New small group resource - The Me I Want To Be

Title: The Me I Want To Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Participant's Guide and 1 Leader's Guide
Author: John Ortberg
Call number: SGR ORT







In this five-session small group Bible study, The Me I Want to Be, John Ortberg reveals how you can become the unique, fully alive person God intended you to be. There is a me each of one of us wants to be....someone who's more kind and generous, patient, and loving. But there is a gap between the me I am and the me I want to be. Oftentimes we find it easy to trust God to bridge the gap between and us and him, but we struggle to really live by grace and trust God to close the gap between the me I am and the me I want to be. Becoming God's best version of you is both God's desire and the greatest task of your life. And here's the good news...he's already working on it. Your life is God's project, not yours. The Me I Want to Be small group Bible study is a powerful look at becoming the unique, fully alive, flourishing person God intended. Pastor and author John Ortberg teaches through fives sessions how you can move toward becoming God's best version of you in four specific areas: your mind, your time, your relationships, and your experiences. Spiritual growth can seem difficult or intimidating, but John Ortberg's humor and innovative thinking in The Me I Want to Be will leave you challenged, inspired, and hopeful about true spiritual growth happening in you and your small group. Sessions include:

1. Discovering the Spirt
2. Renewing My Mind
3. Redeeming My Time 
4. Deeping My Relationships
5. Transforming My Experience

New small group resource - The Life You've Always Wanted

Title: The Life You've Always Wanted: Six Sessions on Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Participant's Guide and 1 Leader's Guide
Authors: John Ortberg, Stephen Sorenson and Amanda Sorenson
Call number: SGR ORT





In the six-session small group Bible study DVD, The Life You've Always Wanted, John Ortberg guides you and your group through the spiritual disciplines and teaches you how they can transform your spiritual life. What does true spiritual life really look like? And what keeps you from living it? What can you do to pursue it? If you're tired of the status quo -- if you suspect there's more to Christianity than what you've experienced -- John Ortberg invites you to join him on a road to transformation and spiritual vigor that anyone can take. Cultivate new intimacy and confidence in prayer. Discover the freedom of secrecy. Taste the benefits of slowing life's frenetic pace. Learn how to be guided by the Holy Spirit...and much more. As in a marathon, the secret lied not in trying hard, but in training consistently. Proven by followers of Jesus over the centuries, the spiritual disciplines are exercises that strengthen your endurance race on the road to growth. This DVD provides you with a practical tool that can grow your faith. Sessions include:

1. It's Morphing Time 
2. Slowing Down and Celebrating
3. Praying and Confessing
4. Meditating on Scripture and Seeking Guidance
5. Practicing Servanthood, Finding Freedom
6. Going the Distance with a Well-Ordered Heart

New small group resource - A Life Worth Living

Title: A Life Worth Living: The official follow-up to the Alpha course
Includes: 3 DVDs, 1 book (A Life Worth Living), 1 manual and 1 Leader's Guide
Author: Nicky Gumbel
Call number: SGR GUM







In the future scientists will be able to prolong life, but will it be worth living? Without purpose or joy, extended life seems a hollow victory. So how do we live life to the full? A Life Worth Living, based on St. Paul's letter to the Philippians, is a practical and positive guide to achieving exactly this, uncovering in us a new heart, new purpose, new attitude and a new confidence to the way we live our lives.

New small group resource - The Parenting Teenagers Course

Title: The Parenting Teenagers Course: for those parenting 11 to 18-year-olds
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Leader's Guide and 1 Guest Manual
Authors: Nicky Lee and Sila Lee
Call number: SGR LEE








Five sessions talking about how to equip parents, or those caring for teens 11 - 18 with long term strategies to guide them into adulthood. Meeting our Teenagers needs, setting boundaries, developing emotional health making good choices are some of the topics covered. Based on the bestseller The Parenting Book by Nicky and Sila Lee.

New book - The Power of Simple Prayer

Title: The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk to God About Everything
Author: Joyce Meyer
Call number: 245 MEY









'If someone asked me, "Joyce, if you could make only one comment about prayer, what would it be?" I would have to respond by talking about its simplicity. It is so much easier than we think.' Somehow we have convinced ourselves that prayer is dry and difficult; we have invented religious 'systems' for prayer that place it out of reach for many of us. But THE POWER OF SIMPLE PRAYER shows us that God desires our prayer lives to be enjoyable and as natural as breathing. Joyce Meyer's life-transforming new book:

• Answers the most basic questions we are sometimes afraid to ask: what is prayer and how do we do it? 
• Offers you the key to a more powerful, effective prayer life 
• Helps you decide when it is and when it is not right to pray 
• Identifies 'Fourteen Hindrances to Answered Prayer'

New book - Too Busy Not To Pray

Title: Too Busy Not To Pray: Slowing Down To Be With God
Author: Bill Hybels
Call number: 245 HYB









Most of us have trouble finding time to pray. There's church and school and neighborhood and job and friends and recreation. And then the crises hit! Time for prayer seems an impossible luxury. As a pastor, Bill Hybels knows hundreds of people with schedules like this. Yet in his own life he has made the hard discovery that prayer doesn't happen on the run. He decided he was too busy not to pray. Hybels's accessible introduction to prayer has already helped over 400,000 readers develop a rich and regular prayer life in the midst of life's busyness. He shows how to slow down to pray, listen to God, respond to what we hear, practice the presence of God and overcome prayer barriers. His fun and practical book offers the resources we need for growing, ongoing experiences in prayer

New small group resource - The Parenting Children Course

Title: The Parenting Children Course: for those parenting 0 to 10-year-olds
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Leader's Guide and 1 Guest Manual
Authors: Nicky Lee and Sila Lee
Call number: SGR LEE








Five sessions talking about how to equip parents, or those caring for children 0 - 10 with long term strategies to build a healthy family life. Building Strong Foundations, Meeting our children's needs, setting boundaries,teaching healthy relationships and looking long term are the topics discussed. Based on the bestseller, The Parenting Book by Nicky and Sila Lee

New small group resource - If You Want To Walk on Water, You've Got To Get Out of The Boat

Title: If You Want To Walk on Water, You've Got To Get Out of The Boat
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Leader's Guide and 1 Participant's Guide
Author: John Ortberg
Call number: SGR ORT







In this six-session small group Bible study DVD, If You Want to Walk on Water, You've got to Get Out of the Boat, by John Ortberg, you'll learn how to move beyond fear to discover God's unique calling for your life! Peter may have been the first one out of the boat, but Jesus' invitation to walk on water is for you as well. But walk on water? What doe that mean? If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat helps you answer Christ's call to greater faith, power-filled deeds, and a new way of knowing how to discern God's call, transcend fear, risk faith, manage failure, and trust God. Relating to the story in Matthew 14 to life today, teacher and bestselling author John Ortberg invites you to consider the incredible potential that awaits you outside your comfort zone. It features six 10 to 15-minute teaching sessions from John Ortberg designed to spark thinking and provoke discussion. Sessions include:

1. What's Water Walking? 
2. The Tragedy of the Unopened Gift
3. Find Your Calling and Get Your Feet Wet!
4. Facing Our Challenges, Conquering Our Fears
5. Good News for Cave Dwellers
6. Learning to Wait on Our Big God

New book - Hazards of Being a Man

Title: Hazards of Being a Man: Overcoming 12 Challenges All Men Face
Author: Jeffrey E. Miller
Call number: 249.71 MIL









The problems men face today are not new; they have been around since the time of the Bible. Insensitivity, lust, individualism, absence, manipulation, unresolved anger - even a cursory study of Bible characters will expose all of these moral and emotional battles. Jeffrey E. Miller challenges men to acknowledge their common struggles and weaknesses to help them become better men. Developed from his featured Bible teaching series on Bible.org, Occupational Hazards of Being a Man focuses on a different Old Testament personality with a unique problem in every chapter. Miller tackles these tough and pervasive issues to help men realize that these hazards are not unique to them, but that they are issues that all men face--and can overcome. This honest and freeing book is perfect for men's small groups, pastors, counselors, and individuals.