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Study Gateway First Listens

English, Religion, 6 seasons, 46 episodes, 22 hours, 51 minutes
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Study Gateway's First Listens: Find your next Bible study! Join host Shelley Leith as she curates first sessions of Bible studies on various themes each season, taught by some of the world’s most influential Christian authors, teachers, and pastors. To learn more, visit https://StudyGateway.com.
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Explore & Discover: What’s So Amazing About Grace + interview with Philip Yancey

Host Shelley Leith interviews Rick Yancey. They discuss the impact of place on Philip’s writing; the arc of his writings—from topics about pain, to topics about the character of God, to topics of grace; the source of the questions he based several of his books on; and the updates he made to the 25th anniversary edition of What’s So Amazing About Grace.  Watch the video of Session OneGet information on the Study Guide Study Gateway is a streaming video Bible study service that gives instant access to video studies taught by hundreds of the world's most influential Christian authors, teachers and pastors, published HarperChristian Resources. Subscriptions plans are available for personal use, for small groups, and for whole churches. Learn more at StudyGateway.com.  Listen for the code to get a 15% discount (good for the life of your subscription; first-time subscribers only)  
8/22/202333 minutes, 34 seconds
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Explore & Discover: Created to Dream + interview with Rick Warren

Host Shelley Leith interviews her pastor, Rick Warren. They discuss the difference between our dreams and our purpose, the fulfillment of the specific and God-sized dreams God gave Rick for Saddleback Church 40 years ago, and whether it’s too late, too early, or too unnecessary to have a dream from God.  Watch the video of Session OneGet information on the Study Guide Study Gateway is a streaming video Bible study service that gives instant access to video studies taught by hundreds of the world's most influential Christian authors, teachers and pastors, published HarperChristian Resources. Subscriptions plans are available for personal use, for small groups, and for whole churches. Learn more at StudyGateway.com.  Listen for the code to get a 15% discount (good for the life of your subscription; first-time subscribers only)  
8/15/202353 minutes, 12 seconds
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Explore & Discover: In the Footsteps of the Savior by Max Lucado.

If you got the chance to go to the Holy Land with Max Lucado, wouldn’t you jump on it? Join in with a group that did just that. In Session One of In the Footsteps of the Savior, our tour group is visiting the town of Capernaum, which was Jesus’ base of operations in the region of Galilee. Max Lucado zeroes in on the questions we have all had when we’re hurting: Do you think he can? Do you think he cares? Do you think he'll come? Watch the video of Session OneGet information on the Study Guide Study Gateway is a streaming video Bible study service that gives instant access to video studies taught by hundreds of the world's most influential Christian authors, teachers and pastors, published HarperChristian Resources. Subscriptions plans are available for personal use, for small groups, and for whole churches. Learn more at StudyGateway.com.  Listen for the code to get a 15% discount (good for the life of your subscription; first-time subscribers only)  
8/8/202324 minutes, 45 seconds
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Explore & Discover: Luke: Gut-Level Compassion + interview with Lisa Harper

Lisa Harper is interviewed by host, Shelley Leith. They discuss Lisa’s favorite theologians (there are several!), the theme of outcasts in the book of Luke and who Lisa’s favorite outcast it, and her own story of feeling like an outcast and the healing she found in Christ.     Watch the video of Session OneGet information on the Study Guide Study Gateway is a streaming video Bible study service that gives instant access to video studies taught by hundreds of the world's most influential Christian authors, teachers and pastors, published HarperChristian Resources. Subscriptions plans are available for personal use, for small groups, and for whole churches. Learn more at StudyGateway.com.  Listen for the code to get a 15% discount (good for the life of your subscription; first-time subscribers only)  
8/1/202346 minutes, 42 seconds
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Explore & Discover: Acts: The Revolution of Faith + interview with Randy Frazee

Listen for the code to get a 15% discount (good for the life of your subscription; first-time subscribers only)  Randy Frazee is interviewed by host, Shelley Leith. They touch on the significance of the opening stories Randy told in each session, then spend time understanding the insights of sociologist Rodney Stark, who analyzed from a sociological perspective how the marginalized Jesus movement overtook the Western world. Randy ties those insights together with the revolution that began in Book of Acts.    Watch the video of Session OneGet information on the Study Guide Study Gateway is a streaming video Bible study service that gives instant access to video studies taught by hundreds of the world's most influential Christian authors, teachers and pastors, published HarperChristian Resources. Subscriptions plans are available for personal use, for small groups, and for whole churches. Learn more at StudyGateway.com.  
7/25/202335 minutes, 48 seconds
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Explore & Discover: Taste and See + Interview with Margaret Feinberg

Margaret Feinberg is interviewed by host, Shelley Leith, and she tells of the adventures she had traveling the world to explore the theme of food in the Bible. God is a foodie, which can be seen from the Garden of Eden to the way Jesus is either coming from a meal, going to a meal, enjoying a meal, doing a miracle at a meal, telling stories about a meal, or multiplying a meal. Christ does some of his best work in us at the table.  Watch the video of Session OneGet information on the Study Guide Study Gateway is a streaming video Bible study service that gives instant access to video studies taught by hundreds of the world's most influential Christian authors, teachers and pastors, published HarperChristian Resources. Subscriptions plans are available for personal use, for small groups, and for whole churches. Learn more at StudyGateway.com.  Listen for the code to get a 15% discount (good for the life of your subscription; first-time subscribers only)  
7/18/202338 minutes, 5 seconds
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Explore & Discover: Sacred Pathways + interview with Gary Thomas

Gary Thomas is interviewed by host, Shelley Leith, and they discuss exploring and discovering our primary pathway to connection with God. We don’t all have to be locked into one particular way of praying or having “quiet time.” God made each of us unique, and we connect best with God out of our spiritual temperament which is drawn to pathways of wonder, contemplation, or action.  Watch the video of Session OneGet information on the Study Guide Study Gateway is a streaming video Bible study service that gives instant access to video studies taught by hundreds of the world's most influential Christian authors, teachers and pastors, published HarperChristian Resources. Subscriptions plans are available for personal use, for small groups, and for whole churches. Learn more at StudyGateway.com.  Listen for the code to get a 15% discount (good for the life of your subscription; first-time subscribers only)  
7/11/202343 minutes, 19 seconds
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Explore & Discover: The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi by Kathie Lee Gifford

We head off to the Holy Land to explore the little town of Bethlehem, with Kathie Lee Gifford and Rabbi Jason Sobel in The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi. Kathie Lee, the beloved television talk show host, draws upon her Jewish heritage as she leads us through her favorite places in Israel. And Rabbi Jason helps us understand what we’re seeing from a rabbinic Jewish perspective. Watch the video of Session OneGet information on the Study Guide Study Gateway is a streaming video Bible study service that gives instant access to video studies taught by hundreds of the world's most influential Christian authors, teachers and pastors, published HarperChristian Resources. Subscriptions plans are available for personal use, for small groups, and for whole churches. Learn more at StudyGateway.com.  Listen for the code to get a 15% discount (good for the life of your subscription; first-time subscribers only)  
7/4/202319 minutes, 25 seconds