Entries by Groups Ministry

Back to the Movies: Jurassic Park – Discussion Guide

Connect Main Idea: When people seek autonomy from God to define what’s best, it results in a world of tragedy and death. Introduction: This week, Pastor Chris takes us to the world of Jurassic Park; a place where John Hammond and his team of scientists have taken life into their own hands…and everything goes terribly wrong. Like […]

Back to the Movies: Hook – Discussion Guide

Connect Main Idea: A life with Him, finding who you truly are and what you are meant to do is the greatest adventure!  Introduction: As we see in the movie Hook, there’s a difference between growing up and growing old. Just like there’s a difference between looking for one last adventure and looking for THE last […]

Fresh Wind Week 7 – Discussion Guide

Getting Started Main Idea: The fresh wind of revival is an inside job. Introduction: The world sets itself up to work without God, consistently pushing and pulling us wherever we will let it. We all want peace and to not allow our emotions to control us. Are you willing to do the inside work to […]

Fresh Wind Week 5 – Discussion Guide

  Getting Started Main Idea: Search for God’s fresh breath of life, the Ruach, to fill your sails. Introduction: Fighting the flesh is a battle that everyone has; even Paul describes his personal frustrations with this war in Romans 7. This weekend, Pastor Chris discusses the crosswinds that steer us: the Ruach (the breath of God) and […]

Live Well So You Can Finish Well – Discussion Guide

Getting Started Main Idea: Live well so you can finish well. Introduction:  This week as we celebrated Pastor Chris’s 25 years as pastor of Faith Promise, his mentor, John Maxwell, preached on how to live well so we can finish well. Many of the tips he shared are from Stephen Covey’s book The 7 Habits of […]

Fresh Wind Week 4 – Discussion Guide

Getting Started Main Idea:   Many people say they “want to have revival,” but really what they want is for God to work in the hearts of everyone else around them; they do not want to change (or even feel like they need to). We all play a part in the work of revival that […]

Fresh Wind Week 3 – Discussion Guide

Getting Started Main Idea:  God will fill our sails with a fresh wind, but if we aren’t ready to heed the Holy Spirit’s beckoning, we’ll sail in circles. Introduction:  God loves His children and hates to see them suffer, however if we want revival, we must first align ourselves with the purpose He’s given us […]

Fresh Wind – Week 2 – Discussion Guide

Getting Started Main Idea: We need the eternal and everlasting fresh wind of God blowing through our lives. Introduction: The fresh wind of God will fill you with power and purpose. Discussion Starter: Do you believe God can make a way for you to glide on open seas and into a time of refreshing? Encounter God Primary Scriptures: Psalm […]

Fresh Wind – Week 1 – Discussion Guide

Getting Started Main Idea: Revival means to live again. Pastor Chris, citing 2 Chronicles 7:14, proposed that there are, at least, 4 things needed for revival: humbling ourselves, prayer, seeking God’s face, and turning from our evil ways. Introduction: “Ruach” is the breath of God and serves as the resurrection power filling our sails. Discussion Starter: When is […]

New Voices Weekend – Discussion Guide

Getting Started Main Idea: We are kingdom builders, and kingdom builders don’t build alone. Introduction: This week, young adults at every campus shared a message about how God called them and how God is using them to build His kingdom. They invited us all to own our part in the ministry of God’s kingdom: we are all […]