Good Questions Have Groups Talking

12/18/2024

How good theology changes lives

Sessions Include: How People Change, Lesson #1 The Gospel Gap 2 Peter 1.3 - 9 How People Change, Lesson #2 Counterfeit Hopes Colossians 2.6 – 15; 3.5…

10/31/2024

https://www.salemfriends.com/i-cant-wait-any-longer-a-flourishing-life-study-starts-november-3/

I’m a grown man, I thought. I do not know how many years of life are before me. I cannot wait anymore. When I was going to school, I was preoccupied with good grades or getting cute girls to like m…

10/28/2024

This weekend: How to soar! https://www.salemfriends.com/how-to-soar/

10/23/2024

You can have a flourishing life

A flourishing life is possible. After the conversation with my wife about “the list,” I kept thinking about how I don’t want to wait for circumstances to change in order to live the way I was meant…

10/22/2024

https://www.salemfriends.com/october-27-unseen-but-known-by-god/

There’s something deeply powerful about the quiet work of God in the unseen places of our lives. We often wonder if anyone notices the effort we put in, or if the small, unnoticed acts of obedience…

10/15/2024

An academic journal called The Journal of Happiness Studies publishes studies using the tools of research to identify what makes human life flourish. When researchers look at what distinguishes quite happy people from less happy people, one factor consistently separates those two groups. It is not how much money you have; it is not your health, security, attractiveness, IQ, or career success. What distinguishes consistently happier people from less happy people is the presence of rich, deep, joy-producing, life-changing, meaningful relationships.

John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God’s Best Version of You (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009), 182–183.

10/08/2024

https://www.salemfriends.com/october-13-john-3-16-part-2-what-does-it-mean-to-believe/

Bible translators in the New Hebrides islands struggled to find an appropriate verb for believe. This was a serious problem, as the word and the concept are essential to Scripture. One Bible transl…

10/05/2024

https://www.salemfriends.com/october-6-the-hope-diamond-of-the-bible/

It’s the Hope Diamond of the Bible. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. A twenty-six-word parade of ho…

09/30/2024

The share of self-identified conservative evangelicals has more than doubled in recent years. I wonder why this is. Thoughts?

09/25/2024

A little dark at times because the story is dark. But really good. A compelling story well produced

Listen to Cadence Productions's The Fight of My Life podcast on Apple Podcasts.

09/24/2024

https://www.salemfriends.com/september-29-jesus-light-of-the-world-what-difference-does-it-make/

  This week will be part #2 in the mini-series, Jesus, Light of the world. God saw the light, that it was good. —GENESIS 1:4   When God said, “Let there be light,” there was! But take not…

09/19/2024

https://www.salemfriends.com/light-comes-to-a-dark-place/

This week, we will explore the theme, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” — Matthew 5:16 (NKJV) In this verse, Jesus calls us …

09/14/2024

https://www.salemfriends.com/september-15-comfort-doesnt-mean-to-make-comfortable-here-is-what-it-does-mean/

This week we will explore the idea that when Isaiah says, “Comfort my people,” he doesn’t mean to make them comfortable as much as to fortify them–make them strong. Paul sai…

09/05/2024

https://www.salemfriends.com/september-8-feel-like-you-are-paddling-upstream/

09/04/2024

Todays book

08/19/2024

https://www.salemfriends.com/ways-to-ruin-a-family-and-one-way-to-make-things-right/

This week we will be looking at the topic, “8 Ways to Ruin a Family (And One Way to Make Things Right).” We will be looking at the story of Joseph and his brothers from Genesis 37. See how many way…