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| Biblical Hope (and Help) for Women with Powerful Personalities Gifted, educated, and passionate women often are misunderstood and can easily find themselves isolated, lonely, or embroiled in a variety of relational conflicts. The very strengths that help us to motivate and lead others can also be our downfall relationally. If you, or someone you know, struggles to relate well with people and develop deep friendships, this workshop is for you. Grounded in biblical truth and fueled by the gospel, we will consider how best to serve these precious women with grace, truth, and redemptive time. Handouts Download the MP3 file for this workshop now for FREE! |
| Peacemaking for Preschoolers (and their Mothers!) One of the most common questions I hear at women’s retreats is this: “At what age should we start teaching our children the Young Peacemaker materials?” By looking at Corlette’s (wonderful!) course, it may be easy to think that age 7 or 8 is appropriate because by then, most children are able to read and complete the fun activity booklets. However, I strongly believe that the best age to start training children in peacemaking is no later than preschool. Otherwise, we inadvertently train them to be tiny peace-fakers and peace-breakers rather than peace-makers! In this workshop, we will discuss how to teach and reinforce peacemaking in the lives of very young children. Handouts Download the MP3 file for this workshop now for FREE! |
| Mediating the Miserable Christian Marriage: An Advanced Case Study Do you know any marriages in which the husband and wife love God, their children, their church — and hate each other? Having co-mediated a number of these “miserable Christian marriages” over the years, I do. I have seen firsthand the poisonous cauldron of bitterness and rage that can only come after couples spend decades either fleeing or returning in kind countless offenses, slights, and graceless attacks. These marriages are stuck in a cycle of despair and they need help. In this workshop, a former pastor and I will share with you the idols of the heart and other issues we observe repeatedly in marriage conciliation cases. We will also provide the Scriptures and strategies we most often use to encourage, confront, rebuke, and comfort. Handouts Download the MP3 file for this workshop now for FREE! |
| Healing the Conflicts Between Mothers & Daughters In this workshop from the 2001 Peacemaker Ministries Annual Conference, I teach not only from my own mother-daughter experience (my mother was an alcoholic with mental illnesses, I have had two step-mothers, and I lived with a “Christian mom” in high school after my mother attempted suicide), but also from the experiences of over 100 women I interviewed for this training.(PLEASE NOTE: The audio quality is not good at the beginning of this recording, but it improves.) Handouts Download the MP3 file for this workshop now for FREE! |
| Oceans of Emotions: Effectively Ministering Peace to Women I taught this workshop at the 2002 Peacemaker Ministries Annual Conference with the hope of ministering to women who experience powerful emotions (like me!), and also to the people who relate with us. We consider how our emotions exist for God’s glory, how the Fall affects our emotions, and how our emotions show our what we believe about God, ourselves, others, and our circumstances. I also provide some practical steps for wisely and biblically managing our emotions and ministering to people with strong emotions.(PLEASE NOTE: This recording is missing the first and last couple minutes of the teaching. While you can still understand where I was headed, I am sorry for this glitch.) Handouts Download the MP3 file for this workshop now for FREE! |
| TRACK 1: The Grace of God that Brings Shalom This is my personal testimony of God’s grace ministering to my heart and bringing abiding Shalom: peace with God, others, and within. I share of growing up with a crushing sense of being “not good enough” no matter how hard I tried (and how I tried to “escape” through performance and food). I also explain how the Lord brought me to peace with my past (I grew up in an alcoholic, divorced family with a mentally ill mother) and is ministering peace to my heart to this day. I hope it is an encouragement to you! Download the MP3 file for this talk now for FREE! TRACK 2: A Woman of Peace Amidst Holiday Strife |