Live Again: Participant Guide


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This is the companion participant guide for the Live Again: Wholeness After Divorce 8-Session DVD series. With additional discussion questions, inspiring quotes, and life-giving scripture verses, this participant guide will help women find the peace, wholeness, and healing they are searching for as they journey through this after divorce recovery program. This guide covers all 8 sessions of Live Again, the only Christian divorce recovery program just for women. New! Find Hope and Healing After a Divorce When a tragic divorce destroys a family, many women find theirhopes and dreams shattered. For many, this is thegreatest loss they have ever faced. It devastates them, and they desperately need emotional and spiritual help. They struggle with lonelinessand shame. Many of them need to face the pain and begin to forgivethemselves and others in order to move forward in life. The good news is that a recent study showed that Christian faith madea big difference in divorcees’ ability to put their life back togetherand successfully live with hope and purpose. In fact, Christiansrecovered nearly 3 times better than people having “no religion.” Theywere able to live again because of their faith and trust in the Lord! This 8-session Christian divorce recovery series covers topics such asloneliness, forgiveness, fear, picking up the pieces, dating, and movingpast the shame and guilt to healing and wholeness. The complete kitcomes with a DVD containing the eight 30-minute videos, a LeaderGuide, 5 Participant guides, and 5 Live Again Journals. Additional Participant Guides and Live Again Journals may be purchased separately.




Live Again: Leader Guide


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This is the companion Live Again Leader Guide to the Live Again: Wholeness After Divorce 8-Session DVD series. This divorce recovery leader guide has everything a leader needs! From tips on how to start each session to riveting discussion questions, this leader guide makes leading an after divorce recovery group easier than ever. This guide covers all 8 sessions of Live Again, the only Christian divorce recovery program design for women. Whether you are a veteran divorce recovery leader, or new to leading women's divorce recovery groups, this Live Again Leader Guide will walk you through the basics of how to run the group each session. But the best part is the Tips for Divorce Recovery Group leaders in the back of the Leader Guide. 8 Key Topics in Live Again Help Women Find Recovery After Divorce This 8-video Christian divorce recovery series covers topics such as loneliness, forgiveness, fear, picking up the pieces, relationships, and moving past the shame and guilt to healing and wholeness. Topics in the Live Again: Wholeness After Divorce DVD - Home Edition • Session 1 - Reality Check: Acceptance • Session 2 - Forgiveness • Session 3 - The Loneliness Giant • Session 4 - The Real Enemy: Lies Women Believe • Session 5 - Respect Yourself • Session 6 - Sexless and Single: Sex and Dating • Session 7 - Beyond the Shame and Guilt • Session 8 - Discovering a Whole New You




If Participant's Guide


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New York Times bestselling author and pastor unpacks Romans 8, reminding readers that God is for them--all the time, in every way imaginable. Participant's guide.




Finding Your Way Back to God Participant's Guide


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Take the Next Step Perfect for individual or group study The Finding Your Way Back to God companion Participant’s Guide explore the idea that we all want to find our way home – and back to God. The participant’s guide offers Bible investigation, life application questions, and prayer exercises help you take positive action on your desire to find God.




I Am Second Participant's Guide


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In the I Am Second DVD-Based Study, your small group will encounter story after story of notable people throughout culture who have had a radical, life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ, and will be challenged to share their own "Second" stories with the world around them.




The Life You've Always Wanted Bible Study Participant's Guide


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In the six-session small group Bible study, The Life You’ve Always Wanted, John Ortberg guides you and your group through the spiritual disciplines and teaches you how they can transform your spiritual life. What does true spiritual life really look like? And what keeps you from living it? What can you do to pursue it? If you’re tired of the status quo—if you suspect there’s more to Christianity than what you’ve experienced—John Ortberg invites you to join him on a road to transformation and spiritual vigor that anyone can take. Cultivate new intimacy and confidence in prayer. Discover the freedom of secrecy. Taste the benefits of slowing life’s frenetic pace. Learn how to be guided by the Holy Spirit … and much more. As in a marathon, the secret lies not in trying hard, but in training consistently. Proven by followers of Jesus over the centuries, the spiritual disciplines are exercises that strengthen your endurance race on the road to growth. Sessions include: It’s Morphing Time Slowing Down and Celebrating Praying and Confessing Meditating on Scripture and Seeking Guidance Practicing Servanthood, Finding Freedom Going the Distance with a Well-Ordered Heart Designed for use with The Life You’ve Always Wanted: A DVD Study 9780310810506 (sold separately).




The Grace Course Participant's Guide


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Experience God's Powerful Grace for Yourself God's grace is all around us, but often we fall back into well-worn paths of discouragement, trying harder, or thinking that we've failed as Christians. The key to a fruitful Christian life lies in the life-changing, heart-changing power of God's grace. It's time to experience it at a deeper level--and bear more fruit than you thought possible! The Grace Course is a powerful, eight-week study from internationally respected ministry Freedom In Christ that will equip you to · deal with the false motivators of guilt, shame, fear, and pride · overcome striving and performing · remain secure in God's love · become an agent of reconciliation and healing in the world. You'll also go through The Steps to Experiencing God's Grace and learn how to use Stronghold-Busting, a powerful tool to renew your mind and bring genuine, lasting transformation. The Grace Course is part of The Grace & Freedom Project, a collaboration between Freedom In Christ Ministries, Bethany House, RightNow Media, and YouVersion. It features a range of top-quality resources to help you experience God's grace and freedom at such a deep level that you are forever changed and equipped to take the love and healing of Jesus to a broken world. See what's available at GraceAndFreedomProject.com.




Taking Responsibility for Your Life Bible Study Participant's Guide


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In this four-session small group Bible study (DVD/digital sold separately), Andy Stanley shows you how to take authentic responsibility for the things in your life. RESPONSIBILITIES. We all have them. But we don't all take them as seriously as we ought to. Wouldn't it be great, though, if we all took responsibility for the things we are responsible for? Wouldn't it be great if you took responsibility for everything you're responsible for? It's time to stop the finger-pointing and excuse-making and to remove the “ir” in irresponsible. In this study, Stanley tells us it’s time to ask ourselves, “Am I REALLY taking responsibility for my life?” This Participant Guide is filled with helpful discussion starters, video overviews, a helpful Leader’s Guide and much more. Sessions include: Let the Blames Begin The Disproportionate Life This Is No Time to Pray Embracing Your Response Ability Designed for use with the Taking Responsibility for Your Life Video Study (sold separately). When used together they provide a powerful catalyst for spiritual growth.




Poets and Saints Participant's Guide


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This immersive seven-week experience uses the intentional conversations of the Poets and Saints DVD as a springboard for further reflection and discussion. Exploring the spiritual lives of Christians such as Saint Francis of Assisi and George MacDonald, and featuring photography and artwork reflective of their lives and experiences, Poets and Saints Participant's Guide challenges readers to grow in their own faith as they immerse themselves in the remarkable lives of those who have gone before them.




Living Out the Message of Christ: The Journey Continues, Participant's Guide 8


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Celebrate Recovery introduces The Journey Continues—four new participant's guides designed as a revolutionary, new second step study curriculum. This step study is taken after completing The Journey Begins (Participant Guides 1-4). In the seven lessons in Guide 8: Living Out the Message of Christ, you will experience Christ-centered and biblically based studies filled with brand new acrostics, deeper questions, and more helpful Bible verses. The content in Guide 8 will focus on a deeper study of the final two principles on the road to recovery: Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination. Bible reading and prayer in order to know God and his will for my life and to gain the power to follow his will. Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and by my words. "Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires" (Matthew 5:10). By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four participant's guides of The Journey Continues, you will find a deeper sense of true peace and serenity, continue to restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find deeper freedom from life's hurts, hang-ups, and habits.