Today we move on to taking an inventory of the pain in our adult life.    The point of all this is effort is that we want freedom from the pain of the past. We know that it is the truth that sets us free. So we are pressing into the truth.   To encourage you as a coach might encourage an athlete before a tough match, I want to give you an example of what it can look like from my own life.   A few months ago I took this course myself, as I came to this day, I knew God was prompting me to let a truth set me free.     I shared about a painful season in my...

Adolescence can be such a horrible, unforgiving time. There you are changing and not knowing what to make of it all. You’re caught between childhood and adulthood and often all you feel is awkward. Snakes go off and hide when they molt. Butterflies make a cocoon and transform in darkness. But God bless them, teenagers have to go through all that change right out in front of everyone. Bodies change, voices change, faces change. And often the process is attended by a lot of humiliating pain.  Where is the manual that explains what’s going on and how to cope? It’s an...

When you consider the losses of a lifetime, even a session or two is not enough time to really grieve all that you’ve lost. So let’s dwell on this subject a little longer. Grieving is hard work; people need to be shown how to grieve, or maybe how to give themselves permission to grieve. And maybe we need to be shown how to be patient as the grief process does its healing work. A lot of people are stuck coming to grips with their brokenness. And a lot of folks have never exited those broken places by grieving them. What does this look like?  For me, I had to fall into my own...

If you were to make a list – an inventory of all the situations and people that have hurt you over the years, would there be any hurts that you’ve hidden? Who would be at the top of your list of people who have hurt you? God wants us to face our pain, walk through it and heal.  If we continue to just push our pain down, we may never learn to truly heal.   Truth sets us free First, Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. And it is the truth (Jesus) that sets us free. The enemy of our souls specializes in lies. He wants to create a reality distortion...

Course Details   1. Safety & confidentiality: We commit to both as a requirement of the course. I put your email addresses in the bcc section of the email. We can use one another’s first names, but at this point, we’ll keep this boundary. I will moderate the group and if at some point the safety of the group is compromised, I will email you privately. Most of you don’t know one another, but there’s a good chance that we have a stellar group here. I think you have a chance to benefit one another.   2. Length of course: 2 1/2 months...

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