This four-session course emphasizes that joy comes from pursuing God wholeheartedly, giving ourselves away, and learning to dwell on the good.
We live in a world that constantly offers ways for us to achieve happiness by improving our circumstances. Unfortunately, such happiness is always fleeting. In contrast, the apostle Paul retained his joy in the midst of difficult circumstances, because he understood that true joy comes from gospel-first relationships, goals, desires, and conduct. This four-session course emphasizes that joy comes ...
We simply can’t know God without prayer. This six-session course covers some of the essentials of prayer.
Prayer is one of the most important components of the Christian life. We simply can't know God without it. This six-session course will cover some of the essentials of prayer. We will be looking at the fact that we pray to a Father who always honors his name, and that prayer, by nature, is surrender. We will also look at practical aspects of prayer, such as developing a prayer lifestyle, examining ...
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 ...
Discipleship brings a living incarnation of Christ closer to the younger Christian for them to examine.
Jerry Lin
In large part, discipleship is simply an older Christian taking an interest in the life of a younger Christian and sharing with him, guiding him—just helping him along the Christian journey. This may include teaching of Scriptures, or it might be more informal. Ideally, the older Christian will have already gone through a lot of the situations and problems that the younger Christian is currently ...
Are these two important elements of the church trending together?
Michael Kelley
The Roman's Road. FAITH. The Four Spiritual Laws. The bridge illustration. These are all names of good, useful tools for evangelism—and I'm sure you can add to the list. The goal of each is to introduce someone to a relationship with Jesus Christ in a simple, straightforward way. And they have worked well. Really, really well.
The question is not whether they have worked, but are these the best ...
This six-part course helps those with blended families to gain scriptural help for their specific circumstances.
Few things are more difficult than trying to help a group of diverse people to get along. Throw in the fact that these people have been deeply wounded in a previous relationship, and the challenges increase. That's why we've developed this six-part course to help those with blended families to gain scriptural help for their task. This course can be done individually but will be especially effective ...