Resources for Life Groups

Video Material for Life Group Studies

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Drawing All Things to Christ a 12 session series around the life of Jesus

Jesus’ birth welcomed something greater into human form. Through the recorded accounts of his life, Jesus’ teachings pointed to a connected way of living in relationship to God, one another, our meals, our positions and possessions, and to the Earth. To people who find themselves detached from such things, who had exhausted themselves and their means, who had forgotten they were created out of the same vibratory frequency (voice) that birthed all things out of no-thing (the Eternal), Jesus came with a message:

Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.

Through this film series, we will just walk awhile together in our skins and see what comes through. We’ll hold space to feel our inborn salvation made available through the mystery of the Anointed One who came among us.

The curriculum, written by Kelly Ann Hall, includes 12 sessions with an accompanying discussion guide.

A New Family with Rachel Evans

Through her writing and speaking, Rachel Held Evans work opened a space for people to become involved with the evolution of their faith by example. She strived to be grace-full while admitting her imperfection. Her advocation was for the heart of God which is for the people of God. All people, a diverse bunch of clumsy-yet-beautiful people of different races, cultures, beliefs, faiths, genders, and sexual orientations just doing our best to be human. She was a person who reached for the outsider and brought their voice and perspective into the fold. She inspired change and sometimes provoked resistance. But as she says in this series, her hope was to start more conversations than end them.

Our hope is that bringing these films forward in a time such as now, is that we not only get to see and remember the friend so many miss, but to honor her work in the world and continue to let her “conversation starters” to stir, awaken, and provoke those who find them.

Rachel was recently quoted as saying: “The folks you are shutting out of the church today will be leading it tomorrow. The future is in the margins.” If we are resurrection people, are we willing to let the ways of doing Church that do not serve God, ourselves, or our neighbors, die? If God throws open the doors of the church, who are we to monitor them, or worse, close them? When the doors are locked and requirements for inclusion are narrow are we willing to become sanctuaries ourselves? The series includes 5 conversation films with Rachael a discernment and discussion guide, and transcripts of the conversation.

Does your faith feel static? Move into a deeper well with the six-session series with Richard Rohr. Salvation is now. Get in on God’s eternity...now.

The curriculum, written by Danielle Fanfair,  includes 6 sessions with an accompanying discussion/prayer practice guide. 

SESSION TITLES AND FILMS

• SESSION ONE// Running from Resurrection

• SESSION TWO // Distorted Bible Filters

• SESSION THREE // En Christo

• SESSION FOUR // Fast Food Christianity

• SESSION FIVE // Jesus Hermeneutic 

• SESSION SIX // Anti-Septic Christianity

A four Gospel journey With  Alexander John Shaia

How do we face change? How do we move through suffering? How do we receive joy? How do we mature in service? Spend some time with Alexander J Shaia as he uses the great map of the four Gospels, just as the Christians used, to guide us on the Christ journey - one of love, growth and transformation.

The series includes 6 conversation films with Alexander, a discernment and discussion guide, and transcripts of the conversation.

Resurrection now

Does your faith feel static? Move into a deeper well with the six-session series with Richard Rohr. Salvation is now. Get in on God’s eternity...now.

The curriculum, written by Danielle Fanfair,  includes 6 sessions with an accompanying discussion/prayer practice guide. 

The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem,

This book is co-authored by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan.

As The Last Week moves from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, a clear picture forms of the events leading up to the death and resurrection of Jesus. The authors illuminate not simply the unjust domination systems of imperial Rome, but the passion Jesus fought for – the justice of God's kingdom.

Embracing an adult faith

Marcus Borg with Tim Scorer

Marcus Borg on What it Means to be Christian

Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

by Barbara Brown Taylor

The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations.

Embracing the Prophets in Contemporary Culture

Confronting Today's "Pharoahs" Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann, arguably America’s leading Old Testament scholar and theologian, takes us on a wild ride through the poetic prophecy of the Hebrew Scripture, identifying cultural contexts, putting a framework to Israel’s history, and, most significantly—and times challengingly!—drawing connections between Israel’s sociological, economic and spiritual status and that of America today.

Each of the six sessions begins with a 10-15 minute video presentation by Walter Brueggemann, followed by filmed interaction with a diverse small group.