVD helps you tackle the issue of loss through the eyes of Jesus. Ideal for personal or group discussion, it also includes a 32-page discussion guide.
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Nooma: Rich 013 Rob Bell |
We can get anything we want, from anywhere in the world, whenever we want it. That's how it is and that's how we want it to be. Still, our lives aren't any different than other generations before us. Our time is. An interesting short film, for group or personal study. Includes a 32 page discussion guide.
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Nooma: Breathe 014 Rob Bell |
With everything that we've got going on every day, how many of us ever think about our breathing, about the meaning of breathing? Yet, for thousands of years, people have understood that our physical breath is a picture of a deeper spiritual reality. In the Bible, the word for breath is the same as the word for spirit. Theres an inherent dilemma at the core of what makes us human. Weve all been created in the image of God and possess immense power and strength. And at the same time our lives are incredibly vulnerable and fragile. Maybe if we had more insight into the meaning of breathing, we would better understand how God created us as human beings.
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Nooma: You 015 Rob Bell |
Many people often debate the central claims of the Christian faith. But maybe a better understanding of the history of the early Christian movement would give new perspective to these discussions.
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Nooma: Store 016 Rob Bell |
We all get angry about things from time to time some of us more often than others. But what is really the root of our anger? Maybe if we learn where our anger comes from, we can channel it towards something constructive something thats bigger than ourselves. How much energy do we spend on wishing things were how they used to be, thinking that our best days may be behind us? Maybe if were too hung up on the past we fail to live our lives to the fullest, right here, right now.
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Nooma: Today 017 Rob Bell |
Many of us often spend time longing for how things used to be. Are we hung up on the past? Maybe we need to recognise the past for what it is in order to appreciate the here and now.
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Nooma: Name 018 Rob Bell |
We all compare ourselves to others. We spend our lives wondering what others think and say about us. Some of us even wish we were someone else. We question why we are the way we are and not the way we wish we could be. Some of us have let the expectations of others dictate who we’ve become. We act a certain way to be accepted but know that we’re being untrue. But why are we so concerned with what other people think, say, or look like? What does it say about us if we are unable to accept who we are? Maybe if we really knew our true selves, we wouldn’t give so much attention to other peoples’ lives and live more in tune with the life God wants for us.
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Nooma: Open 019 Rob Bell |
Does God answer prayer? Some, but not all? Sometimes, but not all the time? Or does God always answer prayer and it's just that sometimes God says no. Could prayer be bigger than God listening and answering? Maybe we need a fresh perspective on how we approach the things in life that compel us to pray.
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Nooma: Shells 020 Rob Bell |
I'm so busy! We've got too much going! Sound familiar? Modern life sets a grueling pace, and keeping up with appointments, gatherings, and to-do lists can be exhausting. Rob Bell's thought-provoking discussion starter asks: What are you really doing with your time? If you find it difficult to say "no," do you know what you've said "yes" to?