When Your Faith Is Stale
This is the last week of the Winter Community Group Break.
Groups begin meeting agains January 14th.
As you prepare for the new Community Group Trimester, make sure to do these 6 things to prepare for a healthy start to a new groups year.
God's Plan To Save The World
If your group members don’t have a regular habit of taking notes during Sunday’s sermon, or looking at their notes during group discussions, take some time this week to encourage that practice.
Taking notes helps us think more deeply, pay closer attention, and better reflect on the truths we hear from God’s word each week.
Having the notes enhances discussions as people don’t have to rely on their memory, but can look at their notes.
If they don’t have the Northridge app where they can access the sermon notes, a link can be found right on our website under our media tab.
Here is the direct link to download the app that you can email or text to your group: https://subsplash.com/northridgechurch/app
How The Gospel Changes Us - Colossians 3:15-17
Gospel Perspective - Colossians 1:15-2:1
Running On Full - Colossians 1:1-14
Wide and Narrow Paths
What Matters Most: Finishing Well
Included below are Week 1 details to cover with your group, like the group agreement, volunteer schedules, growth goal ideas, and an overview of how groups work to help new people get acquainted with group. The notes also include the sermon discussion questions for this week.
You may also want to just spend this week catching up and discussing your groups plans for this trimester, especially if your group plans will look different than a typical trimester.
What Matters Most: Knowing Jesus
This is the 2nd to last week of the Winter Community Group Trimester (Ending March 19th).
You may want to take sometime this week or next week to discuss your groups plans for the Spring Trimester (Beginning April 3rd).
You may also want to take some time to review the growth goals you set at the beginning of this trimester and encourage each other in your progress.
Here are 2 other ways to connect with and encourage growth in your group members.
Attend an upcoming Equip class with them.
Attend the Night of Worship at our Rochester Campus on Sunday evening, March 27th.
Will the Real Giant Killer Please Stand Up?
2020.08.09 - Drew Karschner - "Will the Real Giant Killer Please Stand Up?"
What do you do when your problems are so big, you can't see a way past them? If you follow Jesus, does that give you any advantage in overcoming them? We'll answer those questions as we take a look at a central figure in the Bible and his own encounter with a giant problem.
1 Samuel 17
Ratification
This is the last week of the Fall Community Group Trimester.
Make sure to take some time to receive feedback from your group members about their experience in your group this trimester.
They can share what they loved and any suggestions for group on a 3x5 card or by filling out the “End of Trimester Feedback Form”. Click on the button below and print out copies for your group.
2018.11.11 - Drew Karschner - "Ratification"
Most people have heard the expression “It's not over until the fat lady sings.” That was true about the gospel. Jesus was dead and lying in a tomb, and it felt over, but it wasn’t. Our future literally hung in the balance for three days. Then Jesus’ payment for ours sins was ratified when He defeated death and rose from the grave.
Romans 5:8
Redemption
2018.11.04 - Drew Karschner - "Redemption"
Everything in life has value, and that value is determined by what someone is willing to pay for it. The problem for mankind is that sin made us not very valuable. But God saw us differently and paid a steep price for us, even though we are unworthy.
2 Corinthians 5:21
Rejected
2018.10.28 - Drew Karschner - "Rejected"
No one likes to be rejected, but we all have been at some point in our lives. Whether it was part of the job search process, an old boyfriend or girlfriend, or not getting picked for the team, we all know how rejection feels. But all of us are born rejecting God through Adam’s sin. Yet despite our rejection of Him, He has chosen to love us.
Genesis 1
Keep It Fresh
2017.08.20 - Aaron Hixson - "Keep it Fresh"
We've all gotten something new and exciting, only to discover that - after a while - it gets old. Boring. Blah. But what if that happened in our spiritual lives? What if the most important reality in our world became... boring? Old news? In this section of Paul's letter to the believers in Colossae, he gives them the foundation for keeping the good news from becoming old news.
Colossians 2:1-23
