This Advent daily resource allows you to focus your heart and mind upon the names of God this Christmas season. Each day includes a name of God, scripture reading, reflective questions & household activity.

It just doesn’t work to start in the middle of a story. You can’t walk into a movie theater halfway through the featured film and make sense of what you’re watching. There will be conversations and decisions and reactions that make no sense to you because you missed the beginning of the movie. In the same way, you can’t start the Christmas story with the baby in the manger in Bethlehem. If you do, you will miss key elements of the narrative that make all the difference in your understanding.

This Parent Guide will help you discuss the following questions:

• What is anxiety?
• Why does anxiety matter?
• What are the differences between anxiety and anxiety disorders?
• Why is anxiety on the rise in young people?
• What does Scripture say about anxiety?
• How can we help young people with anxiety?

 

What do we do when we feel stuck? When the storms of fear and the chaos of anxiety want to suck us under? How do we walk alongside those who God has entrusted to us that are in a storm we don't fully understand?

We serve a God who is with us and who is faithful. This 6-part Pathway will walk through scripture and prayer prompts to encourage us to Fix, Focus, Respond, Remember, and Entrust as we seek to follow Jesus in the midst of fear and anxiety.

Parenting Workshop - Oct 2020 - Anxiety and Stress Featuring Sarah Keene / Fieldstone Counseling

Work gives you plenty of opportunities to be anxious. You might worry about getting it all done, about success vs failure, or about bosses and coworkers. None of these anxieties are surprises to God. They all find precedents – and hope – in the Bible.

In this series, Chad Ragsdale (New Testament faculty at Ozark Christian College) will help you answer questions about your faith, like: Why are you a follower of Jesus? Does God really exist? Is the Christian faith worth defending? This study will help you wrestle with these questions and have an answer to why you believe when skeptics ask.

Walkthrough the third of nine heart postures based on Matt Smethurst's "Before You Open Your Bible." In this Pathway, Online Community Pastor Matt Brumfield walks us through 3 steps as we begin to posture our hearts desperately towards God's Word.

Worship Pastor Micah Hasty walks us through 2 reflections to help us begin posturing our hearts in humility as we approach God's Word.

Walkthrough the fifth of nine heart postures based on Matt Smethurst's "Before You Open Your Bible." In this Pathway, Online Community Pastor Matt Brumfield walks us through 3 days to posture our hearts in obedience towards God's Word.

Online Community Pastor Matt Brumfield walks us through 4 guided scripture readings and times of prayer to begin posturing our hearts in prayer as we approach God's Word.

Walkthrough the fourth of nine heart postures based on Matt Smethurst's "Before You Open Your Bible." In this Pathway, Worship Pastor Micah Hasty walks us through 3 days to posture our hearts studiously towards God's Word.

This guide will help you discuss the following questions:

• What are autism and ADHD?
• How does social media impact people with autism and ADHD?
• How have cultural perceptions of autism and ADHD changed?
• What do autistic and ADHD teens need from the people who love them?
• What does parenting a teen with autism or ADHD look like?
• What encouragement is in Scripture for parents of teens with autism and ADHD?

Going back to school can be an exciting time for kids, especially if they enjoy learning or being around their friends. But it can also be a dreadful time for kids who hate the thought of summer ending or whose social interactions have been more painful than pleasant . . . meaning they’d be tempted to pull a Ferris Bueller if they knew what that meant!

The first person the Bible says was "filled with the Spirit of God" was an obscure artist and entrepreneur named Bezalel. Over the next four days, we will dig into the few passages of Scripture in which Bezalel pops up, applying insights from his life to the work you and I do today.

In this presentation we take a conversational approach to the Bible. Use this to jumpstart your own discussions.

The apostle Paul is legendary for his work as a minister of the gospel. But we often forget that throughout his ministry, Paul also worked…

The book of Colossians has a lot to say about how the gospel should shape our chosen vocation. Over the next four days, we will look at a few key passages in this beloved book, unpacking how Paul’s words should impact the work we do each day.

Five daily readings from Come, Let Us Adore Him: A Daily Advent Devotional' by Paul David Tripp for the month of December will help you slow down, prepare your heart, and focus on what matters most: adoring our Savior, Jesus.