We wrapped up our small group as we usually do, with a time for everyone to share their prayer requests. After we closed in prayer, Tom approached my husband and me. He was considering dropping out of our small group because he felt overwhelmed by the prayer requests. It seemed to him as though everyone's problems were insurmountable, and although we'd been praying for the same things for months, ...
This five-session course looks at all the aspects involved in fully devoting your life to follow Christ.
Following Christ involves a wholehearted commitment. We cannot see a relationship with Christ as simply a ticket into heaven. When we answer the call to follow him, it's going to turn our lives in a different direction. We can't follow unless we go where he leads. This five-session course looks at centering our lives on Christ, weathering the storms of life, going where Jesus goes, caring for others, ...
Build the confidence to share your faith and hope at work.
These compelling, in-depth Bible studies help you and your group see the urgency for sharing your hope in Jesus Christ in the workplace. The studies also offer tools for building the confidence to share that hope at work.
Session 1
Witnessing at Work A non-the-job strategy for winning souls
Session 2
Talking About Our Faith Unleashing words that fuel the soul
This five-session course challenges people like you and me to join Jesus’ revolutionary mission.
A revolution invites a complete change in life. In the opening section of the letter to the Romans, Paul writes about having a transformed mind, which yields a transformed life. A transformed life is a radically different life, driven by different forces, motives, and hopes. Christ lives inside the believer and causes a fundamentally noticeable inner and outer transformation. Christ followers have ...
This 13-session course was designed to help you discover God through listening, worship and prayer.
There is nothing more important in our relationship with God than prayer and worship. Through prayer we establish a relationship with God, and through worship we recognize who he is. This 13-session course will help you sort through what it really means to speak to and honor God. Use it as a quarterly Sunday school curriculum for adults, in your small group, or for personal study.
This six-session course helps single parents navigate the struggles and joys of parenting on their own.
Being a single parent is one of the tougher jobs a person can be given. This six-session course gives perspective on unique problems that a single parent faces, such as: tight budgets, parental visits, time for yourself, spiritual encouragement, dating again, and loving your job as a parent. Written by a single parent, this course will encourage you that although the job is tough, it's not impossible ...
As we work on our relationships, we become more and more like Jesus, which is our goal as his followers.
All of our life is about relationships. From beginning to end, we spend our lives relating to others. The Godhead is a relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Created in God's image, we are made to be in intimate relationships with others. These relationships can be the most fulfilling or frustrating experiences of our lives. Often, how we feel about our lives is based on how ...
Here are 10 tips to increase the frequency and effectiveness of your supplications.
Dave Earley and Rod Dempsey
Many years ago, evangelist S. D. Gordon said, "The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is to pray." After 25 years of leading small groups and coaching small-group leaders, I have come to one clear conviction: prayer is the most important activity of a small-group leader. In fact, if a group leader could only do one thing to make his or her group more effective, that one thing would be to ...
No one should have to sacrifice themselves for the success of the group.
Bruce Umpstead
In launching the Coffee Shop Church, we are striving to build a system for enabling small group leader success. (The Coffee Shop Church is an off-church campus small group network in Lansing, Michigan that reaches out to the un-churched. Our motto is, "Connecting with God in a comfortable place at a comfortable pace." For more information, please visit www.CoffeeShopChurch.com.)
All leaders ultimately need to serve as spiritual coaches for whatever group of people they are leading.
Linnea Nilsen Capshaw
In many churches today, the role of leaders is changing from people who lead so tasks get done to that of leaders serving as spiritual coaches. All leaders, whether staff or lay, ultimately need to serve as spiritual coaches for whatever group of people they are leading. Whether it is a small group leader, mission team leader, or finance team leader, leaders are called to coach people on their teams ...
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