We had the privilege of hosting Josh Hunt for our mid winter Sunday Morning Bible Study leadership conference. The emphasis on investing and building relationships is the key to reaching our society today. If you have not had the opportunity to have Josh Hunt in your church or attend one of his conferences, make plans to involve your leadership. His concepts will make a difference in your thinking about how simple it really is to reach out to people.
Josh Hunt believes in the power of the small group ministry in your church. And, his belief is contagious. In his new book, Make My Group Grow, Josh presents sound application to easy to understand research that will benefit every size and style of church. Your groups and leadership will benefit from this book.
Josh Hunt’s book should be read by all who are looking for new ways to reach people.
Discussion-based Lessons
Discussion-based lessons have groups talking and changing. We are changed more by what we say than what we hear. "Instead SPEAKING the truth (not just hearing the truth) we will grow." Ephesians 4.15 https://www.youtube.com/embed/lduldVUA8-4
Pursuit of Holiness – Chapters 5 & 6
https://youtu.be/qSR0bfiCxHg Check out our Bible Study on Jerry Bridges classic book, The Pursuit of Holiness. It is on Amazon as well as part of the Good Questions Have Groups Talking subscription service. Like Netflix for Bible Lessons, one low subscription gives...
Sam Chan – How Do I Tell My Friends About Jesus?
https://youtu.be/TR_vmAUMdK4 Check out our Bible Study on Sam Chan's book How to Talk About Jesus. It is on Amazon as well as part of the Good Questions Have Groups Talking subscription service. Like Netflix for Bible Lessons, one low subscription gives you access to...
What does it mean to be saved?
We must be saved from what’s going on inside. And so far as I know, no other candidate for soter ever said, “Abide in me.” Caesar never said that. Alexander the Great never said that. Jesus said that. Union with Christ—to abide with him—means that he is present in our...
A guaranteed way to improve your teaching
I wonder if anyone learned anything tonight. I wonder if any lives were changed. It was enjoyable. I wasn’t bored. I didn’t look at my watch. But, I wonder if any lives were changed. Effective Bible Teachers regularly ask these questions. They regularly evaluate. They...
My grumpy anxiety gave way to peace,
NOVEMBER IS NOT my favorite month. It starts to get dark early, and I hate the dark. I also hate the cold. Both of these things make me want to stay in my pajamas all day and cuddle on the couch with my dog, but I must face my life. I have four human beings who depend...
When neighbors don’t neighbor
When Jesus said that all the commandments can be summed up in loving God and loving our neighbors, he was on to something. What would happen if we all just did what Jesus said to do? What if we get to know our actual neighbors? This sounds simple, but it’s easy to...
THE GUIDED LIFE
There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we may be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs. But deep within, behind the scenes, at a profounder level, we may also be in...
Pursuit of Holiness – Introduction
https://youtu.be/0YLt4BHx24E Check out our Bible Study on Jerry Bridges classic book, The Pursuit of Holiness. It is on Amazon as well as part of the Good Questions Have Groups Talking subscription service. Like Netflix for Bible Lessons, one low subscription gives...
The most important thing
Jesus said the most important thing we can do is to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. We are discovering that Jesus was actually really smart. You could even say that he was and is a genius. When Jesus was...
UNION: Never Alone
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. GALATIANS 2:20 It is Peter’s last intimate conversation with his friend Jesus. The Crucifixion is past. Peter’s denial of Jesus—uttered not just once but three times—is a horrible memory....
Government doesn’t have the solution
It’s likely that your schedule is already packed and that the idea of becoming a good neighbor might sound impractical or even scary at first. But we invite you to lean into those issues. If you do, we are confident that you will discover that Jesus really is a...
The Practice of Confession
Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy…. He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. -- DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Some years ago we traded in...
ILLUMINATION: A New Mental Map
To hold to a doctrine or an opinion with the intellect alone is not to believe it. A man’s real belief is that which he lives by. - GEORGE MACDONALD Illumination comes to us, if it comes at all, as a gift. I don’t know of a better picture of it than from the...
Making the world a better place — one neighborhood at a time
Leaving that meeting, we began to pray about what God was leading us to do next. As we began to talk to other leaders in our city, we found that many of them shared the mayor’s assessment. They saw that our neighborhoods were not as connected as they needed to be. The...
Kevin DeYoung and John Piper on the Pursuit of Holiness (Part 1)
https://youtu.be/vEGL5qQKmuE Check out our Bible Study on Jerry Bridges classic book, The Pursuit of Holiness. It is on Amazon as well as part of the Good Questions Have Groups Talking subscription service. Like Netflix for Bible Lessons, one low subscription gives...
New Bible Study: Love Your Neighbor
In 2009 I (Dave) gathered a group of twenty lead pastors in the Denver area so we could think, dream, and pray about how our churches might join forces to serve our community. We invited our local mayor, Bob Frie, to join us, and we asked him a simple question: How...
Glen Scrivener & Sam Chan | Has Christianity Done More Harm Than Good? | TGC Q&A
https://youtu.be/gUasWiIA2fI Check out our Bible Study on Sam Chan's book How to Talk About Jesus. It is on Amazon as well as part of the Good Questions Have Groups Talking subscription service. Like Netflix for Bible Lessons, one low subscription gives you access to...
Replace grumpy with gratitude
Last year my parents invited a big crowd to their house for Thanksgiving. During dinner the discussion turned to who would host the Thanksgiving dinner the following year. Since Mike and I had just bought our first home, we were drafted. I had never cooked a turkey or...
Leaving Baggage Behind
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.” ISAIAH 6:5 In The Sickness unto Death, Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard describes the way sin blinds...
How to learn any technology
I close this chapter with a section on how to learn any technology. Does it sound like I have overpromised? Keep reading. If you want to learn any technology you just have to be willing to feel stupid. I often talk to people about technology, and they always say the...
Pursuit of Holiness – Chapters 1 & 2
https://youtu.be/zb8Kg_7RCwI Check out our Bible Study on Jerry Bridges classic book, The Pursuit of Holiness. It is on Amazon as well as part of the Good Questions Have Groups Talking subscription service. Like Netflix for Bible Lessons, one low subscription gives...
Seeing God Everywhere
Peter and his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake, they saw his glory. LUKE 9:32 Frederick Buechner wrote, “As far as I know, there has never been an age that has not produced fairy tales.”[1] He says the reason fairy tales are universal is...
Overcoming the Messiah Complex
Leon, Joseph, and Clyde all suffered from a messiah complex. It was not just a touch of narcissism or a dash of grandiosity. They were three chronic psychiatric patients at a hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan, all diagnosed with psychotic delusional disorder, grandiose...
The Greatest Sermon Ever
We can safely say that the Sermon on the Mount has been more widely acclaimed than any other sermon ever preached. The seventeenth century preacher Thomas Watson wrote of it: ‘Here is both usefulness and sweetness; here is a garden of delight; here is the golden key...
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