Grace Church

April 2012

Approved Resources

April 2012


The studies listed in this booklet that may be checked out from the Grace Church Resource Library are indicated

by the symbol (»). To ensure that the materials are not already checked out by someone else, be sure to call

ahead to reserve them (contact: Sharon Wills 314-292-8332 or ). Occasionally, a resource

is owned by an individual and resides with its owner, but may be made available to you upon request (contact:

the person listed at “location”).

While you are not limited to these, you must get pastoral approval (current pastor contact: Lauren Quagliata 314-292-8331 or ) prior to using other study materials. Once a resource is approved, make sure that the Community Group Secretary (Sharon Wills 314-292-8332 or ) is made aware of the approval so that the resource can be added to her inventory list.

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» 7 Laws of the Teacher, The

Study Material: 7 videos; Course Notebook; Session Notes

Speaker / Distributor: Howard G. Hendricks / Walk Thru The Bible

Subject / Description: V1–Teacher; V2–Education; V3–Activity; V4–Communication;

V5–Heart; V6–Encouragement; V7–Readiness

» 10 Commandments of Dating, The

Study Material: 1 video; 1 audio cassette; Facilitator Guide

Speaker / Distributor: Ben Young, Sam Adams / Nelson Word

Subject / Description: Discover how you can protect yourself from the pain of contemporary

dating pitfalls and build a lasting relationship. More than simple

relationship advice, this video-assisted training package gives you

relationship common sense.

» 10 Great Dates to Energize Your Marriage

Study Material: 2 videos; Book; Leader Guide

Speaker / Distributor: David & Claudia Arp / HarperCollins-Zondervan

Subject / Description: Spark fresh romance through memory-making evenings built on key,

marriage-enriching themes. Communicate better, process anger and

resolve conflicts, set realistic goals, build a creative sex life, develop

spiritual intimacy, balance busy lifestyles and more.

» 40 Days of Community: Better Together

Study Material: 2 videos or 1 DVD (6 sessions); Small Group Participant Guides

available by order ($5.00 each)

Speaker / Distributor: Rick Warren / Saddleback

» 40 Days of Purpose

Study Material: 2 videos (6 sessions); Small Group Study Guides (green) OR

Small Group Edition Study Guides (blue); either guide available

by order ($5.00 each)

Speaker / Distributor: Rick Warren / Saddleback

» Active Christian Parenting

Study Material: 2 videos (6 sessions); Leader Guide; Parent Guide

Speaker / Distributor: Augsburg Fortress

Subject / Description: Based on the popular Active Parenting Today parent education

program, this study combines skill-based parenting strategies with a

focus on Christian values and practice, giving parents the tools they

need to improve their parenting skills and foster their children’s faith

development. The video vignettes trigger discussion and model skills.

For the preschool to preteen years.

» After You Say “I Do” . . .

Study Material: 6 videos (12 sessions)

Speaker / Distributor: H. Norman Wright, Tim & Beverly LaHaye, Larry Burkett /

Evangelical Films

Subject / Description: H. Norman Wright: 1–Communication; 2–Learning to listen;

3–Speaking your mate’s language; 4–Resolving marital conflict

Tim & Beverly LaHaye: 5–Cultivating a relationship; 6–Sexual

intimacy; 7–Sexual adjustment; 8–Questions: sexual adjustment

Larry Burkett: 9–Setting up a family budget; 10–The money baro-

meter; 11–Long range financial goals; 12–Questions & Answers

» Andy Griffith Show Bible Study Series, The (Volume 1)

Study Material: 1 video (4 classic episodes); 1 audio cassette; Facilitator-Leader

Guide; Study Guide must be purchased separately

Speaker / Distributor: Dennis Swanberg (host) / Nelson Word

Subject / Description: Mayberry more often than not pointed out basic principles of

common decency, and it did so without being preachy. A lot of the

lessons were imparted from father to son, or from trusted friend to

naive deputy. Timeless moral values, the struggle to be good and do

good, were presented in a way that was readily understandable. This

volume contains the following four episodes: 1–Rafe Hollister Sings

(judging others), 2–Opie and the Spoiled Kid (the value of work),

3–The Rivals (serving as mentors), 4–Aunt Bee’s Medicine Man

(the power of deception).

Anxious For Nothing – God’s Cures for the Cares of Your Soul

Author: John MacArthur

Grounded in the scriptures, this books reminds us that God understands our struggles and has

equipped us with the resources to not only face, but also to truly triumph over our anxieties.

» Be Still and Know That I Am God

Study Material: 1 DVD (4 sessions); Participant’s Guide

Speaker / Distributor: Bill Donahue, Amy & Judge Reinhold, Beth Moore / Willow Creek

Subject / Description: In hectic, busy lives, we need to learn to be still and take time to reconnect with God. You will learn about and experience the peace and power of “listening” prayer. Sections include DVD segments as well as discussion, practice and indivudual reflection. 1–What is Contemplative Prayer?; 2–Silence and Scripture: The Core of Contemplative Prayer;

3–Lectio Divina: The Practice of Contemplative Prayer; 4–Connecting

Personally with God.

» Becoming A Contagious Christian

Study Material: 1 video (4 2-hr or 8 50-min sessions); Book; Leader Guide;

Overhead Masters

Speaker / Distributor: Mark Mittelberg, Lee Strobel, Bill Hybels / Willow Creek

Subject / Description: Communicating your faith in a style that fits you. Personal,

contemporary evangelism.

» Believing God: Experiencing a Fresh Explosion of Faith

Study Material: 6 DVDs (10 sessions); Leader Guide; Member book

Speaker / Distributor: Beth Moore / LifeWay Church Resources

Subject / Description: Do you believe God or merely believe in Him? Based on Isaiah 43:10,

this study explores what it means to believe God through studying the

lives of Abraham, Moses and others (from Hebrews 11) as examples of

persons who believed God. 1–Believing God for your promised land;

2–Believing God is who He says He is; 3–Believing God can do what

He says He can do; 4–Believing you are who God says you are;

5–Believing you can do all things through Christ; 6–Believing God’s

Word is alive and active in you; 7–Believing God has been there all

along; 8–Believing God to get you to your Gilgal; 9–Believing God

when victory demands your all; 10–Believing God for the rest of

your days

Best Is Yet to Come, The

Author: John H. Kieschnick

The author discusses and explores seven doors of spiritual growth — witness, worship, connections, prayer, study, service and giving — and exposes how Jesus is behind each door. Also included are group study questions, questions for digging deeper and leader tips.

Beth Moore Studies (all)

Author: Beth Moore

Bible Book Series

Author: Bob Yandian

These books offer excellent verse-by-verse commentary and make for meaningful study. They are not formatted for group discussion. The leader would need to prepare good discussion questions for each chapter.

• EPHESIANS – The Maturing of the Saints

• GALATIANS – The Spirit-Controlled Life

• PROVERBS – Principles of Wisdom

• SALT & LIGHT – The Sermon on the Mount

» Biblical Financial Study

Study Material: Small Group Student Manual; Small Group Practical Application

Workbook

Author / Publisher: Crown Financial Ministries

Big Picture of the Bible – Old Testament

Author: Lorna Daniels Nichols

What is the Old Testament all about? How are the stories and people of those ancient times interconnected? How do the events of thousands of years ago relate to us today? This book summarizes biblical stories and events in an easy-to-read format and organizes the events in historical sequence, which provides continuity and understanding of the overall message of the Old Testament. Readers will be able to see how Jesus Christ fulfills the plan of God laid out in the Old Testament. This book, usable as an individual or group study, is available in Grace Bookstore.

Big Picture of the Bible – New Testament

Author: Lorna Daniels Nichols

Journey through the New Testament and see how the story of Jesus translates to Good News for us today. This book begins with the 400-year period between the Old and New Testaments. Readers are then led through Scripture from Matthew to Revelation. Written in the same easy-to-read format as the Big Picture of the Bible – Old Testament, readers are guided through
the story of Jesus’ life on earth – His birth, ministry, crucifixion and resurrection – and the apostles’ work in spreading the Good News. This book, usable as an individual or group study, is available in Grace Bookstore.

» Blended Family, The

Author / Publisher: Tom & Adrienne Frydenger / Chosen Books

Subject / Description: A helpful guide for ready-made families seeking loving relationships.

» Boomers the Train is Coming!

Study Material: 9 DVDs (9 sessions)

Speaker / Distributor: Grace Church staff & special guests / Grace Church

Subject / Description: This will help you get on the right track when it comes to caring for

the elderly. 1–Honoring Your Mother & Father, Grief, Leaving a Legacy;

2–Financial & Estate Planning, Wills, Health Care; 3–Living Options, Senior Fraud & Abuse; 4–Family Dynamics, Sibling Rivalry, Regrest, Guilt; 5–Veterans Benefits; 6–Caregivers: How to Avoid Burnout, How to Deal With Stress; 7–Pre-Planned Funerals, Cremation, Burial, Ethical Issues; 8–Medicare, Medicaid,Social Security; 9–Alzheimers Disease, Dementia & Other Age-Related Issues

» Boundaries in Dating and Marriage

Study Material: 6 videos (6 sessions)

Speaker / Distributor: Henry Cloud, John Townsend / Cloud-Townsend Communications

Subject / Description: 1–It takes two to make one; 2–What you value is what you’ll have;

3–Three’s a crowd: protecting your marriage from intruders;

4–Becoming more loveable: boundaries on yourself; 5–Solving

conflict with a boundary loving spouse; 6–Solving conflict with a

boundary resistant spouse

» Breaking Free: Making Liberty in Christ a Reality in Life

Study Material: 6 videos; Leader Guide; Book

Speaker / Distributor: Beth Moore / LifeWay

Subject / Description: Most Christians today do not enjoy the abundant life God intended

(to know and believe Him, glorify Him, find satisfaction in Him,

experience His peace and enjoy His presence). Based on Isaiah

61:1-4, this in-depth study draws parallels between the captive

Israelites and today’s believers and leads you through the scriptures to

discover the transforming power of Christian freedom.

Breaking the Cycle of Hurtful Family Experiences

Authors: Robert S McGee, Pat Springle, Jim Craddock

Our ideas about how to relate to others and to God are often shaped by faulty ideas from our past. This book identifies harmful patterns and helps us experience healthy relationships and God’s love. (Periodically, this is offered as one of the Support/Recovery/Healing classes at Grace.)

» Bringing Up Boys

Study Material: 6 videos (12 sessions); Leader Guide; Participant Guide

Speaker / Distributor: James Dobson / Focus on the Family

Subject / Description: Practical advice and encouragement for those shaping the next

generation of men. Warm, humorous, common sense. 1–Boys will

be boys; 2–The trouble with boys; 3–Wounded spirits; 4–Origins of

homosexuality; 5–Preventing homosexuality; 6–Routine panic;

7–Questions from parents and grandparents, part 1; 8–Men r fools;

9–Boys r fools too; 10– Questions from parents and grandparents,

part 2; 11–The ultimate priority

» Building A Christian Family: A Guide for Parents

Study Material: 2 videos (Tape A and Tape B)

Speaker / Distributor: Kenneth & Elizabeth Gangel / Dallas Christian Video

Subject / Description: Tape A: What did God intend? / What is a family? / How to function

biblically in today’s family

Tape B: The lost art of discipline / Family breakdown: threat to

national health / An agenda for family education in the church

» Business by the Book Workshop

Study Material: Leader Guide with CD in back of book

Author / Publisher: Larry Burkett, Howard Dayton, David Rae / Crown Financial Ministries

Subject / Description: Achieving true success in your marketplace

Call for Character, A

Author: Greg Zoschak

This is an excellent book for character development. Each chapter defines a particular fruit of the Spirit, explains what it will accomplish in the life of the believer, and offers practical insight on how that fruit can be developed. Although no discussion questions are included in the book, the format of each chapter would lend itself to good discussion. This book is highly recommended because the content of material is excellent.

» Called to Influence

Study Material: 4 audio CDs (Intro + 11 sessions); Coordinator Guide;

Group Member Guide

Speaker / Distributor: THRiVE Women’s Study

Subject / Description: Introduction; 1–The Power of Influence; 2–Going Deeper With God;

3–Knowing What You Believe; 4–Reflecting His Character; 5–Protecting His Priorities; 6–Understanding Your Uniqueness; 7–Influencing the Ones You Love; 8–Being His body; 9–Facing Life’s Obstacles; 10–Touching Your World; 11–Reaching Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Case for Christ, The

Author: Lee Strobel

Lee Strobel was an atheist who interviewed the experts with questions about Christianity intending to descredit Christianity. What he found was that verdict pointed to Jesus being exactly who the Bible said He was. This book presents logical rational answers to help you respond to the questions people have about why you believe what you believe. (Periodically, this is offered as one of the Frontline classes at Grace.)

Case for Faith, The

Author: Lee Strobel

Have you ever wondered how to answer tough questions? Why should the death of one man 2000 years ago make a difference in my life today? Why should I accept the Bible as being more important than other religious books in the world? Why should I believe in a creator God versus the scientific proven facts of evolution? Lee Strobel puts forth understandable reasons why you should believe in Christ and in His Word. (Periodically, this is offered as one of the Frontline classes at Grace.)

» Choosing Wisely Before You Divorce

Study Material: 2 videos (5 sessions); Facilitator Guide; Workbook

Speaker / Distributor: Divorce Care Inc

Subject / Description: If you are facing a marriage crisis and considering separation or

divorce, these videos will help you sort out the many complicated

issues you should consider before you make your decision. In the

emotional upheaval that accompanies marriage difficulties, it’s often

hard to get the necessary perspective you need to make the right