"developing life skills through faith"
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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9 Lessons, 85 pg.
Lesson 1 - Who Am I?
Getting Acquainted
The Worth of Everyone, Including the Poor
Dignity
Lesson 2 – Unmasked Faces
A Hope and a Future
No Need to Hide
Lesson 3 – Facing the Truth of Disappointments
Being Set Free from Disappointments
Arrested Development
Facing Reality through Scripture
Lesson 4 – Forgive and God Forgave You
The Role of Faith in Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a Decision and Choice
Forgiving the Offender
When the Other Party is
Unwilling to Reconcile
Lesson 5 – Setting Boundaries
Boundaries, not Barriers
Why We Need to set Boundaries
Spiritual Boundaries
The Ten Commandments
Lesson 6 – Childlike Versus Childish
Adult Examples of Positive Childlike
and Negative Childish Behaviors
Being Childlike
Being Childish
Moving Past Childishness
Lesson 7 – Making Choices
Choices and Consequences
What are the Rewards for Making the Right
Choices?
Spiritual Guidance for Making Choices
New Choices and Change
Lesson 8 – Freedom and Responsibility
Freedom Arising from Responsibility
Biblical Examples of Balance between
Freedom and Responsibility
My Responsibility versus
God’s Responsibility
Lesson 9 – Fresh Start
The Need for a Fresh Start
What does a Fresh Start Mean?
“Today is the First Day of
the Rest of Your Life"
Lesson 10– Fresh Start
Undeveloped Character
The Fruit of the Spirit
Developing Christian Character
Safeguarding Character Development
Lesson 11– Fresh Start
Personal Prisons
Faith and Freedom
Walking the Straight and Narrow
Lesson 12– Fresh Start
Rewards for Developing
the Character of Christ
Eternal Rewards
Rewards in Everyday Life –
the Story of Esther
