classes


Anger: Our Master or Our Servant

Few of us have been taught to live with our feelings. We have been taught to think, but feelings often overwhelm and master the Christian. This study offers a clear explanation of anger, what causes it, and how to recognize when you are sinning with anger. This not only ministers to church members but serves as a powerful evangelistic tool. Some of the content covered includes:

  • Beginning steps in managing anger.
  • Methods to help you control anger in your relationships.
  • Ten steps for preventing anger's control in your life.

This curriculum is suggested for support and grief recovery groups, substance abuse groups, marriage groups and retreats, men's groups, adolescent support groups and prison study groups.

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Completely Free

Everyone struggles from time-to-time, but we can have confidence that in Christ we are completely free from sin's slavery, from condemnation, and from fear of failure. This group study of Romans 1-8 and 12 helps Christians break out of the dull routine of a stagnant spiritual life. Applying the truths found in Romans can transform any believer into a person eager to follow God's will. This study can also serve as a powerful evangelistic tool by explaining the message of salvation as presented in Romans.

Suggested uses include home Bible studies, cell groups, Sunday school classes, support groups and personal enrichment.

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Discovering God's Way of Handling Money

This eight-week study will have a profound impact on the adults in your church. This workbook shows how managing your money correctly will affect your relationship with God. Such topics as debt, honesty, giving, work, saving and investing are covered and more.

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Free to Grow: Overcoming Setbacks and Disappointments

Free to Grow is a new curriculum by Dr. Jimmy Ray Lee. The purpose of this group study is to help people overcome disappointments and setbacks that have arrested or are presently hindering their emotional and spiritual development. The group will help you understand how to be set free so that they can grow and become all that God has designed them to be. Listed below are few of the sessions included in this study:

  • Facing the Truth of Disappointment
  • Forgive as God Forgave
  • Setting Boundaries
  • Making Choices
  • Freedom and Responsibility
  • Fresh Start
  • Developing the Character of Christ
  • Developing Freedom in Christ
  • Developing a Future in Christ


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Insight Group: Discovering the Path to Christian Character

With its emphasis on developing Christian character it is a powerful group for those who want to be sure to prevent life-controlling problems from developing in their lives, as well as for those who need to overcome a current problem.

  • It enhances people's understanding of themselves and others.
  • It helps people bond together in meaningful relationships.


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Restoring Families

This study helps to minister to families caught in the cycle of abusive relationships. The curriculum deals with overcoming these abusive relationships through Christ and is recommended for use in support groups and Christian counseling.

  • Ministers to families from abusive relationships
  • Ministers to victims of family violence
  • Deals with wounded emotions
  • Deals with control and intimacy issues
  • Presents a strong message of Christ as healer of abusive relationships


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Understanding Depression

This study deals with depression, a condition common throughout the world, and is suggested for use in support groups and Christian counseling.

  • Understanding what depression is and how it affects relationships
  • Understanding the relationship between depression and spiritual warfare
  • Ways to fight depression with scripture, prayer and mutual support
  • Understanding the special prayer needs of depressed persons
  • Bible-based coping skills
  • How to pray for healing and what to expect


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Peacemaking

This small group study helps us understand conflict and our response to it. It also helps to see conflict as an opportunity to glorify God.

This study contains methods of self-examination; it includes suggestions about when and how to confront someone. This study offers a biblical approach to negotiating and dealing with unreasonable people.

The sections included are:

  • Conflict Provides Opportunities
  • Live at Peace
  • Trust in the Lord and Do Good
  • Is this Really Worth Fighting Over?
  • Conflicts Starts in the Heart
  • Confession Brings Freedom
  • Just Between the Two of You
  • Speak the Truth in Love
  • Take One or Two Others Along
  • Forgive as God Forgave You
  • Look Also to the Interests of Others
  • Overcome Evil with Good

Twelve sessions
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Concerned Persons Group (Co-Dependency)

This group is suggested for home groups, support groups, recovery groups or cell groups.

  • It is designed for the many people who have a current or past relationship with a person who has a life-controlling problem.
  • It emphasizes the need we all have for each other.
  • It helps people focus on Christ rather than on the problem.
  • It serves as a powerful evangelistic tool by providing a way to minister to people's felt needs and then pointing them to Christ.

Nine sessions
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Handling Loss and Grief

As a person goes through this group they will be able to identify what the Bible has to say about handling the losses of life. To grieve is human; how to grieve Christianly is supernatural. It requires us to invite the Holy Spirit to guide us through the grieving process.

This booklet also provides guidance in the use of Scripture to help the grieving. It offers biblical coping methods for facing loss and comfort to those who have faced loss. This guide also provides help for anyone ministering to those experiencing a "little death" in life: divorce, loss of job, etc.

Nine sessions
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