This is the facilitator's guide for a self-help support group using the Making Peace with Your Past workbook.

Making Peace with Your Past Facilitator's Guide

Sledge, Tim

Religion & Spirituality

Before I Said Goodbye Books

Moving Beyond Your Past is the follow-up study to Making Peace with Your Past. Both books grew out of support group ministries led by author Tim Sledge when he was pastor of the Kingsland Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, in the 1980s. Making Peace with Your Past and Moving Beyond Your Past, have been used as interactive workbooks for 20,000 support groups across the U.S.Moving Beyond Your Past focuses on a biblical approach to recovery in the present tense. With a focus on attitudes, actions, and changes, this 13-unit study guides participants to move beyond the hurts of the past into joyful and productive day-to-day living. This course will help you to:•take responsibility for your own emotional and spiritual wholeness •learn to care for others without having the codependent tendencies of controlling or rescuing •develop spiritual and emotional vitality in your relationship with God •move beyond the hurts of the past to a life of joy, purpose, and meaning This book provides self-paced, interactive study and resources for participation in a 13-week support group or can be worked through on your own. The companion book, Moving Beyond Your Past Facilitator’s Guide, provides administrative guidance and suggested activities for the support group study. Making Peace with Your Past is a recommended prerequisite to this support group study. Both books can be purchased on Amazon.com.

Moving Beyond Your Past

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

This book is the facilitator's guide for leading a support group using the Moving Beyond Your Past interactive workbook by Tim Sledge.

Moving Beyond Your Past Facilitator's Guide

This study offers practical, biblically-based guidance to lead you to identify, understand, and come to terms with the feelings and problems of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Making Peace with Your Past: Help for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families

This follow-on from the popular Youth Emmaus books is an exciting new course for young people. Get a Life! approaches some of the big questions that 13-18 year-olds face in their secondary school years, including issues of vocation, calling, gifts, passions and the big question that many young people dread being asked: ‘What do you want to do with your life?’.Written in an accessible manner, the five sessions draw on contemporary culture and include interactive material to explore the issues and themes of calling, gifts and service. Ideal for 13-18 year olds who are making big decisions about the future, as a pre- or post-confirmation course, as a Lent course, or as an after school series. Includes fully photocopiable handouts.

Get a Life!: A Five-session Course on Life Goals for Young People

Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd

Youth Emmaus is a course designed to help those aged 11 to 16 explore the basics of the Christian faith. This is no easy task - but Youth Emmaus offers a winning combination of meaty leaders' notes, cool handouts for group members, great cartoons and graphics and a free CD-ROM stacked with other useful resources. The material is fully road-tested and ideal for youth groups and as a confirmation course for young people. Youth Emmaus tackles: What Christians Believe (5 Units) How Christians Grow (5 Units) Living the Christian Life (3 Units) Youth Emmaus also contains a FREE CD-ROM that includes: Handouts and supplementary handouts for all sessions as PDF files Emmaus Poster Downloadable services to use with young people and a section on using Youth Emmaus in an all-age context Powerpoint presentation on Youth Emmaus Useful links to Emmaus website All icons from handouts available in colour in a downloadable format

Youth Emmaus (Emmaus: The Way of Faith)

Mayfield, Sue

Cottrell, Stephen

Washington, Tony

Moving beyond your past (Life Support Group Series)

LifeWay Press

Tim Sledge pulls back the curtain on Southern Baptist life as he chronicles nearly four decades of ministry in this highly personal, sometimes painful, and frequently provocative spiritual autobiography. Part memoir, part exposé, part polemic—this is an account of failures as well as accomplishments—and very nearly a case study in how faith may begin, how it evolves, and how it can fall apart. Sledge traces the childhood origins of his sincere faith, his efforts at spiritual obedience, his theological education, his climb up the ladder in ministry, his insights into the challenges of growth-oriented leadership, and his pioneering work in faith-based recovery ministries that ultimately guided participants in 20,000 support groups across the U.S. A recurring theme in his story is coming to grips with the significance of being an adult child of an alcoholic. After a fall from grace and a growing awareness that faith no longer worked for him, his journey took a new direction that required examining alternatives to his former belief system including Deism, agnosticism, humanism, and atheism. Ultimately, he found new ways to live a positive, value-driven life and emerged as a new version of the same person he had always been, still interested in creating avenues for personal growth in the lives of others. Goodbye Jesus is a relatable and thoughtful read for those seeking to better understand the evangelical mindset, for Christians who are questioning their faith, for ministers trying to decide whether to stay or go, and for those who have left their faith and are dealing with its loss.

Goodbye Jesus: An Evangelical Preacher’s Journey Beyond Faith

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Insighting Growth Publications Inc.

Second Edition Goodbye Jesus is the step-by-step account of a former minister's journey into and out of faith-the story of a long pendulum swing from the deep commitment of a devout believer to the firm conviction that no personal God exists and that all religions are man-made. Tim Sledge was a Southern Baptist preacher and writer for 35 years. His pioneering work in faith-based recovery ministries in the 80s and 90s ultimately guided participants in 20,000 Christian support groups across the U.S. The driving force behind Sledge's ultimate rejection of Christianity was his long-term, up-close observations of church life. "After living and leading in the church for decades, I saw no consistent evidence of an ongoing supernatural presence-and I wanted to see that evidence with all that was in me." Part memoir, part expos , part polemic, Goodbye Jesus is an honest, highly personal, and frequently provocative spiritual autobiography that concludes with an insider's takedown of religious faith. This is a relatable and thoughtful read for those seeking to better understand the evangelical mindset, for Christians who are questioning their faith, for ministers trying to decide whether to stay or go, and for those who have left their faith and are dealing with its loss.

Goodbye Jesus: An Evangelical Preacher's Journey Beyond Faith

Biographies & Memoirs

When former evangelical minister Tim Sledge walked away from five decades of faith more than 10 years ago, he made a clean break—no more church, prayer, religion, or God. But there was one thing that surprised him: He still wanted to be spiritual. Looking beyond traditional Christian views of spirituality, he found no “spiritual but not religious” model that worked for him—including the mindset of connecting with the energy of the universe. Eventually, Sledge decided to redefine spirituality for himself, and to use the term “meta-spirituality” to identify his personal approach as beyond any conventional concept of spirituality. His vision of meta-spirituality touches that part of us that seeks inspiration, yearns for the highest and best in life, and longs for a connection to something noble and wondrous. This is spirituality without God or magic, without religion or faith, and with no need of an invisible spirit world. It is a call to kindness, listening, vulnerability, compassion, and gratitude; a quest for a growing sensitivity to the world of emotions; and, a challenge to let mistakes lead to growth instead of shame. The book’s 26 chapters are organized around five topics: How to Be Spiritual Without God How to See Reality How to Live With Meaning How to Keep Moving Forward How to Practice Meta-Spirituality A Meta-Spiritual Handbook is a simple guide to seeing spirituality in a new way and a challenge to find your best self without reference to religion, faith, or God.

A Meta-Spiritual Handbook: How to Be Spiritual Without Religion, Faith, or God

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