Category: Establishing
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NEW: Who is Jesus Study!

Click HERE to download the Who is Jesus study. This is a simple investigative study for seekers through the first 3 chapters of John? Intended to not have any prep. Just show up, read the passage and work through the discussion question. Feel free to continue to work through John with your group. This could also be…
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New Resource: THE SERMON

Click HERE to download THE SERMON. This study is designed to be a stand alone study or a companion study for the blue discipleship group study. This is a section by section look at Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5, 6, 7). Recommended to be done in a group study.
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New Resource: SEX, MONEY & PRIDE

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but…
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Part 3: Seeds Among the Thorns

The curse of being the oldest child is that sometimes the weight of the world is on your shoulders. I was talking with a friend of mine years ago and he commented, “man you sure seem to be weighted down with your responsibilities.” Guilty. My folks divorced when I was 10 or so in the…
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Discipleship Groups in 2022

by Tim Howington Men’s groups meet all over the place. Go into any coffee shop or diner in the morning most mornings and you will find a group of guys with their Bibles open and discussing spiritual things. Some groups don’t have their Bibles open, but they are talking about spiritual things. We love all…
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Why I Stopped Trying to Memorize the Bible!

by The Howitzer As a young believer I was exposed to the spiritual discipline of Scripture Memory. I can remember sitting in my living room with one of my mentors as we pulled Scripture references out of jar and quoted the verse written on small piece of papers and checked one another from memory. We had tackled the…
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You are a New Creation

by The Howitzer Not many people know that I have a secret hobby. I write songs. Not good ones necessarily but ones I enjoy. Years ago, when I was in campus ministry, I decided to pick up the guitar just in case my worship leader couldn’t lead in our weekly meeting. Even though I have…
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World Vision Wednesday

by The Howitzer One of the characteristics of a disciple maker is they have a world vision. Not a “worldly” vision (that might disqualify you), but a vision that is directed towards the nations. We will always be limited physically by geography- meaning that we can only be in one place at one time- but…
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All Have Sinned

by Mark Freeman I will be the first to admit that I am stubborn. Not that it is something I am proud of, just that it is something I recognize as true. I resist the notion that I may need the help of someone else until the situation has gotten so bad that I look…
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Luke 9.23

by Trey Shearin Someone once said “ The Christian wouldn’t be so difficult if it wasn’t daily” I don’t know who said it but they might have been loosely paraphrasing Luke 9.23. 23 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be My disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Me. Luke…