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    Fathered by God Participant's Guide
    Fathered by God Participant's Guide
    Fathered by God Participant's Guide
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    Fathered by God Participant's Guide

    By John Eldredge

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    In the Fathered by God Small Group Video Series, John Eldredge presents the six stages a man goes through as he matures in life and faith, sharing insights and teaching on how each stage can be encouraged and supported by those around him.

    This companion participant’s guide follows the DVD episodes, providing additional information and discussion questions designed to help your small group grow and bond with each other. Together you will forge companionship with God the Father while undergoing a transformation, releasing the fullness of life and the passion God designed you to live.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateNov 2, 2009
    ISBN9781418588632
    Fathered by God Participant's Guide
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    John Eldredge

    John Eldredge is a bestselling author, a counselor, and a teacher. He is also president of Wild at Heart, a ministry devoted to helping people discover the heart of God, recover their own hearts in God's love, and learn to live in God's kingdom. John and his wife, Stasi, live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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      Fathered by God Participant's Guide - John Eldredge

      Title page with Thomas Nelson logo

      © 2009 by John Eldredge

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson. Thomas Nelson is a trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      The publisher is grateful to Craig McConnell for his writing skills and collaboration in developing the content for this book.

      Published in association with Yates & Yates, LLP, Attorneys and Counselors, Orange, California.

      Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

      Thomas Nelson, Inc., titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.

      ISBN: 978-1-4185-4289-4

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      EBOOK INSTRUCTIONS

      In this ebook edition, please use your device’s note-taking function to record your thoughts wherever you see the bracketed instructions [Your Notes] or [Your Response Here]. Use your device’s highlighting function to record your response whenever you are asked to checkmark, circle, underline, or otherwise indicate your answer(s).

      CONTENTS

      Ebook Instructions

      Introduction

      SESSION 1: The Masculine Journey

      SESSION 2: Boyhood

      SESSION 3: Cowboy

      SESSION 4: Warrior

      SESSION 5: Lover

      SESSION 6: King

      SESSION 7: Sage

      SESSION 8: Let Us Be Intentional

      A Note from the Author

      Appendix: A Daily Prayer for Freedom

      Notes

      INTRODUCTION

      You have made known to me the path of life;

      you will fill me with joy in your presence,

      with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

      —Psalm 16:11

      Show me your ways, O L

      ORD

      ,

      teach me your paths.

      —Psalm 25:4

      All I was trying to do was fix the sprinklers.

      A fairly straightforward plumbing job. The guy who came to drain our system and blow it out for the winter told me last fall that there was a crack in the main valve, and I’d better replace the thing before I turned the water back on come next summer. For the past several days it had been hot—midnineties, unusually hot for Colorado in May—and I knew I’d better get the water going or my yard would soon go the way of the Gobi Desert. Honestly, I looked forward to the project. Really. I enjoy tackling outside chores for the most part, enjoy the feeling of having triumphed over some small adversity, restoring wellness to my domain. Traces of Adam, I suppose—rule and subdue, be fruitful, all that.

      I disengaged the large brass valve from the system on the side of the house, set off to the plumbing store to get a new one. I need one of these, I said to the guy behind the counter. It’s called a reducing valve, he replied, with a touch of condescension. Okay, so I didn’t know that. I’m an amateur. Nevertheless, I’m ready to go. Valve in hand, I returned home to tackle the project. A new challenge loomed before me: soldering a piece of copper pipe to a copper fitting that carried the water from the house to the sprinklers, reduced in pressure by the valve now in my possession. It seemed simple enough. I even followed the instructions that came with the butane torch I bought. (Following instructions is usually something I do only once a project has become a NASCAR pileup, but this was new ground for me, the valve was expensive, and I didn’t want to screw the whole thing up.) Sure enough, I couldn’t do it, couldn’t get the solder to melt into the joint as needed to prevent leaks.

      Suddenly, I was angry.

      Now, I used to get angry at the drop of a hat, sometimes violently angry as a teen, punching holes in the walls of my bedroom, kicking holes in doors. But the years have had their mellowing effect, and by the grace of God there has also been the sanctifying influence of the Spirit, and my anger surprised me. It felt . . . disproportionate to the issue at hand. I can’t get a pipe soldered together. So? I’ve never done this before. Cut yourself some slack. But reason was not exactly ruling the moment, and in anger I stormed into the house to try to find some help.

      Like so many men in our culture—solitary men who have no father around to ask how to do this or that, no other men around at all, or too much pride to ask the men who are around—I turned to the Internet, found one of those sites that explains things like how to surmount household plumbing problems, watched a little animated video on

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