2014

Help Your Leaders Understand Their Fivefold Gifts
Apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teachers can all serve in their sweet spot in small groups.

Serve in Your Sweet Spot
Lean into your personality, strengths, and gifts.

How Heather Zempel Marries Giftedness and Hard Work
Meet this pastor of discipleship serving in her sweet spot.

The Value of Shared Life
Why we need to value life-on-life relationships more

3 Tips for Your First Meeting
Make your first group meeting a success.

Give It One More Try
How to talk to small-group dropouts

Addressing a Leader's Sin Issue
10-step strategy for helping

When Leaders Become Ineffective
How to restore leaders to fruitfulness

Three Keys to Handling Tough Conversations
How to prepare and facilitate effectively

Do We Really Love Community as Much as We Say We Do?
What our response to difficult conversations says about our true values

Starting Over from Scratch
How we relaunched our small-group ministry

Small Groups in a Bilingual Church
How one multiethnic church structures small groups to reach their community

The Crack in Your Small-Group Ministry
8 tips to ensure that everyone who signs up for small groups gets connected

My Small Group Saved My Marriage
How I experienced true transformation

Where Are the Mature Believers?
The disconnect between small groups and discipleship

Successful Discipleship in Small Groups
Proven ways to develop mature disciples

Call Out the Spiritual Gifts in Your Group Members
Recognize your group members' gifts in both direct and indirect ways

Make Your Own Video Bible Studies on a Budget
You can make great video-based studies for your church.

What Makes a Good Video Bible Study?
Three elements that ensure a quality study worth your money

Bucking the Video Bible Study Trend
Why I believe the disadvantages outweigh the advantages