A Different Kind of Christmas Leader Guide

A Different Kind of Christmas Leader Guide
Author: Mike Slaughter
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426764782

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A Different Kind of Christmas is a practical and inspirational study for the Advent season. Based on Mike Slaughter’s popular book Christmas Is Not Your Birthday, this five-week study will empower your family and your church to reclaim the broader missional meaning of Jesus’ birth and experience a Christmas season with more peace and joy than any toy or gadget could ever bring. This comprehensive resource includes a 64-page Leader Guide containing everything needed to guide your group through the study. Inside you’ll find five full session plans, discussion questions, and activities, as well as multiple format options and suggestions of ways to make the study a meaningful experience for any group. Sessions include: 1. Expect a Miracle 2. Giving Up on Perfect 3. Scandalous Love 4. Jesus’ Wish List 5. By a Different Road Help your church cast a vision for how Christians can experience the true joy of living and giving like Jesus beginning with the Christmas season and continuing as a lifestyle. This six week study helps participants see the traps and discontentment of consumerism and the call of God to live generously to fulfill God’s mission in the world.

A Different Kind of Christmas Leader Guide

A Different Kind of Christmas Leader Guide
Author: Mike Slaughter
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426753632

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An inspirational churchwide experience exploring how to find peace and joy at Christmas and throughout the year.

A Different Kind of Christmas Youth Edition With Leader Helps

A Different Kind of Christmas Youth Edition With Leader Helps
Author: Kevin Alton
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426764766

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A Different Kind of Christmas is a practical and inspirational study for youth during the Advent season. Based on Mike Slaughter’s popular book Christmas is Not Your Birthday, this engaging study will help youth reclaim the broader missional meaning of Jesus’ birth and experience a Christmas season with more peace and joy than any toy or gadget could ever bring. This five-week resource for youth includes leader helps. It also provides resources for incorporating A Different Kind of Christmas: Small Group DVD With Leader Guide and for leading a book study of Mike Slaughter’s Christmas Is Not Your Birthday.

A Different Kind of Christmas Children's Leader Guide

A Different Kind of Christmas Children's Leader Guide
Author: Mike Slaughter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2012-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781426753626

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A Different Kind of Christmas is a practical and inspirational study for the Advent season. Based on Mike Slaughter's popular book Christmas Is Not Your Birthday, this five-week study will empower your family and your church to reclaim the broader missional meaning of Jesus' birth and experience a Christmas season with more peace and joy than any toy or gadget could ever bring. This comprehensive resource includes a 64-page Leader Guide containing everything needed to guide your group through the study. Inside you'll find five full session plans, discussion questions, and activities, as well as multiple format options and suggestions of ways to make the study a meaningful experience for any group. Sessions include: 1. Expect a Miracle 2. Giving Up on Perfect 3. Scandalous Love 4. Jesus' Wish List 5. By a Different Road Help your church cast a vision for how Christians can experience the true joy of living and giving like Jesus beginning with the Christmas season and continuing as a lifestyle. This five-week study helps participants see the traps and discontentment of consumerism and the call of God to live generously to fulfill God's mission in the world.

A Different Kind of Christmas

A Different Kind of Christmas
Author: Michael Slaughter
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426753608

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A Different Kind of Christmas is a practical and inspirational study for the Advent season. Based on Mike Slaughter's popular book Christmas Is Not Your Birthday, this five-week study will empower your family and your church to reclaim the broader missional meaning of Jesus' birth and experience a Christmas season with more peace and joy than any toy or gadget could ever bring. This comprehensive resource includes a 64-page Leader Guide containing everything needed to guide your group through the study. Inside you'll find five full session plans, discussion questions, and activities, as well as multiple format options and suggestions of ways to make the study a meaningful experience for any group. Sessions include: 1. Expect a Miracle 2. Giving Up on Perfect 3. Scandalous Love 4. Jesus' Wish List 5. By a Different Road Help your church cast a vision for how Christians can experience the true joy of living and giving like Jesus beginning with the Christmas season and continuing as a lifestyle. This five-week study helps participants see the traps and discontentment of consumerism and the call of God to live generously to fulfill God's mission in the world.

Christmas Is Not Your Birthday

Christmas Is Not Your Birthday
Author: Rev. Dr. Mike Slaughter
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426748647

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Every year, we say we’re going to cut back, simplify, and have a family Christmas that focuses on the real reason for the season—Jesus. But every year, advertisements beckon, the children plead, and it seems easier just to indulge our wants and whims. Overspending, overeating, materialism, and busyness rob us of our peace and joy and rob Jesus of his rightful role as the center of our celebration. This Christmas, cut through the hype that leaves you exhausted and broke at the end of the year. Instead, experience the peace of knowing that God is truly with us, the joy of giving sacrificially, and the love of a Savior who gave everything he had for us. In five short, engaging chapters, Pastor Mike Slaughter inspires readers to approach Christmas differently, and be transformed in the process.

A Different Kind of Christmas

A Different Kind of Christmas
Author: Mike Slaughter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2012-08-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781426753541

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Help your church cast a vision of living and giving like Jesus, beginning with the Christmas season and continuing through the year. This five-week study helps participants see the traps and discontentment of consumerism and the call of God to live generously to fulfill God's mission in the world. This five-session DVD features Mike Slaughter, Lead Pastor of Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church and popular author of Christmas Is Not Your Birthday. Each 10-15 minute video inspires viewers to approach Christmas differently and be transformed in the process. A Leader Guide is also available to facilitate small-group discussion about the book, the devotions, and the DVD. Sessions include: 1. Expect a Miracle 2. Giving Up on Perfect 3. Scandalous Love 4. Jesus' Wish List 5. By a Different Road All video sessions are closed captioned.

Dare to Dream

Dare to Dream
Author: Mike Slaughter
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426775776

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Discover and live out God's dream for your life.

All I Want For Christmas Leader Guide

All I Want For Christmas Leader Guide
Author: James W. Moore
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1501824236

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From the time the Wise Men came to bring gifts, Christmas has been a time of giving gifts to our loved ones, to the less fortunate, to the church, to favorite charities, to family, to friends, and even to our pets. In the best spirit of Christmas we give and receive Christmas gifts, remembering the greatest Christmas gift of all…God's gift of the Christ Child, God's gift to us of a Savior. As we give and receive Christmas gifts, it is incredibly important to remember that the best Christmas gifts are wrapped in heaven. Unfortunately, sometimes we concentrate so much on the gifts we want to give to and receive from each other that we miss the special gifts Christmas has for us. Christmas has some amazing gifts for us, but the truth is that we need the miracle of God's grace to see them, feel them, hear them, wrap our arms around them, and celebrate them. This study asks a very personal question: "What are the gifts you would really like to receive from Christmas this year?" And that is what this book is all about: our thoughts and ruminations about the amazing, life-changing gifts Christmas has for us! This Advent study has five sessions--one for each Sunday of Advent and one for Christmas. The Leader Guide is designed to be used alongside the DVD. It enables a small group leader to facilitate a weekly discussion about All I Want for Christmas using the five DVD sessions as its starting point. Questions and activities guide group participants to discuss and understand each chapter in greater depth. The DVD and Leader Guide are not a substitute for the book, but a guide for discussing the book in small groups.

Learn to Love & Love to Learn

Learn to Love & Love to Learn
Author: E. Gene Gorrell
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2009-11-30
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1462821375

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“Learn to Love & Love to Learn” is the autobiography of a Hoosier lad born in 1933, depicting his struggles to overcome strict limitations imposed on him while growing up in an ultra-conservative environment. The story begins with the author questioning how a kind and loving Father-God could allow the innocent death of loved ones. The story then reverts directly to the ‘nitty-gritty,’ to the growing and learning processes – from pre-school to the present. The book is fi lled with questions, many common and many stupid mistakes, guesses, selfi sh choices, and funny as well as sad and heart-wrenching experiences. It uncovers valuable discoveries as: ‘Why?’ is not only permissible, but an absolutely necessary question needed to understand life’s meanings. This discovery and many more are revealed in bits and pieces, in lessons that can make the reader’s life a much richer, much more meaningful, and much happier experience!