This Bible Study Course can help you get renewing, biblical perspectives on caring for an aging or ill loved one.
Providing care for the elderly or disabled can be a lonely, all-consuming job. This three-session course will explore how we can honor our parents by showing them care, how caregiving can be a way to express God's love, and how to find joy in our caregiving responsibilities. We hope this study will give hope and encouragement to those who serve God in this way.
Engage and challenge young children to get more from their movie-watching experience.
This 13-session course contains discussion guides on a variety of popular fantasy movies. This resource will help you think about these movies from a Christian perspective, and how they do—or do not—illustrate biblical principles. This quarterly pack can be used for a Sunday school class or small group, or to host a film festival.
Session 1
Big FishBig Fish takes us into the vivid imagination ...
Receive insight and encouragement in these six studies on recovering from grief.
Death has a way of changing our lives forever. We wish we could go back to the way things were, but we can't. To try and pretend things are the same would keep us stuck in our grief. To refuse to go on would mean our families not only lost one person, but have lost us as well. This six-session course on grief recovery will cover such topics as: How to get out of grief and anger and plug back into ...
These studies will help the transition from a full house to an empty nest.
When the kids leave home, it is a time of transition. It can be sad, but it doesn’t have to be devastating. In fact, it can be a time to grow as a person and find new meaning. Perhaps it is your time to thrive as never before. This three-session course will help you think through this season of your life.
Session One
Empty Nest–Full LifeFind God's purpose in every season of life. Genesis 2:20–24; ...
Make a baby's pacifier avaialble. Pass the pacifier around the circle and, as each person takes their turn holding it, have him or her answer these two questions: What was this called in your home (i.e. binky, nuk, plug)? As an adult, what is your binky (that which gives you security or a sense of comfort)?
Show a college student how much you care by giving him/her a gift basket.
Sue Skalicky
Group Outreach
Each year, in every community, teenagers fill out FAFSA forms, take or re-take SAT and ACT tests, and open their own checking account. These teens are America's college-bound youth and future leaders. As a high school teacher, I have written countless recommendation letters and offered counsel to many nervous seniors. These students are as different as the schools and occupations they ...
A most rewarding experience for any Christian leader happens when a life-changing experience takes place for at least one member of the group. That kind of result requires discussion on an intimate level, which is difficult to achieve.
In hopes of motivating group members to bare their souls, one leader asked, "What one temptation do you wrestle with most often?" Instead of leaving the question open ...
Why the hardest decision in a small group is also the most important
Trevor Lee
I've never had a great small-group experience. I've heard people talk about the depth of relationships, personal transformation, and meaningful fellowship that can only be found in a small-group context, but I haven't experienced it. My small-group experiences haven't been bad, but they haven't delivered the depth that others have found. One of the most important reasons for this is something that ...
Donald Miller frames this lesson around one simple question, "If your life was made into a movie, would you go see it?" The answer is obvious for most of us. Donald Miller applies the principles of storytelling to instruct us how to make our stories more significant. This two-session study includes two 30-minute video clips and a PDF discussion guide.
Session OneSee how the Bible uses the power of ...
Okay, I'm a big believer in authenticity, so let me say right away that part of this article includes a sales pitch for Dot Com(unity)—the co-learning experience we feature on the Small Group Dynamics blog. Although I'm not sure if I can call it a sales pitch, because the Dot Com(unity) experience is currently free. (If you're not familiar with what I'm talking about, check out this quick blog ...
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