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Devotionals From This Study

Session 1

You have the power to love people well

Have you ever stopped to think about how much more work we would have without modern-day conveniences?  Without email, we’d h...

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Session 2

Are you ready to protect your people?

Who is the one friend you’d want with you if you were surrounded in an alley late at night? Maybe it’s the sassy friend whos...

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Session 3

What does a good shepherd do?

Even if we don’t know anything about sheep, we can know how to be a good shepherd.  God’s actions toward His people are...

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Session 4

Who are you leading people to?

In 1 Corinthians 11:1, the apostle Paul gives one of the clearest explanations of what discipleship is: “Follow my example, as I fo...

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Session 5

Do we really need to worry about confession?

When your child then says she has something she needs to confess, every imaginable fear rushes through your mind. But as you look into he...

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Session 6

Why leaders are called to be shepherds

When Peter tells the leaders in the church to be shepherds, he is simply asking them to do what Jesus asked of him many years before.&nbs...

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Session 7

Worry less about being able and focus more on being available

In Matthew 4, we get a glimpse into the unorthodox way Jesus chose His first disciples. No one made an appointment. No one had an intervi...

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Session 8

"Can I?" isn’t the best question

Have you ever watched a movie with kids that you regretted about halfway through?  Rather than let them pick and put yourself throu...

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Session 9

How to experience the freedom you long for

Have you ever looked at someone at church and asked, “How can I be as happy as they are?” How can I experience that kind of f...

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Session 10

Everyone’s eyes are on you

Have you ever noticed that little kids love to copy their parents? Whether it’s talking on a pretend phone or cooking food in their...

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Session 11

What happens when we stop fighting back

We all bump into each other in life. Others’ actions disrupt our plans, shake our resolve, or send our days in a direction we didn&...

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Session 12

Annoyed? The solution starts with you

Imagine listening to a story filled with injustice. As you listen, you think of the person should be punished and how you would have resp...

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Session 13

The best way to lead others is to serve others

The fitness classes at the gym were packed that Saturday. A quick glance around the room registered everyone from senior citizens to teen...

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Session 14

Where to find rest for a weary soul

We’ve all experienced bad things happening to good people. When a close friend is mourning the death of her 4-month-old baby, it&rs...

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Session 15

To care for the group, go after the one

When speaking of Israel’s leaders in Ezekiel 34, God didn’t call them to be kings or dignitaries. He called them shepherds.&n...

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Session 16

Stop trying to do it all

How many times have you seen “Caution: Two Person Lift” and tried to pick up a box anyway? Call it independence. Call it stub...

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Session 17

Are you hearing from God? (And how to know if it’s God)

James Earl Jones. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Morgan Freeman. Ellen Degeneres. Elvis. This collection of celebrities has something in common t...

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Session 18

How to sacrifice like Jesus does

Selflessness and sacrifice are unnatural. We have to put aside what we want if we’re going to benefit someone else. We can’t ...

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Session 19

Who does God say you are?

If you had told Gideon that he would have become a Bible hero talked about for generations to come, he would have been more shocked than ...

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Session 20

God wants to speak to you and through you

Most of us assume there is a minimum amount of time we have to spend reading the Bible, a minimum amount of holiness we have to achieve b...

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Session 21

You can be patient, even when you don’t feel like it

Ephesians 4:2 teaches us to, “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” Sometimes it pr...

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Session 22

When you feel like you just can’t go any further

Imagine God just miraculously delivered you from the most painful season of your life. He gave you a story to tell that defies all logic ...

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Session 23

What does a thriving community look like?

A thriving community is a rare and beautiful thing. You can’t buy it, and it doesn’t maintain itself. Building community requ...

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Session 24

What to do when everyone has an opinion about group

Remember Stretch Armstrong? The box promises this gel-filled action figure can stretch up to four times his size. As kids in the 80s and ...

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Session 25

Why it’s important that you wrestle down your past

Genesis 32 describes a turning point in Jacob’s life. Jacob had deceived his brother, Esau, into giving up his birthright and recei...

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Session 26

How to know you’re a leader

Imagine being given the opportunity to go overseas on an all-expenses paid vacation — a trip you’ve dreamed about for more th...

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Session 27

The best way to fight worthless talk

Mothers often say, “Words can never hurt you.” However, that’s rarely the case. As Paul teaches Timothy, words can be p...

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Session 28

Do you have what it takes?

From “Star Search” to “American Idol” to “So You Think You Can Dance,” every talent competition looks...

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