Background
Hybels, Bill was born in 1952 in Kalamazoo.
( The urgent need for prayer in today’s broken world is c...)
The urgent need for prayer in today’s broken world is clear, but busyness still keeps many of us from finding time to pray. So Bill Hybels offers us his practical, time-tested ideas on slowing down to pray. In this four-session video Bible study based on Hybels’s classic book on prayer, Too Busy Not to Pray calls both young and old to make prayer a priority, broadening the vision for what our eternal, powerful God does when his people slow down to pray. The coordinating Too Busy Not to Pray Study DVD (sold separately) leads individuals and small groups through discussion topics, group activities, and in-between-studies assignments. In Too Busy Not to Pray, you and your small group will learn: • The importance of a consistent time and place for prayer • How to organize prayers according to tried-and-true frameworks • How to hear the Spirit’s promptings • To love prayer time Hybels helps you slow down, listen to God, and learn how to respond. As a result, you will grow closer to God and experience the benefits of spending time with him.
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(The book you hold resonates with this conviction: that le...)
The book you hold resonates with this conviction: that leaders such as you have the potential to be the most influential forces on planet Earth. Yours is the staggering responsibility and the matchless privilege of rallying believers and mobilizing their spiritual gifts in order to help people who are far from God become fully devoted followers of Christ. Life transformation and the eternal destinies of real people depend on the redemptive message entrusted to the local church. Are you willing to do whatever it takes to lead your church effectively so God's message of hope can change the world? Then this book is for you. Courageous Leadership is Bill Hybels' magnum opus, a book far too important to be written before its time. Only now, after nearly thirty years leading his own church from a handful of people with a burning vision into a globe-spanning kingdom force---only after almost three decades of victories and setbacks, of praying hard and risking big---is Hybels ready at last to share the lessons he has learned, and continues to learn, about Christian leadership. Too much is at stake for you not to maximize your spiritual gift of leadership, insists Hybels. In this passionate, powerful book, he unpacks the tools, tasks, and challenges of your calling.
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( Just Walk Across the Room signals the next era in perso...)
Just Walk Across the Room signals the next era in personal evangelism. Pastor Bill Hybels's firm conviction is that the highest value in personal evangelism is being attuned to and cooperative with the promptings of the Holy Spirit. This means playing only the role you are intended to play—walking when the Spirit says to walk, talking when the Spirit says to talk, and falling silent when the Spirit suggests that you've already said enough. Today, the goal for every Christian is to reflect Christ's love and follow his example by taking simple walks across rooms—leaving our circles of comfort and extending hands of care, compassion, and inclusiveness to people living far from God. The DVD includes four video sessions that expand on the teaching from Hybels’s book of the same name, as well as personal testimonies of lives transformed by the Holy Spirit. Also included are all the sermon and promotional materials needed to successfully launch and sustain a four week church campaign. Newly revised, the kit includes: • 1 DVD • 1 leader’s guide • 1 participant’s guide • 1 hardcover Just Walk Across the Room trade book • 1 getting started guide
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(Most of us have trouble finding time to pray. There's chu...)
Most of us have trouble finding time to pray. There's church and school and neighborhood and job and friends and recreation. And then the crises hit! Time for prayer seems an impossible luxury. As a pastor, Bill Hybels knows hundreds of people with schedules like this. Yet in his own life he has made the hard discovery that prayer doesn't happen on the run. He decided he was too busy not to pray. Hybels's accessible introduction to prayer has already helped over 400,000 readers develop a rich and regular prayer life in the midst of life's busyness. Now, in this revised and expanded 10th anniversary edition, he includes new insights from his years of ministry and his own spiritual journey. He shows how to slow down to pray, listen to God, respond to what we hear, practice the presence of God and overcome prayer barriers. His fun and practical book offers the resources we need for growing, ongoing experiences in prayer.
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(For over two decades Too Busy Not to Pray has stood as a ...)
For over two decades Too Busy Not to Pray has stood as a classic on prayer, helping Christians all over the world slow down to draw near to God. During those years, the world certainly hasn't slowed down. If anything, the pace, intensity and number of distractions have only increased. Brokenness and pain seem to have increased as well, with news of civil war, poverty, broken families and sex-trafficking touching us daily. The urgent need for prayer is clear, but busyness still keeps many of us from finding time to pray. Two truths haven't changed in all these years: God is the same powerful, just, holy God he's always been; and true prayer―prayer that changes us and allows us to participate in God's work in the world―can't happen on the fly. So Bill Hybels once again offers us his practical, time-tested ideas on slowing down to pray. Revised throughout and including a new introduction and new chapter on prayer and compassion for the world, this twentieth-anniversary edition of Too Busy Not to Pray calls both young and old to make prayer a priority, and broadens our vision for what our eternal, powerful God does when his people slow down to pray.
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(Building on the solid foundation laid in Becoming a Conta...)
Building on the solid foundation laid in Becoming a Contagious Christian, Just Walk Across the Room signals the next era in personal evangelism. Pastor Bill Hybels’s firm conviction is that the highest value in personal evangelism is being attuned to and cooperative with the promptings of the Holy Spirit. This means playing only the role you are intended to play―walking when the Spirit says to walk, talking when the Spirit says to talk, and falling silent when the Spirit suggests that you’ve already said enough. More than two thousand years ago, Jesus himself introduced the perfect model for evangelism. He left the marvelous adoration of the angels and the perfection of heaven, and he chose to “walk” clear across the cosmos. He had no memorized script, no forced formulas. Instead, he was armed only with an offer of redemption to people just like you and me, many of whom were neck-deep in pain of their own making. Today, the goal for every Christian is to reflect Christ’s love and follow his example by taking simple walks across rooms―leaving our circles of comfort and extending hands of care, compassion, and inclusiveness to people living far from God. Hybels encourages Christ-followers to “live in 3-D”―developing friendships, discovering stories, and discerning appropriate next steps―as a means of learning to understand the Spirit’s promptings. With fresh perspectives from his own reflections and experiences collected during his most recent decade of ministry. Hybels shows with undeniable clarity the power of this approach to evangelism. The stakes are high. The implications are eternal. And you may be only a conversation away from having unparalleled impact on someone’s life―if you will just walk across the room.
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(Do you have trouble finding time to pray? So much clamors...)
Do you have trouble finding time to pray? So much clamors for your attention: work, school, friends, family, church--the list goes on and on. Time for God and time to pray often seem impossible to fit into packed days and nights. Six studies based on Bill Hybels's Too Busy Not to Pray show you how to slow down, listen to God and find refreshment in his presence.
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( The future of the local church is directly tied to its ...)
The future of the local church is directly tied to its ability to attract, equip, and unleash the potential of volunteers in the church Pastor Bill Hybels sees a new reality on the horizon. There is unprecedented spiritual openness in today’s society, and at the same time, increasing economic pressure on the resources of local churches. The solution lies squarely on the able shoulders of God-gifted volunteers. And they are ready for the challenge! Once trained, empowered, and inspired, record numbers of volunteers will take on all new levels of responsibility in the local church, creating a volunteer revolution that will transform churches and communities. The Volunteer Revolution reveals how all of this can happen and how churches can unleash vast amounts of untapped potential. Through real-life volunteer stories, Hybels inspires church leaders in their role as equippers while motivating potential volunteers to align themselves with God’s mission to change the world. The Volunteer Revolution is also available as an unabridged Audio Pages® CD.
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(Life as a follower of Christ is not a fifty-yard dash. It...)
Life as a follower of Christ is not a fifty-yard dash. It's a marathon. God offers strength for the race, cold water to quench our thirst, and fresh legs when we grow weary. We never run alone. He is always right beside us cheering us on or ahead of us leading the way. Do you need energy and refreshment for the race of life? In Philippians, you will find all you need to run with strength and confidence. If you desire joy beyond measure, perseverance, a servant's heart, hope for the future, a peace beyond understanding, and lasting contentment, look no further than Philippians. New Community Series -- a high-impact tool for experiencing the transforming power of God's Word. This cutting-edge series lets you explore life-changing topics from a biblical perspective in community with others in your small group. Challenging questions encourage you to reflect on Scripture and its impact on your life, both as an individual and as part of a community of Christ followers.
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(Estamos viviendo un despertar espiritual sin precedentes,...)
Estamos viviendo un despertar espiritual sin precedentes, y al mismo tiempo, un incremento de la presión económica sobre los recursos de las iglesias locales. La solución descansa en los hombros de los voluntarios talentosos de Dios. ¡Y ellos están listos para el reto! Una vez entrenados, motivados e inspirados, estos voluntarios tomarán nuevos niveles de responsabilidad en la iglesia local, creando una revolución voluntaria que transformará iglesias y comunidades.
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(Based on the bestselling Too Busy Not To Pray, the new To...)
Based on the bestselling Too Busy Not To Pray, the new Too Busy Not To Pray Journal is a prayer journal specifically designed to help Christians with active lifestyles slow down and create space for quiet times with God. The journal helps readers put into practice Hybels's time-tested principles for prayer journaling. Special sections parallel material from chapters from the book, and it includes plenty of space for recording prayer requests and answers to prayer.
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( The urgent need for prayer in today’s broken world is c...)
The urgent need for prayer in today’s broken world is clear, but busyness still keeps many of us from finding time to pray. So Bill Hybels offers us his practical, time-tested ideas on slowing down to pray. In this four-session video Bible study based on Hybels’s classic book on prayer, Too Busy Not to Pray calls both young and old to make prayer a priority, broadening the vision for what our eternal, powerful God does when his people slow down to pray. The coordinating Too Busy Not to Pray DVD (included) leads individuals and small groups through discussion topics, group activities, and in-between-studies assignments. In Too Busy Not to Pray, you and your small group will learn: • The importance of a consistent time and place for prayer • How to organize prayers according to tried-and-true frameworks • How to hear the Spirit’s promptings • To love prayer time Hybels helps you slow down, listen to God, and learn how to respond. As a result, you will grow closer to God and experience the benefits of spending time with him. Pack includes one softcover study guide and one four-session DVD.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0310694930/?tag=2022091-20
( In this four-session small group bible study, Just Walk...)
In this four-session small group bible study, Just Walk Across the Room, author and pastor Bill Hybels equips you and your small group with simple, practical ways to share your spiritual journey. In it, Hybels shares his firm conviction is that the highest value in personal evangelism is being attuned to and cooperative with the promptings of the Holy Spirit. This means playing only the role one is intended to play―walking when the Spirit says to walk, talking when the Spirit says to talk, and falling silent when the Spirit suggests that you've already said enough. According to Hybels, the goal for every Christian is to reflect Christ's love and follow his example by stepping outside one’s circle of comfort and extending a hand of care, compassion, and inclusiveness to people living far from God. The DVD includes four video sessions that expand on the teaching from Hybels’ book of the same name, as well as personal testimonies of lives transformed by the Holy Spirit. Also included are all the sermon and promotional materials needed for churches to successfully launch and sustain a four-week whole church campaign. When used together, the Just Walk Across the Room Participant Guide and companion DVD provide you with a practical tool that can help grow your faith. Sessions include: Session 1 – The Single Greatest Gift Session 2 – Living in 3D Session 3 – The Power of Story Session 4 – Grander Vision Living
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(In Just Walk Across the Room, Bill Hybels brings personal...)
In Just Walk Across the Room, Bill Hybels brings personal evangelism into the twenty-first century with a natural and empowering approach modeled after Jesus himself. When Christ 'walked' clear across the cosmos more than 2,000 years ago, he had no forced formulas and no memorized script; rather, he came armed only with an offer of redemption for people like us, many of whom were neck-deep in pain of their own making. This dynamic four-week experience is designed to equip and inspire your entire church to participate in that same pattern of grace-giving by taking simple walks across rooms---leaving your circles of comfort and extending hands of care, compassion, and inclusiveness to people who might need a touch of God's love today. Expanding on the principles set forth in Hybels' book of the same name, Just Walk Across the Room consists of three integrated components: Sermons, an implementation guide, and church promotional materials provided on CD-ROM to address the church as a whole Small group DVD and a participant's guide to enable people to work through the material in small, connected circles of community The book Just Walk Across the Room to allow participants to think through the concepts individually
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(The Volunteer Revolution: Unleashing the Power of Everybo...)
The Volunteer Revolution: Unleashing the Power of Everybody by Bill Hybels. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan,2004.
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Hybels, Bill was born in 1952 in Kalamazoo.
Bachelor in Biblical Studies, Trinity College. Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Trinity College.
Founder, senior pastor Willow Creek Association, South Barrington, Illinois, since 1992.
(Based on the bestselling Too Busy Not To Pray, the new To...)
( In this four-session small group bible study, Just Walk...)
( The future of the local church is directly tied to its ...)
(In Just Walk Across the Room, Bill Hybels brings personal...)
(Estamos viviendo un despertar espiritual sin precedentes,...)
(The book you hold resonates with this conviction: that le...)
(For over two decades Too Busy Not to Pray has stood as a ...)
(Building on the solid foundation laid in Becoming a Conta...)
(Do you have trouble finding time to pray? So much clamors...)
( The urgent need for prayer in today’s broken world is c...)
( The urgent need for prayer in today’s broken world is c...)
(The Volunteer Revolution: Unleashing the Power of Everybo...)
( Just Walk Across the Room signals the next era in perso...)
(Life as a follower of Christ is not a fifty-yard dash. It...)
(Most of us have trouble finding time to pray. There's chu...)
(Volunteer RevolutionHybels, Bill)
(Book by Hybels, Bill)
Married Lynn Hybels; 2 children.