Improve your group's worship time with the music and lyrics of this famous hymn bundled together.
by The McMakens
Worship should be an essential part of most small groups. However, few group leaders are professional musicians, and many feel nervous or inadequate when it comes to leading other people in song. Fortunately, SmallGroups.com can help.
We've partnered with a band called The McMakens to bring you a collection of video worship songs that are easy to use. Each hymn has been recorded by the band in a contemporary ...
This 5-week course will help you and your small group explore the topic of suffering and discuss recent tragedies.
The following 5-week course will help you and your group explore the topic of suffering and discuss recent tragedies with questions like: What is the nature of suffering? How can we learn and grow through tragedy? Where is God in all this?
Week One
Unexplained Tragedy Why does God allow natural disasters to happen?
Week Two
God's Purpose in Our SufferingWe learn and grow through suffering, but there's ...
The group takes turns finding opposites to a specific word until someone is stumped.
Tami Rudkin
Write the following words on small strips of paper; one word per paper. Fold them in half. Pass out one word per person and tell them not to look at the word until it is their turn. Give your group members these instructions.
This is a game of opposites.
We are going to take turns, one person at a time opening his/her word.
As soon as you open your word you need to give an opposite word.
Next, the person on your right must give an opposite to the word you gave.
Download this hymn for free to enhance your group worship time.
The Hymn Project
Worship should be an essential part of most small groups. However, few group leaders are professional musicians, and many feel nervous or inadequate when it comes to leading other people in song. Fortunately, SmallGroups.com has partnered with The Hymn Project to bring you a variety of classic hymns that can be used in your group. Each hymn includes an MP3 track played on solo piano, as well as the ...
In Ephesians, Paul tells us about several of God's loving desires for us.
Sometimes it's difficult to understand our identity as God's masterpiece through the confusion of sin, fear, or doubt. We wonder if his promises might be too good to be true. In Ephesians, Paul describes a God who loves us too much to let us stay as we are.
This six-session course will challenge you to accept your identity as a member of God's family, and allow him to mold you into the masterpiece ...
Use learning activities to help your group explore one of the Bible's more fascinating books.
The Book of Proverbs is a handbook for experiencing shalom, the blessing of God. While we are not guaranteed health, wealth, safety, and harmony, our lives will be better if we live according to God's revealed truth and act according to his revealed counsel. The purpose of this five-session Bible Study Course is to understand that God's ways are wise by building a house of wisdom. We'll examine what ...
Subgroup to come up with an advertisement for the perfect Christian.
Tami Rudkin
Break your group up into triads, groups of three. Have them write a newspaper ad describing the perfect Christian. When they come back together have them share their ad.
Transformation—the process of becoming holy—begins in your mind.
Transformation—the process of becoming holy—begins in your mind. We will see in this seven-session course, that the apostle Peter shows us how to begin to think differently, which will radically affect our behavior. We all make split-second decisions in any given moment to do right or wrong. To choose right, we must learn to be obedient to God, which will give us an appetite for being ...
Lessons on how to live a life of extraordinary faith.
After wandering for 40 years in the desert, Joshua had reason to be apprehensive about entering the Promised Land. But God commanded him to be strong and courageous, and the Book of Joshua shares the powerful story of how God fulfilled his promises and led the Israelites into the long-awaited land of milk and honey. This eight-session course shares lessons from Joshua on how to live a life of extraordinary ...