Reflections and Devotions for Session 1 of Footnotes.
What if we look at the "ordinary" people who witnessed the Passion events... the women around Jesus? Or the "bad" guys... Judas, Pilate, and Caiaphas? Amy-Jill ...
How do we walk with Christ - daily follow him, grow in him, and faithfully serve him? Join Adam Hamilton this Lent and Easter in The Walk and discover five esse...
The hit Broadway Musical, Les Miserables, based on Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, is one of the longest running musicals in the world. This profound story of Jean Va...
In The Passion Play, Rob Fuquay follows the biblical story of the Passion and shows how this amazing play has been used both as a ritual of praise and later as ...
Sometimes our lives are in such disarray we can't envision a way through to redemption. But when we look at the mess through the eyes of Christ, we not only fin...
Jesus didn't come to start a religion. The rebel Jesus came with a renegade gospel to start a revolution. You and I are invited to be a part. Pastor Mike Slaugh...
In Short Stories by Jesus, author Amy-Jill Levine takes you back in time and explains how original audiences understood Jesus' parables. You'll learn how new in...
Bring the wisdom of N.T. Wright to your study group.
Adam Hamilton explores the worries and fears most of us experience. Learn to identify fears and discover practical steps for overcoming them... all in the light...
What Makes a Hero? offers us an image of what it looks like to be victorious over trials and temptations. Looking at pop culture heroes and others through the l...
Justified by faith. We are accustomed to this theology today, but when Martin Luther shared his belief in this concept during the sixteenth century, it was anyt...
Learn how to embrace authenticity in your life in just 21 days! FOMO, the fear of missing out, isn't new. But today, social media makes us increasingly more awa...
Way of Life help groups approach and engage the spiritual, theological, and missional proposals in Brian McLaren's book The Great Spiritual Migration.
Your story can change. Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, Naomi, Daniel, Peter, and even an unnamed woman in the Bible are all testaments to the transformational power of G...
In this series of videos, Robert Gardner discusses aspects of Scripture and how it applies to everyday life.
Turn your reluctance into boldness by walking in the footsteps of Moses. Join award-winning author Adam Hamilton as he travels from Egypt to Mt. Sinai, the Nile...
In Hope for Hard Times, author Magrey deVega examines the lives of the great biblical prophets Elijah and Elisha and reveals a consistent message in their stori...
This Covenant experience will guide participants in a comprehensive, in-depth study of the Bible over twenty-four weeks. Unlike the learning participants may ha...
True or false: 1. Everything happens for a reason. 2. God helps those who help themselves. 3. God won't give you more than you can handle. 4. God said it, I be...
We live in a skeptical age. People, especially young people, express doubts about Christian faith. Scott Jones and Arthur Jones address hard questions that all...
Jesus told stories, or parables, to help us understand how God wants us to live life. In Stories Jesus Told, you'll explore six of Jesus' parables to learn how ...
Engage your adults in a conversation around social justice topics, like refugees and sexuality, to explore what they mean to individuals and your community.
In Make a Difference, author James A. Harnish helps United Methodists answer the questions "How can I contribute to God's healing work in this world?" and "How ...
Although One is a small-group study written to cover an eight-week session, its larger purpose is for participants of the group to embrace meaningful relationsh...
Dare to Dream is a startling and inspiring program by popular author and pastor Mike Slaughter that draws on the Bible and a lifetime of ministry to help us dis...
Drama. Drama. Drama. Your family may be the stuff of a hit reality TV show, but into every family a little...or a lot... of drama must sometimes fall. That's th...
Wesley who? Do our younger laypeople know who John Wesley was and what he means to our church? The Wesley Challenge introduces our denomination’s father in ...
In Jacob Armstrong's new book and accompanying Bible study, A New Playlist, you'll discover how to cut through the distractions of life to hear God more clearly...
Follow the journeys of Paul, beginning with his dramatic conversion, as he spread the Gospel through modern-day Greece and Turkey. In this six-week study, you a...
Your perfect plan just turned into a disastrous disappointment. What are you supposed to do now? How do you pick yourself up and move forward when you really wa...
Grab your tool belt for physical renovation. For spiritual renovation, turn to God. Popular author and pastor Jacob Armstrong explores how Nehemiah understood t...
Our lessons come from the Book of Genesis, the book of beginnings. Through its pages, God is revealed as the Creator, Sustainer, Judge, and Redeemer who brought...
Our sessions begin with God's demands for our complete and undivided love as shown in passages from Deuteronomy and Psalms. They proceed with our response to Go...
Our lessons in this series survey calls to ministry and the expectations of those called with several drawn from the Gospels of Mark and Luke. We explore Paul's...
Our sessions focus on how Jesus fulfilled the Law in the sense that it was given full meaning. Jesus emphasized the deep, underlying messages of the gospel; and...
This fall, our lessons focus on God, what it means that we are created in God's image, and what it means to worship God alone. The writer of the student book le...
Disciple Fast Track, an adaptation of the original, bestselling Disciple Bible Study, provides a viable option for busy people seeking comprehensive engagement ...
Into the Word helps readers deepen their understanding of Scripture and make connections between what they already know and what they are reading. Each week you...
Hear the call to return to God and a community "set apart." Hosts share insights related to the week's session and help the group think about what they've le...
J. J. Warren continues his call to reaffirm the church as a people who welcome all. He especially speaks to those who are young and progressive, asking you to s...
In the women's Bible study, Romans: Good News that Changes Everything, Melissa Spoelstra shows us that the gospel truths shared with the early church at Rome ec...
Barb Roose invites us to explore the stories of women in the Bible who had to wait on God. If you've felt anxious, angry, discouraged or depressed because God i...
Minor characters never have top billing. But have you noticed how their roles can be key to the purpose of the story? It's the same in the Bible. The very chara...
It's become trendy to use the word "fierce" when describing women at the top of their game, but women have been fiercely changing the world for thousands of yea...
Every woman was born to dream - to live a life of beauty, passion, adventure, and purpose. Our dreams, no matter how big or small, push us to become women of co...
In Winning the Worry Battle: Life Lessons from Joshua, You'll learn how to fight in faith as you internalize God's promises, draw strength from God's faithfulne...
Life is like a rollercoaster. One day it seems everything is good, and the next it can feel like everything is falling apart. We will examine the life of Elijah...
Bible teacher Babbie Mason challenges you to examine your personal relationship with God, make up your mind to believe God's Word, regardless of your feelings o...
Imagine waking up every single day convinced that the twenty-four hours ahead of you are a precious gift to be used wisely. Now imagine that you know exactly ho...
At some point, our lives get messy. Illness, conflict, depression, divorce, job loss...it happens, and when it does, there's nowhere to hide. Thankfully, God lo...
It's impossible live life without experiencing the pain and loneliness of betrayal, shame, guilt, loss, judgment, or rejection. This study reveals the healing p...
All of us know what it’s like to be hurt or betrayed. Some of us have endured unspeakable pain through abuse, adultery, or abandonment. God knows the pain we ...
Jesus demonstrated the presence and power of God by performing miracles. Every time we see Jesus performing a miracle, we also get a glimpse into the gift of de...
This six-week study examines the holy habits of six kings and prophets who were set apart by their close walk with God. You'll explore how timeless spiritual pr...
Every name tells a story. Names in Scripture were often given to tell the story of a person's identity, upbringing, or character. When God transforms lives, He ...
In this study of the Book of Numbers, we'll find a group of people that wandered in the desert for forty years, unable to enter the Promised Land because of the...
In this six-week Bible study, author Natalie Chambers Snapp teaches you how to develop and nurture the kind of enriching and satisfying friendships that build u...
With more and more ways to communicate in a culture that encourages sharing the details of our lives, there exists greater and greater opportunity for disagreem...
Choose to be overwhelmed! Not with the demands of life faced by women today, but overwhelmed by God! When we learn to be overwhelmed by God, our days are no lon...
Women are experts when it comes to worry, fear, and doubt. Unsettled times in our world—our neighborhoods—certainly don’t help matters. Jeremiah also live...
Confronting the daily chaos of competing demands from a new perspective, she asks not "How do I juggle my responsibilities?" but "How do I make choices that ref...
The third volume in Adam Hamilton's Bible study trilogy on the life of Jesus. Travel with Adam Hamilton as he retraces the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.
One of history's most accomplished inventors finds inspiration and wisdom in his Creator.
Retired NYPD Chaplain Suzan Johnson Cook, speaks about the particular struggles of a mother preparing her sons to grow up as young black men in the United Stat...
Waymakers include Carter G. Woodson, Madam C. J. Walker, James Weldon Johnson, Dorthy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Constance Baker Motley, Clementa...
A baseball scout's lack of patience changes America's pastime forever.
Pastors Stephen Handy and Jacob Armstrong talk about building bridges across the racial divide in their distinct community contexts. In this segment, Stephen an...
How would Martin Luther King view today's faith activists? Professor Obery Hendricks, Professor Josef Sorett and Rabbi Steve Gutow say that King, the standard b...
Race, says The Rev. Dr. James Forbes, is used to define who is worthy of existence; and racism is genocide; and a slow process of extermination.
The problem with racial reconciliation
The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr., talks about his most profound memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- King's "faith to believe" as he waited, far from friends and fam...
The hard work of justice for everyone is far from over. Use this motivational and inspiring mini-movie to challenge your community to open their eyes to the nee...
With You (I Feel Again) - reflects on how easy it is to be lonely in a crowd. Set to the platinum hit single "Feel Again" by One Republic (used by permission), ...
American religion in black and white
In A Grace-Full Life, you’ll examine a Wesleyan understanding of grace for the common person. You'll learn about various forms of grace and you’ll come away...
Wouldn't it be fascinating to attend a Bible study led by John Wesley? Scott J. Jones and his son Arthur D. Jones use Wesley's own words to address questions th...
Join Adam Hamilton for a six-week journey as he travels to England, following the life of John Wesley and exploring his defining characteristics of a Wesleyan C...
One of the most important documents that Wesley delivered to the rapidly expanding societies and congregations was The Wesley Covenant Prayer and Renewal Servic...
Prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness: this is what we commit to when we become members of The United Methodist Church. A Disciple's Path helps you dev...
Recharge. Reboot. Reorder. Whatever you want to call it, we need a process that helps us continuously renew our relationship with God so that we don't drift awa...
Identifying everyday applications of John Wesley’s compelling portrait of faithful life in Christ, groups will grasp real-life ways to love God, rejoice in Go...
This short series features pastors Zach Bechtold and Matt Franks of the Bearded Theologians podcast in short conversations around topics of Wesleyan theology. A...
John Wesley boils fiscal responsibilities down to just three rules: Earn all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can. Sounds simple, right? Yes, but not eas...
Today's media-savvy kids will be hooked by these engaging, animated videos! Each video segment tells a Bible story through the kids' point of view, with...
Watch the Whirl characters learn about the Bible. Grades 3 - 6.
Join the Deep Blue kids, Asia, Edgar, Kat, and Caleb for the story of Advent and Christmas that focus on the theme of family.
Animated characters help set up the lesson each week. They address deep theological concepts with creative, light-hearted wit and will leave kids (and leaders!)...
Journey through the Old and New Testaments, exploring the connections between several stories with each video. Grades 5-6
Capture your kids' imaginations with illustrated re-tellings of essential Bible stories. Grades K-4
Join the kids from Deep Blue in stories from the Bible about the fruits of the spirit.
Join the kids from Deep Blue in stories about the life of Jesus from the Bible.
Join the kids from Deep Blue as they learn about the early church from the Bible.
Join the kids from Deep Blue in stories of the Bible from the Old Testament.
Fun Bible trivia featuring the kids of Deep Blue.
Biblically trained Navigators guide your tweens through the Bible story and make connections between the Bible and everyday life. Each video includes discussion...
Today's media-savvy kids will be hooked by these engaging, animated videos! Each video segment tells a Bible story through the kids' point of view, with help fr...
Confirm is an easy-to-follow and fully customizable confirmation program that can be used virtually any church setting and with a wide variety of schedules. You...
Journey Box Media creates inspiring mini-movies for worship, study, and gathering times.
Short films with powerful messages. A new film is added every month.
This set of short videos depict modern dramatizations of eight parables from Jesus' ministry without narration or dialogue.
The #30SecondBible series features dozens of voices reflecting on the Bible. From Genesis to Revelation, you will hear summaries of each book and reflections on...
A short film inspired by Tom Berlin's Reckless Love.
These short narrated meditations focus on mindful living and recognition of God's presence and love.
These Bible study videos will resonate with today's media-minded adults. Each video explores a scripture, Biblical theme, or spiritual practice in an engaging w...
In this series of short inspirational collages, we see ourselves as the Church active in the world around us. Based loosely on the United Methodist Social Prin...
A dramatization of the Ten Commandments, combined with a dramatic reading.
These short videos present prayers and writings from John Wesley.
From creator James Grocho, these short, often wordless, films provide inspirational messages that are perfect for worship services, outreach, or as the starting...
These faith-based vignettes convey stories related to different faith traits without the use of dialogue or narration.
Filmed in the Promised Land, this series walks through archaeological sites of biblical history.
Inspiring videos with scripture narration
Spoken word videos with inspiring messages based around Christmas and Easter
As a woman in ministry, you negotiate unique challenges every day. You need a trusted and comprehensive resource that not only helps you survive, but one that g...
You want to share your faith with others, but doing so makes you uneasy; you don't want to come off as pushy. In Get Their Name, readers learned how to talk abo...
Fear of the Other: No Fear in Love invites readers to consider the Gospel command to love (and not merely tolerate) those considered to be "Other" or outside ma...
United Methodists need a breath of fresh air. Don't worry. This is not another series full of theories and opinions about what we should do concerning all the i...
The spiritual life is often compared to a race. Pastor Rob Fuqay sees a parallel between the flags used in racing and the signals God sends us in our fast-paced...
In Living the Five, authors Jim and Jennifer Cowart show you how successful community groups are called to live out five principles and share how they applied t...
Stop falling for Money's false promises, and trust in God's promises. Help those you lead do the same. It's hard to compete against money's influence in our ...
Authors Scott McKenzie and Kristine Miller engage in meaningful conversation regarding generosity, their experiences with giving, and the real-life challenges t...
Adam Hamilton deals with questions so many of us have about the four major world religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism - and compares the beliefs o...
Enough is an invitation to rediscover the Bible's wisdom when it comes to prudent financial practices. In these pages are found the keys to experiencing content...
In Defying Gravity, Tom Berlin takes a look at the difference between "want" and "need" and illustrates how possessions can create an unbearable weight on our l...
It all begins in Genesis. God creates the world and it's all good: light, dark, land, sea, animals, plants, male, female, good, good, very good. But we humans l...
Moses is an Israelite. He was raised as an Egyptian prince, but fled after murdering an Egyptian who was beating an Israelite. He meets God in the from of a bur...
The Gospel of Mark is the oldest of all the gospels. I love it because it's written by a regular person. It's original language is full of grammatical errors an...
I am forsaken, abandoned at the end of all the paths of peace that were supposed to lead to me. You seek other lovers and the dreams of those dreamers tell lies...
Most people think that the book of Job is about why bad things happen to good people. And while that is the presenting problem the real theme of the book has mo...
The Revelation from Jesus Christ to everyone caught in the thicket of empire, persecution, and death; everyone who hopes for equality, plenty, and life: the tim...
Relational and marital imagery is used throughout scripture to depict the interaction between God and people. In Hosea we see the role of prophet and partner mi...
Of all the prophets of the Hebrew scriptures, Isaiah is the one that most significantly influences the prophetic imagination of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the boo...
Revelation is about the New Testament's central conflict: the lordship of Christ versus the lordship of Caesar. In nine visions John describes a God whose power...
There's four basic takeaways in this letter: First, we are reminded that we have already been provided with everything needed to partake in the divine nature, t...
People say the latest Star Wars movie is a retelling of the first. I'd say the same thing about the Gospels. That's why I love Exodus so much - it's A New Hope ...
It begins with Joshua son of Nun being described according to the criteria of the Deuteronomist: meditating on the law of Moses day and night and refusing to tu...
Moses led the Exodus from Egypt. Joshua walked around Jericho and into the land promised to Abraham. Which brings us to Judges, a merry-go-round of tribal leade...
"The book of Revelation is not a crystal ball to the future. It is a mythopoetic vision of what is already happening. We face an apocalypse of our own making, w...
The way Mark tells it, Jesus is a community organizer, Teaching principles that build and sustain powerful leaders and movements. Through repentance, we learn t...
Genesis, also known as the book of beginnings, is the epic collection of writings that connect the history of the small Hebrew-Jewish nation with the larger his...
The book of Joshua is a severe ethical challenge, portraying as it does a religiously motivated campaign of genocidal conquest. It is a story that has too often...
If there's one thing about First Corinthians that calls us to the center of the gospel it's the importance of the body. The Corinthians envision a kind of spiri...
The Gospel of Mark reads like good news for Habakkuk's runner. The vision is made plain from his coming out of the river to his coming out of the stone tomb. An...
Who is Gomer? By all accounts she was an eset zenunim, that is, one who acts like a harlot, ordered to marry Hosea so that Adonai can make a point. Does that bo...
Job, a great guy, loses everything. His friends say it's because of some secret sin but Job insists he's innocent and we the readers know that he is because we'...
This is for the in-betweeners, living between everyday oppression and world peace, the now-is and the is-to-come, in that dry space where nothing is certain. Re...
"The book of Romans in thirty seconds or less: the simple letter to the Jesus followers living in and around Rome of the first century was not intended to be th...
The Holy Spirit shows up. There is confusion. People speak in other languages. There is fear. They fight. They love. They are the church together. The book of A...
Joel is one of the minor prophets. In it we find warnings for priests to put on sackcloth and lament. Typical of prophetic writings, there is alot of future ten...
For me, when I read the pages of Genesis, there I encounter the image of a God who gives us all the good news that despite the occasional horrors of human life ...
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in a land of deep darkness, on them light has shined. This is the good news according...
The book of Joshua is a dangerous, genocidal text. The same God who liberates the enslaved Israelites from Egypt now calls them to become oppressors, to violent...
"In John's wild vision he sees Jesus dressed like Caesar, speaking to seven illegal churches. And the heavens are torn open and God is in his sacred court. Jesu...
Matthew was formed by the Hebrew scriptures. When he tells us the good news of Jesus he uses the stories of his heart and of his people. He sings of the saving ...
The good news in Joshua does not lie within the story itself but how this story challenges Christians to confront the dangers lurking withinthe Bible. These dan...
In Acts, there's in-fighting among the Jesus followers about how big God's grace really is--does it really extend beyond the Jews-- even to the Gentiles? The Ap...
Paul's first letter to the Corinthians encapsulates grace. Paul begins with the positive truth about God - who he is and his sovereignty - but then speaks hones...
What's the book of James? It's a letter to those who feel scattered, two-faced, pushed-down, or taken in by empty promises... It's a warning to succumb to these...
Sorry Reformers, but the distinction between faith and works is a false one. Faith is an active participation in the Reign of God, a tree firmly planted in the ...
The Bible is a communal library, filled with harmony and dissonance, hope and lament, faith and doubt, questions and answers and more questions to those answers...
In chapter 7, Isaiah's prophecy comes in the form of a child - a son whose name has a double meaning: God with us. Is this a promise or a threat? It is a comfor...
In Isaiah we see the coalescing of influences from both the histories of the Northern Kingdom of Ephraim and the Southern Kingdom of Judah. The heritage of the ...
I'm concerned with a God who is capable of destruction but my favorite part of this text is the demand that sons and daughters shall prophecy. Old men shall see...
The book of Acts chronicles the earliest days of the church. It's in Acts that we find the dramatic story of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit descends upon the people...
The Corinthian church is probably the most problematic church that we see in the whole New Testament, more problems than any other. But what lies at the heart? ...
The Gospel of Matthew is the Gospel of Mountains. Jesus is tempted by the devil on a mountain, he preaches the beatitudes in a sermon on the mountain, he prays ...
No matter how fast the merry-go-round may spin, God is still faithful. Whether moments of peace or seasons of chaos, idolatry or fidelity, civil war or tribal h...
From its infamous "In the beginning" to Charlton Heston shouting "Let my people go!" to genealogies and genealogies and more genealogies, to poets and prophets ...
The Book of Psalms is a collection of 150 different songs, which function as prayers. The book of Psalms can be found in the Hebrew Bible or in the Christian Ol...
"I don't like easy answers to hard questions. For many, sin causes bad things to happen. That's their easy answer to the hard question, ""If God is good then wh...
There's a lot of reasons to look at First Peter sideways - what's this about slaves obeying harsh masters because Jesus, or women not braiding hair because auth...
The life and death of a revolutionary and the resurrection of a revolution: this is the New Testament. We see Jesus bringing good news to the poor, proclaiming ...
"The prophet Hosea offers us one of the boldest and most controversial metaphors for God in the Bible, controversial then and now. He compares God to a husband ...
"Why do the innocent suffer? The book of Job is what happens when a creative genius explores that question. The rich Job, a man of deep faith, loses everything ...
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