Redeemed: Seeing Christ in the Book of Ruth DVD Participant Guide God desires to redeem your past, restore your future, so that you might find fulfillment in His gracious love! Through six sessions in Redeemed: Seeing Christ in the Book of Ruth DVD , you’ll learn- • The historical background to the book of Ruth • What marriage, widowhood, and redemption meant in Bible times • How Ruth, a destitute foreigner, becomes an ancestor of Jesus Christ • How Naomi moves from bitterness to blessedness • How Boaz as a kinsmen - redeemer point to our ultimate redeemer - Jesus Christ. Participant Guide includes session outlines, discussion and application questions, definitions, and extra information. We recommend purchasing additional Participant Guides for each person.

This is the leader guide to Redeemed: Seeing the Messiah in the Book of Ruth. This guide has everything a leader needs! From tips on how start each session to riveting discussion questions, this leader guide makes leading a Sunday School class, small group, or home study easier than ever. Covers all 6 sessions! Is your life not turning out as you had hoped? Has God disappointed you? The trials of life test us to see if we will trust in the promises of God. On the surface, the book of Ruth would appear to be about love and friendship, and that certainly is a theme. However, more profoundly it is the story of people of Israel and the need for a Redeemer. In the same way, God desires to redeem your past and restore your future, so that you may find fulfillment in His gracious love! In these six sessions of Redeemed: Seeing Christ in the Book of Ruth DVD, you’ll learn: • The historical background to the book of Ruth. • What marriage, widowhood, and redemption meant in Bible times. • How Ruth, a destitute foreigner, becomes an ancestor of Jesus Christ. • How Naomi moves from bitterness to blessedness. • How Boaz as a kinsmen-redeemer points to our ultimate redeemer—Jesus Christ. Enjoy fantastic section-by-section commentary and insights into the historical and biblical background of Israel at that time, such as- • Naomi had a social status lower than a servant once her husband and sons died. • Ruth took home more than 10 times the average salary of harvesters when she worked in Boaz’s field. • When Ruth asked Boaz to “spread the corner of his garment” over her, she is asking him to make a symbolic gesture for marriage (plus you will find out how this particular act points to our redemption and covenant with Christ).

Understand that your past does not define who you are, that your fears and insecurities can be replaced with the truth of God's Word, and that when you truly encounter God, you will discover who you are. Are you satisfied with your life? Do you ever feel lost, insecure, disconnected? Do you ever feel like you need more power or just more of God? In this five-part teaching Matt Fry shows you how to unlock God's power and purpose for your life by discovering who you are in Him. By exploring the seven "I Am" statements Jesus made in the Book of John, Fry unpacks key truths that will help you discover who He is and ultimately reveal your true identity in Christ. This participant's guide is designed for individual or small-group study and should be read in conjunction with the book I Am by Matt Fry (sold separately).

The Struggle Is Real Participant’s Guide is a six-session workbook designed for use with The Struggle Is Real DVD Experience (sold separately), based on the new book by popular speaker and Bible teacher Nicole Unice. A great resource for church groups, Bible studies, and anyone who’s ever felt life just shouldn’t be this hard! Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a day where everything that could go wrong does go wrong—you lock your keys in the car while it’s running, lose control with your kids, make a mistake at the office that results in hours’ more work. And just when you think not one more thing could possibly happen . . . well, fill in the blank. The struggle is real, friends. It may not be major stuff. Lives are not on the line here. But it makes us feel awful . . . and then we feel guilty for stressing when other people have “real” problems that are so much more serious. Yet the fact remains: We live in a world that often feels harder than we think it should be. And so it can be easy to believe the stories we tell ourselves—that we’re doing it wrong, that we’ll be stuck in this place forever, that God doesn’t love us. We struggle practice gratitude, to make godly choices, and to live our daily lives with confidence and contentment. So what can we do? Join Nicole Unice to discover why the struggle is real . . . and what to do about it. In The Struggle Is Real Participant’s Guide Nicole offers practical tools to help you navigate the daily ups and downs, and ways to rewrite your struggle into a new, God-centered life story. Includes access to free online video streaming for 90 days!

Experience the essential truth of the Christian faith as Max Lucado unpacks one of the most beloved scriptures in the entire Bible—John 3:16. Best-selling author Max Lucado leads readers through a word-by-word study of John 3:16, the passage that he calls the "Hope Diamond" of Scripture. Now available in a smaller, more affordable format, the study includes 12 lessons that are designed to work with both the trade book and the DVD for a multi-media experience. Features include: Scripture-focused lessons Interactive questions for reflection and meditation 12 weeks of study Leader's Guide for shepherding small groups (for download online) Designed for use with the 3:16 DVD-Based Small Group Study (ISBN 9781418548940).

The Faith is a study for our troubled times and for decades to come, for Christians and non-Christians alike. Chuck Colson and Gabe Lyons will lead you through six thought-provoking, soul-searching, and powerful sessions on the great, historical central truths of Christianity that have sustained believers through the centuries. Brought to immediacy with vivid, true stories, here is what Christianity is really about and why it is a religion of hope, redemption, and beauty. Six sessions include: What is Christianity? The Fall and God’s Response The Cross and Reconciliation The Nature of God The Community of God The Joy of Orthodoxy Designed for use with the video.

Experience the essential truth of the Christian faith as Max Lucado unpacks one of the most beloved scriptures in the entire Bible—John 3:16. Best-selling author Max Lucado leads readers through a word-by-word study of John 3:16, the passage that he calls the "Hope Diamond" of Scripture. Now available in a smaller, more affordable format, the study includes 12 lessons that are designed to work with both the trade book and the DVD for a multi-media experience. Features include: Scripture-focused lessons Interactive questions for reflection and meditation 12 weeks of study Leader's Guide for shepherding small groups (for download online) Designed for use with the 3:16 DVD-Based Small Group Study (ISBN 9781418548940).