The Wilderness Companion Study Guide

Is Your Life Falling Apart All Around You? Are You Helpless to Stop It? You May have Just Entered "The Wilderness." It is a time like no other in your life. Every comfort is stripped away. Everything is outside of your control. Nothing is as it was. You just want your life back. If these things describe your life, you may have entered the wilderness. Every Christian must pass through the wilderness on their way to the Promise Land. In the Bible we read the story of Moses leading God's people through a vast wilderness for over 40 years. Jesus was led into the wilderness, and we are led into the wilderness as well. But there is good news: there is a purpose for you in the wilderness. In a wilderness season, God is proving that He and His Word are both true, and that you can trust Him. He is taking more of your fleshly nature, the part of you that wants the things of this world, out of the equation and filling that empty space with His glorious spirit. The end result is a lot less of you and a whole lot more of Him as well as an increased understanding of Him. This workbook is a study guide to help anyone who wants a closer walk with the Lord, and a better understanding of the hard times in their lives as well as those going through wilderness seasons of their own. It will help you examine what is really in your heart, to discover your purpose in God's Kingdom, and look at reasons God's people are often led into the wilderness to be refined. With questions designed to make every Christian examine their lives, The Wilderness Companion Study Guide will help you move more quickly into your Promise Land. With numerous faith building personal testimonies and lessons, you will find studying your way to a more intimate walk with the Lord both interesting and edifying. What people are saying about The Wilderness Companion Study Guide: We all must go through life with its ups and downs. However, working with God makes this process a lot quicker. God has a specific plan for you, but the enemy tries to get us lost in the desert. Glynda Lomax has walked through this process many times and has simplified the journey in an easy to understand manual. She uses real stories and questions to help you learn the quickest way through your desert times. With God's help and this book, you will be on your way to the promise land! -Nicole Guillory As you work through this Study Guide, I don't believe there is one of us that cannot relate to at least one or two of the struggles Glynda Lomax describes in these pages. As you turn the pages, you will catch yourself thinking, 'Oh yeah, now I understand why...' Pastor Jerry & Wife Christie Ketcherside, River of Grace Church, Arkansas These lessons will make you think about where you're going (in light of where you are, or may have been [hindsight]). Like an arrow reaching its mark, they hit you in the depths of your heart, soul, and spirit. - Dinna A. Lara

A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. ‘True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are.’ Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives – experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarisation. With her trademark mix of research, storytelling and honesty, Brown will again change the cultural conversation while mapping out a clear path to true belonging. Brown argues that what we're experiencing today is a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe about ourselves and each other. She writes, ‘True belonging requires us to believe in and belong to ourselves so fully that we can find sacredness both in both being a part of something, and in standing alone when necessary. But in a culture that's rife with perfectionism and pleasing, and with the erosion of civility, it's easy to stay quiet, hide in our ideological bunkers, or fit in rather than show up as our true selves and brave the wilderness of uncertainty and criticism. But true belonging is not something we negotiate or accomplish with others; it's a daily practice that demands integrity and authenticity. It's a personal commitment that we carry in our hearts.’ Brown offers us the clarity and courage we need to find our way back to ourselves and to each other. And that path cuts right through the wilderness. Brown writes, ‘The wilderness is an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. It is a place as dangerous as it is breathtaking, a place as sought after as it is feared. But it turns out to be the place of true belonging, and it's the bravest and most sacred place you will ever stand.’

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Do you feel lost in a wilderness?

Over the last 500 years, blood-red moons have fallen on the first day of Passover three separate times. These occurrences were connected to some of the most significant days in Jewish history: 1492 (the final year of the Spanish Inquisition when Jews were expelled from Spain), 1948 (statehood for Israel and the War of Independence) and 1967 (the Six-Day War). The next series of four blood moons occurs at Passover and Sukkot in 2014 and 2015. In this devotional study guide, Pastor Hagee challenges readers to further explore the meaning behind blood moons, understand why Christians must recognize these signs that God refers to in Scripture, and absorb their prophetic significance. Ideal for individuals and groups, this devotional study guide combines questions and reflective journaling for deeper meaning and life application.

Every Christian must pass through the desert on the way to their Promised Land. Wilderness experiences are often times of great uncertainty and change. Our time in the desert seasons of our lives is lengthened or shortened depending on our response to each circumstance. Our faith in Christ is refined in the intense heat of the desert experience and our intimacy with Him increases. Find out how to go from surviving to thriving by partnering with God as He leads you in the path that will strengthen your faith and prepare you to step into your destiny.The Wilderness Companion will help you:* Find out why you have been led into the wilderness* Find out the biggest hindrances to receiving the provision you need in the wilderness* Find out what the Seven Temptations of the Wilderness are* Drastically cut the time you spend in the wilderness by teaching you how to partner with God in His purposes for you in the desert seasons

A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconnect to their faith, find inner healing, and build spiritual community—from Glennon Doyle’s “favorite faith writer” and the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus Feminist and editor of A Rhythm of Prayer “This is the perfect guide for all those of who need to be reintroduced to a faith full of grace, mercy, and love.”—Kate Bowler, author of Good Enough It’s hard to leave a faith that has raised us. Maybe it’s even harder to stay. But what can feel impossible is living in the tension. Living with a faith that evolves. Sarah Bessey is an expert at faithfully stumbling forward. As a New York Times bestselling author and co-founder of Evolving Faith, the foremost community for progressive Christians, she has been trusted by thousands of people to pursue a reconstruction of faith centered on compassion, truth, and inclusion. Bessey has found a deeply underserved and underestimated remnant in the wilderness of Christianity who are still devoted to Jesus, deeply rooted in the Gospel, fascinated with Scripture, and committed to reimagining their faith. Field Notes for the Wilderness guides us through multiple principles to live by for an evolving faith, including • practicing wonder and curiosity as spiritual disciplines • mothering ourselves with compassion and empathy • making space for lament and righteous rage • finding good spiritual teachers • discovering what we are for in this life, and moving in that direction In this groundbreaking and nurturing book, Bessey becomes a shepherd for our curiosity, giving us a table for our questions, tools to cultivate what we crave, and a blessing for what was—even as we leave it behind.