Jim Wilson

Josh Hunt

Ronnie Floyd

Patrick Mead

Jesus said, "In this world you will have tribulation." Turns out, He was right. Eventually, everyone gets their heart broken. Eventually, everyone has their dreams shattered. What do we do then? The Bible does not leave us without an answer. The book of Ruth provides a wonderful example of how we are to respond when our dreams are shattered. It is a story of faith. It is a story of loyalty. It is a story of love. It is a story of redemption. It is a story of romance. It is a story of mystery. It is a story of God's activity in everyday life. It is a story of shattered dreams. It is a Romans 8:28 story. It is a Jeremiah 29:11 story. This short book will walk you verse by verse through this wonderful book. It is a great study for private devotions or small group study.

Shattered Dreams

Eight ready-to-teach Small Group Bible Lessons on the topic: How to Talk about Jesus. Lessons include: How to Talk About Jesus / Lesson #1 Evangelism Tip # 1: Merge Your Universes How to Talk About Jesus / Lesson #2 Evangelism Tip # 2: Go to Their Things and They Will Come to Your Things How to Talk About Jesus / Lesson #3 Evangelism Tip # 3: Coffee, Dinner, Gospel How to Talk About Jesus / Lesson #4 Evangelism Tip # 4: Listen: The Golden Rule of Evangelism How to Talk About Jesus / Lesson #5 Evangelism Tip #5: Tell a Better Story How to Talk About Jesus / Lesson #6 Evangelism Tip #6: Tell Stories about Jesus How to Talk About Jesus / Lesson #7 Evangelism Tip #7: Become Their Unofficial, De Facto Chaplain 123 How to Talk About Jesus / Lesson #8 Evangelism Tip #8: Lean into Disagreements Each lesson consists of 20 or so ready-to-use questions that get groups talking. Answers are provided in the form of quotes from respected authors such as John Piper, Max Lucado, John Ortberg and David Jeremiah. These lessons will save you time as well as provide deep insights from some of the great writers and thinkers from today and generations past. I also include quotes from the same commentaries that your pastor uses in sermon preparation. Ultimately, the goal is to create conversations that change lives.

Good Questions Have Groups Talking

Question Based Bible-Study Guide -- How to Talk about Jesus

6 ready-to-use, discussion-based Bible lessons on the biblical book of Philippians. Each Bible lesson consists of 20 or so ready-to-use questions that get groups talking. These questions make small group Bible study a joy. If you can read 20 questions, you can lead a Bible Study. Answers are provided in the form of quotes from respected authors such as John Piper, Max Lucado and Beth Moore. These lessons will save you time as well as provide deep insights from some of the great writers and thinkers from today and generations past. I also include quotes from the same commentaries that your pastor uses in sermon preparation. Ultimately, the goal is to create conversations that change lives.

Philippians

6 ready-to-use lessons on the topic: Christmas. Each lesson consists of 20 or so ready-to-use questions that get groups talking. Answers are provided in the form of quotes from respected authors such as John Piper, Max Lucado and Beth Moore. These lessons will save you time as well as provide deep insights from some of the great writers and thinkers from today and generations past. I also include quotes from the same commentaries that your pastor uses in sermon preparation. Ultimately, the goal is to create conversations that change lives.

Question-Based Bible Study Guide -- 6 Christmas Lessons: Good Questions Have Groups Talking

God is unchanging, immovable, immutable, reliable, completely to be trusted. Following God is an unpredictable adventure, full of twists and turns and surprises. I never thought my life would turn out as it has. Did you? When I look at the lives of people who followed God, I find the same thing. I find unpredictable. I find frustration. I find dead-ends. I find delays. I find setbacks. I find joy. I find disappointment. I find sadness. I find laughter and I find tears. Following God is not at all like I thought it would be. When I study the lives of those who follow God, I find real life. This short book is a study of the life of Abraham. In about hundred short readings, we will explore the twists and turns of one who followed God and learn lessons along the way about what it means to follow God. Be sure of this: it won't be like you think. Formerly published under the title Following God.

God Is Faithful. Following God Is Full of Surprises.

Unpredictable God

You can sin less than you do. The Bible says so. The Bible shows you how. This seven-week small group Bible study will guide your group step-by-step through a process that will lead you to sin less than you do. For the rest of your life, you will be grateful you went through this study. Session titles include: Lesson #1: How to Sin Less than You DoYou Must Come to Believe That God Is Good and Sin is Bad. Sin is the stuff that will Mess Up Your Life.Lesson #2: How to Be Blameless and Pure, Part 1Do Everything Without Complaining Lesson #3: How to Be Blameless and Pure, Part 2 Do Everything Without Complaining and Arguing Lesson #4: Sanctify Them by the Truth Transformed by the Renewing of Your Mind Lesson #5: I Have Hidden Your Word... That I Might Not Sin Defeating Temptation the Way Jesus Defeated Temptation Lesson #6: Train Yourself to Be Godly Lesson #7: A Safeguard Against Sin Happy People Sin Less

A Seven-week Bible Study for Those Interested in Sinning Less Than They Do.

Sin Less

No one ever taught like Jesus. When we learn from Him we truly are learning from the Master Teacher. Josh Hunt is uniquely qualified to help us teach like Jesus because these are the practices he has personally used for years! Anyone who wants to become a better teacher must have this book! Allan Taylor Author, Sunday School in HD I have had the pleasure of hearing Josh teach this material in person and I can assure you that it always has an impact on the audience. It is both entertaining and informative. It will challenge you to communicate more effectively. It is biblically based and practically oriented. Your teaching will be improved if you follow the suggestions included in these pages. Here's the good news. The book is as entertaining and informative as the live presentation! Buy it! Read it! Teach like Jesus! Ken Hemphill Author, The Prayer of Jesus If you want to be the best teacher you can possibly be, Teach Like Jesus. That is not only a wonderful title for a book on how to teach, that is the secret to becoming the greatest teacher you can become. Anyone who wants to have a greater ministry in teaching, should read this book. Elmer Towns Co Founder, Liberty University Lynchburg, Virginia When it comes to teaching the Bible, nobody knows his stuff any better than Josh Hunt. Josh's new book, Teach Like Jesus, is a must read for every pastor, Sunday School director, minister of education, and Sunday School teacher out there. Josh combines years of experience, biblical analysis, and spiritual insight to provide a resource for teachers in the 21st century. But Teach Like Jesus is not just a book about theory. Woven throughout the book are practical ideas of how to put concept into reality. Bob Mayfield Sunday School and Discipleship Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma I read everything Josh has to say about teaching, group life and discipleship. This is his very best! Every member of our staff will be reading this and I am planning to get a copy for the majority of our volunteer teachers. It will make them better! Josh provides literally hundreds of applicable ideas, reminders, tips and "how-to's" to help your teaching be "the best"! Jeff Young Prestonwood Church, Dallas, TX This study is not an examination of what Jesus taught. It is an examination of how Jesus taught. In this book, you will learn. . . • Why is story such an effective way to teach? Where to find great stories. It is easier than it has ever been. What makes a great story? • How many times did Jesus ask questions? I was shocked by the answer. • What did Jesus expect of his disciples and how does expectation affect teaching? • Jesus wasn't always meek and mild and if you want to teach like Jesus you should raise your voice from time to time. • Teaching is not just about teaching. It is also about relationship. Love like Jesus. • Jesus teaching was not always clear. We are still fighting about it today. Why is that? Why wasn't Jesus clearer when he taught? • Jesus often taught in apparent contradiction. He told us to let our light so shine before men and to be careful not to do our acts of righteousness before men. He made these two statements in one sermon. What do we learn about teaching from that? • Jesus teaching was shocking to his original audience. Sometimes it shocks us. This book is born out of a careful study of the life of Christ taken from the gospels in the original Greek. Background information is from respected commentaries as well as the latest brain science on how we learn. This book has one simple goal: Teach like Jesus.

Teach Like Jesus

6 ready-to-use, discussion-based Bible lessons on the life of Joshua. Each Bible lesson consists of 20 or so ready-to-use questions that get groups talking. These questions make small group Bible study a joy. If you can read 20 questions, you can lead a Bible Study. Answers are provided in the form of quotes from respected authors such as John Piper, Max Lucado and Beth Moore. These lessons will save you time as well as provide deep insights from some of the great writers and thinkers from today and generations past. I also include quotes from the same commentaries that your pastor uses in sermon preparation. Ultimately, the goal is to create conversations that change lives.

Question-Based Bible Study Guide -- Called to Be God's Leader

Brad Whitt

This book is about how you can be rooted deeply in Christ. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to as you become rooted in Christ:Stability. People who are deeply rooted will withstand the storms of life. They are like the wise man that built his house on a rock. They are not shaken by the storms of life. They are not “tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting” (Ephesians 4:14). Continual nourishment. Rooted people have a deep source of spiritual nourishment which continually feeds them. They are like a tree, planted by the streams of water which bears its fruit in season (Psalm 1).Joy. Jesus said, “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full”( John 15:10–11). The happiest people on the planet are people who are rooted in Christ. Fruitfulness. Rooted plants are fruit-bearing plants. “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). Jesus didn't say we would be even more fruitful if we abide in Christ. He said that without Christ we can do nothing. Rooted in Christ, we will bear much fruit. It is an all or nothing deal. Peace. There is peace in knowing that your roots go down deep. There is peace in knowing you can withstand every drought and storm. “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27). The Bible describes it as a peace that passes all understanding (Philippians 4.6, 7).Assurance of our salvation. God's will for every believer is that you have absolute confidence in your salvation. God wants you to know that you will go to Heaven when you die. Rooted people know. They don't just hope; they know.Spiritual growth. You can't grow up unless your roots go down. Only rooted people grow. “That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:17–19). Purpose. When our roots go down deep, we discover why God put us here. We discover that “We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10). We discover what good works God has prepared in advance for us to do. There is nothing like living life on purpose. Only rooted people know this joy. Being rooted has many benefits: stability, continual nourishment, joy, fruitfulness, peace, assurance of salvation, and purpose. How do we become rooted?

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