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| How Do I Know God's Will? |
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Theme: The Bible uses the words "God's Will" in different ways, but understanding the different meanings are important to seeking his will in specific decisions of life.
Selected passages including Romans 12:1,2 |
| Coloring Outside the Lines -- Moving Ahead with Possibility Thinking with Persons with Disabilities |
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In a society that calls for cutting corners and getting better results, professionals, churches, families, and individuals with disabilities face a tug of war between making creative changes and maintaining constancy of the familiar.
This keynote speech calls Christians to think "outside the box" in ministry and service delivery to persons who are disabled.
Concepts addressed include:
- Overcoming our own Resistances
- Developing a Servant Attitude in Ministry
- Coming from a theology of Innovation and Change
- Being Prayfully Prophetic
- Overcoming reactive and visionless Action, and
- Working from a Christian Futuring Process |
| Addiction Recovery -- Learning to Communicate |
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Alcohol and drug addictions, like other addictions, create many communication problems for both the addict and the family. Recovery involves learning the skills of listening, empathizing, appropriately asserting oneself, negotiating, confronting and appropriately disclosing oneself.
Beside verbal communication, non-verbal communication awareness is also important for a sober lifestyle. Learn to build healthy relationships by healthy and appropriate communications. |
| Addictions |
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Substance abuse, sexual compulsivity, food consumption, co-dependent relationships and feeling states like anger and fear are some of many addictions which cause problems in our lives. This introductory seminar helps you identify abuse and addictions as well as learn what assistance is available to address these major issues in our society.
Objectives:
- Identify addiction behavior
- Identify assistance available
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| Codependency Issues for Addicts and their Families |
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The addict is every bit as much into codependent relationships with other people as their spouses, children, parents and friends. This seminar helps you learn what codependency is, how to identify specific codependent behaviors you have with others, and helpful guidelines and hints how to break these self-defeating patterns.
Objectives:
- Learn what codependency is,
- Identify specific codependent behaviors you have with others
- Learn how tobreak these self defeating patterns |
| Spirituality--the Key to Recovery from Addiction |
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AA says that people who get the spirituality part of recovery develop meaningful sobriety, but most don’t know what that is exactly. This workshop on spirituality is AA sound, but it is developed from a Christian perspective of our spiritual life. The leaders seminar on Spirituality has helped many addicted people in their recovery from alcohol, drugs, and sexual addictions.
Objectives:
- Learn to use a Model of Spirituality in recovery from addiction
- Learn to think wholistically about addiction |
| Listen to me—An In-depth look at Grief for Church leaders |
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Christians grieve, and they don't give themselves and others permission to do so. Hurtful and harmful things are said and done with grieving people by well meaning people. This in-depth seminar on grief looks at the grieving process with helpful dos and don'ts in ministry to and with individuals in grief.
Objectives:
- Learn about the grieving process
- Learn do's & don'ts of ministry to persons who grieve
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| Impacting our Corner of the World |
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Our work environment, our home life, and relationships we have with others are greatly influenced by our attitudes and our spiritual character. This seminar focuses on building quality relationships with Christ-centered attitudes and Biblically sound personal character. Learn a model to assess your attitudes and six pillars of ethical character.
Objectives:
- Learn to have healthier attitudes at work and home
- Identity six pillars of ethical character
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| Pastoral Diagnosis of our Spiritual Life |
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Assessing the spiritual vitality and needs of ourselves or another can be extremely helpful in establishing a ministry plan to grow spiritually. Using the model of Paul Pruyser, a chaplain at the Menninger Foundation and author of Minister as Diagnostician, this in-depth workshop assists pastors, Stephen Ministers, and other church leaders to better develop a ministry plan with others.
Objectives:
- Learn the Pruyser Model of Spiritual Assessment
- Understand the dynamics of seven dimensions of one's spiritual life
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| Managing your Personal Conflict |
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Everyone has conflict, but not everyone manages it well. Learn what issues produce conflict within you and assess your conflict management skill level. You will learn a conflict management model that will help you develop healthy ways to address conflict in your life.
Objectives:
- Learn what issues produce conflict within you
- Identify your conflict management strengths and weakness.
- Learn a conflict management model that will help you develop healthy ways to address conflict in your life. |
| The Five Languages of Love |
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Using Gary Chapman’s book “The Five Languages of Love” you will learn to assess your love and your partner’s language of showing love. With this tool you will be better able to meet each others needs.
Objectives:
- Learn Chapman's 5 Languages of Love
- Identify ways you and your spouse can better meet each others needs |
| Letting Go of our Past |
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A person recovering from a divorce can only move on with healthy relationships if the past is truly in the past. Learn about grieving issues where letting go is an ongoing process, spiritual issues in which forgiveness and reconciliation are necessary, and the emotional issues of resentments and ongoing fears need to be resolved.
Objectives:
- Learn how to grieve the loss of your former marriage
- Identify spiritual issues in your divorce which need forgiveness and reconciliation
- Identify emotional issues of resentments and fears and how to get past them |
| Sexual Addiction |
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Sexual Addictions are destroying marriages and causing untold damage to the intimacy of husband and wife relationships. This seminar addresses the signs and symptoms of sexual addictions and helps the participants understand some of the interpersonal dynamics in addictive sexual relationships. You will learn ways to address recovery and a Christian model of "sacred sex" from which to (re)build a healthy marital sexual relationship.
Objectives:
- Identify the signs and symptoms of sexual addiction
- Learn ways to address recovery from sexual addiction
- Learn a model of "sacred sex" upon which to (re)build a healthy marital sexual relationship |
| Maturing to the Fullness of Jesus |
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Ephesians 4:13, II Peter 1:5-8; Philippians 3:14-15
Theme: Christian growth and maturity is our Christian developmental task and requires a life-long commitment.
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| Barrier Free Friendships |
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Luke 5:17-26
Theme: Four friends of a person with paraplegia broke barriers to help their friend with a disability to experience the full grace of Jesus Christ.
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| All God’s People |
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I Corinthians 12:22-23
Theme: All people, including individuals with disabilities are (1) important, (2) gifted, and (3) stewards of
grace.
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| A Three Part Series: Spiritual Maturity—Growing in the Grace and Knowledge of Christ |
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Looking at spiritual maturity from both a perspective of the Word of God and a psycho-dynamic understanding of spiritual growth. These 45--60 minute interactive seminars (Sunday School lessons) provide new insights and behaviors which will assist you to grow in Christ.
I. “Gotta Wantta Grow”—Spiritual Growth as an Attitude Change
II. “Everyone’s Grows Differently”—the Meyers Briggs and your Spiritual Growth Style
III. “Growing Up Spiritually”—Spiritual growth as a Spirit Led Developmental Process
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NOTE:
Many of these topics can be customized for your specific
audience |
