Ebook The Life You've Always Wanted Participant Guide Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People John Ortberg Stephen and Amanda Sorenson 9780310810193 Books

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In the six-session small group Bible study, The Life You’ve Always Wanted, John Ortberg guides you and your group through the spiritual disciplines and teaches you how they can transform your spiritual life. What does true spiritual life really look like? And what keeps you from living it? What can you do to pursue it?

If you’re tired of the status quo—if you suspect there’s more to Christianity than what you’ve experienced—John Ortberg invites you to join him on a road to transformation and spiritual vigor that anyone can take. Cultivate new intimacy and confidence in prayer. Discover the freedom of secrecy. Taste the benefits of slowing life’s frenetic pace. Learn how to be guided by the Holy Spirit … and much more.

As in a marathon, the secret lies not in trying hard, but in training consistently. Proven by followers of Jesus over the centuries, the spiritual disciplines are exercises that strengthen your endurance race on the road to growth.

Sessions include

1. It’s Morphing Time
2. Slowing Down and Celebrating
3. Praying and Confessing
4. Meditating on Scripture and Seeking Guidance
5. Practicing Servanthood, Finding Freedom
6. Going the Distance with a Well-Ordered Heart

Designed for use with The Life You’ve Always Wanted A DVD Study 9780310810506 (sold separately).

Ebook The Life You've Always Wanted Participant Guide Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People John Ortberg Stephen and Amanda Sorenson 9780310810193 Books

"I know people like short (4-6 week) small group curriculum. But in my opinion this was not good material to cram into 6 weeks. It basically does two lessons each week. And even though they are paired well and fit together fairly nicely, it's just too much. I'm using it as a church curriculum/program over three months and I break it all up. I'm basically designing my own curriculum around the book and using these videos from the small group plan (and some of the questions from the Participants Guide) in a Sunday school class as little supplements. It works and I like the videos. But I end up with most only being about 5 minutes, which does feel a little choppy.
Still Ortberg is great and the material is the best I know to introduce people to spiritual practices as training tools to allow God to transform people toward to maturity.
I just don't know whether I would advise anyone to try to use the DVD and participant's guide "as is" for a 6 week small group curriculum."

Product details Paperback 128 pages Publisher Zondervan; Reissue edition (May 12, 2015) Language English ISBN-10 9780310810193 ISBN-13 978-0310810193 ASIN 0310810191

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The Life You've Always Wanted Participant Guide Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People John Ortberg Stephen and Amanda Sorenson 9780310810193 Books Reviews

• Ortberg's book takes a different look at spiritual disciplines and how using them can result in a more complete life. Discussing things like celebration, slowing, prayer, servanthood, confession, and more, Ortberg offers readers an opportunity to engage in spiritual disciplines in meangful ways. Often Christians are reluctant to engage in these disciplines because they have a perception that they are for the "super holy". Ortberg does a great job of breaking this mentality and offers real life examples of how an "ordinary person" could complete these disciplines. In my personal opinion, the book is worth whatever you pay for it for Chapter 5 on Slowing. However the entire book is well worth the price of it. It is in my top 5 most underlined books ever. You should pick it up!.
• Book Review - The Life You've Always Wanted (Christian Disciplines for Ordinary People) John Ortberg
  
  When it comes to living the Christian life, this is one of the best "self-help" books I've encountered. Instead of focusing on traditional disciplines (Sabbath-keeping, fasting, etc.) Ortberg gets to the nitty-gritty of real life--those things each of us deals with on a daily basis. Things like self-control, jealousy, anger--you know the list. But wait ... this book is not a ho-hum list of do's and don'ts. Ortberg's sometimes quirky but always refreshing sense of humor is just the spoonful of sugar this subject requires. I'm recommending it to my friends.
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  Roberta Rhodes
• I know people like short (4-6 week) small group curriculum. But in my opinion this was not good material to cram into 6 weeks. It basically does two lessons each week. And even though they are paired well and fit together fairly nicely, it's just too much. I'm using it as a church curriculum/program over three months and I break it all up. I'm basically designing my own curriculum around the book and using these videos from the small group plan (and some of the questions from the Participants Guide) in a Sunday school class as little supplements. It works and I like the videos. But I end up with most only being about 5 minutes, which does feel a little choppy.
  Still Ortberg is great and the material is the best I know to introduce people to spiritual practices as training tools to allow God to transform people toward to maturity.
  I just don't know whether I would advise anyone to try to use the DVD and participant's guide "as is" for a 6 week small group curriculum.
• I was assigned to read this book for my REL 105 class and I am so grateful. I loved the book. Refreshing. Enlightening. Helpful. Good Perspective on how to intentionally live every day from one's heart ... not before man (as if performing for acceptance + significance) but before God alone as one's friend. There is so much in this book to feast on.
• Great book, great series. Bottom line meat and potatoes stuff anyone needs to work thru if your serious about living "The Life" you always wanted, but with faith firmly planted in it. Your selling yourself short if you think a few minutes a month for your faith walk/journey in Christ will get it done. It won't....Read it.
• I thought I was ordering the full-size, hard-cover, print book. What I got was a reduced-size version with small print, a cheap "hard" cover and pages that are already yellowing. As for content, the value of this book is its excellent discussion of what discipline is and how to use it. I recommend reading it just for that, but get the ebook; or buy from a brick-and-mortar store so you know what you are getting. I have no interest in the author's religion, but it is easy to disregard that part and just read it as applied psychology. There is a later version rewritten as a workbook so be sure you order whichever version you want. The two books have the same title!
• This is a great book am I am enjoying the read. Practical insights for taking you to the next levil of your relationship with the Lord.
• John Ortberg (2002), through his book, The Life You've Always Wanted, is attempting to answer the age old question, "how do I become Christ-like?" or as the once popular acronym once asked, "WWJD?" Rather than just accepting that salvation is the "minimal entrance requirement for getting into heaven" (Ortberg, p 29), the author contends that salvation is about living a glorious human life - now, on earth. He describes the process of becoming a person who lives victoriously and Christ-like as morphing, and describes the pre-morphed life as one of disappointment and guilt. Ortberg confesses his life disappointments which are common to most of us - desiring to be a better parent, spouse, and Christian. Rather than just trying to act like a better person or doing the right things, Ortberg suggest that the morphing process will make us want to do the right things and make us be a better person.
  In making his assessment of the current state of the church, Ortberg (2002) quotes William Iverson who wrote "A pound of meat would surely be affected by a quarter pound of salt." (p. 33.) He contends that Christians are not bringing about the changes in the world that Jesus spoke about and concludes that it is because very few people actually morph into the Chris-like beings we are instructed to become. Ortberg reveals that the reason Christians are not worth their salt in the earth, is that we have been trying instead of training. He points to the disciplines of studying the Bible, prayer, being joyful, and unhurried as training methods that must be practiced in daily life. He also includes a section on servant hood, and confession before he sums it all up with a discussion on the role of the Holy Spirit as He leads us into transformation. The book ends with a chapter on suffering which deals with coming to terms with unanswered prayers and persevering through our suffering.