Starting Seminar
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Living Free - Awareness/Prevention seminar is presented in two parts, it offers information for anyone who either has a life-controlling problem or has a loved one with a life-controlling problem:
Part 1: Learning to Live Free
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Key Groups
Insight Group - This small group discusses the upward Path to Christian Character as described in 2 Peter 1:3-11, the definition of a life-controlling problem, delusion and denial, walls of defenses, care-fronting and leveling.
Stepping Into Freedom - A 12-step recovery group, implementing the 12 steps of AA, applying Scripture to each of the steps.
Stepping Into Freedom - A 12-step recovery group, implementing the 12 steps of AA, applying Scripture to each of the steps.
Free To Grow - The purpose of this group study is to help people overcome disappointments and setbacks that have arrested or are presently hindering their emotional and spiritual development. The group will help participants understand how to be set free so that they can grow and become all that God has designed them to be.
Listed below are the twelve sessions included in this study:
Listed below are the twelve sessions included in this study:
- Who Am I?
- Unmasked Faces
- Facing the Truth of Disappointment
- Forgive as God Forgave
- Setting Boundaries
- Childlike Versus Childish
- Making Choices
- Freedom and Responsibility
- Fresh Start
- Developing the Character of Christ
- Developing Freedom in Christ
- Developing a Future in Christ
Concerned Person's Group - Specifically targeted for families of those struggling with addictions, and covers enabling, boundaries, and co-dependency, as well as comfort, hope, and letting go and letting God.
Concerned Person's Group - Specifically targeted for families of those struggling with addictions, and covers enabling, boundaries, and co-dependency, as well as comfort, hope, and letting go and letting God.
Restoring Families - This study helps to minister to families caught in the cycle of abusive relationships. The curriculum deals with overcoming these abusive relationships through Christ.
- Ministers to families from abusive relationships
- Ministers to victims of family violence
- Deals with wounded emotions
- Deals with control and intimacy issues
- Presents a strong message of Christ as healer of abusive relationships
Peacemaking -
This study contains methods of self-examination; it includes suggestions about when and how to confront someone. This study offers a biblical approach to negotiating and dealing with unreasonable people.
The sections included are:
This study contains methods of self-examination; it includes suggestions about when and how to confront someone. This study offers a biblical approach to negotiating and dealing with unreasonable people.
The sections included are:
- Conflict Provides Opportunities
- Live at Peace
- Trust in the Lord and Do Good
- Is this Really Worth Fighting Over?
- Conflicts Starts in the Heart
- Confession Brings Freedom
- Just Between the Two of You
- Speak the Truth in Love
- Take One or Two Others Along
- Forgive as God Forgave You
- Look Also to the Interests of Others
- Overcome Evil with Good
Handling Loss & Grief - As a person goes through this group they will be able to identify what the Bible has to say about handling the losses of life. To grieve is human; how to grieve Christianly is supernatural. It requires us to invite the Holy Spirit to guide us through the grieving process.
Committed Couples - Committed Couples is for married couples or engaged-to-be-married couples who are committed to God's plan for marriage and family relationship. The various aspects of God's design for marriage and the principles that support this sacred institution are highlighted.The purpose of Committed Couples is to help each married couple grow spiritually and emotionally in their relationship to each other through an awareness and application of biblical principles. It is important that each participant enter Committed Couples with the purpose of wanting to be all God would have them to be in their marriage rather than trying to change their partner.
Sessions include:
Sessions include:
- Session 1 - In the Beginning-Marriage
- Session 2 - The Example: Christ and the Church
- Session 3 - God's Plan for the Husband
- Session 4 - God's Plan for the Wife
- Session 5 - God's Plan for the Children
- Session 6 - Submitting to One Another
- Session 7 - Becoming One in Christ
- Session 8 - Forgiving
- Session 9 - Communicating With One Another - Part 1
- Session 10 - Communicating With One Another - Part 2
- Session 11 - Family Finances
- Session 12 - Watch for the Little Foxes
- Session 13 - The Family Altar
Other Curriculum we Offer
Understanding Depression - This study deals with depression, a condition that is common around the world.
- Understanding what depression is and how it affects relationships
- Understanding the relationship between depression and spiritual warfare
- Ways to fight depression with scripture, prayer and mutual support
- Understanding the special prayer needs of depressed persons
- Bible-based coping skills
- How to pray for healing and what to expect
- Serves as a powerful evangelistic tool by providing a way to minister to people's felt needs and then lead them to Christ
Anger: Our Master or Our Servant - Do you lose control and react with anger and don't know what triggers it? Anger: Our Master or Our Servant offers clear answers to what anger is, what causes it, and how to keep it from getting out of control, and becoming harmful or destructive. We will help you discover ways to manage your anger. We will offer methods to help you bring your anger under control in your marriage, with your family and in other relationships. You will learn the ten steps for preventing anger's control and the harm it causes.
Anger: Our Master or Our Servant - Do you lose control and react with anger and don't know what triggers it? Anger: Our Master or Our Servant offers clear answers to what anger is, what causes it, and how to keep it from getting out of control, and becoming harmful or destructive. We will help you discover ways to manage your anger. We will offer methods to help you bring your anger under control in your marriage, with your family and in other relationships. You will learn the ten steps for preventing anger's control and the harm it causes.
Facing Fear, Finding Faith- includes guidance in the use of Scripture to build faith, biblical coping methods for facing fear, comfort to those facing fear and help for anyone ministering to those who are being controlled or held back by anxiety, fear and worry.
Completely Free - Everyone struggles from time-to-time, but we can have confidence that in Christ we are completely free from sin's slavery, from condemnation, and from fear of failure.This group study of Romans 1-8 and 12 helps Christians break out of the dull routine of a stagnant spiritual life. Applying the truths found in Romans can transform any believer into a person eager to follow God's will. This study can also serve as a powerful evangelistic tool by explaining the message of salvation as presented in Romans.
Completely Free - Everyone struggles from time-to-time, but we can have confidence that in Christ we are completely free from sin's slavery, from condemnation, and from fear of failure.This group study of Romans 1-8 and 12 helps Christians break out of the dull routine of a stagnant spiritual life. Applying the truths found in Romans can transform any believer into a person eager to follow God's will. This study can also serve as a powerful evangelistic tool by explaining the message of salvation as presented in Romans.
Godly Parenting - This group addresses parenting skills from the time of conception until the child has reached adulthood. It suggests methods for raising healthy, godly children in an increasingly secular society. Specific emphasis is placed on communication and teaching skills, discipline, protection and sexual issues at each age.
Godly Parenting - This group addresses parenting skills from the time of conception until the child has reached adulthood. It suggests methods for raising healthy, godly children in an increasingly secular society. Specific emphasis is placed on communication and teaching skills, discipline, protection and sexual issues at each age.
Caregiving: Caring for Aging Parents- The purpose of Caregiving: Caring for Aging Parents is to provide hope and direction to those concerned about the health and well-being of aging parents or an ill spouse or relative. We address predominate issues most families face.Each session is designed to discuss a specific area of concern such as the purpose of a caregiver or end-of-life planning. It will become clear to participants that the Bible provides encouragement and direction to help them through this caregiving journey.
Topics covered in this curriculum are:
Topics covered in this curriculum are:
- Session 1 - You Are Not Alone
- Session 2 - The Aging Process
- Session 3 - Through the Eyes of the Care Receiver
- Session 4 - Through the Eyes of the Caregiver
- Session 5 - Honoring Our Parents
- Session 6 - The Role of a Caregiver
- Session 7 - Developing a Care Plan
- Session 8 - End of Life Planning
- Session 9 - Forgiveness and Reconciliation
- Session 10 - Communication
- Session 11 - Legacy of Memories
- Session 12 - The Streets of Gold
Crossroads - Crossroads deals with choosing the road to sexual purity and is suggested for use in support groups and Christian counseling.
- Describes the sexual addiction process
- Shows how the sin of proximity often precedes sexual sins
- Shows the way out of sexual addiction
- Presents biblical insights to help a person break free and stay free
- Gives practical actions for renewing the mind
- Shows how recognizing lies can help reject them for the truth of God's Word
- Serves as a powerful evangelistic tool by providing a way to minister to people's felt needs and then pointing them to Christ
Godly Heroes - This guide contains a step-by-step study of Hebrews 11. It also features the profile of the characteristics of Godly heroes, written in language that relates to today's living. In this guide you will find definitions, characteristics and examples of the heroes' faith life.
Lessons Learned - We live in a broken and fallen world; our brokenness extends to the depths of our emotions, our souls, and our sexuality. This small group curriculum by Tammy Webb-Witholt deals with moving from a homosexual lifestyle into a vital growing relationship with Jesus Christ.What it offers:
- Shows that the goal is not to move from homosexuality into heterosexuality, but the goal of our lives as followers of Christ is to come into His holiness.
- Shows that our journey of faith in Christ, whatever the depth of our brokenness, sexual or otherwise, is not to merely stop being one thing in order to become another.
- Shows that the goal of each day is to grow toward Christ. God by the power of His Holy Spirit and the truth of His Holy Word transforms us into a new creation.
- Shows that holiness is used in the truest definition of the word holy meaning to be set apart for God.
Knowing God My Father - This curriculum is designed to help people strengthen their relationship with their heavenly Father by applying His names to their personal life. Along with helping Christians know God better, it can serve as an evangelistic tool by giving a true picture of God to people who may have a distorted view of Him because of an absent or abusive earthly father who did not or does not provide for them.This group can also help men who want to be better fathers.
One Nation Under God - This curriculum shows that the foundational truth for this entire process is oneness in Christ. It also examines our divided history and united future. This guide discusses the barriers and shows how to make Christ visible through love in action. This guide also offers the way to strengthen and bond relationships.
or woman of God.
Seeing Yourself In God's Image -
Written by a counselor with experience helping those with eating disorders, this study is born from her own struggles in adolescence. The group challenges members to find their identity in Christ as they overcome this difficult struggle. This guide offers understanding of distorted body image, denial, and the family systems influence. It also explains how to break free of social pressures and how to restore the temple and tie the recovery process together.
Seeing Yourself In God's Image -
Written by a counselor with experience helping those with eating disorders, this study is born from her own struggles in adolescence. The group challenges members to find their identity in Christ as they overcome this difficult struggle. This guide offers understanding of distorted body image, denial, and the family systems influence. It also explains how to break free of social pressures and how to restore the temple and tie the recovery process together.
The Single Christian - In a world where everyone seems to have a mate, it is difficult to live life as a single person. Whether you have never been married, are divorced or are widowed, this study is for you. In The Single Christian, Dr. Holland examines many of the different facets of singleness, from rejection; bitterness and unforgiveness; loneliness; to dating; single parenting and the positives of being single. During this study, individuals will investigate and evaluate their own lives as well as those of certain people who lived during Bible times.
Where is the Image of God in You? - The purpose of this study is for us to see how some of the different character traits we have can be used in constructive rather than destructive ways in our lives and relationships so that we are operating more and more in the image of God according to the way He created us. Also, this study can help us better understand others as we build godly relationships.
It has twelve sessions and includes:
It has twelve sessions and includes:
- Session 1: The Image of God in You - Relating to Perfection
- Session 2: The Image of God in You - Relating to Performance
- Session 3: The Image of God in You - Relating to Pleasure
- Session 4: The Image of God in You - Relating to Determination
- Session 5: The Image of God in You - Relating to Servanthood
- Session 6: The Image of God in You - Relating to Passion
- Session 7: The Image of God in You - Relating to Inquiry
- Session 8: The Image of God in You - Relating to Examination
- Session 9: The Image of God in You - Relating to Peacefulness
- Session 10: The Image of God in You - Relating to Your Neighbor
- Session 11: The Image of God in You - Relating to Your Family
- Session 12: The Image of God in You - Relating to Your Spouse and God