God has given us a specific, compelling reason for each of the four relational seasons: singleness, dating, engagement, and marriage. Whichever one of these seasons you're in now, this study unlocks its God-given purpose and shows you how to thrive within it. Thriving in your current stage of life is not easy, especially in this modern age. It's never been easier or more convenient for people to connect with one another. Yet more and more people today are describing themselves as lonely. Why is that? If everything in this world is so connected, why are so many of us feeling profoundly disconnected? In this six-session video-based Bible study, pastor and bestselling author Ben Stuart will help you navigate through the four stages of a relational life and show you how to look at the truths and intentions God has established for each. As you embark on this journey, you will discover: <ul> <li>How to live singleness to make an impact for the kingdom of God</li> <li>How to pursue dating with clarity and purity</li> <li>How to use the season of engagement wisely to prepare for marriage</li> <li>How to maximize your life as a married couple for shared ministry</li> <li>And how to continually seek God and his will throughout each stage</li> </ul> Discover how to embrace God's design, invest your life in what matters most, and find meaning in whatever season of life you're in. Designed for use with Single, Dating, Engaged, Married Video Study (sold separately).

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married Study Guide: Navigating Life + Love in the Modern Age

Self-Help

Stuart, Ben

Relationships

Thomas Nelson

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married Video Study: Navigating Life + Love in the Modern Age

HarperChristian Resources

God has given us a specific, compelling reason for each of the four relational seasons: singleness, dating, engagement, and marriage. Whichever one of these seasons you're in now, this study unlocks its God-given purpose and shows you how to thrive within it. Thriving in your current stage of life is not easy, especially in this modern age. It's never been easier or more convenient for people to connect with one another. Yet more and more people today are describing themselves as lonely. Why is that? If everything in this world is so connected, why are so many of us feeling profoundly disconnected? In this six-session video-based Bible study, pastor and bestselling author Ben Stuart will help you navigate through the four stages of a relational life and show you how to look at the truths and intentions God has established for each. As you embark on this journey, you will discover: <ul> <li>How to live singleness to make an impact for the kingdom of God</li> <li>How to pursue dating with clarity and purity</li> <li>How to use the season of engagement wisely to prepare for marriage</li> <li>How to maximize your life as a married couple for shared ministry</li> <li>And how to continually seek God and his will throughout each stage</li> </ul> Discover how to embrace God's design, invest your life in what matters most, and find meaning in whatever season of life you're in. This pack contains one study guide and one DVD.

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married Study Guide with DVD

Struggle well. Fight for progress. Know the One who has fought for you. 
The writer of Hebrews says that we are to "throw off everything that hinders" and run “the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 12:1). We are called to action and empowered to struggle well. And yet, as we navigate life, we realize there are difficulties without and discouragements within. Not only do we feel ill equipped to thrive . . . we don’t even know how to survive. 
In this six-session study, Ben Stuart will give you practical strategies to help you war against the enemy of your soul and find the rest that God has promised for you. You will discover how to overcome deceptive strategies the enemy aims at you. How to move away from aimless affections and toward things that develop intimacy with God. How to make a place, a time, and a plan for communicating with God each day. And how to keep in step with the Spirit. 
Life is hard, but there are promises to grip. Strategies and tactics to employ. Progress to be made. Are you ready? 
This study guide has everything you need for a full Bible study experience, including: The study guide itself—with video notes, personal study and group discussion sections, and a guide to best practices for leading a group. An individual access code to stream all five video sessions online (you don't need to buy a DVD!). 
Sessions and video run times include: FREED TO FIGHT (20:30) AWAY AND TOWARD (17:30) DOWNSTREAM AND UPSTREAM (21:00) CONSISTENCY AND CREATIVITY (19:30) FOCUS AND UNITY (20:30) 
Watch on any device! 
Streaming video access code included. Access code subject to expiration after 12/31/2027. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside.

Rest and War Bible Study Guide plus Streaming Video: A Field Guide for the Spiritual Life

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

This study guide with DVD includes: DVD and individual access to six streaming video sessions Discussion and reflection questions with video notes Personal study between sessions Leader’s Guide 
Ben Stuart felt the dual struggle in his youth of purposelessness and powerlessness. He wanted his life to have meaning, and he wanted to overcome his struggles, but the self-help books he read only left him feeling defeated and discouraged. Then, in college, he encountered professors and pastors who helped him see that his life, far from being a disjointed or isolated struggle, was part of a compelling story that God had written. He had been invited into an epic adventure! 
In this six-session video study, Ben shares how this knowledge led him to develop a practical strategy of resting in God's strength and warring against the enemy's attempts to keep him locked into patterns of sin. He helps group members to likewise develop strategies that will enable them to: (1) overcome the deceptive strategies of sin aimed at their weaknesses; (2) orient their lives and loves around a God who cares for them, (3) recognize that under their misdirected affections and motivations is a deep longing for God, and (4) discover methods of overcoming personal shortcomings that do not rely on shame-based motivation. 
Sessions and video run times include: FREED TO FIGHT (20:30) AWAY AND TOWARD (17:30) DOWNSTREAM AND UPSTREAM (21:00) CONSISTENCY AND CREATIVITY (19:30) FOCUS AND UNITY (20:30) KEEP IN STEP (20:30)\nThis pack contains one study guide and one DVD.

Rest and War Study Guide with DVD: A Field Guide for the Spiritual Life

Discover how to embrace God's design for your relationships, no matter what stage you're in. 
God has given us a specific, compelling reason for each of the four relational seasons: singleness, dating, engagement, and marriage. Whichever one of these seasons you're in now, this study unlocks its God-given purpose and shows you how to thrive within it. 
Thriving in your current stage of life is not easy, especially in this modern age. It's never been easier or more convenient for people to connect with one another. Yet more and more people today are describing themselves as lonely. If everything in this world is so connected, why are so many of us feeling profoundly disconnected? 
In this six-session video Bible study (video streaming code included), pastor and bestselling author Ben Stuart will help you navigate through the four stages of a relational life and show you how to look at the truths and intentions God has established for each. 
As you embark on this journey, you will discover: How to live singleness to make an impact for the kingdom of God. How to pursue dating with clarity and purity. How to use the season of engagement wisely to prepare for marriage. How to maximize your life as a married couple for shared ministry. And how to continually seek God and his will throughout each stage.\nThis study guide has everything you need for a full Bible study experience, including: The study guide itself—with discussion and reflection questions, video notes, and a leader's guide. An individual access code to stream all video sessions online (you don’t need to buy a DVD!).\nStreaming video access code included. Access code subject to expiration after 12/31/2027. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside.

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married Bible Study Guide plus Streaming Video: Navigating Life + Love in the Modern Age

Discover how to embrace God's design for your relationships, no matter what stage you're in. God has given us a specific, compelling reason for each of the four relational seasons: singleness, dating, engagement, and marriage. Whichever one of these seasons you're in now, this study unlocks its God-given purpose and shows you how to thrive within it. Thriving in your current stage of life is not easy, especially in this modern age. It's never been easier or more convenient for people to connect with one another. Yet more and more people today are describing themselves as lonely. If everything in this world is so connected, why are so many of us feeling profoundly disconnected? In this six-session video Bible study (video streaming code included), pastor and bestselling author Ben Stuart will help you navigate through the four stages of a relational life and show you how to look at the truths and intentions God has established for each. As you embark on this journey, you will discover: <ul> <li>How to live singleness to make an impact for the kingdom of God.</li> <li>How to pursue dating with clarity and purity.</li> <li>How to use the season of engagement wisely to prepare for marriage.</li> <li>How to maximize your life as a married couple for shared ministry.</li> <li>And how to continually seek God and his will throughout each stage.</li> </ul> &nbsp; This study guide has everything you need for a full Bible study experience, including: <ul> <li>The study guide itself--with discussion and reflection questions, video notes, and a leader's guide.</li> <li>An individual access code to stream all video sessions online.</li> <li>And the physical DVD.</li> </ul> &nbsp; Streaming video access code included.&nbsp;Access code subject to expiration after 12/31/2027. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside.

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married Study Guide with DVD: Navigating Life + Love in the Modern Age

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age

ECPA Bestseller 
Navigating the Four Critical Seasons of Relationship
The vast majority of young people will still pass through the key phases of singleness, dating, engagement and marriage in their twenties. Yet they are delaying marriage longer than any generation in human history. Why?
 For the first time in history, the average age for an American woman having her first child, 26, is younger than the average age of her first marriage, 27. More children than ever are growing up in fatherless homes, despite the overwhelming evidence that in every measurable way this is bad for the child. The Center for Disease Control also recently reported a dramatic rise in sexually transmitted disease nationwide. In Rhode Island alone, since the onset of online dating, reported cases of Syphilis has risen 79%, and HIV has increased by 33%. Though many young people can avoid early pregnancy and STDs, most cannot dodge the depression and feelings of isolation that characterize this modern generation. Studies show a dramatic rise in self-reported loneliness among the young. All of our technological connectivity has not made us feel more connected. In many ways, the very screens that are meant to link us to others have become shields blocking us from the deep intimacy we crave. Many have discovered that where there is a lack of intimacy,addiction often rises to take its place. How can a young person navigate such troubled waters? Is there hope out there?
Like a sailor on turbulent seas, we need to look up and see the North Star: the fixed points in the sky whereby we might navigate the objective realities in life. We need the skill-set to know how to journey through life and how to select the right people to journey alongside. In this book we will chart a course through the four relational phases that the vast majority of human beings on the planet will pass through in their twenties: singleness, dating, engaged and married. In each of these phases, we will look at what eternal purposes should be pursued in each stage, and how to pursue them.
SINGLENESS: DEVOTION
DATING: EVALUATION
ENGAGED: UNIFICATION
MARRIED: MISSION
 Our desires for intimacy are powerful. This power can be constructive or destructive. Our satisfaction and our safety will be ensured if we can aim these powerful desires toward divine purposes.

W. Publishing

Struggle well. Fight for progress. Know the one who has fought for you.&nbsp; You don't have to live in this world long before discovering that the pursuit of intimacy with God occurs within the context of adversity. It is a fight. Yet it is a fight in which our King has won the decisive victory! You have been set free...into a raging battle!&nbsp; But there's good news: your struggles do not mean you're doomed, rather they're actually a sure sign that you are alive. Now you must learn to struggle well, for Jesus did not free you from the fight, he freed you for the fight. Rest & War is a field guide for the spiritual life; a book of ancient methods of transformation transposed into a modern key. Borne out of pastor Ben Stuart's personal life-experiences and decades in ministry, Rest & War offers biblical and practical guidance for: <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>Battling what's holding you back while building what will propel you forward</li> <li>Trading patterns of thinking that diminish intimacy with God for ones that encourage it</li> <li>Fighting sin and cultivating an environment that allows you to flourish</li> <li>Designing your everyday schedule based on your God-given purposes to bring more&nbsp;meaning into your routines</li> </ul> God has called you into the good fight of life; step into it boldly, strategically. Flee evil and pursue intimacy with your Creator. Uproot what is broken and cultivate what is life-giving. Make war on what is destructive, and rest in the God who loves you. Are you ready to walk elegantly through the battlefield of life

Rest and War: Rhythms of a Well-Fought Life

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Single, Dating, Engaged, Married Study Guide: Navigating Life + Love in the Modern Age

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married Video Study: Navigating Life + Love in the Modern Age

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married Study Guide with DVD

Rest and War Bible Study Guide plus Streaming Video: A Field Guide for the Spiritual Life

Rest and War Study Guide with DVD: A Field Guide for the Spiritual Life

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married Bible Study Guide plus Streaming Video: Navigating Life + Love in the Modern Age

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married Study Guide with DVD: Navigating Life + Love in the Modern Age

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age

Rest and War: Rhythms of a Well-Fought Life

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age