OpeningFear is an emotion that can take over your life. It can make you sick, keep you from trying new things and keep you from meeting new people. Someone once said, "Fear can keep us up all night long, but fa...

OpeningHave you ever thought about what life would be like without your family? Sometimes we have disagreements with members of our family but we would all agree that life without our families would not be good...

The BackdropHave you ever been in a situation in which the harder you try the more you fail? Maybe it was dieting; meeting homework deadlines; trying to stop one of those habitual, nagging sins; or maybe you ca...

OpeningFormer New York Yankee great Babe Ruth once said, "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play togethe...

But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness (...

A generous person prospers; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed (...

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:4).Every year there are thousands of youth directors/youth pastors, who leave youth work. Some cite conflicts with church leadership as th...

Game: Begin the meeting time by playing the Hunger Games game described in the previous lesson, but with one minor change. In addition to finding the survival items (food and water), students also must fin...

Think what comes to mind when you see the word koinonia.You probably recognize it as the Greek word for fellowship and likely know it as more than potluck dinner fellowship. Fortunately, this word effectively h...

The one who is greatest among you will be your servant (Matthew 23:11).In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins notes that all great leaders—whether business, organization, church or otherwise—always...