WESLEYAN STUDIES

Revival: Faith as Wesley Lived It Five Means of Grace: Experience God’s Love the Wesleyan Way

Videos/ Sessions 3 6 6

Description In The Wesley Prayer Challenge, author Chris Folmsbee invites readers to consider words from the Wesley Covenant Prayer each day for three weeks, while reflecting on their meaning in the context of the larger piece.

Available Components Participant Book, Leader Guide

Adam Hamilton uses his captivating storytelling talent to take you on a six-week journey through England tracing the life of John Wesley. His story is our story. It’s our heritage, it defines our faith, and it challenges us to rediscover our spiritual passion.

Book, Leader Guide, Youth Study Book, Children’s Leader Guide

Recharge. Reboot. Reorder. Based on The Wesley Covenant for Renewal, Five Means of Grace is a six-week, video-based study that will show you how to reorder your life through prayer, searching Scripture, receiving the Lord’s Supper, fasting, and conferencing (worshiping together).

Three Simple Rules: A Wesleyan Way of Living

In Three Simple Rules, Rueben Job offers an interpretation of John Wesley’s General Rules for today’s readers. For individual reading or group study, this insightful work calls us to mutual respect, unity and a deeper daily relationship with God.

Book, Leader Guide Book, Free Downloadable Leader Guide

Title The Wesley Challenge: 21 Days to a More Authentic Faith

All the Good: A Wesleyan Way of Christmas A Disciple’s Path: A Guide for United Methodists

Earn. Save. Give. Wesley’s Simple Rules for Money

# of Videos/ Sessions 3 4 6 4

Description The study offers an introduction to our denomination’s founder in a practical and accessible way and engages small groups and churches to work through twenty-one questions studied over three weeks to help renew passion and discover a deeper commitment to God and others.

Join Wesleyan scholars Jung Choi, Sangwoo Kim, Amy Valdez Barker, and Laceye Warner on an Advent journey guided by the practices in John Wesley’s means of grace. Each chapter guides participants covers an aspect of Wesleyan means of grace.

Available Components Participant Book, Leader Guide, Youth Study Book Book, Large Print Edition, Leader Guide, Youth Study, Children’s Leader Guide

Discipleship is ongoing. A Disciple’s Path helps us look beyond membership, presenting an engaging approach to discipleship from a distinctly Wesleyan perspective. The 6-week study is perfect for new-member groups, but also works well in small groups of long-time members.

This twenty-first century translation of Wesley’s money management philosophy will give everyone in your congregation—children and teenagers as well as adults of any age—a new way to think about money, not only during your stewardship program, but for the rest of their lives.

Daily Workbook, Leader Guide with Download, Companion Reader Book; Guides: Leader, Program, & Children’s; Youth Study Book; Devotions

Title Untangling Faith: Reclaiming Hope in the Questions Jesus Asked Thrive: Living Faithfully in Difficult Times Acts: Awakening to God in Everyday Life

Description Have you ever felt you struggled to find your faith footing? Join Amberly Neese in she explores the questions Jesus asked as a way to reclaim that faith. Chapters explore our own questions like Can God Be Trusted? and How Can I Grow in Faith. Amberly’s unique humor and wit help the whole group find their way through deep and rich issues of personal faith, doubt, and growth.

Available Components

Jen Cowart helps women develop the habits and attitudes necessary to thrive whatever their circumstances. Leading readers through the book of James, a letter written about enduring hardships, she lifts up six characteristics of mature Christians. From endurance and humility to the controlling the words we speak, Jen helps participants find the divine and the practical in living faithfully.

Distractions and busyness can contribute to a drift toward indifference in our spiritual lives. Journey with the first followers of Jesus and witness the birth and growth of the early church through spiritual awakening to the power of God’s Spirit, message, freedom, grace, mission, and direction.

“Just pray about it.” “God’s got this.” Though well-meanimg, these phrases can sound like clichés. We want to know how to have a bold and courageous faith. In Joshua, you’ll learn how to fight in faith as you internalize God’s promises, draw strength from God’s faithfulness, act in obedience to God’s commands, and believe what our limitless God can do.

Title Messy People: Life Lessons from Imperfect Biblical Heroes Surrendered: Letting Go and Living Like Jesus

Pursued: God’s Relentless Love for You Breakthrough: Finding Freedom in Christ

# of Videos/ Sessions 6 6 6 6

Description Every life gets messy at times. But as we see in the Bible, God loves to use messy people! Dig into the lives of biblical heroes who were just like us but who were used by God in powerful ways. Examine five wonderful but messy people (and one messy parable character). In the hands of God, our messes can become His masterpieces!

Available Components Workbook, Leader Guide

Are you facing a problem in life that you just can’t fix, no matter what you do? If you’ve heard the phrase “Let go and let God,” it’s easier said than done. Learn from Jesus’ example, you’ll discover six principles that will equip you to let God lead you to victory despite your circumstances as you deal with the problems and pain you are facing.

Discover how God is pursuing you as you explore His relentless love from Genesis to Revelation in Pursued by Jennifer Cowart. We will see that God passionately pursues people who do not deserve his love, and we are those people!

Let go of feeling like you are not a “good enough” Christian and find freedom in Christ by studying Paul’s letter to the Galatians. Breakthrough by Barb Roose shows us that even the believers in the early church struggled to let go of rule-keeping and performance to embrace God’s free gift of grace.

Title White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

Author(s) Robert P. Jones

Description Drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation.

Available Components Book

In Acts: Catching up with the Spirit, author and biblical scholar Matthew Skinner explored six key themes from the Acts of the Apostles. In this Amplify Original, he continues his examination of Acts by looking at four often overlooked figures from the book. Join Professor Skinner as he looks at Tabitha, Priscilla, Rhoda, and Lydia.

In this Amplify Original series, Professor Amy-Jill Levine explores the impact of suffering on four figures from the Old Testament: Hagar, Naomi, David, and Job. In each session, Levine describes the character’s situation and response to difficult circumstances.

Title Basic Bible: Making the Bible Accessible for All The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness /

It’s Story Time: Celebrate the Wonder of Bible Stories

Description These short videos are the perfect way to introduce (or re-introduce) a person to the Bible. With easy to follow animation, each episode takes you through a different aspect of the Bible, how it is organized, and general themes found throughout. Videos include: The Bible, The Old Testament, Genesis, The New Testament, The Gospels, and Letters of Paul.

In this Amplify Original, Justin Coleman sits down with Father Gregory Boyle to discuss Homeboy Industries and his latest book, The Whole Language. Their conversation covers A Visible God, Begin with Being Tender, Joy and Bravery, and Fluency and Wholeness.

Available Components Free Downloadable Leader Helps Book

Join three friends in this Amplify Originals as they read stories from the Celebrate Wonder Storybook Bible and talk about how the lessons have shown up in their own lives. Did we mention there’s a reading fort? Titles include: David Plays Music, God Creates People, The Year of Jubilee, The Forgiving Father, Jesus and the Children, Resurrection, Believers Share, Jesus Calms the Storm, Jesus Washes Feet, and The Good Samaritan.

Book, Celebrate Wonder Storybook Bible