start> Becoming a Good Samaritan is a six-session small group Bible study like no other (DVD/digital video sold separately). Prepare to have your eyes opened, your heart stirred, your vision kindled, and your faith focused and invigorated like never before! Love your neighbor. Change the world… It starts with you, today. The homeless man wandering your streets. The disenfranchised roaming your neighborhood. The sick and forgotten pushed to the edge of your town. Let’s get to work! In partnership with World Vision, start> Becoming a Good Samaritan is an unprecedented initiative that helps Christians live out Christ’s love in world-changing ways, right now, right where you live. This experience will help you explore issues like poverty, social injustice, pandemic diseases, the environment – and teach you how to start making a personal, street-level impact today. Inside are discussion questions, radical but commonsense ideas, and personal applications to help you live out your faith in ways that will change the community around you. Sessions include: Becoming a Good Samaritan Caring for the Sick Seeking Justice and Reconciliation Honoring the Poor Tending to God’s Creation Loving the Forsaken Designed for use with the Start Becoming a Good Samaritan Video Study (sold separately). In it, you’ll find John Ortberg hosting six emotionally packed sessions featuring Christian leaders like Eugene Peterson, Philip Yancey, Matthew Sleeth, Jim Cymbala, Chuck Colson, Joni Eareckson Tada, Rob Bell and many others.

This six-session small group Bible study, start> Becoming a Good Samaritan, helps believers learn how to make an individual difference today, right where they live.

Start with Me, by Michael Seaton, is part of the unprecedented start>Becoming a Good Samaritan initiative that will help you and your church become the visible "hands and feet" of Christ. Through the stories of people who look very much like you and me, Start with Me will open your eyes and your heart to Good Samaritan opportunities---in your church, your neighborhood, your town and around the world.

Jesus was a skilled storyteller and perceptive teacher who used parables from everyday life to effectively convey his message and meaning. Life in first-century Palestine was very different from our world today, and many traditional interpretations of Jesus' stories ignore this disparity and have often allowed anti-Semitism and misogyny to color their perspectives. In this Bible study based on her Short Stories by Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine analyzes these "problems with parables" taking readers back in time to understand how their original Jewish audience understood them. With this revitalized understanding, she interprets these moving stories for the contemporary reader, showing how the parables are not just about Jesus, but are also about us—and when read rightly, still challenge and provoke us two thousand years later. This participant guide provides an introduction to the main text as well as further Scripture commentary and reflection questions.

LIQUID is a DVD-based experience featuring five 10-minute episodes in each series, as well as a 112-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. These participant's guides are companions to the DVDs and are now available individually.

Perfect for churches and small groups, the dvd, participant's guide, and curriculum kit for Mark Batterson's new book will help readers delve deeper into the God who is bigger than any of our problems.

In this award winning, four-session small group Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), Carl Medearis, an international expert in the field of Arab-American and Muslim-Christian relations, provides background info on Islam and tools for sharing Christ with their Muslim neighbors. Muslims, Christians and Jesus, is the recipient of the prestigious Outreach Magazine Resources of the Year for 2012. According to Medearis, how Americans respond to Islam and how Christians think of Muslims could be one of the most significant issues of our time. Throughout the study, Medearis helps you understand the basics of Islam, the difference between “moderate” Muslims and radical terrorists, the Muslim view of Jesus, and how we should interact with our Muslim neighbors, friends, and coworkers. From the Ground Zero mosque to whether we believe in the same God, Medearis also addresses key questions and responses to the current Muslim/Christian tensions facing our society. This Participant Guide features video notes, group discussion questions, informative sidebars and quotes, and ideas for personal application. Sessions include: What is Islam? Exploring Our Fears Understanding What Muslims Believe Jesus: The Bridge to Muslims Building Bridges through Relationship Bonus session: 10 Myths about Muslims Designed for use with the Muslims, Christians, and Jesus Video Study (sold separately).

In this six-session video-based small group Bible study, bestselling author Carol Kent gives proof that you can experience grace and joy during even the lowest moments of your life. This Participant’s Guide helps you decide where you stand when you are caught between a rock and a hard place: Will you place yourself in a posture of humility and complete dependence on God, or will you just “try harder” and stumble over what could be a transforming encounter with grace? Carol Kent and her husband, Gene, are living what some would call a heartbreaking life—their son, Jason, a young man who initially had so much promise, is now living out a life sentence for murder in a maximum security prison. All their appeals have been exhausted. But despite their hopeless situation, the Kent’s live a life full of grace. With hope, joy, and a sense of humor, Carol helps you find God’s “grace places” in the midst of your worst moments. This Participant Guide provides individual and group activities, additional background material, and between-session personal studies that will enhance your experience of the video sessions. Sessions include: Grace in the Hardest of Places – Surprised by Faith Angels in Disguise – Surprised by Mercy Longing for a Better Me – Surprised by Contentment The Secret Power of Gratitude – Surprised by Thanksgiving Why Do You Weep? – Surprised by Joy Dwelling in the Great Place – Surprised by Freedom Designed for use with the Between a Rock and a Grace Place Video Study (sold separately).

Whether you’re a new or seasoned group leader, or whether your group is well-established or just getting started, this four-session video-based Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately) will lead you and your group together to a remarkable new closeness and effectiveness. Designed to foster healthy group interaction and facilitate maximum growth, this innovative approach equips both group leaders and members with essential skills and values for creating and sustaining truly life-changing small groups. Designed for use with the Making Your Small Group Work Video Study (sold separately).

Join KB on a six-session journey to encountering the enemy-loving, world-changing, good-dangerous Savior. Designed as a companion to the impactful debut book Dangerous Jesus, the Dangerous Jesus Participant’s Guide is for anyone who is growing weary, confused, and even disillusioned about how faith is represented in today’s world. In six in-depth sessions, award-winning rapper Kevin “KB” Burgess walks us through different dangerous aspects of our Lord and our faith—Jesus, the gospel, love, friends, blessings, and identity—and helps us discover how we can become dangerously good for the Kingdom of God. Whether in individual study or with a circle of friends, the Dangerous Jesus Participant’s Guide will help you get to know the real Jesus as the dangerous, countercultural, radical leader that he is.