Category Archives: Curriculum: Small Groups

Live Curriculum Leadership – Download

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This item is available as a digital resource only. A physical resource will not be shipped for this item. Build a biblical foundation for leadership in your youth ministry with LIVE Leadership, a new addition to the LIVE Curriculum this year. This dynamic resource provides a total of 60 lessons that will inspire and engage junior high students, high school students, and adult volunteers. We’ve partnered with our good friends at LeaderTreks to help your students and adults discover indispensable biblical principles that are relevant both to daily life and to youth ministry. LeaderTreks has built a solid reputation as a national ministry committed to helping congregations pursue the goal of consistent leadership development within youth ministries. LIVE Leadership features five categories: Adult Leadership: 16 lessons that will equip your adult volunteers to grow as leaders in your ministry High School Leadership: 24 lessons that will inspire your high school student leaders to step into greater roles of responsibility Junior High Leadership: 8 lessons that will introduce your junior high student leaders to foundational leadership truths High School Small Groups: 8 lessons focused on such topics as becoming authentic leaders and developing solid leadership Junior High Small Groups: 4 lessons focused on building personal character and nurturing a leader’s heart You’re in youth ministry, so we know you can’t say no to free food. You also can’t say no to bonus resources, right? That’s why we’ve included a comprehensive document that will help you build a high-performance student leadership program. How cool is that? Manage Online With our online managment system planning your small groups has never been easier. You can follow our road map, and choose which lessons you want to teach and when you want to teach them. But you aren’t even limited to one schedule, you can have different calendars in case you want to have different groups going through different lessons. Once you set your schedule, you can assign your small group leaders so they know exactly what they are teaching simply by logging in to the Live Curriculum using their own account created by you. Not only will they see what they are teaching, but you can also send them messages and share files you want them to have for small group. And since it’s online it’s always available so you and your leaders can prepare when it’s convient for them. Is there anything easier than that?

Realms – Download

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This four-week series will help your teenagers gain a clearer understanding of the spiritual realm. We live in a physical world, yet the spiritual realm remains a reality?even if we don?t pay attention to it. Heaven and hell are real places?and our eternal destination is shaped by our decision when it comes to following Christ. Angels and demons may not be visible, but they battle in our world today. Prayer is an opportunity to engage in spiritual warfare to change our world. And God and Satan each have different goals for our lives. Lessons include: Week 1: Heaven and Hell (Matthew 25:31-46) Week 2: Angels and Demons (Luke 11:14-26) Week 3: Prayer (Ephesians 6:10-20) Week 4: God and Satan (1 Peter 5:6-11)

Guy Talk Girl Talk – Physical

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After a few decades in youth ministry, we?ve realized something?guys and girls are different. And significantly so, at that. So rather than the usual ?one message fits all? approach, we?ve created an extensive 10-week small group curriculum with two paths, each specifically tailored for one gender or the other. This small group curriculum series will help your students get solid biblical insight on topics ranging from friendships and gossip to peer pressure and sex. Designed to get your students talking about significant and real issues that they face everyday, you?ll see your students begin to open up, share their thoughts and feelings, and witness the formation of deep and lasting friendships. And since the entire series is written twice, one geared for guys and one for girls, you can be certain you?ll get examples, discussion starters, and goal setting tips that you can use right away. Guy Topics Include: Being a Man Self Image Relationships True Strength Girls Lust Wounds Responsibility Leading God-given Tools Girl Topics Include: Appearance Friendships Girl Politics Gossip Image Kindness Purity Sex Value Worth Help your students tackle the issues they face as guys and girls in a fallen world.

Grapple Jr High – Powerful Words – Physical

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Whether texting or talking, teenagers use thousands of words every day? with the possible exception of some seventh-grade boys whose random grunts to your questions require divine interpretation! But do your students recognize the incredible power of their words? Are they searching for opportunities to use their words in ways that honor God and point other people toward Jesus? Are they building lives on the foundation of the reliable, trustworthy Word of God? This 12-lesson volume of Grapple features three series centered on powerful words: Valuing the Bible as the Word of God Learning how to share faith with friends Knowing how to respond to people of other faiths?or no faith Each lesson features interactive, hands-on elements that will get your junior highers talking, moving around, and seeking answers. Wherever your students are in their spiritual journey, they all have inquisitive minds and a need for Christ-centered biblical depth. Grapple will help your junior highers examine tough topics in meaningful ways so they understand and own their faith. Each week, students engage with memorable Bible passages and characters, grapple with the issues that come to the surface, and discover a path that leads them straight to Jesus Christ.

Grapple Jr High – Hope in a Hopeless World – Physical

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Teenagers are some of the most optimistic people in the world: They maintain their capacity to dream, they deeply desire to see the best in others, they want to make a difference. Yet most teenagers have experienced or witnessed the pain caused by divorce, abuse, betrayal, global conflict, and poor choices. The older they get, the more they may struggle to truly believe that God can provide hope in a hopeless world. This 12-lesson volume of Grapple Jr. High features three series that turn students’ attention toward God’s unwavering ability to offer hope: Recognizing the realities of heaven and hell Responding to God’s desire to forgive and provide do-overs Reacting to global conflict and challenges Students will encounter lessons about why God allows each of us to choose between heaven and hell, why God offers second chances through Jesus, and how we can celebrate diversity in ways that honor God. Each lesson features interactive, hands-on elements that will get your junior highers talking, moving around, and seeking answers. Help your teenagers discover and experience God’s powerful hope!

Live for this Moment – Download

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This three-week series will help students discover the importance of seizing every moment to live out their faith for Christ in real and tangible ways that other people can see. The Bible is full of references to God?s love for us and for others, yet sometimes we fail to love others. It can become too easy to ignore the homeless person on the street asking for spare change or the elderly woman at the store who could use some help carrying her groceries. Lessons include: Week 1: Help a Brother (or Sister) Out (John 13:35) Week 2: Care for Those Around You (Luke 4:16-21) Week 3: It?s the Natural Thing to Do (1 John 4:7)

Minor Prophets, Major Messages – Download

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Minor Prophets, Major Messages is a 6-week small group Bible study that focuses on six important lessons from prophets of the Old Testament that are often overlooked. Whether these lessons are hard to find, or we can?t pronounce a Bible figure?s name, these lessons are important for our students to know and live by. Lessons cover: Been There. Done That. Wouldn?t Recommend It (Amos 2:4-16) Don?t Just Stand there, Do Something (Obadiah vs. 1-14) Do What I Say, Not What I Do (Jonah 1:1-3 and Jonah 3:1-4:1) When Leftovers Just Won?t Cut It (Haggai 1:1-13) It All Adds Up (Zechariah 7:8-14 and 8:14-17) Are You In Possession of Stolen Goods? (Malachi 3:6-18)

Ruth – Download

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Often times, it?s difficult for students to look towards their future when their past is full of pain, struggle, or disappointment. Enter Ruth. This 4-week small group Bible study takes a quick look at the life of Ruth. From her rough past, to becoming King David?s great-grandmother in the lineage of Jesus, this series is designed to encourage students that God can do great things in their lives, despite their past. Lessons cover: Tough Times and the True You (Ruth 1) Your Reputation Precedes You (Ruth 2) Old School Dating (Ruth 3) Turning Trash Into a Treasure (Ruth 4)

Ten Commandments – Download

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The Ten Commandments may be one of the most familiar passages of the Old Testament, but not every teenager has discovered the life-changing and life-giving truths found in its verses. This series will challenge your teenagers to closely examine Exodus 20 and discover the many ways these commandments remain relevant to their lives today. Spending 10 weeks on this passage isn?t practical for most small groups, so we?ve divided this passage into a five-week series. Each week will tackle two successive commandments, and as you?ll discover, the pairings link together well. Here?s a significant comment we make in the Teaching Prep section for each lesson: People have observed that the first four commandments focus on our relationship with God, while the final six address our relationship with other people. While you may not feel led to remind your students of this fact each week, it?s an important concept for them to hear, and it sheds light on Jesus? statement in Matthew 22 about the two greatest commandments. They are, in fact, summary statements of the Ten Commandments: Love God with all you have (the first four commandments), and love others as yourself (the final six commandments).

Give. Pray. Fast – Download

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Jesus delivered a wealth of wisdom in his Sermon on the Mount, which covers Matthew 5 through 7. In Matthew 6, we encounter his teachings on giving, praying, and fasting. Religious people already practiced all three of these activities, but Jesus challenged his disciples to do them with the right attitude. This three-week series will challenge teenagers to examine these three important and helpful spiritual disciplines, with an emphasis on finding ways to put these truths into practice. In all these lessons, it?s worth noting that Jesus talks about ?when? we give, pray, or fast. There is an implication that his followers would do these things. Help your students recognize that Christians aren?t called to give, pray, and fast because of religious obligation?instead, all three practices can help us become more like Jesus and point others to a relationship with him.