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A *survey was taken of 700 small group leaders from 8 different countries. The survey revealed that leaders who pray for their group members daily (as opposed to “every other day”, “once a week”, or “sometimes”) are far more likely to multiply their small group than those who pray for them...
Just wanted to share some photos from last week. My small group went out again for our group community project to feed the homeless with the local Manna Outreach. Recently, our small group released two new leaders and multiplied into two groups. So for our outreach we teamed up and had two...
If there isn’t focused leadership, crystal-clear vision and intentional mission a small group can quickly encounter many pitfalls. Remember, the vision and goals of a small group should be to grow, raise up new leaders and multiply into more small groups.
When a small group loses that sense...
A small group is a small community. The reason it's described as "small" is not because it is insignificant. It's described in this manner to emphasize to the group members that's it's not an isolated community. It is only "small" in the context of the larger community it belongs to: the...
"In the morning I see His face,
In the evening His form I trace,
In the darkness His voice I know,
I see Jesus everywhere I go."
“…The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” Matthew 11:12
There is a spiritual battle to be won in entering the Kingdom realm. Those who truly love the Lord, and who desire to be rightly related to Him in His Kingdom will press through every hindrance or...
Act 1:11 JM-NT who also said, "Men! Galileans! Why do you stand continuously looking into the sky (or: heaven)? This Jesus – the One being taken (or: received) back up away from you folks, into the heaven (or: the sky) – will thus be coming, [in the] manner [in] which you gaze at Him...
Thirty-nine years ago today, as the sun went down, I walked down to the edge of a ranch pond, took my clothes off, and waded into the water, while watching for snakes.
The water was warm, and I couldn't believe how different it felt to not wear a swimsuit. I enjoyed it for a few minutes, then...
At the age of 28, I gave my heart to Jesus in Nov 1980 thru evangelistic meetings given by the Seventh-day Adventist.
I should have been wary from the get-go when they baptized me into their church, not into Jesus.
I was single at that time, but a couple of years later, married a man who had...
Have you ever asked yourself when will your garden grow? We take all the preparation into making our garden look good we get the right soil we get the right fertilizer and plant the seeds cultivate the ground and then after all our hard work we sit back and wait to see what happens...
Every time an election year comes along, the same refrain is typically heard echoing along the halls of America’s schools, offices, and homes.
“One vote won’t make a difference.”
“One person can’t possibly change anything.”
One can hear an equal number of people refuting these...
Forgive the bad pun in the title, I couldn’t resist myself! The following is a brief thought I had after reading a book on World War II code-breaking (the $20 word is cryptanalysis). Allow me to give you a brief history lesson.
In World War II, Nazi Germany used a machine called “Enigma”...
Our old ways of doing things has to become our past. We can't do what God has for us if we are still clinging on to the old ways. And so as I was reading in the book of Ephesians chapter 4 Paul was telling the people that they must get rid of what they use to do and how they use to do things...
Horsepower absolutely does factor in a locomotives pulling power. It's not just tractive effort! A 5,000 horsepower locomotive will pull more than a 4,000 horsepower locomotive.
A locomotives most important number is neither tractive effort or horsepower. The most important number to a...
I wake to a glorious absurdity.
'Risen from the dead' – what divine nonsense!
Death is death, and that's it;
there is no undiscovered country,
no other shore across a final sea.
Yet twenty centuries on, twenty disciples
and one dog,
climb the hill in the morning gloaming,
as...
Hiatus. Flowers
on the cross, the curtain torn,
the audience hushed
Evocative names - Gethsemane, Golgotha, Emmaus,
echoing in the streets of Guildford, Godalming, Esher –
exotic relics from a quaint and bygone culture,
or eternal stations of the cross?
A garden watered with tears of blood –
Gethsemane, where love and sorrow meet,
giving the lie to the...
He'd have had his feet washed sometime,
not with rich perfume or gushing tears,
but with water, by a hard-pressed servant,
slave almost, eyes cast down, and
shoulders sagging from a lifetime's toil.
And he'd have noticed. The servant
would have mattered, have counted to him.
And he'd...
When I found out they were re-releasing Titanic in 3D, I was livid!
This movie is a historically inaccurate piece of rubbish. Essentially the people who made this movie took an awesome tragedy in human history and added a whole bunch of fake characters and focused almost entirely on the budding...
Hardwood forests are the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth. They support hundreds of tree species, tens or hundreds of other plants species and hundreds of animal species.
Broadleaves enrich soil and make it better growing matter than needle leaves. Needle leaves in fact have...