Welcome to Free Bible Teaching from LifeWay Groups Ministry. Here you’ll find audio teaching from some of our most popular authors and Bible studies. Just click and listen to find teaching to help you grow closer to Jesus. Or you can use these sessions to help your busy Bible study group prepare by listening to the teaching before you gather. For each study, there is a Bible Study Book that can be purchased to help you or your group have a deeper discipleship experience and get more out of this free teaching content. You can also find these episodes on our Apple Podcast page for Free Bible Teaching.
Free Bible Teaching
Happiness
In Happiness, noted theologian and author Randy Alcorn dispels centuries of misconceptions about happiness and provides indisputable proof that God not only wants us to be happy but also commands it. This is the most definitive study on the subject of happiness to date and a paradigm-shifting wake-up call for the church and Christians everywhere.
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Horizontal Jesus
Discover how your vertical relationship with God is connected to horizontal relationships with others.
Loving God is vertical love. Loving others is horizontal love. Jesus showed His disciples how these two loves are intertwined in practical ways. While our relationship with God is based on faith alone, He warns and encourages us to see that the way we treat people affects our experience of Him. In this study, you'll learn how to apply biblical principles drawn from several one-another passages in Scripture. In doing so, you'll reap blessings in your vertical relationship with God.
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It’s Not What You Think
The Christian life isn't about escaping this world to get into the next; it's about experiencing God's kingdom coming and His will being done on earth as it is in heaven. This Bible study pulls the original context of key biblical themes into our current understanding to unlock an exciting reality—one that isn't new, just forgotten.
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Jesus, Continued
In Jesus, Continued, J.D. Greear focuses on a central truth that unites us: God wants to be vitally present in and through His people. To live empowered, fruitful lives, we have to become intimately aware of where God is moving in our lives, how He is speaking to us, and how He has gifted us.
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Letters of the Revelation
Reorient your life to the mission of the church, using the warnings, challenges, victories, and failures of the seven churches of Asia.
Revelation is perhaps the most studied and discussed book in the Bible. It begins with letters to seven different churches of the first century. This study explores the challenges, failures, expectations, and victories of those churches. It gives believers a better context for end-times theology and reveals the cultural implications for the churches of those times and for churches today. Despite our best appearances, modern churches have shortcomings. Yet there is still time to awake from spiritual lethargy and deadness and embrace the mission God has for His church today.
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Momentum
Most Christians want to make real, noticeable progress in their walk with Christ. We long to forgive, to have a pure heart, and to find peace, but we just don't know how to get there. It's time to get unstuck and build momentum toward a more godly life. The understanding and strength we need to pursue holiness are available through the path Christ laid out for us in the Beatitudes. Find out what it really means to be poor in spirit, to be meek, and to mourn, and discover how those qualities will help you live a life in which God's blessings are abundantly clear and present.
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The Power of God's Names
Because of God’s depth of character, He has a variety of names to reflect His different capacities of relating to humanity. God is called Elohim when referenced as the all-powerful Creator. When you need provision, get to know the name Jehovah Jireh, which means God, the Provider. God has a name for any and every situation that you can find yourself in. Get to know the names of God through this six-session study because it is in knowing His character and His capacity that you will rest and discover both peace and power in His covenant care.
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Ready to Launch
Christian parents are not seeking mere behavior modification in their children but the growth of truly godly passions. "Training a child up in the way he should go" must be done intentionally, with the mind and heart of God. Based on Psalm 127, this 7-session study plumbs the wisdom of the Bible about the goals of parenting, the stages of discipline, the role of the church, and strategies to shape the heart toward the gospel.
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Truth and Lies
At the sound of the word "temptation," we typically jump to the capital-letter temptations that show up as various addictions. But there are more subtle forms of temptation in the lies of success, false identity, and religiosity. The tendency is to trivialize or dismiss these, but their presence may be even more controlling—and more constant—than the usual suspects. Truth and Lies will help group members understand how God uses temptation to reveal and bring character out of them. That is, temptation is an opportunity to recognize and choose truth as Jesus did. This easy-to-lead, video-driven Bible study reveals how the enemy works, how to identify the Accuser"s schemes, and what Jesus teaches us through His temptations. The first three sessions take group members deep into the temptations of Jesus (Luke 4). Sessions 4-6 teach group members how to combat temptation
with Truth.
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Unanswered
We live in a radically skeptical age. Tough questions are being asked about Christianity. And most believers are ill-equipped to provide the answers our culture and communities desperately need. Many in today's church do not know the Bible as well as they should and they struggle with their own "big questions" about the faith. This study provides precisely what the church needs today: tools and answers! It addresses several challenging topics, including mental health and suicide, paranormal activity, the resurrection, how we got the Bible, suffering, and why God is sometimes silent. The study will show you how to answer, how to explain, and how to respond in a deeply winsome and attractive way, as a thoughtful ambassador of Jesus. You will leave this study enriched, characterized by a thinking faith, capable to communicate confidently, and committed to escape the tendency to offer trite
answers to a skeptical world.
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Unleashed
God's will is not just for us to be born again but for us to grow into spiritual adults. His intent for the Christian life is for it to be a process of growth in Christlikeness. With that in mind, believers must clearly understand how we can intentionally cooperate with the Holy Spirit's work to grow us into the likeness of Jesus. Acknowledging and utilizing the ways God uses different stages and seasons in our lives to shape us, the Unleashed study helps participants understand the lifelong process of spiritual growth and maximize God's work to conform them to the image of Christ.
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