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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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Contemplating Sex
Sexual Ethics for Today's Teens

By Kate Ott

When, if at all, are you ready for sex? This one-session youth study explores the various sexual paths that teens can take and helps them understand how their values shape their sexual ethical guidelines. Prayers, bible verses for reflection, discuss...

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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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$12.00

The Bible is filled with stories of marriage and children and chapter after chapter ■on who begat whom, but in the midst of laying out the Christian family tree, ■romance has not been forgotten. But to limit ourselves to seeking only romance, ■we may miss the opportunity to find fulfilling love in its many other forms.

Make Love Not War
A History of Valentine's Day

By Stephens G. Lytch

If someone told you that our contemporary Valentine's Day was rooted in an ancient ruler's need to recruit soldiers for battle, a subsequent ban on the bond of holy matrimony, and the execution of a priest named Valentine, well, one might wonder wher...

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The Meaning of Thanksgiving

By Martha Bettis-Gee

How will you spend this Thanksgiving? In a traditional way? What does that mean, and where did that tradition come from? Do we celebrate Thanksgiving as it was first celebrated? Do we even know how it was first celebrated? This one-session study tell...

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Learn to LIVE* in 21 Days (*Listen, Immerse, View It Wider, and Explore)

New Year's Resolutions

By Jason Byassee

Is there anything inherently religious about the ways we celebrate New Year's? Should there be? In this one-session study, author Jason Byassee shares some ways Christians might celebrate New Year's. The Leader's Guide invites participants to reflect...

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Has the joy of Christmas being replaced by the chores of the holidays? How did ■we let that happen? In this study, participants will trace the history of Christmas, ■learn to recognize the secular elements of the Christian holiday, and consider ■ways in which they can make their celebration of Christmas less stressful, more ■fulfilling, and more spiritually meaningful as a Christian celebration.

Reclaiming Christmas
Seeking an Alternative

By Greg Garrett

If you're anything like most Americans, the upcoming Christmas season will be a mixed blessing-along with time with friends and family and at least some attempt to focus on "the reason for the season," you will probably find yourself eating too much,...

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Why do we so often make mythical heroes out of people of faith like Saint ■Patrick? (And what's with all those shamrocks, anyway?!)

St. Patrick's Day
A Study for Adults

By Martha Bettis-Gee

For most people, knowledge of the origins of St. Patrick's Day are limited to a story based largely on myth and folk tales, but behind those traditions is the story of the patron saint of Ireland. Under the surface of the traditional celebrations of ...

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Trick or Treat
What's Halloween About?

By Stephens G. Lytch

How should Christians respond to Halloween? What are the origins of Halloween, and is there any connection to All Saints' Day? This one-session study explains the evolution of Halloween and the traditions of the holiday so that Christians may examine...

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$7.50