January 25, 2016 By Josh Hayes
Winter 2015-16 Leader Tips, Session 8—God of Our Relationships
In the videos below, Trevin Wax (Adults), Andy McLean (Students), and Brian Dembowczyk (Kids) coach leaders on teaching Winter 2015-16, Session 8—God of Our Relationships.
Tips and videos for previous lessons are available on the The Gospel Project Blog. You can also check out the Additional Resources page for podcast recommendations and blog posts related to this week’s subject matter.
Every week, we provide interactive teaching helps and additional ideas / activities for The Gospel Project for Adults sessions. Click TGP Winter lesson 8 to access the Session 8 interactive teaching suggestions.
Is session 8 part of Unit 7? It’s hard to keep track of what the blogs are about because they don’t match with the Unit/Session numbers of the curriculum downloads.
Hi, Rich. Are you trying to figure out the kids video or the student and/or adult video? If it is the kids video, the video that is linked from these weekly blog posts should be the video according to the suggested use schedule. You can double-check that with the video title on the kids video that features the unit and session numbers. You can also access all of the volume’s videos at http://www.ministrygrid.com/web/thegospelproject.
Thanks. Another comment, I noticed that for Gospel Project Kids, starting with Unit 7 the Presentation Slides no longer extract as a folder but now extracts as ANOTHER PDF Portfolio. Then you have to individually extract each JPG. Instead of extracting one folder, now you have to extract the PDF portfolio and THEN extract the other 10 JPGs. Is there a reason for this change? It has definitely made it more difficult to manage the content.
Thanks.
Starting with Spring 2016 (Vol 3), we added the Presentation Files as a stand-alone PDF portfolio under the unit support materials as a response to the requests we had for doing that. So it is now part of the unit portfolio and a stand-alone portfolio. When you open that up, click “edit” on the Reader menu bar and then choose “select all.” Then click “file” from the menu bar and then click “extract file from portfolio” and it will extract all of the files at into your desired folder. We are looking at moving away from portfolios in Fall 16 and replacing them with ZIP files instead, which should make the entire process easier.
We are using the Gospel Project. The Leader’s manual has a page of “Additional Resources.”
Unfortunately, you give general links to many of these additional resources that are difficult to find once you get to the page. It’s very user unfriendly!
For instance, on page 102 of the WInter 2015/2016 Leader’s manual you have a resource “Sermon Podcast” by Erwin Lutzer: “To Tell the Truth” where we are directed to find a link to this at “GospelProject.com/Additional Resources.
When I get to that page, I can’t find the link. It’s rather frustrating because it’s not very user-friendly. Why weren’t the actual web pages to the resources put in instead of having to hunt for it and in this particular case, I have yet to find it!
Daniel, we are sorry to hear that you find our Additional Resources page user-unfriendly.
Were you able to find the Winter 2015-16 link (which should be one of the first two links below the page’s title “Student & Adult Resource Archive”)? Once you click “Winter 2015-16,” the arrow on the right-hand side of the page should point downward and the links for Winter 2015-16 resources should appear organized according to session. You should then scroll down until you see Session 8, where there are two links to an Erwin Lutzer sermon. In case you still have trouble finding them, here the links for Part 1 (http://www.oneplace.com/ministry/running-to-win-long-version/1282628e-2a01-40f8-b84e-f95ea7580482/to-tell-the-truth-part-1-of-2-the-ten-commandments-412644.html?renderCC=False&isPopupPlayer=False&isCustomPlayer=False&Subscribe=False) and Part 2 (http://www.oneplace.com/ministry/running-to-win-long-version/81b83abb-96d6-4c2b-8fe0-67aafb39ea23/to-tell-the-truth-part-2-of-2-the-ten-commandments-412645.html?renderCC=False&isPopupPlayer=False&isCustomPlayer=False&Subscribe=False)
Let us know if you’re still not able to access the sermons. Also, rather than providing a direct link in the curriculum itself, there are several reasons (and advantages) for maintaining a general webpage like our Additional Resources page with the links to resources respective to each quarter and each session. Here are a couple. First, we do not control what other websites do with their content, so if they change the URL for a given resource (or remove it entirely), the URL would be out of a date in our print material. By having an Additional Resources page, we can update links as we need to ensure that our readers are not left with non-working links.
Second, the Additional Resources page functions as something of an archive for resources that we have recommended since The Gospel Project came to be, thus allowing readers to see all online resources for all quarters. Some of our customers use studies from previous quarters (or short-term studies derived from previous quarters), and our Additional Resources page keeps our resources organized according to quarter and to study. The page serves as something of a constant, a place where they know to go in order to find online supplementary material suited for whatever TGP study they happen to be using.
I hope that the above rationale for the Additional Resources page makes sense to you and that you find the page easier to use on your next attempt. Let us know if you have further questions. Thanks for using The Gospel Project Chronological!