Posted on June 12, 2008 by mattdabbs
I am guilty of writing a bunch of thoughts, opinions, and various and sundry other ways of contemplating the biblical navel and end the discussion gaining little more than having thought about something a little more or with a slight nuance. How many of you feel your life has never been the same since reading [...]
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Posted on May 20, 2008 by mattdabbs
Kym, one of our Sunday school teachers, sent me this story today of what happened to her in Sunday school class this past Sunday. I thought it was pretty special.
Sunday morning I arrived at church to lead the 4’s-K class in this week’s study. Things started out a little crazy, children bouncing around, [...]
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Posted on May 20, 2008 by mattdabbs
In line with the last post about five characteristics of a good teacher, here are five characteristics of a good small group leader.
They know the purposes of the group and continually model and teach the group to carry out those purposes. Small group leaders are volunteers and they, like the rest of us, often have [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by mattdabbs
1. Read the text as if you have never read it before.
2. Read the text multiple times looking for repeated words and phrases - may help you see broader themes.
3. Find the connection between stories (Gospels, OT narrative). There is usually a flow or connecting theme that makes sense out of the order of things. [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2008 by mattdabbs
I have alluded several times to a part of my education that has been a tremendous help to my ministry. When I went to Harding I majored in psychology and went on to work on a Ph.D. in clinical and health psychology at the University of Florida (which I withdrew from to do ministry). I [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2008 by mattdabbs
I will be posting our small group curriculum at Northwest here at Kingdom Living over the next few days. Feel free to download it, use it, or whatever other use you can find that will bring glory to the kingdom of God. I haven’t put any copywrite information on it whatsoever. The only thing I [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2008 by mattdabbs
What recommendations for solid Bible class and small group curriculum have you used and would recommend? It seems like I am constantly reviewing different things and rarely find something I feel like will be effective. Things either go way too deep and have so much background material that they could never be used by the [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2008 by mattdabbs
I have been previewing curriculum, video series, and small group materials for some upcoming quarters and I have noticed a common thread in most of the videos I have seen. There is a move that has taken place from talking at the viewer to talking to the viewer. Two of the presenters I have seen [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2008 by mattdabbs
I have recently started teaching the Gospel of Mark in our Men’s class. I am trying to work through the narrative more rather than pull it into little tiny pieces. Here are the highlights of the introductory material:
I. Who wrote Mark?
Mark – early tradition (120 AD) has it that John [...]
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Posted on January 13, 2008 by mattdabbs
This is a copy of the Bible Resources page from the top of this blog. This list includes 31 essential Bible resources and tools to assist in Bible study and teaching. If you have anything you would add feel free to include them in the comments. Any updates will be found on the Bible Resources [...]
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