Reviews

"Experiencing God"
Henry T Blackaby & Claude V King
B&H Publishing Group, 2004

The Authors' experience of God thru' his years of church work evolve with the seven realities of experiencing God. Very good study material for small group as they experience God together. There are 12 units of 5 days each for group study. There is also a Pre-Teen edition so it ideal for Inter-Generation Small group use for their Pre-Teen study material in line with the adult's study.

"Keeping from Busyness"
Adam R Holz
NavPress, 2000

Modern technologies and advance communication designed to make our life easier, but our "to do" lists become longer each day instead. We face the daunting task each day to fit together a busy life and career with the progress of God's kingdom. The study will help us deal more effectively with busyness and challenge us to make time out to prioritize and focus on God.

"Seeking Him"
DeMoss & Grissom
Life Action, 2004

This is a 12 weeks of 5 daily studies, preferably for small groups of Christian who are committed to seeking God for "revival" in their lives and in our churches. The studies cover inspirational true stories of personal revival; studies of bible passages as we grow in our understanding of the heart and ways of God; exercises and questions for personal reflection and responses which challenge us to evaluate our own behavior and attitude and encourage us to apply what we learned; questions for group discussion and prayer time.

"Experiencing Spiritual breakthroughs
The powerful principle of the Three chairs"
Bruce Wilkinson
LifeWay Church Resources, 1999

The author uses the principle of 3 chairs to illustrate 3 different types of persons and faith in God: a committed Christian; a believer who hasn't decided how much or little time they will follow Christ; and someone who has not responded personally to God. We will discover that we have sat in each one of these chairs in our lives. Thru the book, we will also examine how these chairs relate to 3 key areas of in our lives and how we can make spiritual (God motivated & God helped) breakthroughs in those areas.

"The Purpose Driven Life"
Rick Warren
Zondervan, 2003

This well-known book contains 40 days of studies to help us discover "What on earth am I here for?" The author breaks the studies into 5 main purposes of the life God want us to be: planned for God's pleasure; formed for God's family; created to become like Christ; shaped for serving God; and made for a mission.

By the end of the book, the author hopes that we will know God's purpose for our life and will understand our "Big picture" - how all the pieces of our life fit together. This perspective will help reduce our stress, simplify our decisions, increase our satisfaction and most importantly, prepare us for eternity.