Living Forward

Learn Jesus message to us through his last 7 sayings on the cross.

We look at how to work through our grief and loss in a healthy way. The story of Job will serve as our inspiration for staying faithful and working through our emotions. I will share a five step process to help you identify those chaotic thought patterns that might be contributing to your stress and anxiety through loss.

Our journey of faith is a life-long process. In this lesson I'll share six stages of faith that we cycle in and out of over our lifetime. It's based on James Fowlers work The Stages of Faith which was the basis of my doctoral dissertation. I hope you'll find yourself in the journey and learn about the process of turning your breakdowns into breakthroughs.

I share some interesing ways to look at family experiences: the 10 commandments of families, the needs pie, and the Beavers Scale of Family Functioning. We'll look at Joseph as our biblical model.

In order to know God better we need to know ourselves better. In this lesson you will learn how to better know your emotional life, how to better discern God's will, and how to become a highly differentiated person!

Learn from three therapists about how to better handle your emotions. We know our emotional life affects our spiritual life, so use these strategeis to become emotionally healthy.

Learn how it looks when we don't get control of our emotions. Then you'll see King Saul as an example of an emotionally unhealthy follower of God. We'll see that there are always consequences to our unhealthy patterns but God constantly wants to lead us back to him.

Learn how the emotional needs of the four personality types: sanguine, choleric, melancholy, and phlegmatic.

We will rewind the stories of Saul and David to see what led each of them to turn their hearts from God. We'll learn from David how to take our brokenness and be rebuilt by God's amazing grace.

Has your life ever changedin the blink of an eye? When something (someone!) shiny caught David's eye,instead of focusing on God, he made a detour that changed his life forever. Learn about God's grace and mercy even when you too take a detour!

Saul is after David! He attempts to kill him several times and each time David seeks guidance from the Lord. He ends up "cave running." How do you handle the crises in your life? We'll look at how David deals with his emotions on the run and learn how to cry out to God in faith.

This lesson from 1 Samuel 17 focuses on slaying giants! We'll see the strategies David used and learn how to apply them to slay our own giants.

In this lesson continue to look at Saul’s journey and the consequences of his bad choices. We’ll see how Saul‘s selfishness prevented him from ending well as a leader. Then will examine behavior that sometimes gets in our way of doing God‘s will.

In this series we will take a dive into the personality and character traits of both King Saul and King David. Our goal is to find ourselves in both of these kings and then make the necessary course corrections when we discover our own character flaws and weaknesses. This week we will look at Saul’s character weaknesses of pride, impatience, disobedience, foolishness and selfishness to name just a...

In the final lesson of our Psalm 23 series, we look at God as our generous host. We see how we wants to shower us with blessings of goodness and mercy that will follow us forever. However, this happens only when we follow the Shepherd. Learn how to put him first in this lesson!

Have you walked through troubled valleys? David gives us encouragement in the darkest dark of our lives. Learn how best go through those valleys with the Shepherd.

Learn how the Shepherd wants to refresh us by leading us to the places of lush grass and restful waters. He restores our body, soul, an spirit and shows us the right path. Restoration happens when he let him restore us. Learn about your choice!

What does David mean by "my" Shepherd? Learn how personal our Shepherd is. We'll turn to John 10 to hear the words of Jesus as he explains what being a Good Shepherd means. He makes a stark contrast being a Good Shepherd and a sheep rustler. Finally, we'll explore all the connotations of the  word "want." Are you living in want?  Learn the cure!

Learn traits of the sheep and traits of the shepherd that you may never have thought of! You'll learn how very much like sheep we are! And like sheep, we often go astray. Learn 7 tips to help keep you close to the Good Shepherd.

This demonstration follows Session 4 and demonstrates how to be all in for God.

Learn how to keep your spirit connected to THE SPIRIT! You'll learn about the most underutilized power source of the Christian: the Holy Spirit living and working IN you. Don't miss this powerful lesson that will show you how to submit your body and soul to God's Spirit.

Our soul is the home for our thoughts, emotions, and will. When we have a healthy thought  life and a healhty emotional life and when our will is centered on God, we are living according to God's design. But often we let our thought life and emotional life spiral out of control WE are sometimes driven by our self-will instead of God's will. This lesson provides biblical principles and practic...

Are you struggling to let God's Spirit lead you? Learn how to use your five senses and physical body for God's glory!

Our God created us in his image with a body, soul, spirit. As Christians we are supposed to connect our spirit to the Holy Spirit; however, often our bodily desires and our soul (mind, feelings, emotions) want to take the lead. And that's when we stray off God's plan. This series shows us how to be intentional in connecting our spirit to the Holy Spirit. I'll share biblical passages and practical...

Stephen, on trial by the Sanhedrin for preaching the Good News of the Gospel, preaches a fiery sermon to the religious leaders. Learn how he traces the Jewish history and points out how God was merciful and patient with the people of Israel as they consistently went against his plan. Then you'll hear of the dramatic conclusion following Stephen's sermon. Don't miss this testimony of faithfulness!