Rest and War Study Guide with DVD

This study guide with DVD includes:

• DVD and individual access to six streaming video sessions
• Discussion and reflection questions with video notes
• Personal study between sessions
• Leader’s Guide

Ben Stuart felt the dual struggle in his youth of purposelessness and powerlessness. He wanted his life to have meaning, and he wanted to overcome his struggles, but the self-help books he read only left him feeling defeated and discouraged. Then, in college, he encountered professors and pastors who helped him see that his life, far from being a disjointed or isolated struggle, was part of a compelling story that God had written. He had been invited into an epic adventure!

In this six-session video study, Ben shares how this knowledge led him to develop a practical strategy of resting in God's strength and warring against the enemy's attempts to keep him locked into patterns of sin. He helps group members to likewise develop strategies that will enable them to: (1) overcome the deceptive strategies of sin aimed at their weaknesses; (2) orient their lives and loves around a God who cares for them, (2) recognize that under their misdirected affections and motivations is a deep longing for God, and (2) discover methods of overcoming personal shortcomings that do not rely on shame-based motivation.

Sessions and video run times include:

1. FREED TO FIGHT (20:30)
2. AWAY AND TOWARD (17:30)
3. DOWNSTREAM AND UPSTREAM (21:00)
4. CONSISTENCY AND CREATIVITY (19:30)
5. FOCUS AND UNITY (20:30)

This pack contains one study guide and one DVD.

About the Author

Ben Stuart serves on the team at Passion City Church in Atlanta, and is currently preparing to launch and pastor a Passion City Church location in another city. Ben previously served as Executive Director of Breakaway Ministries, a non-denominational, weekly Bible study on the campus of Texas A&M University, for 11 years. He now serves on the Board of Directors for this ministry, which impacts thousands of students each week. Ben grew up in Houston and graduated from Texas A&M in 1998. After graduation, Ben served as a youth pastor in Spring, Texas for five years, before earning a historical theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary.

Ben lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Donna and their three children.