Shame Off You Follow Up Class

Thank you for all of you who were praying for the follow up class that Allison and were leading for the Shame Off You Conference. The class went very well. We learned so much adding in those extra classes after what we did for Parents of Preschoolers.

We combined a lot of Pastor Alan's material with Restoring the Foundations (RTF) and our personal experience. This diagram below is from RTF and was the hook that we kept coming back to.

Here are the handouts and the slides we used for the class. The two zip files are all of the notes and/or slides on one file. Both are about 1Mb a piece, but it would save downloading each PDF seperately. If you right-click on any link and select save as, you can download the files to your computer.

Shame Off You Follow-Up Class Handouts (zip)

• Session 1: Guilt and Conviction (pdf)
• Session 2: The Lies of Shame (pdf)
• Session 3: Inner Vows (pdf)
• Session 4: Scapegoats (pdf)
• Session 5: The Real Gospel (pdf)
• Session 5: Am I Blessed? (extra pdf)

Shame Off You Follow-Up Class Slides (zip)

• Session 1: Guilt and Conviction (pdf)
• Session 2: The Lies of Shame (pdf)
• Session 3: Inner Vows (pdf)
• Session 4: Scapegoats (pdf)
• Session 5: The Real Gospel (pdf)

Shame Off You Recap

Congratulations! We now have no shame. :) We actually went through a lot of material the last few weeks. I have put together a directory of each lesson for your reference in case you want to go back. The link within the title is the blog post related to that week and the notes link is the handouts for the class.

• Shame Off You Introduction
• Chapter 1:   The Power of Words
• Chapter 2:   The Power of Marriage
• Chapter 3:   The Power of Forgiveness
• Chapter 4:   The Power of Confession
• Chapter 5a:   The Power of God’s Voice (notes
• Chapter 5b:   The Power of Celebration
• Chapter 6:   The Power of Mom and Dad
• Chapter 7:   The Power of Boundaries
• Chapter 8:   The Power of Walking With Jesus
• Chapter 9:   How to Change Others
• Chapter 10:   How the Church Tries to Change You
• Chapter 11:   How the Gospel Tries to Change You
• Chapter 12:   How Idols Keep You from Real Change

It has been a great semester. I know I have learned a lot. Let's all take the summer and rest our brains. Try to incorporate some of the things we discussed in class. We will be having some fun events over the summer, so if you have signed up for the RSS feed on the right, you will be updated of them. We will also be sending out an email, but I thought I would encourage the late adopters to sign up for the feed.

Shepherding a Child's Heart Recap

This week we finished our classes on Shepherding a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp. We spend Sunday discussing the things God has taught us through the discussions, and God has been great in opening our eyes to things He was wanting us to know. We have become aware of the importance of our kid's hearts over their behavior. We have learned that we have been authority by God to parent our children, and that they are under a blessing as they stay under our authority. And, we have started to come to grips with a proper role of disciplining or punishing our children. I heard Pastor Alan say that disciplining is also an opportunity to bless, which I think is what Tripp would also say with three chapter on communication and one on the rod.

I will end with an observation from Sara, which I will paraphrase because I do not remember it word for word. She mentioned that she came to realization that one of the main problems in our nation is people do not know how to be under authority. Parents are not teaching this to their children, and so they do not give it while in school. Finally, when these children grow up they do not know how to give it to their bosses. If there are blessings for us when we are under authority, when a nation of people refuse to be under authority, we are in danger.

If you want to go back to look at what we have talked about, I have listed each of the notes below. You can also select the Shepherding a Child's Heart label to the right to find each of the blog entries for this topic. We will start back up on January 11th with a brand new topic.

Get the class notes

• Introduction to Shepherding a Child's Heart
• The Heart of the Behavior
• Shaping Influences for Children
• Godward Orientation
• You're in Charge
• Unbiblical Parenting Goals
• Unbiblical Parenting Methods
• Parenting Communication part 1
• Parenting Communication part 2
• Disciplining Children
• Parenting Fundamentals
• How to Discipline Toddlers