A lot of us have gone through times in our lives that are difficult. Some have been small and hard to understand and some have been big and overwhelming. During these times we want answers, don't we? We want to know why. Why do we have to suffer? Why do bad things happen to good people? We just want someone to make sense of it all. But we don't always get the answers, do we? Sometimes we are left wondering. And those can be some of the most difficult times. Maybe there are times we need to be released from having to have all the answers. And maybe it's when we're released that we are able see there may be more going on here than we realize.

Why is it that often when we get what we want, we still feel empty? We work so hard to succeed, but our lives just end up becoming more about us. Can success turn on us? Can we get caught up in a smaller world where our lives are all about the things that we want? Or is there another way to live? Where life is about more than just us. Where we see people in need and we do something about it. Where our world is expanding because we are sharing our success. And maybe in attempting to save someone else from their suffering, we find out that we are actually the ones being saved.

Must we reject belief in God to
accept the findings of science?
Join a group of world experts as they consider how religion and science might coexist and even complement one another in the 21st Century.

DVD 0568- #1 includes lessons 1-5:
1. Introduction
2. Friends or Foes? The Story of a Complex Relationship
3. Truth in Science and Theology
4. God and Nature
5. Creation and Evolution

DVD0568- #2 includes lessons 6-9:
6. What Does It Mean to Be Human?
7. The God of Hope and the End of the World
8. Genetic Science and the Frontiers of Ethics
9. Concluding Bible Study on Creation Care

Each of the lessons includes a pause near the middle, so it is easy to split them in two to accommodate shorter (e.g., 45 minute Sunday school) classes. The curriculum also divides easily, making for an 18 session course.

Series contains 9 video lessons, leader's guide, participant's guide, publicity materials, leader training DVD, and bonus DVD.

Bonus DVD includes:
· A Conversation
· The Dawkins Delusion?
· Reflections on a Life of Faith and Science Nobel-Laureate
· Natural Selection and the Economy of Grace

We all get consumed with ourselves; sometimes we're not even aware of it. We learn from a young age that life is about winning and impressing. We pick up that our worth and value come from how good, how smart, and how skilled we are. So, we twist things in our favor, making it look like we have it all together. Every day we have a choice to prop up these false ideas of ourselves or to let go of them. Jesus invites these parts of us to die, the parts of us that tell us our worth comes from the things we say and do. Maybe it's only when we let these things die, that we truly begin to live.

We didn't have anything to do with our birth. We are all here because some woman somewhere gave us life. Her pain, her effort, for our life. And when a mother gives like that to a child, she is showing us what God is like. But sometimes this part of God's nature is overlooked. A lot of us are comfortable with male imagery for God. But what about female imagery for God? Is God limited to a gender? Or does God transcend and yet include what we know as male and female? Maybe if we were more aware of the feminine imagery for God we would have a better understanding of who God is and what God is like.

An eloquent, challenging and inspiring six-week introduction to Christian ethics that avoids pat answers and simplistic lists of dos and don'ts. Dr. Wheeler focuses on the formation of Christian character, citing helpful examples both from Scripture and from Church history. She concludes with a test case: the issue of money and consumption. What would Paul, Augustine, Luther and Wesley say to modern Christians about their use of resources?

The six video lessons (20 minutes each) include:
1. Introduction: A Christian Way of Living?
Four Models for Christian Ethics:
2. Scripture: The Story that Forms Us
3. Augustine: Ordering Our Loves
4. Luther: The Spirit of Christian Life
5. Wesley: Transforming Grace
6. Conclusion: Learning from Our Traditions- A Test Case

When, where, and why did people first believe in the divinity of Jesus? These are the essential but also controversial questions addressed in this course. Join Dr. Larry Hurtado as he lays out the evidence and, in the process, clears away a mountain of popular misinformation.

Contains 8 video lessons, leader's guide, participant's guide, publicity materials, and leader training DVD.

This second disc includes lessons:
5. Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels
6. Jesus in the Gospel of John
7. The Cost and Consequences of Jesus Devotion
8. How did it happen? What does it mean for me today?

When, where, and why did people first believe in the divinity of Jesus? These are the essential but also controversial questions addressed in this course. Join Dr. Larry Hurtado as he lays out the evidence and, in the process, clears away a mountain of popular misinformation.

Contains 8 video lessons, leader's guide, participant's guide, publicity materials, and leader training DVD.

This first disc includes lessons:
1. Introduction to Jesus Devotion
2. Roman and Jewish Backgrounds
3. Jesus in the Letters of Paul
4. Jesus in Jewish Christianity

Beginnings: The Spiritual Life, is a ten week study of Christian spirituality that introduces and explores spiritual "habits of the heart", including centering, loving, serving, questioning, and engaging.
Each session includes a meal, a video presentation, and a small-group discussion.

Sessions include:
1. Where is the Spirit in Spirituality?
2. How Much Am I Willing to Risk?
3. What Is Most Important To Me?
4. Can I Find Balance In A Whirlwind World?
5. What Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up?
6. How Do I Keep My Possessions From Possessing Me?
7. How Do I Get Ahead?
8. Can I Go Deeper Without Going Under?
9. What Can I Do With My Doubts?
10. Can A Change in Me Change The World?

This series contains a DVD, a director's manual, a small-group leader's manual, a sample participant's guide, and a copy of the book Habits of The Heart.

Beginnings: Longing to Belong is a ten-week study that explores the importance of community in the Christian faith, using fire as its central metaphor. Each session includes a meal, a video presentation, and a small-group discussion.

Sessions include:
1. Longing to Belong?- Introduction
2. How Do We Find Our Place?- Baptism
3. What Are We Hungry For?- Holy Communion
4. What Happens When We Pray Together?- Prayer
5. What's The Deal With Miracles?- Signs and Wonders
6. What Do We Have in Common?- Stewardship
7. How Can we Remember Who We Are?- Worship
8. How Can We Open Our lives to Each Other?- Hospitality
9. How Can We Get Along When We Are So Different?- Conflict Resolution
10. How Do We Share What We Have Discovered?- Witness

This series contains a DVD, a director's manual, a small-group leader's manual, a sample participant's guide, and a copy of the book Longing to Belong.