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Not much has changed since the time of Isaac, Esau, and Jacob. Families still experience conflict and confusion; younger generations don't always understand older generations. In every family there is an unknown history that influences interactions a...

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Caring for Our Divorced Friends

By Eugenia Anne Gamble, Michelle Hwang

Most of us know someone who is navigating the murky depths of love's ending. Divorce is very common in our culture: 41 percent of first marriages, 60 percent of second marriages, and 73 percent of third marriages end in divorce. There is nothing simp...

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The Gift of Friendship

By Lynne M. Baab

Is friendship a dying art? Loneliness and isolation continue to increase in our culture. Yet, Christian values of community should provide an alternative to lives lived in isolation.The Bible teaches much about relationships that can help us be loyal...

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Hospitality
Loving the Stranger

By David Otto

Hospitality is a theme most Christians take very seriously. How do we welcome strangers in our community? Do we welcome outsiders? What are our obligations to strangers? Do guests also have obligations to hosts?This two-session study reviews the impo...

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Interfaith Marriage

By Jay Rock

Interfaith marriage is and will continue to be a reality in our society. Regardless of how our various religious traditions regard it, men and women will fall in love and marry partners of different faiths. Such marriages offer challenges and opportu...

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Is It Ever Okay to Lie?
The Ethics of Lying

By BARBARA J. BLODGETT

What constitutes a lie and is it ever okay to lie? This one-session adult study explores definitions of lying, degrees of lying, and the ethics of lying. Participants will explore various components of lying and articulate their own view of lying.

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Drawing on the Bible verse, Genesis 1:25, this study examines the advantages ■and disadvantages of pet ownership while also focusing on the questions that ■arise by looking at the amount of money spent on our pets.

Part of the Family?
Caring for a Pet

By Megan Pillow Davis

We love our pets! Numerous studies suggest that pets can make us feel happier and more fulfilled, and they can even do things such as help keep our blood pressure down. But have you noticed the pet industry explosion in the last decade? In 2008, Amer...

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Sexual Purity Codes for Teens
What??

By Kate Ott

Have you heard about purity balls and purity pledges? How about high schools and colleges across the country transforming Valentine's Day activities into Annual Day of Purity activities?What exactly is purity, and more specifically, are these activit...

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Spanking
Is It Okay?

By Martha Bettis-Gee

How do people of faith come to a decision about whether or not to use corporal punishment? This one-session adult study, "Spanking: Is It Okay?" considers this question. Participants will explore together the issue of spanking by examining what the B...

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Spiritual Practices for Families

By Michael H. Brewer

The typical family, no matter what its form, moves at such a frantic pace that who has time to be spiritual? Maybe we need a definition of spirituality that transcends the notion of mountaintop retreats and hermits in the desert. Christian spirituali...

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Fingernails on a chalkboard . . . dental work . . . and talking to our kids about ■sex: most parents would put them all in the same category! This study will give ■parents practice at responding to the kinds of questions that children raise about ■sexuality and, where appropriate, to put their responses in a theological context. ■It includes helpful answers to some of the most common questions to help get the ■conversation started and reviews some very basic information and vocabulary ■related to sexuality, growth and development, reproduction, and relationships.

Talking with Your Child about Sex

By James H. Ritchie, Jr.

For many people, discussing matters of sexuality with children is one of those painful, periodic duties parents must assume. Despite being berated by images of sexually explicit advertising and content in television shows and movies, sexuality is a s...

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Teens and Dating
What Parents Need to Know

By Cathy Caldwell Hoop

Would you want to go through those turbulent, wonderful, awful, teenage dating years again? As many survive those years and then have children of their own, they again face many of the same issues with their own children. In addition, many others bes...

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