BEGIN IN PRAYEROPENING DISCUSSIONOne of the most common experiences of the Christian life is that we tend to doubt God when specific circumstances arise. For example, sin can make us question our stan...  Read More

BEGIN IN PRAYEROPENING DISCUSSIONAmong the more difficult teachings of the Christian faith is the doctrine of predestination. According to this biblical doctrine, all people are born into this world d...  Read More

BEGIN IN PRAYEROPENING DISCUSSIONAccording to recent surveys, between 70-80% of Americans say they believe in God. And yet well over half of these people also believe that “all roads” lead to God and ...  Read More

BEGIN IN PRAYEROPENING DISCUSSIONIn recent years, National Geographic has produced a show entitled “Doomsday Preppers.” A prepper believes that a catastrophic event that could end civilization will li...  Read More

BEGIN IN PRAYEROPENING DISCUSSIONIn today's passage, Jesus describes the church as a family. What do you think it means to call the church a family? Read Mark 10:17-31 aloud. In this passage, a very w...  Read More

BEGIN IN PRAYERAsk God to guide your discussions and to experience his presence as you read his word together.OPENING DISCUSSIONDescribe a time when you felt weak, needy, or vulnerable. What was going...  Read More

BEGIN IN PRAYERAsk God to guide your discussions and to experience his presence as you read his word together.OPENING DISCUSSIONIn his timeless book Knowing God, J. I. Packer says, “Adoption is the hi...  Read More

BEGIN IN PRAYERAsk God to guide your discussions and to experience his presence as you read his word together.OPENING DISCUSSIONIn the movie Castaway, Tom Hanks plays a character named Chuck Nolan.  N...  Read More

BEGIN IN PRAYERAsk God to guide your discussions and to experience his presence as you read his word together.OPENING DISCUSSIONIn the beginning chapter of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, we meet ...  Read More

BEGIN IN PRAYERAsk God to guide your discussions and to experience his presence as you read his word together.OPENING DISCUSSIONSome people think in very black-and-white terms, and others have a high ...  Read More

BEGIN IN PRAYERAsk God to guide your discussions and to experience his presence as you read his word together.OPENING DISCUSSIONMalcolm X once shared in his autobiography about the Earth’s most promin...  Read More

BEGIN IN PRAYERAsk God to guide your discussions and to experience his presence as you read his word together.OPENING DISCUSSIONRecount when you no longer had to carry a heavy burden or you completed ...  Read More