Painfully honest prayers
What do you do with the highly charged feelings that fly around in your spirit when you feel God has let you down? Some people, in an effort to be “good Christians,” feel they need to protect God. They deny their p...
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Initiative
Initiative was first demonstrated by the Creator when he spoke the universe into existence. His action was not a response to external stimuli; rather the plan originated within Him. God made man to have dominion over the thing...
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Growing Pains
When life is going well, it is relatively easy to be a “good” Christian. But the strength of our character is not revealed in the good times. In fact, we really cannot know the quality or strength of our character un...
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Grip on your spiritual life
Every church has people who go to church out of habit. They have been churchgoing people all their lives, and it is almost as automatic as breathing. Every Sunday they go to a church service that feels right to them-one ...
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Faithfulness
Over the years I have asked various groups of people to write down their answer to this question: What trait in other people do you dislike the most? Or, I’ll phrase it another way: What flaw in other people’s characte...
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Fair-weather Friends
Too many people are fair weather friends. They stick around when it is easy to maintain the friendship and leave when there is a sign of trouble. As Christians, however, we need to be different. We must demonstrate our com...
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The Honest Truth About Honesty
Why Honesty Isn't Always the Best PolicyGalatians 5:22-23 (KJV) 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.The honest truth about honestyWhether you’re getting it off your chest, venting...
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Dealing with the Small Group Dominator
A common problem many small group leaders face is dealing with people who dominate the discussion time during the meeting. Dominators like to contribute their insights early and often to every question. They often speak up before others have a chance to say anything and often give long rambling answ...
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Building Relationships Weird Guys Who Show up in a Group
Great tips to help connect with people who are different.
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Small Group Problem Solving
How to respond when people act up, act out, and ask tough questions.Any time you bring together a group of people with different backgrounds, histories, and personalities, conflict and problems are almost inevitable. As a leader, you will need to deal with these issues both before and after they occ...
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Is This Gossip?
9 questions to help you decide.Proverbs 11:13; 26:20How do you know when it is beneficial to share information, and when it is useless or destructive to do so? Ask yourself the following questions to help you choose your words wisely.1. Am I telling this to someone who can do something about the pr...
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Five practices that take small groups beyond polite “sharing.”
In community we discover who we really are and how much transformation we require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings. However, experience tells us that simply meeting with a group does not automatic...
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Build Real Friendship in Your Groups
7 steps to cultivate authentic relationshipsDon't we all long to be part of something fun, exciting, and life-giving?The sitcom Friends captured this desire. Every week, 50 million people watched six actors pretend to have relationships with one another. Its popularity was fueled by the deep longing...
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5 Threats to Healthy Small Groups
5 Group Killers1.) Inconsistent attendance2.) Awkward personalities3.) Fakeness4.) Bad Curriculum5.) Public Holidays
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Healthy Teams
I work with lots of teams that are either in crisis or transition. But I rarely hear of teams that are both achieving results and are a pleasure to be a part of. This is due, in part, to a misunderstanding of "team."Simply put, "team" is just business language for "community"—the glorious intersec...
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Parenting Tough Love
This lesson is a good reminder for both parents and leaders about the importance of "tough love". Key Points of Lesson “You are a born leader” is a false statement. To become a leader, it takes a process of training. We all have the ability to train to be a leader. The spiri...
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