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    A Way Through the Wilderness Leader Guide: Growing in Faith When Life Is Hard
    A Way Through the Wilderness Leader Guide: Growing in Faith When Life Is Hard
    A Way Through the Wilderness Leader Guide: Growing in Faith When Life Is Hard
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    A Way Through the Wilderness Leader Guide: Growing in Faith When Life Is Hard

    By Rob Renfroe

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    At one time or another, everyone has a wilderness experience, a time when life is barren and difficult and we feel alone and desperate, not knowing where to turn. Whether it’s the loss of a loved one, a financial or health crisis, divorce, or some other painful experience, we see no end in sight and wonder how we can make it through another day.

    In the Scriptures we see that often God’s people went through a wilderness experience, and these experiences changed them in profound ways. The truth is that it’s impossible to go through the wilderness without being changed. There’s a way through the wilderness that can leave us broken and bitter and far away from God. But there’s another way through—God’s way—that leaves us with a deeper faith and draws us closer to God than we ever imagined.

    With sensitivity and warmth, Rob Renfroe explores the wilderness experience—what it is, how we get there, why God allows it, and how we can get through it God’s way so that we learn the lessons that can be learned only in the desolate seasons of life when we are totally dependent on God.

    The Leader Guide contains six session plan outlines, complete with discussion points and questions, activities, prayers, and more—plus leader helps for facilitating a group.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateAug 18, 2015
    ISBN9781501800986
    A Way Through the Wilderness Leader Guide: Growing in Faith When Life Is Hard
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    Rob Renfroe

    Rob Renfroe is the pastor of adult discipleship at The Woodlands United Methodist Church and also serves as president of Good News, the oldest and largest of the evangelical renewal movements within The United Methodist Church. He has served as the board chair for The Confessing Movement, is presently a board member of The Wesleyan Covenant Association, and regularly speaks to renewal groups.

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