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The $100,000 Question
All Quiet on the Sunday School Front
Avoid Getting Stuck in a Rut
Being a Better Follower
Dare to Prepare: A Daily Plan for Effective Sunday School Lessons
Did You Take Your Vitamins?
Four Ways Technology can Strengthen Small Groups
The Gospel According to Whom?
Helping Each Other Grieve Creatively
How Do You Pick and Choose?
How Long Have You Been in Ministry?
Is Anyone Out There
Know Your Group, Yourself, and Your Text
Leading a Good Discussion
Learning Styles
Know Your Group, Yourself, and Your Text
Make Relating Highest Priority
Make Your Teaching Relevant
Moving from "A" to "B"
Now That's A Good Question
People Go Where They Know
Praying the Scripture
Reading Scripture in Context
A Reversal of Fortune
Say What? Planning to Facilitate Active Learning in Adult Bible Study
Six Ways to Embrace Your Uniqueness
Space: The Final Frontier
A Story to Tell
Sunday School for Young Adults
Surfing the Church
There's One in Every Crowd
Top 10 Reasons Adults Stop Learning
Translating Bible Translations
Visiting a Homebound Patient
Welcome to Sunday School
When We Have to Choose
Word of God and Human Word–A Key to Reading the Bible



ADULT MINISTRY

Praying the Scripture

My college pastor once commented, “There is a difference between studying the Bible and meeting the Author.” How tragic when we forget that simple truth! Bible study is important, but what is most important is encountering God in the text.

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Dare to Prepare

Each of us knows that behind any winning tradition lies hour upon hour of sweat and self-denial and rigorous training. There are countless hours spent in dull, unfulfilling drills and repetition all for the sake of one blessed moment in the last three seconds of the big game. You can talk the game, but can you play the game? Perhaps a similar question could be asked about our commitment to preparation for teaching our Sunday school classes. Are we putting in the time needed to prepare fully for the coming Sunday?

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All Quiet on the Sunday School Front

Is the echo of your lonely questioning voice all you hear when leading discussion during Sunday school? Few teaching challenges are more daunting than finding fresh ways to draw in a reticent class and involve them in active and open dialogue. Attention paid to creating opportunities for such involvement will bring rewards in a learner’s embrace of the material, a class’s quality of fellowship, and, of course, a teacher’s peace of mind.

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