“Get Your Life Back” : Choose any/all of the 6 videos
“everyday practices for a world gone mad”
A timely 6-PART series of bible studies by john eldredge
multi-format FROM edinboro presbyterian church:
Weekly videos by the author (watch on your schedule, anytime)
LIVE ZOOM MEETING, TUESDAYS 7:00 P.M. (ZOOM MEETING 814 734 3511, CODE 814)
in-person gatherings, tuesdays 7:00 pm (at edinboro church, 4281 route 6n)
(We will watch the video to start, then have our local discussions)
Watch the WEEKLY VIDEOS here:
The Simple Daily Things ( Your body and your soul will tell you. )
[video 6] [Bible texts 6] [app] [d365.org]
The Simple Daily Things ( Your body and your soul will tell you. )
[video 5] [Bible texts 5/6] [app]
Care for the Neglected Places in your Soul ( You can. God does. )
[video 4] [study guide 4] [Bible texts 4] [app]
[Chapters 4-6 oF THE BOOK ARE not in the free sample]
Get Outside (Focus intentionally on beauty.)
[video 3] [book, chapter 3] [study guide 3] [Bible texts 3 ] [app]
Simple Unplugging (Benevolent Detachment, its benefits explained.)
[video 2] [book, chapter 2] [study guide 2] [one-page guide]
The One Minute Pause (Jesus—I give everyone/everything to you.)
[video 1] [book, chapter 1] [study guide 1] [app] [cards]
downloadable app: the one minute pause [all 6 weeks]
PRINTABLE/DOWNLOADABLE SCRIPTURE CARDS, one-page guide
[KEEP HANDY TO FACILITATE OUR ONE-MINUTE PAUSES]
Based on the One Minute Pause chapter of his new book “Get Your Life Back”, this app invites you into the simple practice of releasing everything to God, restoring your union with God and inviting him to fill you. Available for Android and
The full book by John Eldredge is also available (hardback/softcover/e-book), but is not required for our local study.
The first three chapters of this book are available free, courtesy of BibleGateway.com
One of the most intentional things to “get your life back” is taking time to pause….
We need time to turn off the “noise” and go to God in prayer, and simply to “be”....
So turn down the world’s volume and the schedule’s frantic madness, join this study…. Rescue yourself. Let God rescue you….
“GET YOUR LIFE BACK: Daily practices to help you in a ‘world gone mad’”
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2 minutes for CENTERING BIBLE STUDY VIDEO Local study guide page
(an optional video) WEEK ONE (9/10-16) for Week One 9/16
Week One gatherings are Wednesday, September 16 ….. 11am Zoom ….. 6:30 pm gathered.
You are invited to watch the WEEK ONE video (19 minutes long ) some time before our class gets together.
Week One: (Centering video), PRIMARY BIBLE STUDY VIDEO, (Study guide)
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..the links for videos and the weekly study guide are above..
We are using the four-week series by speaker/author Barb Roose for our September congregational Bible study. It’s always been true, but especially in these Coronavirus-infested, socially-distanced, socially-divided times, but we wonder why things don’t “get better” and get better “quicker than this”.
Waiting is hard — and that includes waiting on God.
When bills are stacking up, jobs or college acceptances are delayed, families are in crisis, or our dreams feel like they will never come true, waiting on God can frustrate us. Unanswered prayers challenge our faith, but these are also opportunities to grow in faith.
“I’m Waiting, God” can be inspiring to anyone, men and women, old and young and middle-aged. This Bible study brings assurance amid anger or depresssion or discouragement. These Bible stories will breathe fresh hope and practical next steps into your life. Together, we can discover that there is goodness and blessing to be found in timesw of waiting, including a closer relationship with God than we ever dreamed to dream.
ELEMENTS OF OUR PROCESS
Each week, there are options for activities in our Edinboro-based version of this helpful Bible study:
barb roose video
The study’s author, national-level Christian speaker Barb Roose, speaks to us from her kitchen. Each week’s video (18-20 minutes) explores the featured Bible story, draws out other parallel Scriptures, and includes her personal stories and advice we wishes to pass along to us.
These videos can be watched on your own schedule, to enhance what we may talk about when we get together. (To honor copyrights but make it available to people connected to our congregation who cannot all be together in these COVID-19 surroundings, the videos are password-protected and available at www.edinboropresby.org/biblestudies. (Ask if you need the password.)
WEDNESDAY GATHERINGS
There are two option to join with others to explore these Scriptures and these real-life topics.
Wednesdays 11:00 a.m. online, on the Edinboro First ZOOM meeting. Call in or join via the web.
Wednesdays 6:30 p.m. gathered, at Randy and Lianne’s back yard. (bring your own drink and a mask)
WEEKLY HAND-OUTS
Greg Gillispie has a discussion guide available for each week’s theme: on the website, handed out Wednesday evenings, or mailed or emailed to you by request.
BIBLE STUDY BOOK
The “I’m Waiting, God” book is optional for our group. If you’d like to get a copy, let us know. It has a study on each of four Biblical women, other wisdom and stories, and thought-starters to accompany each week’s video. The book also offers to you (if you care to) a DAILY activity you might wish to add to your own study and a WEEKLY journaling exercise.
FUPC has paperback copies available (we can order more if you ask)
You can directly buy an e-Book version if you prefer that. One link: […www.christianbook.com/waiting-participant…]
Again, the participants book is optional; you can benefit from the other elements of our study without the book.
2 minutes for CENTERING BIBLE STUDY VIDEO Local study guide page
(an optional video) WEEK ONE (9/10-16) for Week One 9/16
Week One gatherings are Wednesday, September 16 ….. 11am Zoom ….. 6:30 pm gathered.
You are invited to watch the WEEK ONE video (19 minutes long ) some time before our class gets together.
Week One: (Centering video), PRIMARY BIBLE STUDY VIDEO, (Study guide)
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Christian Lament, and Christian Hope
A very timely series of bible studies for “times like these”
WEEK 1: What makes for a “Good” LAMENT?
An introduction to Biblical lament. Those absolutely FILL the Scriptures. However, true (and helpful!) laments are more than mere grumbling, complaining, daydreaming, wishing or just surviving.
WEEK 2: lament shared with my/our community
Towns and nations have lamented together whenever tragedy, injustice or defeat has happened. What honest benefits can happen when we call out to the Lord — together?
WEEK 3: VERY PERSONAL AND INDIVIDUAL LAMENTATION
Lament can be personal, Grief, stuckness, lostness, a loss of trust, or a diminishing hope can all be elements of an individual lament, or what classic writers have termed a “Dark Night of the Soul”.
Using the experiences of people from Biblical to more-modern eras, Pastor Greg offers the equally-classic Serenity Prayer and a three-step outline for ways to “abide for the ride”
ALSO NEW THIS WEEK
A related music video
Christian Lament and Christian Hope
Greg’s WEEKLY VIDEO is on www.EdinboroPresby.org/Bible-Study.
An added option: The 2020-2021 Presbyterian Women Bible study will do a longer study of this topic, and you can order that study booklet through the Edinboro First office. (The book is NOT needed for the local July study, but you might find it helpful to supplement your own study and spiritual reflection.)
Lament can include great sorrow or regret and even grief, often with an outward physical expression of such deep emotions. Lament with a faith perspective is more than resentment or sadness or wistfulness. Jesus himself, as he was nearing his crucifixion, assured his followers, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy” (John 16:20).
