In this special Christmas Eve Life Group, our Minister of Small Groups & Discipleship Jordan Cramer, is joined by this wife Lori; and they share their personal testimonies as well as some key verses that have shaped (and continue to shape) their lives and spiritual growth.

The final installment in our Christmas series wraps up with a focus on "Love". Christmas is the ultimate expression of love from God to mankind, and guest leader Seth Buckley examines this in our concluding session.

Our third installment in the Christmas series covers the topic of "Joy" in the Christmas story. The Wise Men rejoiced with exceedingly great joy...and the birth, life and resurrection of Christ invites us to do the same today.

We continue our Christmas series with a focus in this session on "Peace". Jesus came as the Prince of Peace, and to make peace between those of us who were "far off" due to our sin.

We begin a four-part Advent series with this first lesson based around the theme of "hope". In our world today, many suffer from a lack of hope; but 2,000 years ago, God spoke His ultimate statement of hope into the world with the arrival of our Savior.

This special lesson time features guest speaker, Messianic Jewish Rabbi Andy Myerson. Rabbi Andy shares what it will take for peace to ever come to the Middle East, and what Christians can do every day to help bring it to fruition.

This final lesson in this series looks at the "rest of the story"; the attitude and perspectives of the "older brother", and what it means if we adopt his attitudes in our faith walk.

In this third lesson in this series, we look at this important parable of the Prodigal from the perspecitive of the father figure...and what he reveals to us about the heart of our Heavenly Father for those who wander.

In this lesson, we take a deeper look at this famous parable from the perspective of the “prodigal”, the wayward younger son who left home and moved far away from the Father.  God’s Word speaks to us all in this story and the young man’s struggles.

We launch a new series based on one of the most famous parables that Jesus told, the Parable of the Prodigal Son.  We are ALL represented by one (or more) figures in this incredible story, even God our Heavenly Father.  Join us as we begin a deep dive into Luke 15 with this first lesson

In this final session in our “one another” series, we take a look at what may be the hardest of all the “one another” admonitions of Scripture…forgiving one another.  What forgiveness is, and what it’s not, and our model for how to extend it.

We continue our “one another” series with two more admonishments to “love one another” and “restore one another”.  We’ll take a look at what the Bible has to say about both of these imperatives for believers, and how we can put them into action.

There are two distinct, but interrelated “one another” commands in Scripture that have to do with our responsibilities to each other in the family of God.  Do you have people in your life that will provide loving accountability to you and your actions and walk with the Lord?  Are you such a person for others?  We’ll examine the instructions to “spur one another to love and good deeds” and also to “admonish one another” in this session.

Everyone craves acceptance, and if we don’t find it in right, godly relationships and places; we’ll find it somewhere else.  Jesus was a master at accepting people…for change.  Today we look at why we are called to replicate His ministry in our day as we follow Paul’s instruction from Romans 15:7 to “Accept one another…”.

Landon Powell, Head Baseball Coach of the North Greenville University Crusaders, shares his personal testimony of how God brought him through much adversity in both his pro career (with the Oakland Atheletics) and his personal life (with his family).  You will be blessed and challenged as you listen.

One of the key commands of the New Testament to believers is that we “encourage one another”.  In this session, the 2^nd in our series on the “one another” commands of Scripture, we look at what it means to be an encourager, and what it means to be encouraged.

We begin a new series together in which we’ll be looking at various “one another” statements from the New Testament.  We start today with Paul’s admonishment to “Bear one another’s burdens and thus fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal. 6:2).

Our last week in the You Asked For It series

One of our most requested topics for this summer, and we look at this question and the ramifications for believers (whether these are the last days or not).

Ever find yourself asking, “what’s going on in our country”?  And perhaps the bigger question, as a Christian, how should I get involved and/or respond.  Special guest Chad Connelly (President of Faith Wins organization) addresses these and other questions in this special Life Group session.

Again, several members of our Life Group submitted requests for a lesson on hearing the voice of God.  We’ll cover does He still speak today, and if so, how does He speak; and most importantly, how we can tune in and hear what He has to say to us.

Feeling like everyone has lost their moral and logical compass, other than you?  Wondering if things can get any worse in our culture?  We’ll take a look at where the “moral madness” of our day stems from, the effects of it, and how a Christian should respond to it in this session.

Every one of us has (at one time or another) been a “prodigal”…and many of us have prodigals in our immediate circle of those we know and love today.  We’ll take a look at what Jesus had to say about prodigals, and how to love them, pray for them, and hopefully welcome them home.

A lot of folks requested a lesson on overcoming bad habits, long-term hang-ups and even addictions.  We recruited Shawn Parker from our Life Group, who runs FBC’s Celebrate Recovery ministry each week, and he addresses this topic for us today, along with several personal testimonies!

As a follow-up to our first session, we take a deeper look at the principles of biblical stewardship by studying the three levels of giving described in Scripture.

We begin our summer series with a topic that was one of our most requested ones (believe it or not!).  We’ll take a look at what both the Old and New Testaments have to say to us today about a subject near and dear to all of us!

Ruthi Neely along with several other moms from our Life Group share testimonies and encouragement for all moms and women of influence on this special Mother's Day Sunday.

We conclude our series on spiritual warfare with a final lesson that looks at where our spiritual battles come from, and four things the believer can do to “win the battle”.

In this second installment of this series, we take an indepth look at the “spiritual armor” that we’re to equip ourselves with every day for battle.  Each of the pieces are vital and all for a gift from God to the believer.  Don’t neglect to “get dressed spiritually” every day, and whatever you do, don’t fight “naked”.

We begin a new lesson series on spiritual warfare with this introductory session that covers who our enemy is, how he works, and the resources we have as believers to do battle with him.

Special guest speakers Jacob & Seth Buckley share how the biblical principle of hope changes people’s lives; and specifically how many lives are being changed by the hope they share with 5^th-12^th grade boys through their Fire Pit Ranch ministry.

We conclude our Easter season series with the last two of Christ’s seven sayings from the Cross, and how they speak both hope and triumph into our lives, even on our “bad days”.

This session covers two more of the 7 “sayings” from the Cross by Jesus; one dealing with how to handle it when we feel abandoned in our questions; the other with the power of acknowledging our need.

In this week’s session, we cover the next two “sayings from the Cross” of our Lord; both dealing with how when we care for others who are having a “bad day”; it helps us deal with our own struggles.

We begin a new 4-week series today, leading into Easter Sunday, focused on the “seven sayings” of Jesus from the Cross.  These not only demonstrate His mission and heart for us; but also serve as encouragement for us on how to survive bad days, broken relationships, and unfair circumstances.

Seeds of Revival & Awakening (Seth Buckley)

Our dear friend (and former Youth Pastor of our church) returns to our Life Group to give us an update on his personal experiences at the Asbury College “awakening”, and what it means to the Church in our day.

What’s In a Name? (Guest Speaker: Joel Sellers)

A look at just a few of the many “name changes” that took place in Scripture, and what they mean to us today.  This lesson is taught by Rev. Joel Sellers, a retired pastor who is a member of our Life Group.

We conclude our Winter study series with this eighth installment featuring our special guest speaker, Dr. Alex McFarland.  Alex is a nationally recognized apologetics and biblical worldview statesman, author and radio commentator.  In this final lesson, he addresses six things that cannot stand against the truth of God’s Word.  A brief Q&A session follows the teaching time as well.

In this session, we look at the relevance of God’s Word to our culture, our government, our educational systems, and our values of today.  Because “This Book Is Alive!”, it speaks across the generations to all of these areas and more.

This Book Is Alive #6:  The Weapon of the Word of God

God’s Word is not only breath to the believer, and offers encouragement and hope to the Christian; it is also a powerful weapon for both our defense against spiritual attack, as well as our weapon it mounting an offensive against the Enemy.  In this lesson, we take a look at the “Sword of the Spirit” which is the Word of God.

This Book Is Alive #5a:  The Life-Changing Power of God’s Word

This is a repost of 2/5/23's lesson. The first attempt used the file from1/29/23

Powerful, supernatural, even miraculous things happen when we don’t just “read” God’s Word, but we spend time in it…reviewing it, reflecting on it and ultimately revealing it through our lives.

This Book Is Alive #5:  The Life-Changing Power of God’s Word

Powerful, supernatural, even miraculous things happen when we don’t just “read” God’s Word, but we spend time in it…reviewing it, reflecting on it and ultimately revealing it through our lives.

We’ll look at several more ways through which we can know that the Bible is both accurate and reliable for our every need, and across the centuries to our lives today.

Join us as we examine how the Bible is put together, and the first three (of seven) “tests” that validate the accuracy, reliability and eternal nature of God’s Word.

Our focus passage for this study is 2 Timothy 3:16.  We’ll look at what it means that the Bible is “God-breathed” with a review of what the “breath of God” does in our lives.

THIS BOOK IS ALIVE #1: LOVE IT, LEARN IT, LIVE IT:

The first installment in our Winter lesson series entitled “This Book Is Alive!”.  We’re taking a deep look at the power and authority of the Word of God in our lives as believers and why it should have pre-eminence.

We kick off the New Year (literally on New Year’s Sunday!) with a challenge for 2023 to get you moving forward with the Lord in the coming year.