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Synopsis
Stronger: Finding Hope in Fragile Places - Leader Kit by Angela Thomas-Pharr helps a leader facilitate this women's Bible study experience and contains all that is needed to conduct the 7 weeks of small group time. Through biblical teaching and real life application, this study teaches that believers do not have to live in weakness. God is stronger than every struggle you will ever face. All who receive Jesus Christ have been hidden in Him. We have been made alive in Him through the forgiveness of our sin, filled in Him with all the fullness given to Him, brought near to God in Him, and blessed with every spiritual blessing in Him.
As we have received Christ Jesus, we are now called to walk in a manner worthy of Him. Strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in so great an inheritance. Today, because of Christ, you can live stronger. This study will guide women into biblical truth through exposition and story, so they live confident, transformed, Christ-radiating lives marked by His strength.
Sessions:
- Week 1 - God is stronger than EVERYTHING.
- Week 2 - God is stronger than my struggles.
- Week 3 - God is stronger than my bad news.
- Week 4 - God is stronger than my overwhelming life.
- Week 5 - God is stronger than my attitude.
- Week 6 - God is stronger than every broken thing in me.
Kit Includes:
- DVDs with 7 group teaching sessions, including intro session
- Small group Bible Study Book with leader helps
Through accurate Biblical teaching, real life observation, and everyday application, Stronger will guide participants to:
- Stop facing today in weakness and be strengthened by God's promises to every Christ follower
- Tackle everyday struggles empowered with a biblical understanding of God's riches and His love
- Overcome spiritual immaturity through Christ-centered teaching that produces growth and change
- Break life-long patterns of defeat and despair, refocused on the glorious hope promised to us in Christ
- Remove paralyzing inner anxiousness and truly live in the peace that surpasses all understanding
- Put an end to the self-focused distractions of striving, comparison, and performance so that your life will accomplish more for God's glory
- Smile at the uncertain future, not because we are stronger, but because Christ in us, is stronger than all our problems
Video Session Run Times:
- Session 1 (07:28)
- Session 2 (48:40)
- Session 3 (28:00)
- Session 4 (25:55)
- Session 5 (30:57)
- Session 6 (44:16)
- Session 7 (35:08)
Author:
Angela Thomas-Pharr believes that ordinary women become extraordinary in the arms of God. She knows. She is an ordinary woman. As a best-selling author, sought-after speaker and gifted storyteller, Angela transparently shares real-life experiences that help women of all ages and from all walks of life develop a deeper passion for knowing God. After attending Dallas Theological Seminary, Angela served as a part-time youth director in a Methodist church where she discovered her true calling as a speaker and teacher. After living 14 years as wife and mother of four, Angela's marriage ended. Through the wounds of divorce and the unchartered territory of life as a single mom, Angela learned how to rely on God for strength, hope and comfort. During that season, she wrote, My Single Mom Life, a book of lessons and encouragement for all the women who walk a similar path. She has also written several Bible studies with LifeWay, including Redeemed and Brave. A popular speaker, Angela regularly engages, inspires, and encourages over 70,000 people each year through her speaking engagements at national conferences, workshops, and other arenas. Angela graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has a master's degree from Dallas Theological Seminary. Angela calls Greensboro, N.C., home and enjoys making her husband Scott and their four children her main priorities.
Synopsis
As we have received Christ Jesus, we are now called to walk in a manner worthy of Him. Strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in so great an inheritance. Today, because of Christ, you can live stronger. This study will guide women into biblical truth through exposition and story, so they live confident, transformed, Christ-radiating lives marked by His strength.
Leader Kit Includes:
- One Bible study book with personal study segments to complete between 7 weeks of group sessions and leader helps to lead discussion within small groups
- 2 DVDs with elective teaching videos, approximately 30-45 minutes per session
Benefits: - Stop facing today in weakness and be strengthened by God's promises to every Christ follower.
- Tackle everyday struggles empowered with a biblical understanding of God's riches and His love.
- Overcome spiritual immaturity through Christ-centered teaching that produces growth and change.
- Break life-long patterns of defeat and despair, refocused on the glorious hope promised to us in Christ.
- Remove paralyzing inner anxiousness and truly live in the peace that surpasses all understanding.
- Put an end to the self-focused distractions of striving, comparison, and performance so that your life will accomplish more for God's glory.
- Smile at the uncertain future, not because we are stronger, but because Christ in us, is stronger than all our problems.
Video Sessions: - Session 1: Introduction (7:28)--Angela introduces the pilgrim in Psalm 84 and the concept of Stronger. We don't find strength in 7 easy steps but in the Gospel message that God is our strength.
- Session 2: Blessed Are Those Whose Strength Is in Him (48:40)--The pilgrim psalms illustrate the source of our strength. Jesus gives us a picture of what it is like to live this life on earth as Christians.
- Session 3: Stronger In Him (28:00)--The strength that we long for is hidden in the truth of the Gospel. The Gospel provides the power. Our obedience is the fruit of His power.
- Session 4: Passing Through Baca (25:55)--God gives graces to the traveler on the journey through the valley of weeping. When we are thirsty God gives the living water He has promised.
- Session 5: The Work and the Joy of God's Strength (30:57)--The Holy Spirit seals you with the truth that you belong to the Lord. The Christian life is gloriously difficult but the difficulty of it does not make us cave in. It rouses us up to overcome.
- Session 6: Made Stronger To Live with Passion (44:16)--Through Hebrews 12 Angela shows a picture of life in the strength that God provides. We can live a passionate life with Christ's power.
- Session 7: Until We're Home (35:08)--As pilgrims in this world, on this journey toward our eternal home, the one thing we know for sure is that, one day, we will be home. Until then, we can endure on our journey.