- Husband/Wife roles in Marriage
- Marriage: God's Covenant
- Dilightful Differences!
- Foundations for Family Fulfilment
- Managing Your Children
- Self-Image
- Forgiveness
- Learning to Counsel Biblically
- Faith
- Trauma
- Dealing with Demons
- Spiritual Warfare
- Worship
- Soul & Spirit
- Finding Your Spiritual Gifting
- Jesus (you took my) Shame on You
- Stress -- and How to Deal with it!
- Men's Issues: (Getting Victory OVer Lust, etc.)
The following is a brief description of each of these seminars:
- HUSBAND/WIFE ROLES IN MARRIAGE
MARRIAGE WELL-DONE" : The A.I.R. Principles
God's pattern for marriage roles; understanding differences between a husband's role and wife's role in marriage
A scriptural pattern for Marriage:
A. I. R. (Stands for . . .)
A.. If a husband lovingly takes Authority
Wife Experiences Actualization
I. Husband must takes Initiative
Wife can express her own Individuality
R. Husband takes Responsibility
Wife will Respond
Submit to one another:
- Wives, to your own husband
- Husbands, love your wife ...
- Husbands, give yourself up for your wife
- Wife, see to it that you respect your husband
Ephesians 5:21-33
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GOD'S COVENANT Doing it God's Way --or Man's Way
Untangling the Submission myths Scripturally.
Her needs; His needs --- How do we get real fulfillment?
What was the real problem with Adam's response?
Marriage as a Contract? or a Covenant?
Now what do we do with that covenant?
How to make it work when your mate doesn't cooperate?
A practical, scriptural guide to Marriage God's way.
Find out how God's plan/pattern can work in your marriage.
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DELIGHTFUL(?) DIFFERENCES! In Marriage
Learn how to:
Leave, Cleave and Weave; What does Genesis 2:24 really mean?
Confronting the "Myth of Compatibility"
What was the real problem with Adam and Eve?
(and why we keep falling into it!)
What does THAT WOMAN need? - What does MY MAN need?
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- FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY FULFILMENT
(Four Factors from Fowler's Foundational Fundamentals)
FOUNDATION # 1:
THE FAMILY IS GOD'S IDEA
a) ...God's priority
b) ...Man shall LEAVE ... as per. Gen. 2:24
c) ... God's order is not the same as society's idea
FOUNDATION # 2:
SATAN'S PLAN FOR FAMILY
a) ... Satan has a plan for your family
b) ... How to keep under God's protection
c) ... Some factors that cause the foundations to be destroyed
d) ... How to "destruction proof" your family
FOUNDATION # 3
CHRIST'S LORDSHIP IS ESSENTIAL
a) ... Self on the throne of your life
b) ... How to put Jesus on the throne of your life
c) ... Christ on the throne of your life
FOUNDATION # 4:
SCRIPTURE MUST BE THE STANDARD
a) Husband and Wife roles
b) Father and Mother roles
c) Parent's and Children's roles
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MANAGING YOUR CHILDREN
"Children obey your parents..." Eph. 6:1
Parenting . . .
...ON GOD'S TERMS,
...UNDER GOD'S AUTHORITY
...BY DIVINE APPOINTMENT
Testing to identify YOUR style of parenting.
How to get the balance between:
1. Love (Making your child feel affirmed) and
2. Control (Managing your child's behavior)
How to respect your kids
The difference between discipline and punishment
Identifying the real goal of parenting
Methods of Discipline (When to use which disciplines )
A practical, hands-on guide to understanding your own parenting style; the difference between your style and your spouse's style; how they can fit together, or work against each other! We will be learning different methods of discipline, when those different methods work, and how to do discipline effectively.
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SELF-IMAGE ... Finding your true Identity
A workshop on:
Seeing yourself from God's Perspective
Who is the real You?
Who sets your identity?
Who does God say I am?
Dealing with SHAME and how it effects our identity
Identifying the Lies - Facts - Truth (How to tell the difference)
Where do I get my identity?
What does God know about me that I don't?
Relating to God through your true identity.
Finding your true Identity:
A scriptural workshop on learning to see yourself from God's perspective.
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FORGIVENESS
Working through the process of forgiveness
"Forgiving as Christ forgave you." Eph. 4:32
What Forgiveness is
What it isn't
How to do it
Why must I do it???
Does that mean "I am wrong, he is right"?
But what about my position? My anger?
He hasn't really repented, so why should I forgive?
This seminar will be a supportive discussion on working through the difficult process of forgiving.
Identifying some common misunderstandings and mis-teachings about forgiveness.
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- LEARN to COUNSEL BIBLICALLY
A seminar for those gifted in caring for the body of Christ
Learn to develop skills in basic lay counseling.
Learn how to use scripture to minister to hurting people.
How to counsel:
Marriage issues, Depression, Addictions, Anxiety, etc.
Examine real live cases and how to address them.
Bring your own counseling cases to find some ways of dealing with them.
THIS IS A SEMINAR FOR:
1. People who find that others come to them with problems and they don't always know what to say or how to handle the situation.
2. Those who need help in handling delicate life situations scripturally.
3. Those with gifts of counseling, and exhortation, and who want to develop them with spiritual insight.
4. Those who are faced with hurting people, but who need guidance, affirmation, and encouragement in ministering to them.
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FAITH
"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." Heb. 11:1
What Faith really is.
How to have Faith.
Distinguishing Faith from:
Hope,
Belief,
Presumption.
Using Scripture to untangle common theological myths about Faith.
- The importance of FAITH.
- Which comes first: Seeing or Believing?
- What FAITH IS.
- What FAITH is NOT.
- FAITH contrasted to belief.
- FAITH contrasted to hope.
- How the Old Testament concept of FAITH differs from that of the New Testament.
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FINDING GOD'S PURPOSES THROUGH DIFFICULTIES
Giving meaning to Suffering, Adversity, & Tribulation
"All who desire to live Godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted". II Timothy 3:12
How Christians can overcome:
Stress,
Abandonment,
Persecution,
Trauma
Giving meaning to TRIBULATION and FAILURE
God's special resources for responding to SUFFERING
Victory in ADVERSITY
Healing through FORGIVENESS
Tribulation and persecution will come to all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus. What we do during those times can either strengthen us or defeat us! Knowing the truth in this area can make all the difference in being more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:37
One of the purposes of this seminar is to prepare the church for coming trials.
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Realistic help in Recognizing and Addressing the Demonic:
The practical ministry of demonic deliverance is as real today as it was in Jesus' day. Jesus knew the difference between demons and mental problems. The Bible tells us that we too, have authority over the demonic forces that are in our world today.
Can a Christian have a demon?
How do we recognize demonic forces at work in a person's life?
How can we identify what is demonic from other problems?
How can demonized people get set free?
How can we keep ourselves free from demonic interference?
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SPIRITUAL WARFARE
"I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall injure you." Luke 10:19
Know YOUR authority over Satan.
Learn to use your authority against Satan's tactics. Learn to respond effectively to different kinds of satanic attacks.
As a believer, Jesus has given you authority over all the power of the enemy. Learn to use that authority in your daily life, and in ministry in the kingdom of God.
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"Enter His gates with Thanksgiving, and His courts with Praise. "
Psalms 100:4
Recognizing . . .
--Worship as the Church's primary focus.
--The differences between soulish responses and spiritual worship.
--Where feelings enhance or hinder worship.
A helpful distinction between:
--THANKSGIVING
--PRAISE
--WORSHIP
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SOUL & SPIRIT
How the Soul, Spirit and Body work together.
Exposing the SOULISH that claims to be SPIRITUAL.
Distinguishing the Soulish from the Spiritual is vital for:
Counseling,
Working with cults,
Worship,
Self-understanding
Dealing with demonic forces
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- FINDING YOU SPIRITUAL GIFTING
A look at your own motivational gifting and how it can bless you and the church.
A scriptural look at various kinds of gifts
Testing to identify your spiritual gifts.
Practical support in:
A) Identifying your spiritual gift
B) Developing your spiritual gift
C) Using your spiritual gift
Be fulfilled where you can work best inthe Body of Christ
This seminar will help you use your gifting to the potential that God intended. It will help you know what ministries you should get involved with and what you are NOT to be involved with. Your church body can begin seeing the fruit of your ministry in new and vital ways that will profit the church, and set you free from the bondage of "ought-to" responsibilities that are not a joy to you.
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- JESUS (You took my) SHAME ON YOU
Satan wants to SHAME you
Learn how to turn your shame into blessings in your life.
Find your true "SELF-IDENTITY" in what Jesus says about you.
Look at the LIES that satan has been able to tell you
Face the FACTS, not hide from them
Believe God's TRUTH
- Who sets your identity?
- Who does God say you are?
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- STRESS -- AND HOW TO DEAL WITH IT!
From Within Ourselves From External Factors
- Looking at yourself the way God sees you
- Knowing who you are in Christ
- Being released from ALL guilt and shame
- Doing only what God gives you to do
- Keep a single-minded focus
- Walk in a state of contentment
- Continue in an attitude of forgiveness
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- MEN'S ISSUES [Getting Victory Over Lust, etc.]
Learn to see yourself -- and your call to real manhood -- from GOD'S perspective. Confront (with CONFIDENCE!) the whole scary issue of Lust, as a problem all of us men have. Learn from scripture and honest testimony how to get victory over the temptations of pornography, sexual fantasy, lust, masturbation. REALLY! Once and for all!
Become the spiritual leader ("priest") in your family
- Learn to love your wife as Christ loved the church.
- Learn to hear God's voice in your current circumstances.
- Learn to trust God's Spirit in YOU.
- Learn to be head of your wife, and to intercede (spiritually) effectively for your family.
- Learn to be consistent in getting into scripture and sharing honestly with the Lord.
