Acceptance: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life

By Hendrickson Publishers

This addition to the Everyday Matters Bible Studies for Women line is a series of study guides that focus on various spiritual practices. The series can be used as a stand-alone Bible study guide for groups or individual use, or as a companion alongside the Everyday Matters Bible for Women.

In this study guide, learn about acceptance from biblical characters who managed to find it in the midst of suffering. Learn from Leah how to fight discontent and choose to see God’s goodness and faithfulness. Learn from Job’s grief and confusion how to humbly accept difficult circumstances and move on from them. And learn from Jesus—the most incredible example of acceptance in history—how to relinquish our own will and to accept the Father’s.

Readers will work through four chapters that include articles for reflection, Scripture verses, and discussion questions for deeper thought. Each book also includes a Leader’s Guide.

These books are an excellent resource for small groups, Bible studies, and Sunday school classes. Used individually or with a group these booklets will help women delve further into the Scriptures and meditate on various spiritual practices to help them live fully, every day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Release date: Apr 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9781619702523

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Everyday Matters Bible Studies for Women—Acceptance (eBook edition)

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First eBook edition — January 2014

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Contents

Copyright

Holy Habits

Introduction

Chapter 1. Can’t Get No Satisfaction: Fighting Discontent

Chapter 2. It’s a Decision: Lessons from Leah

Chapter 3. Who Do You Think You Are? Lessons from Job

Chapter 4. When God Says No: Lessons from Gethsemane

Leader’s Guide

Other Titles

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Holy Habits

Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life

Everyday life today is busier and more distracting than it has ever been before. While cell phones and texting make it easier to keep track of children and each other, they also make it harder to get away from the demands that overwhelm us. Time, it seems, is a shrinking commodity. But God, the Creator of time, has given us the keys to leading a life that may be challenging but not overwhelming. In fact, he offers us tools to do what seems impossible and come away refreshed and renewed. These tools are called spiritual practices, or spiritual disciplines.

Spiritual practices are holy habits. They are rooted in God’s word, and they go back to creation itself. God has hardwired us to thrive when we obey him, even