Prepare to Grow Offers Small Group Lessons

I wanted to highlight some small group material done by a good friend of mine Houston Heflin. Houston knows a lot about education and ministry and has developed several series of lessons. His website is called Prepare to Grow. Below are links to some samples of each of his lesson series. (Download Sample lesson from […]

Bible Study – Seeing the Big Picture

I have always been one for details. When I study a passage I tend to break things down as small as possible. When you do that there is only so much information you can handle at a time. What is the background? Who is speaking? Where are they located and how might that affect the […]

Small Group Curriculum – Acts of the Apostles

This is a series of lessons that we just finished up last month in our LIFE groups. Again, feel free to use these in any way that is helpful to you and your ministry. I only ask that these not be published for profit. Introducing Acts (Acts 1) Cut to the Heart (Acts 2:1-41) The […]

Small Group Curriculum – Ministry of Jesus

This was a series I wrote over a year ago on the ministry of Jesus. I think it has some good content as well as a layout that allows the teacher to find things quickly and shift to new sections if time is an issue. I will add more lessons to this at some point […]

How God Defines Beauty

We studied how God Defines Beauty in our LIFE groups this week. I am going to start uploading all of our lessons to Kingdom Living rather than just linking to our church website. Here is the pdf of How God Defines Beauty. I want to add to this the role of consumerism in forming our […]

Practical Christian Living – From Consumerism to Contentment

We are experiencing technical difficulties with our email due to a website server switcharoo and so I am posting the content of our next LIFE group lesson here. Feel free to give feedback. Icebreaker: What would have been your favorite thing about living in the Garden of Eden? Last week we talked about sin in […]

Online Bible Resources and Tools for Study

This is a copy of the Bible Resources page from the top of this blog. This list includes 31 essential Bible resources and tools to assist in Bible study and teaching. If you have anything you would add feel free to include them in the comments. Any updates will be found on the Bible Resources […]