Your first teaching series of the year.
Let us know what you’ll be doing for your first series out of the shoot with your group. I am so excited about our Luke 6 series. It has so many tough passages on following Christ. I can’t wait to see how the Lord uses it. Curriculum will be available soon for the series that … Continue reading
Follow along with Sermons
The Luke chapter six sermon series starts September 12th. It promises to push us hard on the issues of discipleship. Jesus speaking to his discipleship set the bar high for how he wants us to live. These are tough things for us to follow. Consider jumping on this series. Here’s why it can be good … Continue reading
Sunday recap — a story of conflict
We had a great day a couple Sundays ago. Helen shared her tough story of conflict and forgiveness. We spend a lot of time talking in abfs in a safe mode…we hear solid teaching. We can teach from a sterile environment with our lessons. There is something so powerful when we hear a story, particularly … Continue reading
Sunday Recap: A Better Way to Teach
summit-10-06-06-the-boss Above is the case study we used to rev up our conversation this past Sunday. I wrote about this last week. A case study is a story you write or an article you find that brings out ambiguity and the grey-ness of life. They are perfect for revealing the variety of values that reside … Continue reading
Sunday Recap: Teaching a little better
Summit 10-06-06 the boss Above is the case study we used to rev up our conversation this past Sunday. I wrote about this last week. A case study is a story you write or an article you find that brings out ambiguity and the grey-ness of life. They are perfect for revealing the variety of … Continue reading
Evaluations
We’re in the midst of our season of evaluations. We’ve asked each of our groups to fill out the form. What our hope is that the process helps each group become a little more self aware. If each abf can find one thing to work on, their group will experience better community. We also hope … Continue reading
Great Curriculum to help your group Connect
I’ve been using the DVD series ReGroup for the last six weeks. It’s a great tool to help move your group’s relationships to a higher place. Watch the video. Let us know if you want to use it too. We have several copies available and student guides. You can also look back over my posts … Continue reading
When Sparks Fly – Sermon Series and Helps
We just started our latest sermon series Sunday, “When Sparks Fly.” It is about how to be reconciled to each other and live at peace. Conflict always brings out so much emotion. Everybody can relate to the struggle to live as one and to resolve issues. No one is free from this. I could see … Continue reading
Sunday Recap — Confrontation
It was a great day today touching on the how and why we confront. The sermon was on the same subject. In fact, for the next two weeks we’ll be on the subject of conflict resolution. Scary stuff for many. Great when we work it through. If you look to the previous post you’ll find … Continue reading
Sunday Ready — ReGroup week 6
There really is so many ways to use this ReGroup DVD. The first few times I reviewed this curriculum I missed the two longer lessons on conflict and confrontation. This is such a good issue to tackle for groups because everyone will go through it. It’s really just a matter of time before folks rub … Continue reading
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