Use a handful of change to evaluate what is important to you.
Sue Skalicky
Group Outreach
Four students delivered four very different speeches at our recent high school graduation. I can only remember one. It was short and it was powerful. The young graduate, Kari, shared advice her dad had imparted to her on a family road trip when she was about ten years old. He had shown her a silver dollar, a fifty-cent piece, a quarter, a dime, a nickel and a penny. He related the components ...
There are many kinds of small groups found in churches today. Some are formed to support what goes on inside the church building on weekends (parking attendant groups, usher groups, worship team groups, etc.). Other groups that meet off-campus are formed for Bible study, prayer, fellowship, outreach, or discipleship. Each has an opportunity to learn or serve or minister in the local church. Most are ...
Use this 13-session parenting course to discuss how to raise healthy, happy, God-centered children.
Use this 13-session parenting course to discuss how to raise healthy, happy, God-centered children. This course looks at how we can strengthen the parent-child bond, gain confidence in our parenting, develop friendships with other parents, model self-confidence, and raise countercultural kids. It also covers how to lovingly discipline our children by using natural consequences, having realistic expectations, ...
Assess how your church is following the original purpose of the church.
The following 4-week course will help you and your group assess how your church is following the original purpose of the church by asking questions like: Why is it that we seem to feel deeply about, and remember, the hurts associated with church? How can we help people who have been hurt by a church? Are you, as church members, pleased with your church's ministries, or are you unsatisfied with the ...
Discuss both individual and church responsibility in your spiritual growth.
The following 5-week course deals with both individual and church responsibility in spiritual growth. Discuss questions with your group like: How do you grow spiritually? What is the church's responsibility in our spiritual development? What cultural influences are there on our spiritual growth?
Week One
The Key to Spiritual GrowthRelationships can unlock the deeper parts of us and direct us to authentic ...
Discuss key questions Christians have faced over two millennia - and provide answers for those questions for today.
The Survey: Reformation to the Present course provides more than an introduction to church history. It helps people ask the key questions Christians have faced over two millennia—and provides answers for those questions for today.
Session 1
The Reformation: The Breakthrough Martin Luther's discovery of grace forever changed his life and the life of the church.
In this 12-session course, learn God's heart for the church and your place within it.
If you're like most people, you have serious questions about the church. Even "seasoned" believers sometimes wonder what the church is all about, and how they are supposed to interact with it. What does Jesus say about it? Do I have to do more than just go? What is God's vision for how people get along? In this 12-session course, learn God's heart for you and the church with illustrations from trusted ...
This six-session course helps parents gain a Christian perspective on a tough job.
Session One
Loving Discipline How can we discipline our children with unconditional love?
Deuteronomy 6; Psalm 103:8-13; Proverbs 13:24; 22:15; 29:15-17; Colossians 3:12-17; Hebrews 12:5-11
Session Two
Raising Counter-Cultural Teenagers Does "Christian youth" need to be an oxymoron?
Mark 12:28-34; Luke 10:25-37; John 17:20-23; Ephesians 4:4-16
Session Three
Fear Factors in ParentingWhat to do with parenting ...