Leader: Make enough copies for every person in your group. If everyone feels comfortable reading you may take turns reading around the circle. But if you know someone will feel uncomfortable reading simply highlight different parts of the reading and assign them to those who like to read.
Just as the deer pants for clear, cool streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.
Every day, every hour, ...
Participate in narrative readings about Christmas and sing carols.
Tami Rudkin
Leader: This time of worship includes narration and singing. Ask several different people who are comfortable reading to help you read the narration. Choose your own carols or praise songs, or use the ones suggested. Be sure to have someone play the guitar, piano, or have a CD if your group would feel uncomfortable singing a cappella. Always have the words of the songs you plan to sing printed out ...
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 ...
This Bible Study Course can help you get renewing, biblical perspectives on caring for an aging or ill loved one.
Providing care for the elderly or disabled can be a lonely, all-consuming job. This three-session course will explore how we can honor our parents by showing them care, how caregiving can be a way to express God's love, and how to find joy in our caregiving responsibilities. We hope this study will give hope and encouragement to those who serve God in this way.
Discover how to really like the ones that you love in your life.
As Christians we are committed to loving those who are in our lives. But what about liking them? This series moves us beyond a white-knuckled commitment to hang in there with our loved ones, to discovering how to really like them.
Session One
Like Your MateWhen we change our behavior, our mate's may change too. Matthew 7:1–5, 18:21–35; Galatians 5:22–23; Ephesians 5:21–33; Philippians ...
Learn scriptural truths about God's nature and character for your daily life.
This innovative resource will help you think realistically and practically about who God is. It will help you understand what the Scriptures have to say about him, and how to make him a part of your daily experience. These handouts can be used for personal study, but can also be used in a Sunday school class or small group.
Session One
Understanding God Through the TrinityWe better understand God when ...
This worship reading reflects on who God is and who God has said we are as believers. Assign one person to read every other paragraph, the ones that describe who God is. Assign several other people to read the other paragraphs that describe who we are in Christ.
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Humbly, I am the recipient of your perfect love. I am the beloved. You came to earth that I might have life and have it abundantly. I ...
Small group leader: You may use this several different ways. Pass out a copy to every person in your group and have each person read a line until the reading is complete. Or, highlight different parts for five various readers and allow them to lead in an act of worship by reading it out loud for the group.
An Invitation of Praise
This invitation is open to all. Come taste and see that the LORD is good. ...
Partcipate in a symbolic activity that focuses on the cross.
Tami Rudkin
You will need:
A votive candle for each person in your group
A lighter or matches
LEADER:
1. Arrange 12-15 votive candles in the form of a cross (you may want to put the candles on squares of paper or a paper plate).
2. READ the excerpt below and ask your group members to pray out loud and then light their candles. If you have a small group, you may want to have some pray more than once (and light another ...
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