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Being a Better Follower
A Story to Tell
Know Your Group, Yourself, and Your Text
Say What? Planning to Facilitate Active Learning in Adult Bible Study
Say What?
Four Ways Technology can Strengthen Small Groups
When We Have to Choose
Avoid Getting Stuck in a Rut
Helping Each Other Grieve Creatively
Six Ways to Embrace Your Uniqueness
The $100,000 Question

A Daily Plan for Effective Sunday School Lessons

A Reversal of Fortune

All Quiet on the Sunday School Front

Avoid Getting Stuck in a Rut

Dare to Prepare
Did You Take Your Vitamins?
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 Yourself, Your Group, and Your Text

Leading a Good Discussion

Make Relating Highest Priority

Make Your Teaching Relevant
Moving from "A" to "B"

Now That's A Good Question

People Go Where They Know
Learning Styles
Praying the Scripture
Reading Scripture in Context
Six Ways to Embrace Your Uniqueness

Space: The Final Frontier

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
Word of God and Human Word–A Key to Reading the Bible



ADULT MINISTRY

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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Know Your Group, Yourself, and Your Text

All teachers have their own way of approaching their tasks. However, there are some things from which nearly every teacher could benefit. If you are like most, there are some things related to teaching and leading a Bible study group that you do quite well and, there are some things that could use some further attention. What are some things you can do to improve your teaching and your Bible study groups’ experience?

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Say What? Planning to Facilitate Active Learning in Adult Bible Study

As teachers, we like to recognize and capture "teachable moments," those times when people can learn a lesson or a truth from the

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