Timothy S. Lane

Paul David Tripp

A changed heart is the bright promise of the gospel. When the Bible talks about the gift of a new heart, it doesn't mean a heart that is immediately perfected, but a heart that is capable of being changed. Jesus' work on the cross targets our hearts - our core desires and motivations - and when our hearts change, our behavior changes. It's amazing to watch people who once seemed stuck in a pattern of words, choices, and behaviors start living in a new way as Christ changes their hearts.

How People Change

Tim S. Lane

While identifying the deeper issues that keep relationships less than they are designed to be, Tim Lane and Paul Tripp show readers how to experience the other side of relationships as well. They testify of the power of God's presence to bring believers to the place where: conflicts actually get resolved, tough conversations turn out positive, forgiveness is granted and real love is expressed and shared, casual relationships mature into deep friendships, weaknesses are overlooked and strengths are applauded, people are honest without being mean. --from publisher description

A Mess Worth Making

Relationships

How Christ Changes Us by His Grace

How People Change Study Guide

This 12-week CCEF study helps individuals and small groups transform their relationships using principles from Timothy Lane and Paul David Tripp's Relationships: A Mess Worth Making. Participants learn how to resolve conflicts, have difficult conversations, grant forgiveness, overlook weaknesses, celebrate strengths, and grow casual relationships into deep friendships. Change and Your Relationships explores the important process of change within its primary context: our relationships. The curriculum provides twelve lessons, activities, homework discussion, and "Make It Real" life applications. The self-explanatory leader's notes in the back give detailed directions for leading an individual or a small group through the study.

Study Guide with Leader's Notes

Change and Your Relationships

Everyone has their own style of dealing with conflict. Some people try to win at all costs and will do or say anything to get their own way. Others hate conflict and will do or say anything to avoid or end it. Sadly, neither fighting nor avoidance leads to genuine peace or restored relationships. Is there a better way? Timothy S. Lane, pastor, counselor, husband, and father, shares the biblical principles that point to God's better way of dealing with conflict. When you understand the real source of your conflicts and the lasting cure that God in his Word offers, you will see that your conflicts don't have to be negative; instead they can be an opportunity to grow and deepen your relationship with God and others.

Conflict

How many times have you tried to change a behavior only to find yourself doing the same thing again? Do these phrases sound familiar? "There I go again!" "I've had this struggle for years, and I just can't seem to win." "I do okay for awhile, but then I get caught in the same old sin." It"s easy to be discouraged when we fall into the same old sins, but God, in the Bible, offers hope to repeat offenders. Timothy S. Lane, a pastor, counselor, father, and husband helps you fight the daily, small battles with temptation by looking at the desires that underlie your behaviors, the different stages of temptation, and how honestly going to Christ in repentance and faith will change your desire life. You will learn that you and your sin are no match for God's goodness, power, and grace.

Fighting the Urge

Temptation

Conflitti? Delusioni? Incomprensioni? Lascia fare a Dio. Ogni giorno ci confrontiamo con persone imperfette (come noi) creando un “groviglio” di relazioni che influenza tutti gli aspetti della nostra vita. In questo libro gli autori rivelano i profondi meccanismi che muovono le nostre reazioni, scelte e comportamenti nei rapporti con il prossimo. Interagiamo con gli altri centinaia di volte ogni giorno e possiamo affrontare le nostre relazioni con forza e coraggio perché Dio può fare la differenza.

Un groviglio che vale la pena creare

Relazioni

A spirit-stirring debut about basketball, family, and an unlikely underdog who overcomes adversity to become a legend Basketball prodigy Jimmy “Kamikaze” Kirkus is destined for the NBA. But before he can sail off into a golden future, Jimmy must reckon with a tragic past and with a curse that has haunted his family for generations. His father had been a basketball great himself, but his dreams of stardom were traded in for a hasty marriage and parenthood. Born into a house haunted by wasted talent, alcoholism, and death, will Jimmy fall victim to the Kirkus Curse or break it once and for all? In the same vein as the wildly popular Friday Night Lights, Rules for Becoming a Legend uses sports as a lens through which to understand family, community, catastrophe, and hope. This spirit-igniting debut announces Lane as an extraordinary young writer to watch.

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