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- Running after Jesus Event - Parenting Driven Event - Imagine what it would be like to have your heart, mind, soul, and strength so intent on knowing Jesus and following hard after Him that no thing, no circumstance, no person, and no fear could stop you! To Christian women who hunger for more in their lives, Julie Barnhill offers jaw-dropping honesty, well-timed humor, biblical passion, and solid discipleship training. Running After Jesus compels women to get serious about following Jesus as they choose to quit playing games with personal holiness, stop allowing others to diminish the intensity of their walk with Jesus, and begin displaying the radiance that comes from learning to Live! Move! and Be! in relationship with an irresistible Savior. Sample Workshop & Keynote Topics Below. We All Start Somewhere Dale Carnegie wisely observed that a person's name is to them the sweetest and most important sound in any language. The second sweetest, I submit, is the sound of an individual responding to this heartfelt directive: Tell me your story. We all have one. A story, that is. Some portions worthy of publication, others, well, not so much. We All Start Somewhere champions this magnificent truth: God sees you and me and has in fact been pursuing us before time ever began. We long for Him and follow after Him only as a result of His drawing us with divine abandon to Himself. Not. So. Much. What keeps you from following hard after Jesus? Hesitancy? Fear? Doubt? Lack of Discipline? Spiritual insecurity? Julie carefully examines multiple factors which hinders our all out pursuit. Christian Women Who Think Many women are anxious to increase their knowledge when it comes to prayer, Bible knowledge, and an overall understanding of how scriptural truth can shape and influence their lives in the midst of day-to-day living. Julie discusses effective and realistic ways to strengthen your faith as you seek to move "higher up and deeper in" with your relationship with Christ and the world around you. Stalk Rot It's a Western Illinois agriculture fact: if corn stalk roots grow shallow, rather than deep, there's going to be trouble when the predictable Midwest thunderstorms and winds come blowing through. So too our lives as women of faith. It's imperative we attend to the condition of our spiritual roots as we seek to become "rooted, established, and built up" in the essential doctrines of the Christian faith. Live. Move. Be. Urging women to enjoy Christ and apply His reality in all the areas of their life instead of leaving Him at church or the latest conference or bible study group, Julie stresses that Christ is alive in all the areas of our lives--our artistic interests, the beauty of nature, diversity of food, relationships, employment, sexuality, and intellectual pursuits. Using the metaphor of a child's "shape ball," she illustrates how all our experience can and do fit into our experience of God--because "in Him we live and move and have our being." Scandalous Grace for the Scorched Soul Isaiah 58:11, "The Lord will guide you always; He will satisfy your desire in your scorched places." It's all about recognizing the scorched places of your life; those dry, burnt, places of disappointment, failure, insecurity, and often times, sin & shame. It's recognizing, owning up to, and then allowing God to saturate your life with the refreshing, renewing, and restorative power of divine grace. And once that happens? Watch out! For all you'll want to do is tell other bent, broken, and bedraggled, women what is possible through scandalous divine grace. Radical Forgiveness What does it mean to really forgive those who have hurt you? To forgive yourself for the dumb and painfully sinful things you've done? Or to let go of bitter feelings towards God for what He has (or seemingly hasn't) done? Radical Forgiveness will help you understand personally the profound, life-changing power of forgiveness. The Blessed Hope As a little girl, my Grandma Bonnie would periodically ask, "Julie Ann, are you looking forward to the Blessed Hope? Are you ready to meet Jesus when His trumpet blows?" Year after year, and decade after decade, she poured within me the hope of His return. Now, decades later and "End of Days" movie releases just keep multiplying in theaters as the latest news updates out of Israel and Russia all but shout, "Something is UP!" Julie will pour out the hope of His certain return and challenge you to live and believe as if it could happen at any moment. Julie loves pouring her years of hard fought parenting experience into the lives of parents everywhere. If you're tired of formulaic delivery. Weary of cliche' Christian do and don't lists and promises for creating the perfect child (um, there is no such child!) which has left you more than a bit cynical and/or feeling like a parental failure...take heart! Julie brings a much needed dose of honesty, personal struggle and failures, and uncompromising belief that you can find lasting change & joy for your heart and home. Lives and families have been saved both literally and figuratively as a result of Julie's brazen honesty and unapologetic commitment to saying what goes unspoken. She's Gonna Blow! Real Help for Moms Dealing with Anger Real help for moms dealing with the rewarding, yet challenging, task of parenting. Julie offers large doses of humor and practical strategies for coping with the big emotions of anger sometimes evoked by the small (and big!) people in your home. Get a handle on those emotions with strategies offered by Julie and make lasting and joyful changes in your family's life. SAMPLE BREAKOUT SESSIONS: Are You Mt. Momma? Underground Issues Factoring Into Your Frustration & Anger How to Know When You've Gone Too Far Practical Strategies for a More Peaceful Life One Tough Mother: The Non-negotiables of Stepping Up & Being the Mom If you don't step up as a parent, someone else will step in. Julie offers ten absolutes every mom needs to implement in the life of her children and home. SAMPLE BREAKOUT SESSIONS: Be the Boss without Apology! Say No Like You Mean It Delight in Your Perfectly Ordinary Child Face Your Giants Motherhood, the Guilt that Keeps on Giving You can't have Oreo's without a glass of cold milk. There would be no SpongeBob without Patrick. And where would Josh be without Drake? Alas, some things just go together and all too often (let's say most often, shall we) motherhood is accompanied by the overwhelming, sometimes debilitating, emotion of guilt and second guessing. Julie explores its multiple layers and gives audiences real help leading to grace and freedom. SAMPLE BREAKOUT SESSIONS: Recognizing What You Did Right How to Distinguish True Guilt from False Guilt Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda Living a Relatively Guilt-free Parenting Life Understanding Your Rebellious Daughter Are you at the end of your rope? Overwhelmed by the emotional, relational, and spiritual, developments between you and your teenage daughter? Have you said or thought, "I'm just not doing this anymore!"? Julie and her now 22-year old daughter, Kristen, have lived through all of those emotionally depleting ups and downs, fears and anger, and offer parents and daughters relief and hope through honest dialogue, coping advice, spiritual truth, and the hope that good things can indeed come out of such a painful place.
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