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Trouble Maker · Around June 25, 2022
Trouble Maker Week 3 Study
Big idea Today we are talking about something that we can all relate to: temptation. From the moment we are children facing the temptation to sneak extra cookies in the kitchen (at least my three-year-old niece faces th…
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Love God, Love Others Study
Big idea My friends have a little boy they are trying to teach the difference between the words “like” and “love.” They often teach this difference by repeatedly saying, “We like things, and we love people.” At dinner o…
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Trouble Maker · Around July 9, 2022
Trouble Maker Week 4 Study
Big idea Have you ever felt misunderstood? It can be quite frustrating. We can work very hard to be clear and communicate well, but sometimes we still end up being misunderstood. We may even be misunderstood, at times, …
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Trouble Maker · Around July 16, 2022
Trouble Maker Week 5 Study
Big idea When Jesus began His ministry on earth, He chose to pick a group of 12 men to be His close followers or disciples. This was not unexpected. After all, it was custom for a Jewish rabbi to have a group of devoted…
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Trouble Maker · Around July 23, 2022
Trouble Maker Week 6 Study
Big idea Who was your favorite teacher growing up? Mine was my tenth-grade English teacher. She told great stories, was interesting, and made our entire class enthusiastic about reading classic literature, which is quit…
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Trouble Maker · Around July 30, 2022
Trouble Maker Week 7 Study
Big idea We use the word “miracle” often. The other day, I put my niece and nephew to bed by 7:30 pm, and I thought I had witnessed a miracle. The truth is, we use the word so casually that it loses its wonder if we let…
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Trouble Maker · Around August 6, 2022
Trouble Maker Week 8 Study
Big idea What would you do if you knew you had one week to live? Maybe you would gather all of your loved ones and spend time with them. Maybe you would eat a meal at your favorite restaurant and order at least three co…
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Trouble Maker · Around August 13, 2022
Trouble Maker Week 9 Study
Winter solstice, December 21st, is the darkest day of the year. However, after the 21st, the days become gradually lighter. Yes, it is a dark day, but the light always comes following that day. Similarly, each day in Je…
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Trouble Maker · Around August 20, 2022
Trouble Maker Week 10 Study
Can you imagine how Jesus’ followers and loved ones felt on the day Jesus died? I am sure there was grief, confusion, and a sense of deep loss of purpose now that it appeared that their teacher had been killed. If I cou…
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Worship
Worship Week 1 Study
Throughout Scripture, we read about God’s love for us. In fact, He loved us so much that He gave Jesus, His one and only Son, to die on a cross and rise from the grave to rescue us from our sins. David puts it this way …
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Christmas 2022
We just finished celebrating Christmas over the weekend. This is always a busy time of year. Amidst all of the planning, shopping, cooking, baking, and preparing, it can be easy to forget to take time to celebrate the g…
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Best of 2022
For your small group community to be healthy, you all need to take time to talk about expectations and goals for the coming year. As we start a brand-new year of meeting together regularly, we want to make sure that we …
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A Time for Change
A Time for Change Week 1
There are two types of people in this world: those who like change and those who fear change. Whether we embrace or run from it, change is inevitable, for better or worse. While some types of change can be difficult, ot…
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It's Not Supposed To Be This Way · Around 2023
It's Not Supposed to Be This Way Week 4
We are in the final week of our series It's Not Supposed to be This Way. In this series, we have looked at the effects of sin and how it ultimately destroyed life as God intended it to be. But we have also seen the hope…
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Bride and Gloom · Around April 15, 2023
Bride and Gloom Week 1
What comes to mind when you think of the word “wait”? Does this word remind you of something you are waiting on? Does hearing this word bring up automatic impatience and frustration within you? Regardless of what this w…
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Bride and Gloom · Around April 22, 2023
Bride and Gloom Week 2
What comes to mind when you think of the word “influence”? Do you think of a person who has influenced you? Do you think of someone you know who is too easily influenced? The Oxford Dictionary defines influence as “the …
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Bride and Gloom · Around April 29, 2023
Bride and Gloom Week 3
After God created Adam, the first person ever created, He saw that it was not good that He was alone in Genesis 2. In response, He created Eve as a helper to live life alongside him. We have enjoyed the gift of having d…
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Bride and Gloom · Around May 6, 2023
Bride and Gloom Week 4
All relationships take work. Each of us have different opinions, life circumstances, hopes, and dreams, so it is only natural that conflict and frustration occur. The question we have to ask ourselves is, “What do we do…
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