Small Groups

Everyone is invited to join one of our adult small groups that meet once a month on Sunday evenings.

Boundaries: When to say Yes, How to say No to take Control of your Life

Author: Dr Henry Cloud

Award-winning bestseller by Drs. Cloud and Townsend reveals the Bible-based secrets to setting and maintaining clear boundaries. This companion guide features insights, exercises, and practical resources about personal boundaries and experiencing a healthy and balanced life.

Choosing to Cheat: Who wins when family and work collide

Author: Andy Stanley

Work. Family. Church. Hobbies. Fitness. Housekeeping. Socializing. Sleep. With only 24 hours in each day, we simply can't fit everything in. And what we choose to cheat is a clear announcement of our values. When you come home an hour earlier, miss a round of golf, or let the dishes sit while you play with your child, you make your family feel valued and secure. Bestselling author Andy Stanley helps you restore your vision of what really matters - and guides you in making courageous decisions about your time.

Fearless: Imagine your life without Fear

Author: Max Lucado

Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear. They're talking layoffs at work, slowdowns in the economy, flare-ups in the Middle East, turnovers at headquarters, downturns in the housing market, upswings in global warming. Wouldn't it be great to walk out? Imagine your life, wholly untouched by angst. What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? If you could hover a fear magnet over your heart and extract every last shaving of dread, insecurity, or doubt, what would remain? Envision a day, just one day, where you could trust more and fear less. Can you imagine your life without fear?

If You Want to Walk on Water, You've got to get out of the boat. 

Author: John Ortberg

If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat helps you answer Christ’s call to greater faith, power-filled deeds, and a new way of knowing him. Through six sessions that include video clips and group discussions, you will discover how to discern God’s call, transcend fear, risk faith, manage failure, and trust God. Relating the story in Matthew 14 to life today, teacher and best-selling author John Ortberg invites you to consider the incredible potential that awaits you outside your comfort zone. 

Fireproof Your Marriage

Based on the movie Fireproof, this curriculum was created to help build and strengthen marriages using biblical principles. It is designed with an easy format that integrates movie clips, key Scriptures and group discussion.

Effective Stewardship: Doing what matters most

Author: Jonathan and Amanda Witt

Stewardship is everything we do after we say we believe. Join host Dave Stotts in this five session DVD study that challenges you to be a faithful steward of God's resources in every area of your life

3:16 A Study for Small Groups

Author: Max Lucado

If 9/11 are the numbers of terror and despair, then 3: 16 are the numbers of hope. Best-selling author Max Lucado leads readers through a word-by-word study of John 3: 16, the passage that he calls the "Hope Diamond" of scripture.

Outflow: Outward focused living in a Self-focused world

Author: Steve Sjogren and Dave Ping

It's everyday outreach for everyday people.  Twenty-five thought provoking readings provide a guide to experiencing authentic joy in God and sharing it with others in a way that's natural, simple, and heartfelt.

Just walk across the room

Author: Bill Hybels

Just Walk Across the Room signals the next era in personal evangelism. Today, the goal for every Christian is to reflect Christ's love and follow his example by taking simple walks across rooms--leaving our circles of comfort and extending hands of care, compassion, and inclusiveness. The stakes are high. The implications are eternal. And you may be only a conversation away from having unparalleled impact on someone's life--if you will just walk across the room.

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