Opening (15 minutes) Ice Breaker: Share about a time when a small misunderstanding between friends or coworkers grew into something bigger. What happened and what did you learn from it? Opening Prayer Context Setting: This study explores three key passages about unity...
Devotional
Here are the last fewDesigned for Impact: S.H.A.P.E. for Service
Title: Discovering Our S.H.A.P.E. for Service Purpose: To help participants understand how God has uniquely designed each of us with gifts and abilities to serve Him and others, and to encourage them to identify and use their S.H.A.P.E. (Spiritual Gifts, Heart,...
Designed for Impact – You are Gifted by God
Small Group Inductive Bible Study: "You Are Gifted by God" Passages: 1 Corinthians 12:4-7, 14-26 Big Idea: God has gifted each of us uniquely, and we all need each other's gifts to function as the body of Christ effectively. 1. Opening Activity (10 minutes) Icebreaker...
Designed for Impact: God’s Way to Greatness
Small Group Inductive Bible Study: "The Path to True Greatness" Passages: Mark 10:42-45; Philippians 2:3-8 Big Idea: True greatness is found in Christ-like humility and sacrificial service. 1. Opening Activity (10 minutes) Icebreaker Question: "Who is someone you...
Designed for Impact: You are God’s Masterpiece
Series Title: Designed for ImpactSermon Title: You Are God’s MasterpieceSermon Number: 1 of 6Main Passages: Ephesians 2:8-10 & Psalm 139:13-16Key Point: We are designed for impact because God has uniquely designed and purposed each of us for His glory. Opening...
How to Eliminate Hurry?
Our church is going through the sermon series based on John Mark Comer's book "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry". There is a 28-page companion PDF titled "How to Un-hurry" which would be helpful for you to take action with. Download it here.
RA12e
Is the story over? 24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. Romans 7:24--25 (NIV) The...
RA12d
Why are we struggling with sins (and not surrendering)? 16Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me... 20Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but...
RA12c
Why are we still struggling with sins? 14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with...
RA12b
What does it mean when we were "alive apart from the law"? 8But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came,...
RA12a
What is the purpose of God's law if it can't save us? 7What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not...
RA11e
How is the Gospel different than both Legalism and Liberalism? 32They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too. 1You may think you can condemn such people, but...
RA11d
Do you know that marriage changes everything? 1Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? 2For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as...
RA11c
The Wages of Sin vs. The Gift of God: Which Will You Choose? 20When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22But now that...
RA11b
Which Would You Choose: Slaves of Sin or Servants of Righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18You have been set free from sin...
RA11a
Do you realize that you are a slave? 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought...
RA10e
Why is it not enough to just not follow your 'old self' but be more proactive in doing good? 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather...
RA10d
How does the 'old self' work in your new identity? 8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over Him. 10The death He died, He died...