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Continue reading →: StrengthsFinder Theme Sorting (GAME)
Audience Teens, Adults Time 15-20 minutes Description This game helps participants to become familiar with and remember the 34 Clifton StrengthsFinder Themes through a competitive sorting activity. Participants should have taken the Clifton StrengthsFinder or StrengthsQuest assessment at http://www.strengthsfinder.com. You can get an access code by purchased their books, StrengthsFinder…
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Continue reading →: Under the Radar (GAME)
Audience Teens, Adults Time 30-35 minutes Description This game helps participants to understand how challenging it is to get feedback “in under the radar” without raising the intended recipient’s defensiveness. Participants will enjoy trying to get beanbags into a target. The beanbags represent their feedback, and the target represents the…
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Continue reading →: Lazarus (DEVOTION)
As a group, read the following Scriptures and answer the questions below. o John 11:1-44 (entire chapter) 1. Why do you think Jesus waited before going to Mary and Martha? 2. Have you ever had a time in your life when you desperately prayed for God’s help but God chose…
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Continue reading →: Roles of Women in the Church (DEVOTION)
As a group, read the following Scriptures and make a chart (see example below) of all the women mentioned, the roles that they served in for the early Church and their impact (wherever possible). o Luke 8:1-3 (women who supported Jesus) o Luke 24:1-12 (women encounter the risen Lord) o …
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Continue reading →: 2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 42,000 times in 2010.…
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Continue reading →: Name That Christmas Carol (ACTIVITY)
Time 15-20 minutes Description This is a fun activity to play during Christmastime. Participants try to guess familiar Christmas carols from the complicated synonyms on the worksheet. Scriptures None Materials Worksheet (attached) Something for each participant to write with Preparation Print copies of the worksheet (one per participant or one…
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Continue reading →: Why Jesus Came to Earth (BIBLE LESSON)
Time 25-30 minutes Description This lesson teaches about why Jesus came to earth. It’s a good lesson to do around Christmas time, and it includes a game to keep things light. Scriptures Matthew 5:17, 20:28 Luke 4:18, 5:32, 19:10 John 3:17, 6:38-40, 6:51, 10:10, 12:46, 18:37 1 John 3:8,…
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Continue reading →: 7 Churches of Revelation (LESSON)
Audience Youth and adults Time 45-60 minutes Description This lesson uses John’s letter to seven churches in Asia Minor (a.k.a. the book of Revelation) to take a look at the churches of the current day and then to focus on an evaluation of our own church and even our own…
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Continue reading →: Repentance (DEVOTION)
The Bible has a lot to say about repentance. In your groups, read through the following Scriptures, and then discuss the questions below. o Psalm 51:1-17 (Create in me a pure heart) o Proverbs 1:23 (Wisdom’s rebuke) o Jeremiah 15:19 (If you repent, I will restore you) o Jeremiah 17:7-8…
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Continue reading →: Reclaim the Promised Land (GAME)
Audience Teens, Adults Time 30-35 minutes Description This game helps participants to remember that we have an Enemy (Satan) and that he is constantly trying to take away from us what God has given to us. If we don’t do battle for it, we can easily lose it. The “Promised…
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