Use this 13-session marriage course to discuss how to express grace and love to one another.
This 13-session course on marriage will be ideal for your Sunday school quarterly curriculum or to use in your small group. It covers such topics as learning to appreciate your spouse, money matters, faith, handling conflict, sex, communication, and compromise. Most of all it will help couples know how to express grace and love to one another.
Week 1
Learning to Appreciate Our SpouseHow can we train ...
This six-session course can help you find joy in a difficult marriage.
We all enter marriage with great expectations. Most of us are challenged when the reality hits our imagination. However, for some, the disappointment is acute. Their marriage is not living up to their hopes and can only be described as difficult. If you are one of those persons, this six-session course is for you.
You and your group can discuss topics from sex to submission and find out how God really designed marriage to be.
This 6-session course is designed to answer questions about God's plan for Christian marriage. You and your group can discuss topics from sex to submission and find out how God really designed marriage to be.
Week One
A Marriage Revolution How can the church recreate a biblical understanding of marriage in a secular society?
Week Two
What Makes a Marriage?In God's eyes, do a man and a woman become married ...
The chances are good that either a couple or an individual in your small group will have to wrestle directly with divorce, which means the entire group will deal with it as well. What should a small-group leader do to prepare for the impact of divorce on individuals, couples, and the group? Use ...
Darryl and his wife are a newly married couple leading a couples small group; they don't feel equipped enough, what should they do?
The Small Group Network Community
Darryl and his wife, Darlene, are leading a couple's group. Since Darryl is newly married, he feels a little inadequate to lead a group of couples that have been married longer than he and Darlene. Darryl wants to help them grow as couples, but is struggling with how to help them through stages in their relationships that he has not yet experienced. What advice can you give Darryl?
If you are newly married, soon-to-be married, or know someone who fits those categories, this six-session course is for you.
If you are newly married, soon-to-be married, or know someone who fits those categories, this six-session course is for you. It covers such topics as having realistic expectations, developing good communication skills, instruction on how to fight fairly, and perspectives on sex, in-laws, and marriage mentors.
Session 1
What Did You Expect?Learn to have healthy expectations in marriage.
Expectations ...
Take a look at the depth of Ecclesiastes—but be prepared for a few surprises.
If the deep and perplexing issues of life intrigue you, take a look at Ecclesiastes—but be prepared for a few surprises. On the surface, Ecclesiastes seems to challenge essential biblical truths. It dares to face hard questions. It shows the unglamorized life of a sinful world. It offers a glimpse at the secular mind. It looks at suffering and struggles to find meaning in it all. But most importantly, ...
Advice on creating a place where people naturally connect.
Interview with Joe Myers
What do you mean by the phrase "organic community"?
What I hope to communicate is that there is a way people naturally connect with each other—that you don't have to coerce it or force it, that people are naturally doing it already.