Curriculum
Healing Is a Choice
Every Man’s Battle
Life Recovery
Lose It for Life
Boundaries
Boundaries in Marriage
How We Love
Women In the Battle
Healing Is a Choice
Healing Is a Choice deals with Healing on all levels – spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical. Healing is a miraculous gift from God; but it is a function of our own decisions and beliefs as well. When we make the right choices, and reject the lies, we can find the way to wholeness again. This book and curriculum is based on John 5 and the invalid man by at the pool. Jesus asks the man who had been sick for 38 years, “Do you want to get well?”; expressing that there is a choice in wanting healing and moving forward in our life to become the person God has intended us to be.
A lot of what we go through will weigh us down, but it was never supposed to paralyze us and cause us to stop what we are doing in this life. People experiencing grief, depression, divorce and the like HAVE hope. Healing Is a Choice shows us how to take God’s truth and apply it to our everyday situations and our life altering events. Each chapter in the book goes through a lie that we tend to believe due to bad counsel, bad theology, or lies we believe from the enemy. Each chapter of the book outlines a different lie and what God says about it while giving you biblical truth to combat each of these lies.
10 Video-Driven Sessions:
- Session 1 – “All I need to heal is just God and me”
- Session 2 – “Real Christians should have a real peace in all circumstances”
- Session 3 – “It does no good to look back or go inside”
- Session 4 – “Time heals all wounds”
- Session 5 – “I can figure this out by myself”
- Session 6 – “If I act as if there is no problem, it will finally go away”
- Session 7 – “Forgiveness is only for those who deserve it or earn it”
- Session 8 – “I must protect myself from any more pain”
- Session 9 – “Until I am completely healed and strong, there is no place for me to serve God”
- Session 10 – “There is no hope for me”
Facilitator’s Kit includes a 10 page Leaders Guide, 10 DVD sessions, Healing Is a Choice Book and Workbook. The Healing Is a Choice curriculum is designed to run as a 10 week study with each participate using the Healing Is a Choice book and workbook.
Every Man’s Battle
Sexual temptation has taunted man since the beginning of time. In Psalms, King David was called “A man after God’s own heart” and we see the sexual temptation he fell into. No doubt we all know someone, maybe even ourselves, who has succumbed to the lure of sexual temptation. It destroys marriages, relationships, jobs, credibility, as well as your ability to be a “man” as the bible describes.
Our Church today is facing a “man crisis”! Men no longer know how to be the man God has called them to be either because of what their own father may have unintentionally modeled to them or because of the lies our culture portrays of what a “real” man looks like. Rising divorce rates, instability in relationships and jobs, and a lack of the father’s presence in the home leaves each generation in a worse position than the one before.
Participating in an Every Man’s Battle group equips men with practical tools to guard their eyes, heart, and body as they strive for sexual and moral integrity to become the man and leader God has called them to be. Scripture tells us God never intended for us to live life or “do battle” alone.
Every Man’s Battle is an 8-week curriculum which works itself through the 8 DVD sessions, the EMB book and the EMB workbook.
In an Every Man’s Battle group you will join men, like you, who have come from all stages in life to the point where they realize they need God’s standard for sexual and moral integrity in their lives as they contend for “manhood” as described in the bible.
This series also includes Every Woman’s Battle, Every Young Man’s Battle, Every Young Woman’s Battle, Every Man’s Marriage, Preparing Your Son for Every Man’s Battle and much more!
For additional information, please visit the Every Man’s Battle website.
Life Recovery
The 12 steps have long been a great help to Christian people in recovery. Capturing principles taken directly from scripture, The Life Recovery Program is all about transformation: transformation from death to life and transformation from addiction to recovery. It’s about walking with God, humbly accepting and doing His will. As you work through each of the Twelve Steps, you’ll discover challenging spiritual lessons that will allow you to live your life free from addiction!
The Life Recovery materials were created with the intent of helping you take them home and form community, connection and accountability with peers in the form of a bible study or organized weekly class for new and old attendees to help maintain sobriety and continue the recovery journey.
The Life Recovery Series small groups and organized classes have proven to be instrumental in sustaining recovery and sobriety for anyone involved.
This series will equip you with tools such as: Devotional Reading Plans, Recovery Profiles, Guided Questions, Scriptural Help, Recovery Commentary Notes and Topical Indexes. These additional tools aide in finding biblical reasoning and truths for the recovery process.
Lose It for Life
Lose It for Life takes the focus from what was and what might have been and shines a bright light onto the path of what is and what is to be.
Does your weight define you? Does it define how you feel about yourself; how you interact with others? Our weight can hold great power over us; defining our health, our happiness, and our worth.
The goal of Lose It for Life is to help people find a state of “weightlessness”, that is to no longer be defined by what they weigh, which is the secret to lasting results.
Chances are you’ve tried diet programs … you know the joy of making progress and the shameful defeat of gaining back the weight, plus more. Lose It for Life is for men and women who want to get to the bottom of their inability to lose weight and keep it off. This uniquely balanced curriculum not only addresses the physical issues of overeating but also focuses on the emotional, mental, and often-missed spiritual factors related to weight loss. We believe that you’re more than the sum total of your weight.
Success in lasting weight loss begins with understanding the underlying issues that create the weight problem in the first place. Once the source of the struggle is found and understood, the foundation for success is in place.
The Lose It for Life series is designed to run for 17-20 weeks working through the Lose It for Life book and workbook with a close group of peers to help keep you accountable and motivated along the way. The program leaves room for you to connect with your group on a deeper personal level, incorporate health and food advice from diet and nutrition experts, and introduces low impact exercise through personal trainers.
Boundaries
Healthy relationships and sound living depend on maintaining effective personal boundaries. But many people don’t know where to start. Drawing on principles from the bible, Boundaries guides small groups on a journey of discovery and practical application. As a participant you’ll learn how to live your life more fully and display truth and love more freely. Each of the nine Boundaries sessions contains a DVD presentation by Drs. Cloud and Townsend. It’s centerpiece of insights, exercises, and spirited group discussion that can profoundly improve the quality of your relationships in every sphere of life-marriage, family, friendships, church and the workplace.
Boundaries in Marriage
This small group will show couples how to apply important boundary principles to building a strong marriage in which two become one without compromising their integrity, freedom or truth. How do you work out conflict, establish healthy communication, solve problems and deal with the struggle with differing needs? In the process of knitting two souls together, it’s easy to tear the fabric.
Boundaries in Marriage will show couples:
-Why Boundaries are so important for a thriving productive marriage.
-How values form the structure of a marriage
-How to protect a marriage from intruders, whether parents, other people, affairs, or personal idols.
-Why each partner needs to establish personal boundaries and how to go about it.
-How to work with a spouse who understands values and boundaries and how to work with one who doesn’t.
How We Love
This is an incredible resource for marriage groups which help couples identify negative responses learned in childhood that sabotage your relationships. You may have heard the terms “Avoider” or “Controller” being thrown around from loved ones and never understood how to use those personality traits to connect with you spouse. Maybe you don’t even know what you love style is! Milan and Kay give us examples 5 love styles; “The Avoider”, “The Pleaser”, “The Vacillators”, “The Controllers” and “The Victims”. You’ll find practical solutions and groundbreaking principles that equip you to:
-Identify the love styles disrupting your marriage
-Recognize the core patterns in your relationship
-Develop a specific plan for change
-Enhance your sexual intimacy
-Create a deeper, richer marriage
Women in the Battle
The Women in the Battle material is designed to help women who have been hurt in relationships with men who are or have been involved in pornography, sexual addiction or adultery. The curriculum and resources offered will provide practical and biblical ways to deal with these difficult issues to rebuild. Here are a few of the topics discussed within a couple of the different resources…
- Discovering Your Husbands Secret War
- The Power of Healing Connections
- The Curse of Codependency
- Caring Enough to Confront
- Rebuilding Your Self-Esteem
- Changing the Only Person You Can Change
- The Healing Power of Making Amends
- Grieving Your Loss, Healing your Heart
- Forgive and Forget?
- Finding the Courage to Begin Again
- Being There for Others
Excerpt from Living With Your Husbands Secret Wars…
“When you discover your husband is involved in sexual sin-whether it’s lust, pornography, infidelity, or some other behavior-pain whips through you like a tornado. You wonder:
- Will I survive this betrayal?
- Will my marriage survive-and do I even want it to?
- Where is God in all of this?
If you’re struggling with questions like these, you’ll find hope and healing in Living with Your Husbands Secrets Wars. Marsha Means offers specific, proactive steps you can take in your journey toward wholeness. Learn how to find the support you need, grieve the losses of sexual betrayal, and focus on your own spiritual growth, so you can begin the process of forgiveness and moving on-whatever the outcome of your marriage”
Excerpt from Every Heart Restored…
“As the wife of a man who is addicted to lust, pornography, or masturbation, you are not alone. Millions of men can’t get through the day or the week without clicking on their favorite porn sites, thumbing through adult magazines, or watching sensual videos-and millions of wives suffer as a result. Over the past decade, nearly a million men have found inspiration and hope in Every Man’s Battle, the best selling men’s guide to victory over sexual sin. And this is the best-selling guide for every woman who has become a casualty in the fight for sexual purity. Every Heart Restored offers godly guidance and wisdom for a woman facing such personal betrayal.
“What does God expect from me?”
“How can I trust him again?”
“Is it possible to overcome pain and unforgiveness?”
“Can my marriage be rebuilt?”
“What if I just want out?””
