Study Gateway First Listens
Study Gateway First Listens
Shelley Leith | Lumivoz
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.
Explore & Discover: What’s So Amazing About Grace + Interview with Philip Yancey
Promo: Making TimeYou have the same 24 hours in your day as the most accomplished people in the world. So why doesn't it feel that way? Follow along on this special 6 episode series as we take a look at how to make more time. By following biblical principles and taking a look at what you really want, Making Time shares the secret to having all the time you need... with a little help from some friends.Learn more and download group guides at https://lumivoz.com/making-time/For questions, comments, or sharing your tips on how to make more time, reach out to makingtime@lumivoz.com------------------------------------------------------------------------------Host Shelley Leith interviews Philip 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)  
Aug 22, 2023
35 min
Explore & Discover: Created to Dream + interview with Rick Warren
Promo: Making TimeYou have the same 24 hours in your day as the most accomplished people in the world. So why doesn't it feel that way? Follow along on this special 6 episode series as we take a look at how to make more time. By following biblical principles and taking a look at what you really want, Making Time shares the secret to having all the time you need... with a little help from some friends.Learn more and download group guides at https://lumivoz.com/making-time/For questions, comments, or sharing your tips on how to make more time, reach out to makingtime@lumivoz.com------------------------------------------------------------------------------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)  
Aug 15, 2023
54 min
Explore & Discover: In the Footsteps of the Savior by Max Lucado.
Promo: Making TimeYou have the same 24 hours in your day as the most accomplished people in the world. So why doesn't it feel that way? Follow along on this special 6 episode series as we take a look at how to make more time. By following biblical principles and taking a look at what you really want, Making Time shares the secret to having all the time you need... with a little help from some friends.Learn more and download group guides at https://lumivoz.com/making-time/For questions, comments, or sharing your tips on how to make more time, reach out to makingtime@lumivoz.com------------------------------------------------------------------------------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)  
Aug 8, 2023
26 min
Explore & Discover: Luke: Gut-Level Compassion + interview with Lisa Harper
Promo: Making TimeYou have the same 24 hours in your day as the most accomplished people in the world. So why doesn't it feel that way? Follow along on this special 6 episode series as we take a look at how to make more time. By following biblical principles and taking a look at what you really want, Making Time shares the secret to having all the time you need... with a little help from some friends.Learn more and download group guides at https://lumivoz.com/making-time/For questions, comments, or sharing your tips on how to make more time, reach out to makingtime@lumivoz.com------------------------------------------------------------------------------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)  
Aug 1, 2023
48 min
Explore & Discover: Acts: The Revolution of Faith + interview with Randy Frazee
Promo: Making TimeYou have the same 24 hours in your day as the most accomplished people in the world. So why doesn't it feel that way? Follow along on this special 6 episode series as we take a look at how to make more time. By following biblical principles and taking a look at what you really want, Making Time shares the secret to having all the time you need... with a little help from some friends.Learn more and download group guides at https://lumivoz.com/making-time/For questions, comments, or sharing your tips on how to make more time, reach out to makingtime@lumivoz.com------------------------------------------------------------------------------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.  
Jul 25, 2023
37 min
Explore & Discover: Taste and See + Interview with Margaret Feinberg
Promo: Making TimeYou have the same 24 hours in your day as the most accomplished people in the world. So why doesn't it feel that way? Follow along on this special 6 episode series as we take a look at how to make more time. By following biblical principles and taking a look at what you really want, Making Time shares the secret to having all the time you need... with a little help from some friends.Learn more and download group guides at https://lumivoz.com/making-time/For questions, comments, or sharing your tips on how to make more time, reach out to makingtime@lumivoz.com------------------------------------------------------------------------------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)  
Jul 18, 2023
39 min
Explore & Discover: Sacred Pathways + interview with Gary Thomas
Promo: Making TimeYou have the same 24 hours in your day as the most accomplished people in the world. So why doesn't it feel that way? Follow along on this special 6 episode series as we take a look at how to make more time. By following biblical principles and taking a look at what you really want, Making Time shares the secret to having all the time you need... with a little help from some friends.Learn more and download group guides at https://lumivoz.com/making-time/For questions, comments, or sharing your tips on how to make more time, reach out to makingtime@lumivoz.com------------------------------------------------------------------------------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)  
Jul 11, 2023
44 min
Explore & Discover: The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi by Kathie Lee Gifford
Promo: Making TimeYou have the same 24 hours in your day as the most accomplished people in the world. So why doesn't it feel that way? Follow along on this special 6 episode series as we take a look at how to make more time. By following biblical principles and taking a look at what you really want, Making Time shares the secret to having all the time you need... with a little help from some friends.Learn more and download group guides at https://lumivoz.com/making-time/For questions, comments, or sharing your tips on how to make more time, reach out to makingtime@lumivoz.com------------------------------------------------------------------------------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)  
Jul 4, 2023
20 min
Summer Self-Care: Grace Not Perfection by Emily Ley
Promo: Making TimeYou have the same 24 hours in your day as the most accomplished people in the world. So why doesn't it feel that way? Follow along on this special 6 episode series as we take a look at how to make more time. By following biblical principles and taking a look at what you really want, Making Time shares the secret to having all the time you need... with a little help from some friends.Learn more and download group guides at https://lumivoz.com/making-time/For questions, comments, or sharing your tips on how to make more time, reach out to makingtime@lumivoz.com------------------------------------------------------------------------------This study is for those of us who try to measure up to unrealistic standards of perfection, or who may have heard ourselves say, “If only my life looked like that other person’s, and I would have it all together and be happy.” Emily Ley wants us to let go of control and allow ourselves to step into imperfection, which is where we encounter God’s perfect 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)  
Jun 20, 2023
23 min
Summer Self-Care: Building a Resilient Life by Rebekah Lyons
Promo: Making TimeYou have the same 24 hours in your day as the most accomplished people in the world. So why doesn't it feel that way? Follow along on this special 6 episode series as we take a look at how to make more time. By following biblical principles and taking a look at what you really want, Making Time shares the secret to having all the time you need... with a little help from some friends.Learn more and download group guides at https://lumivoz.com/making-time/For questions, comments, or sharing your tips on how to make more time, reach out to makingtime@lumivoz.com------------------------------------------------------------------------------In this new study, Rebekah Lyons teaches us how to improve our stress response and become people of resilience, so we can withstand the onslaught of adversity, disconnection, and anxiety. She says, “Adversity awakens the human heart.” Rebekah shares how to take care of ourselves when we face adversity in the first session called Name the Pain.  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)  
Jun 13, 2023
27 min
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