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There are many types of audio and visual materials available to speakers today, from the blackboard to DVDs. In between, there’s everything from whiteboards with colored markers and overhead...
The very first teaching experience took place at the Garden of Eden. Here’s Adam, fresh from the dirt, perfumed by the natural oils found on the ground, facing his teacher. I can imagine in his face...
For Christians the mother lode for storytellers is the Bible. A quick glimpse at the book of Genesis alone reveals more than 40 stories, depending on how we divide them. The Pentateuch contains enough...
For many of us, the idea of different ways of learning is relatively new. And any time someone introduces new approaches to teaching Biblical truths, some people will be uncomfortable, and some will...
There are innumerable books, essays, articles, courses, sermons, and blogs on the subject of dealing with difficult people. They range from how to handle difficult people in your family or at work to...
No human being could begin to peer into the inner workings of what we call the Trinity or Triune God. We can barely grasp the concept that there is one God in three personalities. However, it seems...
An essential task in leading a small group is to ask questions that get the group involved in discussion. People have been asking questions about themselves and the meaning of existence for...
There are only a few basic ways to make decisions in a group. It could even be said that there are only three, though each has a number of forms and subcategories: (1) One leader makes the...
Many units in the discipleship curriculum include materials about why small groups are so important to the Christian life. Humans were created by a God who uses a plural name, Elohim, but singular...
Who decides what worship is? Is it right to make the older members of a congregation uncomfortable in an effort to encourage and keep the younger? Is it right to make the younger members uncomfortable...
John is the Bible writer who most uses the term “witness,” though Paul uses it many times as well. Most of the mentions of witness in the three synoptic gospels are about false witness. However, in...
The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” (WHO Preamble) This definition is...
How can you best serve Jesus? What are your spiritual gifts? Is God calling you to a specific mission or purpose in your life? We will get to all those questions; that is “the bottom line.” It is...
Who in your neighborhood has the nicest car? Who in your extended family has the nicest house? Which of your friends dresses the best? You could probably answer these questions in about ten seconds....
Serve. Service. Servile. Servant. Server. Servitude. Serving. [Take just two or three minutes to collect reactions to these different words.] It’s odd, really, the wide variety of ideas and reactions...
Some followers of God have been called out of the world and into a simple life, learning to be faithful and true in the company of nature and nature’s God. Others have been called into the world,...
In a modern world where time is money, businesses operate twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, personal worth is defined as net or gross, happiness is bought and sold in the form of pills and...
The goal of meditation is to slow down the talking that goes on constantly in our brain. We chatter to ourselves incessantly. And for the most part, we are completely unconscious of this chatter. The...
According to Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, humility is “the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one’s own importance, rank, etc.” Interestingly enough, at...
We’re going to examine hospitality in this session. We want to expand our definition of hospitality and come up with some new ideas to try. We want to understand how hospitality can help the spiritual...