My favorite podcast is LifeChurch.tv’s video message series. Craig Groeschel’s teaching always challenges me spiritually and his insights into scripture align with real-life application in convicting ways. Now that I have my iPod Touch (that I got for FREE!) I watch the podcast almost every week.

A couple weeks ago I was catching up on some past messages and started watching his 4-part series called, Goin’ All The Way, that covers almost everything about love and relationships, from dating to sex to marriage. As I watched the first message titled, How to Find the One, I soon stopped what I was doing and devoted all my attention to his sermon. But then I couldn’t stop right there — I had to watch the rest of the series, which I did. Since then I’ve probably watched all four messages about five times.

I recommended the series to all of our high school small group leaders and a couple of them took me up on the suggestion. Each week they watch one of the messages on DVD then discuss it afterwards. Everyone loved it! The reports I heard about the discussions that took place were phenomenal! I highly recommend you check this series out for your youth group, for yourself, for married couples, or all of the above.

Download the series for DVD here (free site registration required)

View the series online here

Craig also has a book that goes by the same title: Going All the Way: Preparing for a Marriage That Goes the Distance. I haven’t read it myself, but I’m assuming the video series is based on his book.

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Posted on February 29, 2008