Resources

This page provides a catalogue of Small Group resources which may potentially serve to enhance and meet the needs of your group. Should you wish to borrow any of these resources visit our church library. You will need a borrowing card which can be obtained by emailing your request to jdolling@paravista.org.au

Web Resources for Family and Faith

Web Resources for Family and Faith

Looking for some faith friendly websites for you and your children to explore to help you grow together in God and have some fun?  Click Here to go to the Children and Family page and check out the links at the bottom of the page!

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Stand Strong-1 Peter Studyguide

Stand Strong-1 Peter Studyguide

This cutting-edge series is a high-impact tool for experiencing the transforming power of God's Word. You.ll explore life-changing topics from a biblical perspective in community with others in your small group. Challenging questions will encourage you to reflect on Scripture and its impact on your life, both as an individual and as part of a community of Christ followers.

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Live Wisley-James Workbook

Live Wisley-James Workbook

This cutting-edge series is a high-impact tool for experiencing the transforming power of God's Word. You'll explore life-changing topics from a biblical perspective in community with others in your small group. Challenging questions will encourage you to reflect on Scripture and its impact on your life, both as an individual and as part of a community of Christ followers.

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Sharing with God's Family DVD/Workbook

Sharing with God's Family DVD/Workbook

With six sessions in each volume, this series provides small group members with basic yet comprehensive training on how to live healthy, balanced, purpose-driven lives. An experienced team of writers will take you on a spiritual journey, discovering not only what God created you for but how you can turn that dream into an everyday reality. Experience the transformation firsthand as you begin Connecting, Growing, Developing, Sharing, and Surrendering your life for him.

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Growing with God's Family DVD/Workbook

Growing with God's Family DVD/Workbook

With six sessions in each volume, this series provides small group members with basic yet comprehensive training on how to live healthy, balanced, purpose-driven lives. An experienced team of writers will take you on a spiritual journey, discovering not only what God created you for but how you can turn that dream into an everyday reality. Experience the transformation firsthand as you begin Connecting, Growing, Developing, Sharing, and Surrendering your life for him.

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Worshipping with God's Family DVD/Workbook

Worshipping with God's Family DVD/Workbook

With six sessions in each volume, this series provides small group members with basic yet comprehensive training on how to live healthy, balanced, purpose-driven lives. An experienced team of writers will take you on a spiritual journey, discovering not only what God created you for but how you can turn that dream into an everyday reality. Experience the transformation firsthand as you begin Connecting, Growing, Developing, Sharing, and Surrendering your life for him.

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Serving God's Family DVD/Workbook

Serving God's Family DVD/Workbook

With six sessions in each volume, this series provides small group members with basic yet comprehensive training on how to live healthy, balanced, purpose-driven lives. An experienced team of writers will take you on a spiritual journey, discovering not only what God created you for but how you can turn that dream into an everyday reality. Experience the transformation firsthand as you begin Connecting, Growing, Developing, Sharing, and Surrendering your life for him.

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Connecting with God's Family DVD/Workbook

Connecting with God's Family DVD/Workbook

With six sessions in each volume, this series provides small group members with basic yet comprehensive training on how to live healthy, balanced, purpose-driven lives. An experienced team of writers will take you on a spiritual journey, discovering not only what God created you for but how you can turn that dream into an everyday reality. Experience the transformation firsthand as you begin Connecting, Growing, Developing, Sharing, and Surrendering your life for him.

 

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Beginning Life Together DVD/Workbook

Beginning Life Together DVD/Workbook

With six sessions in each volume, this series provides small group members with basic yet comprehensive training on how to live healthy, balanced, purpose-driven lives. An experienced team of writers will take you on a spiritual journey, discovering not only what God created you for but how you can turn that dream into an everyday reality. Experience the transformation firsthand as you begin Connecting, Growing, Developing, Sharing, and Surrendering your life for him.

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Nooma #16 Store-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #16 Store-Rob Bell DVD

We all get angry about things from time to time - some of us more often than others. But what is really the root of our anger? Maybe if we learn where our anger comes from, we can channel it towards something constructive - something that's bigger than ourselves.

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Nooma #15 You-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #15 You-Rob Bell DVD

Many people often debate the central claims of the Christian faith. But maybe a better understanding of the history of the early Christian movement would give new perspective to these discussions.

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Nooma #14 Breath-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #14 Breath-Rob Bell DVD

With everything that we've got going on every day, how many of us ever think about our breathing, about the meaning of breathing? Yet, for thousands of years, people have understood that our physical breath is a picture of a deeper spiritual reality. In the Bible, the word for 'breath' is the same as the word for 'spirit.' There's an inherent dilemma at the core of what makes us human. We've all been created in the image of God and possess immense power and strength. And at the same time our lives are incredibly vulnerable and fragile. Maybe if we had more insight into the meaning of breathing, we would better understand how God created us as human beings

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Nooma #13 Rich-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #13 Rich-Rob Bell DVD

We can get anything we want, from anywhere in the world, whenever we want it. That's how it is and that's how we want it to be. Still, our lives aren't any different than other generations before us. Our time is. An interesting short film, for group or personal study. Includes a 32 page discussion guide.

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Nooma #12 Matthew-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #12 Matthew-Rob Bell DVD

Losing someone we love can be the most difficult thing to go through in life. All the explanations and comforting words in the world don't really help and everything can seem hopeless. But what might help us is to know, that in facing this kind of loss, Jesus wept. This DVD helps you tackle the issue of loss through the eyes of Jesus. Ideal for personal or group discussion, it also includes a 32-page discussion guide.

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Nooma #11 Rhythm-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #11 Rhythm-Rob Bell DVD

Is how we live connected to something that has been in place since the beginning of time? Maybe Jesus didn't come to start a new religion, but to show us how to live in tune with the life God has always planned for us.

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Nooma #10 Lump-Rob Bell

Nooma #10 Lump-Rob Bell

A lot of us have done things in our lives that we're ashamed of. Some are small things, and some of us have really big and devastating things. Some of us even have things that people close to us don't know about. Personal junk that we keep to ourselves so we don't have to deal with it. Because we don't know how to deal with it, do we? We're afraid that if we try it's just going to make everything worse. But no matter how big our junk is, no matter how much what we've done has impacted the way other people feel about us or how we feel about ourselves, it hasn't changed how God feels about us. God loves us, he always has and always will, and there's nothing we can do to change that.

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Nooma #9 Bullhorn-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #9 Bullhorn-Rob Bell DVD

God loves everyone, so a Christian should, too. In fact, Jesus said that the most important thing in life is to love God with everything we've got and to love others the same way. But it's not always easy to love everyone around us, is it? Sometimes we strongly disagree with other people's political views, religious beliefs, behaviours or something else, and it makes it hard to love them when we feel like we're right and they're very wrong. But Jesus doesn't separate loving God and loving others. So maybe that best way for us to show our love for God is actually by loving other people no matter how hard it sometimes is. Maybe it's the only way.

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Nooma #8 Dust-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #8 Dust-Rob Bell DVD

Believing in God is important, but what about God believing in us? Believing that we can actually be the kind of people we were meant to be. People of love, compassion, peace, forgiveness, and hope. People who try to do the right thing all of the time. It's easy for us to sometimes get down on ourselves. To feel "not good enough" or feel like we don't have what it takes. But maybe if we had more insight into the culture that Jesus grew up in and some of the radical things He did, we'd understand the faith that God has in all of us.

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Nooma #7 Luggage-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #7 Luggage-Rob Bell DVD

Maybe a friend turned their back on you. Maybe someone you loved betrayed you. We all have wounds and we end up carrying around these things that people have done to us for weeks, months, and sometimes even years. It isn't always easy to forgive these people and after a while these hurts can get really heavy. So the only way to feel better seems to be somehow getting back the people that hurt us, to get revenge. But does revenge ever truly satisfy? Maybe forgiving isn't something you do for someone else to let them off the hook. Maybe forgiveness is about you. God didn't create you to carry these wounds around. God created you to be free.

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Nooma #6 Kickball-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #6 Kickball-Rob Bell DVD

We always think we know what's missing from our lives in order to really make us happy, don't we? If only I had that car, or that job, or if only I could lose those 8 kilos, then I'd be happy. Really? How often do we want something only to find out that it wasn't that great after all? Sometimes we ask God for things and if He doesn't deliver right away, we start questioning whether God really understands or even cares. Do we really trust God? Do we trust that God is good and sees a bigger picture than we ever could? It's easy to want what's right in front of us, but maybe God knows what's better for us, and sometimes we just can't see it.

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Nooma #5 Noise-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #5 Noise-Rob Bell DVD

Why is silence so hard to deal with? Why is it so much easier for us to live our lives with a lot of things going on all the time than to just be in silence? We're constantly surrounded by "voices" that are influencing us on how to think, feel, and behave. Movies, music, TV, Internet, mobile phones, and a never-ending barrage of advertising. There's always something going on, always noise in our lives, but maybe there's a connection between the amount of noise in our lives and our inability to hear God. If God sometimes feels distant to us, maybe it's not because he's not talking to us, but simply because we aren't really listening.

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Nooma #4 Sunday-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #4 Sunday-Rob Bell DVD

Why do we do the things we do? Why do we go to church or give money away? Because we're supposed to or because we think God needs it? Do we honestly put on our best clothes for an hour once a week, stand and sit at all the right times, and sing all the appropriate songs for God's sake, or because it'll make us look better to the world around us? We're tired of all the empty rituals and routines. And so is God. God hates it when we call ourselves Christians but ignore all the things He really cares about. He hates it when we go through hollow religious routines out of some feeling of duty or obligation. God doesn't want the meaningless rituals. God wants our hearts.

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Nooma #3 Trees-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #3 Trees-Rob Bell DVD

We want to know why we are here. If our lives really matter. How our religion is relevant to this life. Today. We want to understand what significance this minute, hour, week, month, and year has to our lives. To our world. We need a God who cares about this life, in this world, right now. We want to understand why everything we think, everything we say, everything we do matters. We don't want to just sit back and wait for something to happen or someday to come. We want to know if the choices we make now will shape our world and lives for eternity. Because we want our lives to have meaning today, and our lives today to have meaning forever. 13 minutes.

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Nooma #2 Flame-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #2 Flame-Rob Bell DVD

I love these shoes. Really? The same way I love my wife? What's up with the word "love"? It doesn't have much meaning when we use it so loosely. Maybe we don't really get it. Maybe we don't understand what real love is. What it involves to really love somebody. What it means to give yourself to someone else. We mistake things like friendship, commitment, or lust for love, but God wired us a certain way to experience all that love was really meant to be. Not to hold us back or to make us miss out on the best that life has to offer. God created love, and wants us to feel it all in the way it's meant to be felt.

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Nooma #1 Rain-Rob Bell DVD

Nooma #1 Rain-Rob Bell DVD

Things don't always work out the way we want them to, or the way we think they will. Sometimes we don't even see it coming. We get hit with some form of pain out of nowhere leaving us feeling desperate and helpless. That's the way life is. Still, it makes us wonder how God can let these things happen to us. How God can just stand by and watch us suffer? Where is God when it really hurts? Maybe God is actually closer to us than we think. Maybe it's when we're in these situations, where everything seems to be falling apart, that God gets an opportunity to remind us of how much he really loves us. 11 minutes.

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Transformations-VHS

Transformations-VHS

Imagine a community where 92 percent of the population is born-again; where city jails have been closed for lack of crime; where agricultural productivity has reached biblical proportions.

Imagine a city where 60,000 Christians jam the municipal soccer stadium for all-night prayer vigils every 90 days; where a multi-billion dollar drug cartel has been brought to its knees.

Don't imagine. . . BELIEVE! Journey with host George Otis Jr to transformed communities on three continents. Learn how the power of prayer can deliver similar results in your own neighbourhood.

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50 Worship Ideas-Book

50 Worship Ideas-Book

This book is designed for all who lead worship in small gatherings, even when there is no musician present. It's bursting with ideas that will help you get your small group worshipping in a meaningful and uplifting way.

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The bondage Breaker-Dr Niel Anderson DVD

The bondage Breaker-Dr Niel Anderson DVD

The Bondage Breaker© (more than 1.2 million copies sold) leads readers away from the shadows and shackles in their lives and toward the freedom that comes when they

* realize they have the right to be free
* confront the power of Satan
* fight the temptation to do it their way
* trade deception for grace
* affirm their identity in Christ

Neil Anderson ultimately helps people break negative thought patterns, control irrational feelings, and break out of the bondage of sinful behavior. Those struggling will discover how to embrace the promise of Jesus to win the spiritual battles that confront them.

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Cultivate-Marriage-Andy Stanley DVD

Cultivate-Marriage-Andy Stanley DVD

"We just can't seem to stop fighting." "I can't say anything right." "That hurt." Sound familiar? It does for a lot of us. In this DVD, Ted Lowe offers exercises, teaching time, and questions that will challenge and encourage you to communicate in a way that is more healing and less hurting. Designed for a couple or small groups of couples. (2 sessions)

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The Best Question ever-Andy Stanley DVD

The Best Question ever-Andy Stanley DVD

We've all made dumb decisions. No matter who you are, this is something we all share in common. There are purchases we wish we hadn't made, loans we regret signing up for, people we wish we hadn't dated, parties we wish we hadn't gone to , jobs we wish we hadn't taken...the list goes on. Imagine if we could learn to see clearly before we make some of our dumb decisions? Well, not only is that something we desire, it's what God wants for us as well.

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Taking Care of Business-Andy Stanley DVD

Taking Care of Business-Andy Stanley DVD

Work. For most people, it's a necessity. For some, it's a passion. And for others, it's a four-letter word to be avoided as much as possible. But for all of us, only one perspective on work really matters: God's. (6 sessions)

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Life Rules-Andy Stanley DVD

Life Rules-Andy Stanley DVD

When we were kids, half the fun was breaking the rules without getting caught. In life though, there's nothing fun about broken promises, broken relationships, or a broken heart. In this six-part series, Andy Stanley explains that God has given us a set of life rules that can improve our current relationships and help restore a damaged or broken one. (Six sessions.)

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Hero's-Andly Stanley DVD

Hero's-Andly Stanley DVD

Heroes - we all have them. There is something in each of us that is drawn to the hero. We admire his clarity of vision in the face of uncertainty. We applaud her quick action while others stand paralyzed on the sidelines. Most of us have dreamed of being a hero. Each of us will have the opportunity, a defining moment in our lives when we will be called upon to act heroically on behalf of someone else. Will you be ready? Will you be a hero? In this four-part series, Andy Stanley explains what it takes to be a hero.

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Go Fish-Andy Stanley DVD

Go Fish-Andy Stanley DVD

Fishing stories. We've all heard them. "It was this big." "You should have seen the one that got away." People love to tell stories of their fishing adventures. When it comes to faith, however, most people clam up. Why is it we can't talk about what God has done in our lives as naturally as we can spin fishing tales? Includes 6 sessions, entitled: We Were All Fish Once, Why Fish?, Fish Guts, Fishing Buddies, Muddy Water, and The One That Got Away. Each session includes fifteen to twenty minutes of teaching followed by several discussion questions.

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Discovering God's Will-Andy Stanley DVD

Discovering God's Will-Andy Stanley DVD

Discovering God's will can be a difficult process, especially when we need to make a decision in a hurry. This eight-session study series explores God's providential, moral, and personal will and how God uses other people and the principles of scripture to guide us as we attempt to discover the personal vision He has for our lives.

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Breakaway-Andy Stanley DVD

Breakaway-Andy Stanley DVD

None of us sets out to be like everybody else, but it happens. Life begins to squeeze us into a mold until one day we wake up feeling trapped. Unfortunately many people think the answer is to run away, but they only end up making the same bad decisions over and over again. How do you break the cycle and break out of the crowd? Andy Stanley will renovate your thinking by exposing you to four core beliefs that have the power to change the trajectory of your life. (6 sessions)

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It Came from Within-Andy Stanley DVD

It Came from Within-Andy Stanley DVD

Where did that come from? You know that horrible, sinking feeling you have when something comes out of your mouth that you didn't expect - that is just so unlike you. Did you know those words are a reflection of a bigger problem lurking beneath the surface? "For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks," states Matthew 12:33. The scary truth is that the words you "accidentally" speak and the actions you later regret are actually in keeping with what's hiding in your heart. This DVD is enhanced with curriculum study sessions that can be used for small groups or individual study. (5 sessions)

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What's so Amazing about Grace DVD

What's so Amazing about Grace DVD

This resource gives small groups an indepth look into the profound gift and work of Grace. Based on Philip Yancey's book of the same name, your group will wrestle with the impact that grace has on all of life.

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