When Life Is Hard: Turning Your Trials Into Gold (DVD Leader Kit)

When Life Is Hard: Turning Your Trials Into Gold (DVD Leader Kit)
Author: James Macdonald
Publisher: Lifeway Church Resources
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781415870396

James MacDonald shares the biblical truths and principles that helped him deal with the trials of life that can provide hope to all who deal with the difficulties of life.

When Life Is Hard - Member Book

When Life Is Hard - Member Book
Author: James MacDonald
Publisher: Lifeway Church Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781415869253

This When Life Is Hard Member Book helps participants to experience Biblical truths that provide encouragement, hope, and answers to those enduring difficult times. It's focus is to enlighten members with very real, very practical answers, straight from God's word. Based on James MacDonald's book, When Life Is Hard, this study shows how MacDonald's teachings came out of his personal struggles during a season of trials. When Life Is Hard Member Book includes: 6 sessions Facilitator's notes "Digging Deeper" resources for each session Sessions: What Are Trials? Why Trials? What to Do with Trials What If I Refuse This Trial? Why Some Trials Never End Come Forth as Gold

Always True

Always True
Author: James MacDonald
Publisher:
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2011-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781415872093

James MacDonald's teachings in Always True were presented during an extended season of personal crises in his life. Through these personal struggles James discovered that God's promises are always true, that we can trust God to be faithful to His Word no matter what we face. These universal promises are based on biblical truths and principles that will provide hope to all believers who face hardship. It leads individuals and churches to understand the nature of God's promises, which are always true whether in good times or trials in the believer's life. 6 sessions.Six sessions: 1. The Theology of Promise 2. I Will Not Fear: God Is Always with Me 3. I Will Not Doubt; God Is Always in Control 4. I Will Not Despair; God Is Always Good 5. I Will Not Falter; God Is Always Watching 6. I Will Not Fail; God Is Always Victorious The DVD features James MacDonald teaching for 30–40 minutes for each of the six sessions. Also, Kit contains a copy of Always True: God's Five Promises for When Life Is Hard tradebook (Moody).

When Life is Hard

When Life is Hard
Author: James MacDonald
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1575679159

When life is hard, really hard, we often spend all our time pleading, begging, yelling, refusing, and questioning. While none of these things are necessarily unusual, they are missing the ultimate point. When life is hard, when things get ugly, when all hope seems to be lost… that is when we are able to display the superiority of the life lived in God. It is in those moments of despair, when we question what is happening, when we don’t know what to do, when some trials never seem to end, that we can lean most heavily on God’s promises and truths. Working his way through five questions we've all had run through our heads, trusted pastor James MacDonald helps us understand what we should do now. We begin the journey by looking at different types of "trials", figuring out exactly what we're dealing with, and recognizing that God certainly knows. Second, the obvious question: "Why?" God sees us going through trials and we long for two things: for them to be over and to know why they happened in the first place. Next, we need to know what to do with these trials when they come (and they will most certainly come). Fourth, we have all wondered it, can trials be refused? Are God's purposes really being fulfilled in the midst of this trying time? And lastly, God reveals Himself to us through these trials. . . and sometimes, they just don't ever end. Why doesn't this trial go away? God told us to expect trials—don’t be surprised when they come. Grow when they come. Find hope when they come.

Think Differently - Bible Study Book

Think Differently - Bible Study Book
Author: James MacDonald
Publisher: Lifeway Church Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-01-02
Genre: Critical thinking
ISBN: 9781430032045

Thinking determines outcome more than anything else. Actions, attitudes, and self-awareness all flow from the way you think. This 10-part Bible study will help you face the reality that nothing is going to change until you think differently.--

When the Going Gets Tough

When the Going Gets Tough
Author: Joe Stowell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781572937185

6-lesson Participant Study Guide for the Daylight Series Bible Study Land of the Bible - Beersheba, Nazareth, & Capernaum. Why would God choose a barren land, a small village, and a poor town to become locations for events that would change the future of the entire world? Featuring a variety of biblical scholars who share insights into Gods redemptive plan for the world, Land of the Bible presents an intriguing message of faith, obedience, and repentance. To be used with the DVD and Leader's Guide set which is sold separately.

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9780340978504

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

I Really Want to Change...So, Help Me God

I Really Want to Change...So, Help Me God
Author: James MacDonald
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2000-01-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802480020

I REALLY want to change. Do you? Are you truly serious about allowing the power of God to transform your life? If you are, then prepare yourself for an incredible, life-changing experience. Change is difficult, but it's made even harder without practical guidance on how to do it. You will find that guidance in I Really Want to Change ... So, Help Me God. James MacDonald is serious about the business of change according to God's Word. While many tell us that we should change and be more like Christ, MacDonald actually teaches us how to do it.I Really Want to Change ... So, Help Me God is split into three sections as the model for approaching change: The Preparation for Change: choosing the right method and partnering with God to select the areas in need of change in your life. The Process of Change: exploring the biblical method of saying 'no' to sinful patterns and 'yes' to the things God desires for you. The Power to Change: explaining how to experience the power of God personally and continuously.This is a book about a different you. There are no warm fuzzies within these pages. Rather, MacDonald is a direct, to-the-point pastor with a heart for seeing lives completely transformed by the truth of the Gospel. If you're serious about changing your life, I Really Want to Change ... So, Help Me God is just what you need.

Sideswiped

Sideswiped
Author: Michael Voll
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-11-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781943526086

DO ALL THINGS REALLY WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD? Have you ever lost someone you loved? If so, then you've been sideswiped. In that moment it's easy to feel overwhelmed by darkness and despair. But emerging into the light is possible. Author Michael Voll experienced a sideswipe firsthand. On a drive one wintery day his family suffered a horrific car accident. Moments later he lost his wife and simultaneously his picture-perfect future. Sideswiped is a rare and raw look inside the thoughts, feelings and actions of a man who lost his love and his identity in the process. Thankfully, the story doesn't end there. Readers will discover how it's possible to find hope, healing, and wholeness after the sideswipe of a broken heart. Author and pastor Michael Voll shows you: Unexpected stages and outcomes of grief Helpful words and actions that comfort those suffering from sadness Three keys to finding hope and healing. The redemptive outcomes of experiencing a sideswipe. How a "new normal" is possible. If you or someone you love has been sideswiped by death, no matter how bleak it seems, there is hope ahead. You can emerge as an overcomer."

Ebony

Ebony
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2005-10
Genre:
ISBN:

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.