Dvd Nooma #07: Luggage

Dvd Nooma #07: Luggage

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 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.

Nooma is a revolutionary product that is changing the way people experience spirituality - a series of short films on DVD with 32-page discussion starter books.

It's not a book or a cassette tape. And it's not a CD or a two-hour movie. It's a new series of short films, between 10 and 14 minutes long, about God and our lives.

Since its limited online release in November 2002, NOOMA has impacted millions of people. Because of this initial success and great potential, Zondervan has partnered with NOOMA to bring these films to the world.

Portable and concise, NOOMAs are appropriate for personal and small group settings, congregational meetings, and much more.

Like parables, they use the experiences of our lives to teach about the fullness of life through Jesus, tackling issues like forgiveness, discipleship, and unconditional love.

The study materials accompanying each NOOMA encourage meaningful discussion with relevant questions and biblical references.

Rob Bell, a leading pastor and breakthrough communicator in the Christian community, is featured in the first series of NOOMAs.

"We can get anything we want, from anywhere in the world, whenever we want it. Any information, products, movies, music, TV, games, day or night. With a single click. That's just how it is. Still, our lives aren't different. Our lives aren't any different than all 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 a series of short films featuring the teachings of Rob Bell. Compact, portable and concise. Each Nooma focuses on a different issue with relevance for us, and it's there when we need it, where we need it, as we need it."
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