Deepen your relationship with God by focusing on him and discovering what he is like.
This ten-session course will help you get through the summer victoriously. Deepen your relationship with God by focusing on him and discovering what he is like. This course will also teach you how to repent, find forgiveness, and get rid of guilt. Finally, it will help you fill your prayer life with joy and beauty.
Week 1
Spirituality for Today
Modern spirituality begins and ends with the self; Christian ...
This four-session course on spiritual formation discusses how spiritual practices can form our souls.
Are you eager to dive into the spiritual life? Learning about spiritual formation isn't enough; we must practice it. This four-session course on spiritual formation discusses how spiritual practices can form our souls. It also looks at how God uses our experiences and his community to help mold us into his image. Download this course to discover why spiritual formation is the primary work of every ...
Discover Biblical insight on how we can use all of our resources - time, talents, gifts and finances - for the glory of God.
This six-session course looks at Jesus' interaction with a group of first-century Jewish religious leaders called Pharisees. As revealed in the four Gospels, these Pharisees received the brunt of Jesus' criticism. The ability to see sin in others and ignore it in your own heart is one of the distinguishing characteristics of a Pharisee. Unfortunately, this tendency is as common today as it was in ...
Sometimes it seems like busyness is a necessary requirement for participating in small-group ministry. But that doesn't have to be the case. This download is designed to help the busy leaders of your ministry slow down and make the most of their time through spiritual disciplines. With expert advice from John Ortberg, Mark ...
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 ...
Taking daily time to care for your own soul will make the rest of your day go more smoothly.
Joel Comiskey
One day a distraught man named John Salas nervously opened the door to my office, "I've tried everything," he blurted out. "I've been addicted to alcohol and drugs, and I've even tried a couple of religions. Now my wife wants to leave me. What can you do for me?"
Rarely had I witnessed such desperation in all my years of counseling. As one of the pastors at the El Batán Church in Quito, Ecuador, ...
Let the Nicene and Apostles' creeds increase your group's knowledge of the Christian faith.
"What do Christians believe? With so many denominational divisions in the church, what do we all have in common? The Nicene and Apostles Creeds have served the church more than 1500 years, providing just such a foundational set of beliefs. This nine-session course will help you familiarize yourself with not only the creeds themselves, but with the biblical foundations for these truths.
This 12-session plan will help you think realistically and practically about how to grow spiritually.
The purpose of this 12-session plan is to help you think realistically and practically about how to grow spiritually. It will help you understand what the Scriptures have to say about this important topic, and how to make it a part of your daily experience. It addresses specific disciplines like fasting, lectio divina, and giving, and also challenges you to think about past experiences, sharing in ...