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Contents : NOOMA DVD Youth Young Adult Adult Zondervan Rob Bell We can get anything we want from anywhere in the world whenever we want it. That's how it is and that's how we want it to be. Still our lives aren't any different than other generations before us. Our time is. We want spiritual direction but it has to be real for us and available when we need it. We want a new format for getting Christian perspectives. NOOMA is the new format. It's short films with communicators that really speak to us. Compact portable and concise. Each NOOMA touches on issues that we care about that we want to talk about and it comes in a way that fits our world. It's a format that's there for us when we need it as we need it how we need it. (www.nooma.com) 001 Rain 11 minutes Things don't always work out the way we want them to or the way we think they will. Sometimes we don't even see it coming. We get hit with some form of pain out of nowhere leaving us feeling desperate and helpless. That's the way life is. Still it makes us wonder how God can let these things happen to us. How God can just stand by and watch us suffer. Where is God when it really hurts Maybe God is actually closer to us than we think. Maybe it's when we're in these situations where everything seems to be falling apart that God gets an opportunity to remind us of how much he really loves us. 002 Flame 11 minutes I love those shoes. Really The same way I love my wife What's up with the word "love" It doesn't have much meaning when we use it so loosely. Maybe we don't really get it. Maybe we don't understand what real love is. What it involves to really love somebody. What it means to give yourself to someone else. We mistake things like friendship commitment or lust for love but God wired us a certain way to experience all that love was really meant to be. Not to hold us back or to make us miss out on the best that life has to offer. God created love and wants us to feel it all in the way it's meant to be felt. 003 Trees 13 minutes We want to know why we are here. If our lives really matter. How our religion is relevant to this life. Today. We want to understand what significance this minute hour week month and year has to our lives. To our world. We need a God who cares about this life in this world right now. We want to understand why everything we think everything we say and everything we do matters. We don't want to just sit back and wait for something to happen or someday to come. We want to know if all the choices we make now will shape our world and lives for eternity. Because we want our lives to have meaning today and our lives today to have meaning forever. 004 Sunday 12 minutes Why do we do the things we do Why do we go to church or give money away Because we're supposed to or because we think God needs it Do we honestly put on our best clothes for an hour once a week stand and sit at all the right times and sing all the appropriate songs for God's sake or because it'll make us look better to the world around us We're tired of all the empty rituals and routines. And so is God. God hates it when we call ourselves Christians but ignore all the things he really cares about. He hates it when we go through hollow religious routines out of some feeling of duty or obligation. God doesn't want the meaningless rituals. God wants our hearts. 005 Noise 10 minutes Why is silence so hard to deal with Why is it so much easier for us to live our lives with a lot of things going on all the time than to just be in silence We're constantly surrounded with "voices" that are influencing us on how to think feel and behave. Movies music TV Internet cell phones and a neverending barrage of advertising. There's always something going on. Always noise in our lives. But maybe there's a connection between the amount of noise in our lives and our inability to hear God. If God sometimes feels distant to us maybe it's not because he's not talking to us but simply because we aren't really listening. Kickball 11 minutes We always think we know what's missing from our lives in order to really make us happy don't we If only I had that car or that job or if only I could lose those 15 lbs then I'd be happy. Really How often do we want something only to find out that it wasn't that great after all Sometimes we ask God for things and if he doesn't deliver right away we start questioning whether God really understands or even cares. Do we really trust God Do we trust that God is good and sees a bigger picture than we ever could It's easy to want what's right in front of us but maybe God knows what's better for us and sometimes we just can't see it. Luggage 13 minutes Maybe a friend turned their back on you. Maybe someone you loved betrayed you. We all have wounds and we end up carrying around these things that people have done to us for weeks months and sometimes even years. It isn't always easy to forgive these people and after a while these hurts can get really heavy. So the only way to feel better seems to be somehow getting back at the people that hurt us to get revenge. But does revenge ever truly satisfy Maybe forgiving isn't something you do for someone else to let them off the hook. Maybe forgiveness is about you. God didn't create you to carry these wounds around. God created you to be free. Dust 14 minutes Believing in God is important but what about God believing in us Believing that we can actually be the kind of people we were meant to be. People of love compassion peace forgiveness and hope. People who try to do the right thing all of the time. Who act on the endless opportunities around us every day for good beauty and truth. It's easy for us to sometimes get down on ourselves. To feel "not good enough" or feel like we don't have what it takes. But maybe if we had more insight into the culture that Jesus grew up in and some of the radical things he did we'd understand the faith that God has in all of us. 006 007 008 009 Bullhorn 12 minutes God loves everyone so a Christian should too. In fact Jesus said that the most important thing in life is to love God with everything we've got and love others the same way. But it's not always easy to love everyone around us is it Sometimes we strongly disagree with other people's political views religious beliefs behaviors or something else and it makes it hard to love them when we feel like we're right and they're very wrong. But Jesus doesn't separate loving God and loving others. So maybe the best way for us to show our love for God is actually by loving other people no matter how hard it sometimes is. Maybe it's the only way. Lump 12 minutes A lot of us have done things in our lives that we're ashamed of. Some are small things and some of us have really big and devastating things. Some of us even have things that people close to us don't know about. Personal junk that we keep to ourselves so we don't have to deal with it. Because we don't know how to deal with it do we We're afraid that if we try it's just going to make everything worse. But no matter how big our junk is no matter how much what we've done has impacted the way other people feel about us or how we feel about ourselves it hasn't changed how God feels about us. God loves us he always has and always will and there's nothing we can do to change that. Rhythm 12 minutes What does it mean to have a relationship with God What does it look like For a lot of us it's a hard thing to fully understand. If God is an infinite spirit with no shape or form how can we possibly relate to that And what about Jesus He said he came to give everyone life in its fullest. He came to show us how to live. Maybe it's through trusting Jesus and living the kind of life he taught us to live a life of truth love justice compassion forgiveness and sacrifice that we have a relationship with God. Maybe the way we live every day every single choice we make determines how in tune with God we are. Matthew 14 minutes Suffering the loss of someone we love can be the most difficult thing in life to deal with. One moment we have them and the next they're gone. What are we supposed to do How are we supposed to feel The truth is there's no certain way we're "supposed" to feel. Whatever we're feeling it's okay. It's okay to feel shock anger denial or whatever we may feel. It's okay. And if we don't feel anything at all that's okay too. It's okay to have no answers and no explanations. Because sometimes all the reasoning and comforting words in the world just isn't what we need. What might help us however is to understand how Jesus dealt with this kind of loss. Rich 12 minutes (2 copies) There's a popular bumper sticker that reads "God Bless America " but hasn't America already been blessed It's easy for us to fall into a mindset of viewing "our" world as "the" world because it's all we generally see. We're constantly bombarded with images of the latest styles and models of everything and it can easily leave us feeling like what we have isn't 010 011 012 013 enough because we see people that have even more than us. But how does what we have compare to what most people in the world have Maybe what we have is enough maybe it's more than enough. Maybe God has blessed us with everything we have so we can bless and give to others. 014 Breathe 14 minutes With everything that we've got going on every day how many of us ever think about our breathing about the meaning of breathing Yet for thousands of years people have understood that our physical breath is a picture of a deeper spiritual reality. In the Bible the word for "breath" is the same as the word for "spirit." There's an inherent dilemma at the core of what makes us human. We've all been created in the image of God and possess immense power and strength. And at the same time our lives are incredibly vulnerable and fragile. Maybe if we had more insight into the meaning of breathing we would better understand how God created us as human beings. You 13 minutes Some of the central claims of the Christian faith are the source of many discussions and heated debates. But are we always debating the right things Maybe some of our discussions would change significantly if we had more insight into the actual circumstances that surrounded the first people of the Christian movement if we had a better understanding of the things they did in the context of the world they lived in. Maybe some of the claims of the Christian faith that we typically perceive to be unique aren't really that special at all. And at the same time maybe we don't always put enough emphasis on the things that truly should matter in our lives. Store 14 minutes We all get angry about things from time to time some of us more often than others. For some of us it feels like we're constantly on the brink of losing it where it doesn't take much to get angry about anything. And this kind of anger can be seen everywhere we go at work in traffic at the store at home. But what is really at its the root Anger is often looked at as a bad thing but are there things actually worth getting angry about Maybe if we had a better understanding of our anger and where it comes from we could learn how to channel it towards something constructive something that's bigger than ourselves. Today 11 minutes How much time and energy do we spend wishing things were how they used to be We often think about times in our past when things were different and want our lives to be like that again. Some of us have even come to believe that our best days may actually be behind us. But if we're in some way hung up on the past what does that mean for our lives now How are we and those around us affected if we're not fully present If we're longing for the way things used to be what does that really say about our understanding and appreciation of our lives today Maybe we need to learn to embrace our past for what it is in order to live our lives to the fullest right here right now. 015 016 017 018 Name 11 minutes We all compare ourselves to others. We spend our lives wondering what others think and say about us. Some of us even wish we were someone else. We question why we are the way we are and not the way we wish we could be. Some of us have let the expectations of others dictate who we've become. We act a certain way to be accepted but know that we're being untrue. But why are we so concerned with what other people think say or look like What does it say about us if we are unable to accept who we are Maybe if we really knew our true selves we wouldn't give so much attention to other peoples' lives and live more in tune with the life God wants for us. Open 12 minutes Many of us have experienced situations where we've prayed and it felt like God wasn't listening. And yet other times we've prayed or known someone that prayed and the situation changed. Does God answer prayer Sometimes but not all the time Or does God always answer prayer and it's just that sometimes God says no Some of us are angry with God for not answering the prayers we've prayed for years. Why did he answer their prayer but not ours What if there's more to prayer than just God listening and answering Maybe if we understood how Jesus prayed our concepts and expectations of prayer would change. Shell 11 minutes Do you often find yourself saying "I'm so busy" or "I just have so much to do" It's easy to get overwhelmed with appointments gatherings to do lists. But what are we really doing with our time Many of us are running from place to place and it seems like life is just passing us by. We're doing so many things a little bit of everything and yet it doesn't feel like much of a life. But most of us find it hard to say no. We feel obligated. There are so many good things to do. So many good causes to join. But while we're busy doing all these good things are we missing out on something great Maybe saying no would be easier if we knew what it meant to say yes. She We didn't have anything to do with our birth. We are all here because some woman somewhere gave us life. Her pain her effort for our life. And when a mother gives like that to a child she is showing us what God is like. But sometimes this part of God's nature is overlooked. A lot of us are comfortable with male imagery for God. But what about female imagery for God Is God limited to a gender Or does God transcend and yet include what we know as male and female Maybe if we were more aware of the feminine imagery for God we would have a better understanding of who God is and what God is like. Tomato We all get consumed with ourselves sometimes we're not even aware of it. We learn from a young age that life is about winning and impressing. We pick up that our worth and value come from how good how smart and how skilled we are. So we twist things in our favor making us look like we have it all together. Every day we have the choice to prop up these false ideas about 019 020 021 022

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