Suggested Small Group Curriculum Options

 

Love & Marriage

 

The following are highly suggested curriculum options for use in your Home Small Groups.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Pastor Randy Williams at randy @ northridge .org.


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 The Five Love Languages

 

If you express love in a way that your spouse doesn't understand, he or she won't realize you've expressed your love at all.  The problem is that you're speaking two different languages. 

 Covenant Marriage: Partnership & Commitment

 

Revised! Helps couples learn to apply the biblical concept of covenant to their marriages. Topics covered include: uniqueness and unity; purpose and partnership; making decisions; managing anger, conflict, and problems; implementing commitment; and continuing growth throughout marriage. Contains personal learning activities to complete in preparation for group sessions. Includes 12 study sessions and an introductory session, background material, and personal learning exercises.

 

Building Relationships: A Discipleship Guide for Married Couples

 

This 12-unit course teaches married couples sharing and communication skills that are so vitally needed in the marriage relationship. The course also guides couples into a deeper relationship with God by teaching how to spend time with Him daily. Couples develop skills and learn how to establish routines that encourage discipleship both as individuals and as a couple.

 

 The Love Languages of God

 

Through his best-selling series of resources, Dr. Gary Chapman has defined key ways in which couples, parents, children, and teens communicate and understand love. These five "love languages," as he calls them, include: words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, physical touch, and acts of service.

Based on the trade book of the same title, this small-group discipleship study expands on these practical, biblical principles by showing how they apply to the One who loves us most. "I believe that human love relationships reflect the nature of God, who is love," says the author. "If we can understand the dynamics of human love, it will help us understand the expressions of divine love."

Certainly, God expresses His love for us in many ways—and fluently. Still, we may not always understand. So the purpose of this study is to change the way people relate to God and bring them closer to Him. Then they can experience His limitless love.

 

 Couples of the Old Testament

 

The Old Testament tells the stories of fascinating men and women in relationship: couples who live with chronic disappointment, couples who overcome all obstacles to be together, in-laws who can't stand each other, a wife who risks death if she walks in on her husband unannounced, and a husband who takes back his wife when she becomes a prostitute.

There are arranged marriages, fiercely loving marriages, enduring marriages, an instant marriage, a coerced marriage and a perfect marriage--until the couple blew it!

Dale and Sandy Larsen lead you to dig deeper into these relationships highlighted in the Bible to learn important lessons about marriage, God and yourself. 

 

Counsel for the Nearly and Newly Married

 

This eight-session resource builds on a biblical view of marriage and personal faith. Provides background content, learning activities, and enrichment activities for couples.

 

Women Making a Difference in Marriage: Building Love, Joy, and Commitment

 

With God being the Author of love and the Creator of marriage, it's fitting that He would have a plan for our marriages. In this study women will learn that through carefully studying the Bible and adopting a willingness to follow its principles, instructions and examples, they can begin to experience all that God intended for their marriage. Women can begin to build or rekindle their marriage according to His design.

This 8-week study, in five daily lessons, offers practical insights for women seeking to be godly wives - even when unbelieving or unchurched husbands, or separation or divorce seems to shatter their dreams. Join Lana Packer, a seasoned missionary and pastor's wife, on a journey toward discovering abundant joy in marriage.

 

Making Love Last Forever

 

This 12-session interactive study leads married couples to understand happiness as it relates to them individually and to their relationships. Dr. Smalley's material reveals how to develop the best kind of love and to balance your happiness with your mate's.

 

 Love:  The Greatest Gift of All

 

It begins with God.

As you come to know of and believe in his everlasting love, you begin to think about loving others--through prayer, service, forgiveness and more.

Phyllis J. Le Peau offers nine Bible studies to help you build a foundation of confidence in God's love for you. You will be encouraged and equipped to respond to his love by loving others.

 

 Marriage:  God's Design for Intimacy

 

What makes a good marriage even better?  How can you build an intimate relationship that endures?  How do you live out your roles of husband and wife?

The Bible takes a realistic and practical approach to these questions. As you explore what the Bible says about marriage, you'll discover how following God's design for intimacy helps you enjoy and grow your marriage to the full.

 

 

 
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