This is Day 5 of my 7 ideas your group, class, or family can use to celebrate Christmas. See 1-4 here. For most of us, the holidays are about traditions: taking a drive to see the lights, decorating the house...
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Small Group Leaders
7 Ways Your Small Group Can Celebrate the Incarnation: #4: Give Gifts
This is Day 4 of my 7 ideas your group or class or family can use to celebrate Christmas. See 1-3 here. Years ago, I read +Dick Alexander’s sage advice about gift giving that I've never forgotten. “Gifts are an...
Small Group Leaders
7 Ways Your Small Group Can Celebrate the Incarnation: #3: Love Those Who Are Struggling
This is Day 3 of my 7 ideas your group, class, or family can use to celebrate Christmas. See #1 HERE. #2Remember the folks in your circles who struggle this time of year. Many people—inside your group and among your group members’...
Small Group Leaders
7 Ways Your Small Group Can Celebrate the Incarnation: #2: Celebrate Immanuel
This is Day 2 of my 7 ideas your group or class or family can use to celebrate Christmas. See #1 HERE.This Christmas, move past the historical Jesus who was born and lived 2,000 years ago. Consider the living Christ...
Curriculum, Small Group Leaders
7 Ways Your Small Group Can Celebrate the Incarnation this Christmas Season: #1: Experience Christmas!
The holidays are coming. What is your small group’s plan? Many groups struggle with meeting and studying over the holidays, and this can be detrimental to the health of your group. Not only that, but this is a prime time...
Curriculum
How to Make This the Best Christmas Ever
Alan Danielson and his friend Darren Currin have written a new Advent/Christmas eBook, The Best Christmas Ever, that releases November 26 and is available for preorder now. It's a devotional eBook that is designed to help people truly experience Christmas...
Small Group Leaders
Seven Ways Your Small Group Can Celebrate the Incarnation This Holiday Season
What is your small group doing over the holidays? "Many groups struggle with meeting and studying over the holidays, and this can be detrimental to the health of your group," I wrote in my November column in The Christian Standard...
Spiritual Life
7 Ways to Respond When God Does Not Feel Like “Immanuel”
What do you do when you are struggling and God seems far away? Especially during this season of the year, it seems many of us are hurting. We desperately want to know Immanuel—God with us—but he seems more like Exmanuel--God...
Ministry Leaders
5 Great Gift-Giving Ideas to Celebrate Your Small Group Leaders This Christmas
As a small groups minister, each year at this time, I'd begin thinking about what gift I might give to my coaches and leaders to say thank you and to let them know how much I appreciate them. Here are...
Curriculum
The Christmas Experience Trailer
In my post last Friday (click here to read) I told you about a new video-based curriculum from City on a Hill called The Christmas Experience. Here's a trailer of this dramatic movie, featuring Kyle Idleman:I had the honor of writing...