Capture your favorite God moments in your very own My Faith Book! Glue in a picture of your small group or youth group, write down your answered prayers, tape in your concert tickets, list the top ten things you are thankful for-after all, there's no wrong way to fill it! It's supposed to be messy and maybe even a little chaotic. With a few, fun prompts and plenty of space to document your faith journey, you'll unleash the creative within and create a legacy piece you can look back upon or even share with others.
Guiding girls toward a closer and more intimate relationship with God. Girls love to journal. In My Faith Journal, Karen Hill brings "teen-tested" questions to help girls grow in their faith. Guided questions on relevant topics help girls meet the intersection of faith and daily life, therefore solidifying a Christian worldview. The cool design is appealing to pre-teen girls with a flex-cover and elastic band closure. Along with guided journaling pages, there are extra blank pages for die-hard journalists!
My Faith Journey offers a full year of spiritual activities, designed to help the reader grow with God week by week. Ready-to-color line drawings, based on Scripture verses and uplifting messages, are accompanied by insightful prompts on the meaning of faith, with plenty of room to write and reflect.
This journal provides kids with 90 days of quiet-time guidance and includes topic-related articles, games, and activities, plus a parent/child commitment page.
This Encouraging Guide Will Help You to Draw Closer to God through Prayer Prayer opens worlds of possibilities--but many people still struggle to pray. the Power Prayers to Grow Your Faith will help you pray, by offering solid biblical reasons to talk to God and specific prayer starters to encourage conversation with God. This book includes topics such as My Salvation, My Purpose, My Service, My Love, My Identity, My Attitude, My World, My Church, and My Challenges. Prayers are concise and easy to understand, yet packed with spiritual punch, making Power Prayers to Grow Your Faithan ideal resources for women of all ages.
A Chance to Serve is a formation program that enables teenagers to become effective ministers to their peers. This systematic program offers interested young people a progressive sequence of opportunities for growth in personal faith, for community building, and for leadership training. Written by Brian Reynolds, cofounder of the Center for Ministry Development, this training program has been successfully piloted in several different settings around the country. This peer ministry training program is suitable for use in a variety of settings: schools, parishes, retreat centers, youth programs, campus ministry settings, or diocesan youth organizations. The leader's manual is organized into three sections: Section 1 presents the conceptual and theoretical framework of peer ministry. Section 2 addresses the practical aspects of establishing a program. Section 3, which forms the heart of the training program, consists of eighteen detailed 150-minute training modules, including copies of the worksheets for the young people. A bibliography contains additional peer ministry resources for the reader.
Incarceration. Pain. Change. Miracles. Spending time in jail isn’t easy for anyone who has been forced to have that experience. Spending time in jail for what you deserve is God’s and humankind’s justice. Spending time in jail out of God’s mercy is something completely different. This is what I want to share about in Jailhouse Journals. It was because of God’s justice that I got the sentence I deserved for the crimes I committed, but in his mercy, the experience in jail was more than what I had ever expected. To get the help I needed while in jail gave me hope not only for me but also for those who may be reading this to get help from the trap of sexual addiction. The purpose of these journals is to inspire them that God is not only real, but he is also a loving God and will help them change if they are willing to do so, and that there is actually a system of incarceration, called right living community, as a rehabilitation approach to serving a sentence rather than just doing hard time. I am hoping that maybe, just maybe, that anyone reading this can be averted from committing a senseless sexual crime against another because they now have hope and can work up the courage to get the help they need. Finally, this book is also for any victim of sexual offences committed against them so that they can receive inner healing and possibly even work up the ability to forgive their perpetrator for their horrendous acts. I have discovered that forgiveness sets the one doing the forgiving free emotionally, mentally, and spiritually, more so than the one being forgiven. These journals also show that there is a road map to getting specific help; the fact that proper counseling; good cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) courses; support groups such as AA, NA, SAA, and Celebrate Recovery, and even taking an amazing course developed by my chaplain that is called Spiritual Perspective on Sexuality as a means to receiving better emotional wholeness and well-being, making better decisions and developing better thinking patterns. Be set free. Receive healing. Experience transformation. Watch miracles flow!
Relationships are hard. They require effort and intentionality to be healthy and thriving. Yet we often view our relationship with God differently, thinking it should be easy and intuitive. The Bible teaches us that our faith is like a tree, and after years of struggling to grow in my relationship with Christ, I was still a sapling. Then I realized that discipline is required to daily consume the nourishment found in His Word. To be a strong oak, we need nutrients to grow and thrive and a root system that is deep and expansive. These ground us when the winds of false doctrine blow and the downpour of the enemy’s lies tries to drown us. This interactive journey is designed to be a customized roadmap helping you explore the importance of spiritual discipline and to develop your understanding of three vital Christian disciplines necessary for growth: prayer, Scripture, and community. The “Map Your Journey” segment at the end of each chapter allows you to choose your next step based on where God is uniquely leading you. These sections offer a compass to navigate your journey with the Lord by discovering deeper places of growth, a deeper understanding of His Word, and deeper intimacy with your Creator. What if we stop expecting perfection? What if we accept where we are and who we are? Could we maybe go deeper with God if we set aside our expectations and started seeking His? I pray the strategies in these pages teach you a fresh way to love Him, because no matter where you are in your relationship with God, there is one thing that we all need—to go deeper!
