Pure Pleasure Seminar
Is your Christian walk characterized more by guilt and sacrifice, rather than pleasure and freedom? Does the abundant life that Jesus promised seem like an unrealistic ideal? In the Pure Pleasure seminar, Gary explains how pleasure is a powerful force designed to feed our relationships, help protect our spiritual integrity, and bring delight to our heavenly Father. Pleasure isn’t something Christians should fear or avoid. Instead, it’s something we should learn to cultivate in our lives. This liberating seminar with Gary will equip you to:
- Overcome temptation by replacing counterfeit diversions with true pleasure.
- Feel the excitement of bringing joy to your family and friends.
- Discover and enjoy new activities that renew your soul.
- Experience a deeper awareness of God’s goodness in your life.
Sacred Marriage Seminar
What if God designed marriage to make us holy instead of happy? Scores of books have been written that offer guidance for building the marriage of your dreams. Yet, what if God’s primary intent for your marriage isn’t to make you happy…but holy? And, what if your relationship isn’t as much about you and your spouse as it is about you and God?
Based on Gary’s popular bestselling book, the Sacred Marriage seminar helps couples uncover how marriage can become a doorway to a closer walk with God and each other. Husbands, wives, and singles who are contemplating marriage will learn how to:
- Turn marital struggles into spiritual and personal appreciation.
- Love your spouse with a stronger sense of purpose.
- Partner in the spiritual growth and character formation of your spouse.
- Transform a “tired” marriage into a relationship filled with awe and respect.
This powerful seminar will change the way your church views marriage!
Sacred Pathways Seminar
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's spiritual walk." Are you envious of the way that some people seem to walk closely with God? Gary Thomas insists that it’s better to discover the path God designed you to take--a path marked by growth and fulfillment, based on your unique temperament. During a Sacred Pathways seminar, Gary strips away the frustration of a one-size-fits-all spirituality and guides you toward a style of relating to God that frees you to be you. If your devotional or worship times have hit a snag, Gary will help you:
- Embrace the unique way that you interact with God.
- Relish your personal time reading the Bible.
- Enjoy deeper community by supporting how others relate to God.
- Turn obligatory devotions into spiritual moments that you savor.
This seminar explodes the barriers that keep Christians locked into rigid methods of worship and praise. It also opens up windows for parents who want to learn how to help their children better "connect" with God.
Sacred Parenting Seminar
What if God designed parenting as a school for spiritual formation—and our children are our teachers? Instead of discussing how parents can change their kids, Gary Thomas turns the tables and demonstrates how God uses our kids to change us. You’ll be encouraged by stories that tell how other parents handled the challenges and difficulties of raising a godly family. Grow closer to Christ and your children as you learn to:?
- Freely enjoy your kids for who they are.
- Build a closer, grace-based family.
- Reduce the pressure felt for your kids to turn out perfect.
- Manage anger and negative responses towards your child’s behavior.
- Increase your sense of worth and respect as a parent.
Authentic Faith Seminar
Isn't it startling how God reveals himself most profoundly in places we least expect to encounter him? In the Authentic Faith seminar, Gary looks at the "hard truths" of Scripture and how the seemingly "negative" roads God asks us to walk can be the most profound in terms of helping us to grow spiritually. This seminar is for those believers who are tired of easy answers, and who want to go deeper to seriously consider a mature spiritual walk. Drawing insights from the Bible and Christian classics, Gary will show you a new way to:
- Turn disappointments into opportunities to see God at work in your life.
- Transform resentment towards God into hope, trust, and perseverance.
- Experience the joy of growing through difficult circumstances.
Holy Available Seminar
Holy Available: What If Holiness Is About More Than What We Don’t Do?
Every Christian knows it is important to grow in holiness, but the reality is, few have a clear understanding of what holiness actually means. A study by Barna asked Christians to define holiness, and the most common response was, “I don’t know.”
The Holy Available seminar looks at holiness as a full-bodied faith, a true and experiential transformation marked by availability to God. It affects the way we see, the way we hear, the way we think, and what we care about. Holiness changes who we are, not just what we do, and opens up the exciting possibility of being used by God as his representatives on a moment by moment basis.
This seminar will help Christians who define holiness primarily by won’t they don’t do to gain a much larger and more glorious depiction of the Christian life. It will give Christians a practical and workable system to cooperate with the Holy Spirit’s work in their life and thus aid the process of transformation. And it will give each believer a new appreciation for the body they have, and how our bodies can be made available to be used by God in new and dramatic ways as he reaches the world through us.