Workers Christian Living

Workers

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Posted by: Admin 30th Jul, 2019 Rating: 

Many people think of work as a necessary evil. They endure a five-day workweek to support the activities of the workless weekend. They lie awake nights, scheming ways to arrange early retirement. Believing God inflicted labor on human beings as a punishment for disobedience, they imagine Him ang...

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On Earth As In Heaven Christian Living

On Earth As In Heaven

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Posted by: Admin 30th Jul, 2019 Rating: 

To explore the implications of the church being the demonstration model of God’s kingdom here on earth.

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Jesus Teaches On Prayer Christian Living

Jesus Teaches On Prayer

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Posted by: Admin 30th Jul, 2019 Rating: 

In Luke 11:1-13, when one of Jesus' disciples asked Him to teach them how to pray, Jesus gave his disciples a five-point prayer model. Prayer Model1) Adoration of God2) Longing for His reign3) Daily needs4) Relationship healing5) Strength for spiritual battle...

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The Honest Truth About Honesty Christian Living

The Honest Truth About Honesty

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Posted by: 14th Nov, 2018 Rating: 

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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Everyday Evangelism Part 2 Christian Living

Everyday Evangelism Part 2

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Posted by: Admin 15th Oct, 2018 Rating: 

Very good tips about everyday evangelism. Don't forget to download discussion questions.

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Everyday Evangelism Part 1 Christian Living

Everyday Evangelism Part 1

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Posted by: Admin 15th Oct, 2018 Rating: 

Very practical tips for everyone.Don't forget to download discussion questions.

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What Is The Difference Between Unconditional Love and Enabling? Christian Living

What Is The Difference Between Unconditional Love and Enabling?

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Posted by: Admin 3rd Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Principle #1: If you define love any other way than the cross, you have reduced love to something it shouldn't be.1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NASB) 4  Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, Principle #2: Don't just memorize a Bible verse, memorize the...

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Parenting Tough Love Christian Living

Parenting Tough Love

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Posted by: Admin 24th Aug, 2018 Rating: 

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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Use Your Gifts Edification Topic

Use Your Gifts

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Posted by: Admin 30th Jul, 2019 Rating: 

AimTo show the need for Christians to work together in preparation for Christ’s return.

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Unity Edification Topic

Unity

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Posted by: Admin 30th Jul, 2019 Rating: 

Recently I came across a thought-provoking article by Keith Green, a Christian singer, songwriter and author. It is my sincere desire that this lesson will help you understand that unity comes with a price. Today there is much talk among Christians about the need for unity. Wherever Christians g...

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Truth-telling Edification Topic

Truth-telling

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Posted by: Admin 30th Jul, 2019 Rating: 

We all yearn for relationships where we can be completely honest, open, and vulnerable. Where we can share failures as well as successes, shortcomings as well as strengths. Where we can reveal doubts and fears. Where we can find empathy and confidentiality. These intimate, authentic relationship...

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Truth-Hearing Edification Topic

Truth-Hearing

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Posted by: Admin 30th Jul, 2019 Rating: 

Some time ago my mother saw her doctor. In her typical going fashion, she asked, “So, how am I doing?” He said, “Do you want the truth, or should I lie and make you feel good?” She passed on the “feel good” option and asked for the truth. He said she had cancer and needed major surger...

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Trials Edification Topic

Trials

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Posted by: Admin 30th Jul, 2019 Rating: 

It is an established fact, you will have trials and tribulation in the Christian walk. What is a trial then? According to the Webster’s definitions: Trial means the action or process of trying or putting to the proof; a test. It also means the state or fact of being tried by suffering; hence, ...

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Revival God's Way: Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done Edification Topic

Revival God's Way: Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done

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Posted by: Admin 30th Jul, 2019 Rating: 

In tonight’s session, we will have a better understanding about the Kingdom of God and understand why it is important to submit our will to bring about it.We know His will from His word by either reading, being taught, or from the preaching of the Word. We received grace (i.e. the desire and str...

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The Teachable Person Edification Topic

The Teachable Person

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Posted by: Admin 30th Jul, 2019 Rating: 

One of the most important traits a person can possess is the ability to learn. As babies and small children, we must learn hundred of skills, acquire huge amounts of information, and keep in memory all the bits and pieces in such a way that we can call them up and use them every moment of every ...

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The Progression Of Sin Edification Topic

The Progression Of Sin

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Posted by: Admin 30th Jul, 2019 Rating: 

The scripture tells us that a blessed man is one who, through his relationship with God, recognizes the subtle danger of sin. Sin is so deceptive because it does not attempt to sway you all at once. It is very patient in its approach. Sin covers its lies with a cloak of truth. It hides its destr...

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The Mystery of Unanswered Prayers Edification Topic

The Mystery of Unanswered Prayers

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Posted by: Admin 30th Jul, 2019 Rating: 

Jesus says, ‘Ask and it will be given. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened?”’ Being fairly confident of where the conversation is going, I sometimes jump ahead of the person with whom I am talking and say, ‘Friend, what prayer have you been praying that you fear God ...

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The Lost Coin Edification Topic

The Lost Coin

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Posted by: Admin 30th Jul, 2019 Rating: 

A visitor gave this testimony: “I was interested in the Pentecostal Church, but when I had gone there two or three times, and nobody took time to even shake my hand and invite me back, I just didn’t feel quite right. So I went to another church. The other church was rather dead and dry, and l...

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Encouragement vs. Correction Leadership Tips

Encouragement vs. Correction

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Posted by: Admin 20th Oct, 2018 Rating: 

There’s nothing that’s worse than wanting to encourage someone and having it backfire. Having them come away less encouraged than when they started. But it does happen a lot. Let me give you an example. I know a couple where one of the wife’s desires is for her husband to make the bed in the m...

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How to Encourage With Impact Leadership Tips

How to Encourage With Impact

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Posted by: Admin 20th Oct, 2018 Rating: 

This week, I want to talk about how to really encourage people. I talk to people all the time who want to encourage others, but aren’t sure how to do it or at least aren’t sure how to do it well.And my suggestion is to learn how to be specific in your encouragement. The more specific you are, th...

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Altar Counselor’s Guide Leadership Tips

Altar Counselor’s Guide

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Posted by: Admin 21st Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Serving as an altar counselor can be an exciting and rewarding spiritual experience: You have the opportunity to “reap” spiritual fruit for the Kingdom of God. As a minister sharesGod’s Word, he is actually “sowing” it in the hearts of those who listen. At the conclusion of the service ...

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Christian Leaders and Pride Leadership Tips

Christian Leaders and Pride

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Posted by: Admin 17th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Being in ministry leadership is a great privilege, but it can bring with it a desire to take pride in the influence that you have in other’s lives. Anybody that thinks that they have arrived in leadership because of their own ability or accomplishments has been ensnared by pride. This is not somet...

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Mission Over Preference Leadership Tips

Mission Over Preference

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Posted by: Admin 17th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Sometimes leaders make strategic decisions based on their own personal preferences, or the preferences of their inner circle, rather than missional considerations. In a church, this might affect issues like facility design and decor, worship style, preaching style, or ministry design. It’s easy to...

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The Greatest Thing a Small Group Leader Can Do Leadership Tips

The Greatest Thing a Small Group Leader Can Do

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Posted by: Admin 17th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Small group leaders are awesome. They’re the most important people in any local church. They have a big job with many tasks, but there’s one task that surpasses them all. The greatest thing a small group leader can do is give their job away. Here’s why that matters.It matures other peopleRemem...

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Leading Beyond the Weekly Meeting Leadership Tips

Leading Beyond the Weekly Meeting

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Posted by: Admin 17th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Effective small group leaders are more than just meeting managers. Group meetings are important. But the goal of your group is to make disciples. That starts in group meetings, but it also calls for leaders to equip people outside of the weekly meeting time.Pray for Group MembersThe most fundamental...

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How to Avoid Small Group Leader Burnout Leadership Tips

How to Avoid Small Group Leader Burnout

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Posted by: Admin 17th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Small group leader burnout is a devastating experience. When group leaders exit the ministry, groups lose their shepherd and potential new leaders lose the opportunity to be taught by a seasoned leader. But if small group leaders follow the suggestions below, they will able to stay in the game.Give ...

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Dealing with the Small Group Dominator Leadership Tips

Dealing with the Small Group Dominator

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Posted by: Admin 17th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

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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The Prayer Of Spiritual Growth Leadership Tips

The Prayer Of Spiritual Growth

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Posted by: 15th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Colossians 1:9-14 (NIV)  9  For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10  And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord ...

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Painfully honest prayers Relationship

Painfully honest prayers

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Posted by: Admin 15th Nov, 2018 Rating: 

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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Love Relationship

Love

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Posted by: Admin 15th Nov, 2018 Rating: 

It  takes  an  enormous  amount  of  courage  to  enter  the  character  battles  that  Scripture  challenges  us  to  fight.  I  would  like  to  propose  that  treating  others  as  more  important  than  yourself  is  one  of  the  best  definitions  of  love...

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Joy Relationship

Joy

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Posted by: Admin 15th Nov, 2018 Rating: 

It’s  not  very  often  that  I  feel  the  freedom  or  the  confidence  to  make  a  sweeping,  categorical  statement,  but  I  think  I  can  make  one  about  the  topic  of  this  study.  I  have  the  confidence  to  say  that  every  single  person ...

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Initiative Relationship

Initiative

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Posted by: Admin 15th Nov, 2018 Rating: 

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 Relationship

Growing Pains

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Posted by: Admin 15th Nov, 2018 Rating: 

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 Relationship

Grip on your spiritual life

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Posted by: Admin 15th Nov, 2018 Rating: 

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 Relationship

Faithfulness

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Posted by: Admin 15th Nov, 2018 Rating: 

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 Relationship

Fair-weather Friends

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Posted by: Admin 15th Nov, 2018 Rating: 

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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Dealing With the Dominator Relationship

Dealing With the Dominator

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Posted by: Admin 15th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Simple tips to deal with the Dominator.

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Building Relationships Weird Guys Who Show up in a Group Relationship

Building Relationships Weird Guys Who Show up in a Group

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Posted by: Admin 15th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Great tips to help connect with people who are different.

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5 ways to Bless your Neighbours Pocket Version Small Group Dynamics (First Three Months)

5 ways to Bless your Neighbours Pocket Version

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Posted by: Admin 15th Oct, 2018 Rating: 

This is the pocket version that can be given out small group members.

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The Science of Apprenticeship Small Group Dynamics (First Three Months)

The Science of Apprenticeship

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Posted by: Admin 15th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

How leaders can reproduce other leaders How is it possible for more and more people to get involved in Jesus' mission? By reproducing groups and leaders. By multiplying. And that means we must be leaders who are reproducing our roles and our groups, and that means intentionally apprenticing people ...

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Identifying where your small group members are at. Small Group Dynamics (First Three Months)

Identifying where your small group members are at.

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Posted by: Admin 15th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

A simple document to help you recognize where each member is at.

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Quarterly Strategic Discussion Plans Small Group Dynamics (First Three Months)

Quarterly Strategic Discussion Plans

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Posted by: Admin 15th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Here is a discussion form for you to plan strategically for each individual in your small group.

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Small Group Covenant Sample Small Group Dynamics (First Three Months)

Small Group Covenant Sample

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Posted by: Admin 15th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

In this pdf document download, there are discussion forms and also some samples of small group covenant,

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Ideal Group Size Small Group Dynamics (First Three Months)

Ideal Group Size

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Posted by: Admin 15th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

What is the ideal group size for a small group, especially when you're factoring in meeting times and expectations? Furthermore, what should you do if your group is too small? These tips offer things to consider and ways you can go about effectively growing your group.Bill Search is the author of Si...

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The Group Covenant Small Group Dynamics (First Three Months)

The Group Covenant

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Posted by: Admin 15th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Every small group needs to have a formal agreement of the purpose and role of the group. Some elements to include in the discussion would be time commitments, confidentiality expectations, level of respect, and primary purpose the group is hoping to serve in the members' lives. Bill Search is the a...

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Carefrontation Small Group Dynamics (First Three Months)

Carefrontation

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Posted by: Admin 15th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Great tips about confrontation.

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Helping Men Confess Sin Small Group Dynamics (First Three Months)

Helping Men Confess Sin

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Posted by: Admin 15th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Wonderful topic about confession within the small groups.

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Active Listening Small Group Dynamics (First Three Months)

Active Listening

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Posted by: Admin 15th Sep, 2018 Rating: 

Active listening.

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