Leader: This time together is going to be a creative, word and thought association. As the leader, you are going to give a word that describes God. Your group is going to respond by giving other descriptive words and thoughts that come to mind after they hear your word. After they exhaust one word, you will go down the list given below. Go as long as you want, adding your own words, or as short as ...
Praise God through Scripture reading, song, and prayer.
Tami Rudkin
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I will praise you, O Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonders. I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. Psalm 9:1-2
I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips. My soul will boast in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and rejoice. Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together. Psalm 34:1-3
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. ...
"In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men…."
The Widow and Judge is an emotionally powerful re-telling of Jesus' Parable of the Persistent Widow. Filmed in the style of To Kill a Mockingbird, the story follows the persistance of a woman in demanding justice from a judge who embodies the opposite of God's compassion and grace.
This is a bundle of two movies, a PDF discussion guide, and an announcement poster.
A creative exploration into the role of creation and the creative arts in the Christian faith.
The following 3-week course will help you and your group think creatively by discussing what role creation and the creative arts have in the faith. You'll be challenged with questions like: What place does beauty have in the life of the Christian? Can literature play that important a role in the Christian's experience? Why should all Christians read poetry and what affect can poetry have?
God is trustworthy and can be counted on to treat people right.
"This 6-session course is by Marshall Shelley, written within a year after the deaths of two of his children. During Marshall and his wife's desperate turning to Scripture, they discovered that God is trustworthy and can be counted on to treat people right. These six studies focus on six sections of the Bible that offered them fresh glimpses of how God works.
God provides comfort when you need it most, and the power to persevere.
"The following 6-session course is by Marshall Shelley, written within a year after the deaths of two of his children. During Marshall and his wife's desperate turning to Scripture, they discovered how God gives strength to his people in difficult times. These six studies focus on six sections of the Bible that offered them fresh glimpses of how God works.
This seven-session course on the Book of Psalms reassures us that God is always good, no matter what is happening in our lives.
This seven-session series on the Book of Psalms reassures us that God is always good, no matter what is happening in our lives. It also points out that God wants to be our Father, to shelter us, to give us peace, to help us avoid panic, to give us confidence, and to keep us near him.
Session One
The Father Heart of God based on the sermon by Jim NicodemDiscovering the privilege of being his child. Psalm ...
Leader: In this exercise of worship your group is going to write a psalm together.
Pick a few of your favorite Psalms to read together as a group or ask several people to read their favorite Psalms.
Read three or four in the first part of your worship time together.
As you finish each Psalm, point out to your group the honesty of the writer. Notice that he was not afraid to whine, ask questions, and even be angry. This is important for your group members to see because you want them to be equally honest and transparent as they write their psalm.
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