Marilyn Burrell
The friendly face that goes with the friendly voice at Maritime Conference AVEL

AVEL RESOURCES
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EXPLORING FAITH QUESTIONS:
Journeys of Spirituality
and Discovery

By Anne Martin

QUESTION 1:  FAITH: What is it?  How can we talk about it?

QUESTIONS OF FAITH II: 5. What Gives You Faith?

How did you come into your faith?

What sustains your faith? How do you share your faith?

QUESTIONS OF FAITH III: 1. What Do You Mean By Faith?

What does faith mean to you? What’s the difference between faith and belief?

QUESTION 2:  How do you experience God in your life?

SEARCHING FOR SPIRITUALITY              

Pt.1.  Seeing God in Others

Pt.2 Finding God in Daily Life

TALKING ABOUT GOD
What’s Your Experience of God?

QUESTIONS OF FAITH SERIES I
Who Is God?
What’s your image of God?
When do you think of God?

QUESTION 3:  Who is Jesus for you?

QUESTIONS OF FAITH SERIES II:
Who Is Jesus? (25 minutes)

What role does Jesus play in your faith?
What does one have to believe about Jesus to be Christian?

WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM? (20 minutes)

Shows how Jesus has been seen through the eyes of artists in different times and places.

QUESTION 4:  THE BIBLE: What does it mean to you?

QUESTIONS OF FAITH II: 2. What’s the Use of the Bible? (25 minutes)

What kind of authority does the Bible have for you?
What role does the Bible play in your faith?

LIVING YOUR FAITH: 4. The Bible: Fact or Fiction? (25 minutes)

In conversation with Walter Brueggemann and A. J. Levine

QUESTION 5:  PRAYER: What does it mean to you?

QUESTIONS OF FAITH I: 2. What Good is Prayer? (25 minutes)

What is prayer?
What happens when you pray?
Does prayer change God’s mind?

QUESTIONS OF FAITH V: 4. How Do You Pray? (25 minutes)

What’s difficult about prayer?
Does prayer change God?

PRAYING IN THE MIDST OF LIFE (series of 6 videos) 22 minutes each

QUESTION 6: How can we talk about God and suffering?

TALKING ABOUT GOD: 4. Where is God in Your Life?(25 minutes) 

God in Suffering; A Sense of God’s Presence; Yearning for God

WRESTLING WITH ANGELS: 2. Why Me?  With Philip Yancy  (30 mins)

If you’re so good, why are things so awful?

QUESTION 7:  Who me, a sinner?

QUESTIONS OF FAITH III: 5. Remember Sin and Salvation? (22 minutes)

Whatever happened to sin?
What is sin for you?
What does salvation mean?

QUESTIONS OF FAITH FOR YOUTH I: 3. What is Sin?   

What’s a sin?
Where does evil come from?

QUESTION 8:  FORGIVENESS: What are the challenges and the blessings?

WRESTLING WITH ANGELS: Tape 2 Forgiving (with Lewis Smedes) 

“How Do I Forgive and Get On With My Life?”  (25 minutes)

QUESTION 9: After death: What is next?

QUESTIONS OF FAITH II: 6. What Happens After Death?  (25 minutes)

What is your attitude toward death?
What does immortality or life after death mean to you?

QUESTION 10:  Nurturing your faith: Which spiritual practices are best for you?

SEARCHING FOR SPIRIUTALITY: 2. FINDING GOD IN DAILY LIFE  (22 minutes) 

DISCOVERING EVERYDAY SPIRITUALITY series
An 8-part series with Thomas Moore (Care of the Soul)   

Profiles people who have reclaimed and nurtured the sacredness of everyday life.  4 videos, with 2 parts on each each part is 25 minutes.  The following parts would inform this question:
#1. STORY #2. PLACE #3. ACTIVITY #4.  RITUAL

QUESTION 11:  What is this community called church?

ECUMENICAL SHARED MINISTRY: A Love Story  Stories of four ecumenical shared ministries involving people of different Christian traditions coming together to share their life and ministry.
(28 minutes)    

IT’S ALL ABOUT COMMUNITY     A stewardship resource produced for children but can be used with adults to encourage them to see themselves as part of a community and that each person has something different and special to add. (15 minutes)

TALKING ABOUT GOD:

What is God doing?
How can believers live together?

QUESTION 12:  How do you live your faith in the world?

FINDING YOUR WAY  Stories of people who talk about how they have come to the United Church at critical moments in their lives and why they have stayed.   (10 minutes)

LIVING YOUR FAITH  #5. Does Christianity Have a Place at the Political Table?

In conversation with  Dominic Crossan and Gayle White (23 minutes)

HEALING RIVER 

The Healing River introduces a stream of ordinary people whose passion for being faithful disciples of Jesus calls them to: 

Confront racism on death row

Care for survivors of sexual abuse

Live on the streets with the homeless

Exchange traditional parenting roles

Care for the earth using solar ovens and bicycles

Create a mural-maze symbolizing 100,000 war dead

The Healing River and the discussions it creates will help you discover ways you can follow the teachings of Jesus today.

SYSTEM BELONGS TO GOD:

How do you see the world?
Praying the big picture.

SIMPLE LIVING

This is a program illustrating the fact that people's everyday efforts to change can preserve what we have, rather than expanding and consuming indefinitely.