The Life You've Always Wanted Participant's Guide: Six Sessions on Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People (Groupware) | 
 enlarge | Author: John Ortberg
Creators: Stephen Sorenson, Amanda Sorenson
Publisher: Zondervan
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 140272
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0310255880
Dewey Decimal Number: 220
UPC: 025986255886
EAN: 9780310255888
ASIN: 0310255880
Publication Date: August 1, 2004
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Product Description
In this six-session ZondervanGroupware video curriculum, award-winning author John Ortberg teaches participants the skills essential to "running the marathon" in the Christian life.
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 A little long... May 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book has some good discussion questions, and the DVD that goes with the study is pretty good, but I would definitely suggest looking through the first lesson and deciding which parts to do. I am in a small group, and we decided that some of the sections should be done as homework beforehand so that the sessions don't run so long. The questions about related Bible verses are not so much discussion questions as they are short answer, and those seemed a little elementary. However, it was nice to see a group study that incorporated the Bible a little more than others. I do recommend getting this book, if you are willing to do a little planning before beginning it. I definitely recommend getting the leader's guide, and the DVD is required for the group study.
 Very good Bible Study September 22, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am using this book and video in an adult Bible study with 17 participants. It is a good study which shows you how to live and love like Jesus did. John Ortberg uses humor and touching stories to get his point across. Another thing that I like is that you are referred to scripture to see how Jesus faced the same problems that we face in our daily lives.
 PLAN ON SPENDING MOST OF YOUR GROUP SESSION LOOKING UP VERSES May 12, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Our small group just started this lesson. The DVD messages are only about 15 monutes long. THe bulk of your small group time is spent looking up verses to discuss. There is also homework to do between meetings which is nice. BTW- You MUST get these books if you are doing the DVD study- the DVD references the book, and you really cannot do the study without this book.
The book is much better... February 3, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
When our small group decided to study together John Ortberg's "The Life You've Always Wanted," we couldn't decide whether to read the book or watch the DVD with companion study guide. So, we decided to do both.
Though there was understandable repetition between these two resources from the same author about the same topics, that was actually a good thing for us, as the principles were more fully embedded each week. Ortberg is a great teacher, so his teaching segments on the DVD were solid. In addition, the accompanying study guide provided a host of solid questions to use in response to the teaching time.
My greatest critique of the participant's guide in conjunction with the DVD was that it left me wanting more each week. Especially because we were reading the book at the same time, I was aware of how much more Ortberg had to say than he was able to include in 13 minutes of video teaching. And it was very common for our discussion to center around the text in the book that we had read earlier in the week more than the video that we had just watched.
I found this participant's guide to be fully functional and ultimately worthwhile. However, if I were to recommend "The Life You've Always Wanted," I would suggest that you just read the book. It provides much more content and the questions in the back still allow for groups to study it together. In any case, Ortberg has provided the church with a great contemporary resource about spiritual disciplines, regardless of which format you choose.
Just buy the book January 12, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I initially wrote a review for this product thinking I was reveiwing the Hardback book. I truly think this participants guide is unnecessary. The book itself has discussion questions and stuff in it. This is really just a lot of duplication (I personally would not buy again.) Save your money here and just buy the book.
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