April 4, 2012
Hello Friends,
I’ve been away from my work for a few days due to a few special occasions in my family, which included an overnight trip over the mountain pass to visit my mom and her husband. We experienced a full range of weather and temps and had a lot of fun just seeing beautiful scenery and visiting with my mom. It was also Jim’s and my anniversary the day before our trip, and my birthday the day after we got home, and so I’m kinda running to catch up with many work-related tasks. But before I tell you about the next mini coaching program in Making Heart-Level Connections, please allow me to share with you a bit about my birthday blessings!
It was so much fun to spend a couple of hours at one of our favorite parks with our kids. All 11 of us walked and played together. Jim and I miss those times very much. We were really glad the weather cooperated for our first ever whole family group picture. Usually either Noel or Mark couldn’t be with us at the same time and of course it’s the first family group pic with our new grandbaby, Shaun. Jim and the kids blessed me so much with loving sentiments, many sweet purple things, lots of hugs and kisses, and a wonderfully relaxing time over dinner at our favorite restaurant with all 11 of us!
But God wanted to bless me even more and sent a couple of dear friends from the other side of the water (a ferry ride away) to show up at the same park at the very same moment Jim and I were getting out of our car! Now what are the chances of that?! Only God could pull off something like that! They didn’t know we would be there, and had just been talking about it being my birthday and were wondering to each other what we were doing. They came over on a business-related trip to our area just for the day, and we “just happened” to choose this particular park to go to that day (we live about 40” north of it). So while Jim and I waited for our kids, we enjoyed connecting with my childhood friend and his wife, and I got to fill up on birthday hugs! What a blast!
Then that evening our dear friends, co-laborers and partners Tim and Barbie Poling, came over to give me a special gift of a small video camera with a double-sided screen so I can film in my office some brief encouraging words for our LOLACHE members on a regular basis. My friends are the best! They never run out of finding ways to bless me and help me! God is so good to me!
My son John is coming over today to show me how to use the video camera and to check out the best places for me to sit while filming. Now I just need a plan for what to film! If you have any ideas for what you’d like for me to talk about in less than 5” please let me know! I’ve already been thinking of, “12 Tips for Managing Family Life”, some “Scripture Talks” that provide insight and encouragement, and “Unforced Rhythms of Grace” (talking about the activities that work best during each of the seasons in a lifestyle of learning). These 2-5” videos would be posted at the members’ site, but I don’t know yet when I’ll begin producing them. I first need to get in a rhythm with the coaching programs, adding one thing to my schedule at a time as I can see my way clear to do it. Please let me know your ideas for this project.
Making Heart-Level Connections ~ 5 Mini Coaching Programs
In my last letter I told you about a complementary 5-page eArticle for anyone who’s interested in learning more about the new mini coaching programs in “Making Heart-Level Connections.” The article, “Five God-Given Forces for Growth” identifies five areas of inner movements God gave to us so we would not miss out on the healing work He wants to do in us.
If you could use some focused instruction or even just a bit more clarity for how to correct the relational foundation in your family relationships, then the five “Making Heart-Level Connections” programs will help you to cooperate more fully with the Lord’s work in you and your children so your training of them will reflect God’s wisdom and Christlike character.
Click Here to Learn More about the Making Heart-Level Connections Programs
2nd Mini Coaching Program ~ “God’s Moral Law”
The 2nd mini coaching program in the set of five of “Making Heart-Level Connections” is about “God’s Moral Law.” Those who join the program will have the ability to download the article, “Moral Clarity—Christ’s Law of Love”, which is taken from my new book, Empowering the Transfer of Moral Values and Faith. Here are some of the points covered in this article:
• three common terms that point to the law
• making the law “general”
• the NT law
• our heart-level activity
• how Christ made the law “particular”
• a practical definition of morality
The enemy deceives us when we only learn scriptural truths from the Bible apart from a vital heart-level relationship with God. The power of the Word to change our lives is removed far from us, and we unknowingly twist the meanings of truths as we view them through the lens of our flesh, which is still alive in us. Doing so for very long actually invites a perverse spirit of error into our lives, which leads to the forming of false religious ideas and doctrines, based on common religious assumptions.
You may have been one who’s been presented with a false standard for righteousness that pretends to be scriptural, but only serves the ways of man. Your conscience will only respond to that false standard instead of to the true standard God gave you for righteousness. In this case, you need to renew your mind to God’s true and holy standard for righteosness—His ways of LOVE to reset your conscience.
This message will leave you no doubt as to what God’s standard is for true righteousness, and how He wants you to reconcile your relationships in love’s holiness so you can begin to cooperate with Him.
Mark the Dates!
Mark the dates for “God’s Moral Law”—April 26th and May 10th, Thursday 2:00pm Pacific time. Deadline for registering for “God’s Moral Law” is Monday, April 16th.
Is your family’s relational foundation sure? If you see cracks in it and want to build happier relationships then this program is for you. There is no other program like this around, and it’s only being held “live” for a short time, so act fast now! To help you to act fast, read the complementary 5-page eArticle, “Five God-Given Forces for Growth” which provides an overview of the topics of all five coaching programs in “Making Heart-Level Connections.”
Go here to get your free download now
I hope to be talking to you soon!
Grateful to be in the Lord’s service,
Marilyn Howshall for Lifestyle of Learning™ Ministries
[Lifestyle of Learning™/LOLACHE eNewsletter ~ April 4, 2012, Issue 18]