This diagram from Dallas Willard's book, Renovation of the Heart is a useful resource for understanding how spiritual formation takes place in our inner person.
Use this resource to discover God's incredible love for you as a foundation for your identity and personal worth and value. Use this prayer time to allow God's Spirit to help you grow in awareness of his love for you by crafting a “Beloved Charter." Here are the instructions: Drafting a ''BELOVED CHARTER'' 1. Look up verses that are expressive…
Use this outline alongside your reading of Sage, by Chris Bruno. This resource is designed to be used as a journaling tool to be completed as you read Sage. Don't wait until you've finished the book - journal as you go to connect this awesome book with your own story.
We do not know the reason God allows evil and suffering to continue, or why it is so random, but now at least we know what the reason is not. It cannot be that he does not love us. It cannot be that he does not care. He is so committed to our ultimate happiness that he was willing…
BECAUSE GOD WON’T ROB US OF FREE WILL The problem of suffering is usually posed as a question: ‘If God is all-powerful and all good, why does he allow evil to exist in the world?’ Perhaps the most common response is known as the ‘free will defense’. After all, where does most of the evil in this world come from?…
This resource will help you understand what resilience really is and how resilient you are in the seven areas of resilience that are measured. After completing the questions and scoring it, I can help you interpret the results. The Resilience Assessment is from the work of Reivich & Shatte, The Resilience Factor, 2002.
The Life Balance Exercise is designed to be take several times a year as you move through transitions of finding a better balance to all the important elements of your life. The genius of this tool is in its incremental approach to change. As opposed to huge wholesale changes that require massive amounts of energy, the Life Balance Exercise actually…
Would you be interested in a tool that would allow you to take back control of your response to stress? Instead of fight, flight or freeze, and the 1400 biochemical reactions that take place when your emotions shift from calm to stormy, it is possible to self-regulate your response to stress. You are not a victim to the upsetting circumstances…
Understanding how to deal with anger begins with a knowledge of how it starts and progresses. Use this resource to identify where you are in the process and learn ways to stop the anger before it becomes unhealthy.
This resource is a comprehensive list of emotions you can use to help you improve your emotional intelligence. Scan the pages to find and point to the emotion you have been feeling.