Award-winning author Max Lucado has a book  called, fittingly enough, Facing Your Giants. “I was amazed (and delighted) at the echoes between the movie and my book,” he says. Through a partnership with Thomas Nelson’s W Publishers, Max has helped craft a FACING THE GIANTS study guide that you can download from the movie’s website. Using scenes from the film and words from Max’s new book, the study guide challenges readers to think through how they are allowing God to help battle the giants in their world. As Max writes, “Focus on giants — you stumble. Focus on God — your giants tumble.”

This Disciple Now Study is free and can be downloaded HERE.

Below is a photo from our weekend event.

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DRIVERS will take the photos unless otherwise specified in the instructions!

1. Take a picture of your group with any church member not at this event. – 5 points
2. Take a picture of your group with an outdoor sculpture. – 10 points
3. Take a picture of a sign with the current temperature (5 points) – 5 extra points if everyone is in the picture including the driver.
4. Picture of the entire team around a church sign – 5 points. 2 additional points if it is unique.
5. Everyone in your group laying on the ground, spelling out a word with your bodies – 10 pts.
6. Your group posing a scene from a Disney movie in the middle of the mall – 9 points
7. Your group doing exactly what a sign says. (Your group may not create the sign.) – 7 points
8. Fit your entire group under a picnic table – 10 points
9. Group picture with someone in a uniform – 6 points

NOTE: Every 10 (ten) minutes your group will receive a TEXT MESSAGE with new instructions on how to earn new bonus points. Suggestion: Write down the new (text msg) clues!

Following are the 11 EXTRA instructions I texted:

1. Your entire team simultaneously drinking from the same soda can with straws – 5 points
2. Entire Team sitting in a chair together – 8 points
3. Entire Team at a train station – 10 points (+15 points if there is a train behind you)
4. Entire Team in the dark, with flashlights to their faces – 15 points
5. A member of the team bagging groceries – 10 points
6. Entire Team standing next to a stop sign – 7 points (3 extra points if the driver is included in the photo.)
7. Entire Team wearing masks – 9 points
8. Entire Team wearing lamp shades on their heads – 13 points
9. Picture from inside a car getting washed in a car wash – 5 points
10. Everyone on a playground slide – 10 points
11. Picture of a team member pumping gas for a stranger – 25 points

Below is the sideshow with all the photos all the team took.

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Our culture encourages us to be as self-focused as possible. The advertisement industry is telling us that we need and deserve to have the things they sell. So, we indulge ourselves thinking that maybe this time we may achieve happiness.

If the world is telling us to GET as much stuff as we can, God is calling us to GIVE as much as we can. He is calling us to lose our lives in order to find them. (Matthew 16:25)  More than ever before, we need someone to rescue us from the me-centered life we thought would make us happy.

The God-centered life works. When God is number one in our lives, we start seeing life and people differently. This year during Disciple Now, we want to help teenagers see everything in their lives – friendships, family situations, their bodies, and even their problems – as platforms to bring God glory.

“It’s Not About Me” bible study is much needed for today’s culture. Young people are not the only ones that need to understand that God is the center of the universe. “When God looks at the center of the universe, He doesn’t look at you.” God loves us and desires a relationship with us, but He doesn’t need us. “Our comfort is not God’s priority. If God exists to please us, then shouldn’t we always be pleased?”

This bible study will help students begin to see everything – our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents – as being all for the One who created us.

“It’s Not About Me” bible study has 6 sessions and it is perfect for a youth retreat or disciple now weekend. This material can also be used by the young adult ministry.

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Certainly there are other ministries that offer good bible studies, but in my opinion, the following 3 are the best:

1. The Cutting Edge Youth Ministry Resources – The Cutting Edge Bible Studies are formatted into activity studies, discussion based, and youth camp studies. Some of them are available in hard copy online while more and more are now available in digital format. Do you wonder what an activity study looks like?

• Sample Hard copy lesson (Activity format): Image is Everything (Session #4) – Sample #1
• Sample Digital download (Activity format): Bottom Line (BS outline + PP) “Thermostat vs thermometer” – Sample #2
• Sample Digital download (Discussion Format / Bible Study) Innocent by Associaion -Lesson #2 + PP – Sample #3
• Sample Digital download (Camp Format) Innocent by Association – Lesson #2 – Sample #4

2. Student Discipleship Ministries – SDM is a non-denominational ministry that exists to provide Biblical-based evangelism and discipleship resources.

3. InQuest Ministries – Here you will find a sample lesson of our curriculum, Teacheraides, and other great teaching resources. There is also information on our camps and conferences, links to great Biblical resources, and much, much more.

4. Dare2Share – here you will be able to find great resources about evangelism.

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