When Life Is Hard: Turning Your Trials Into Gold (DVD Leader Kit)

By James MacDonald

Book Overview

This When Life Is Hard DVD Leader Kit helps a leader facilitate an adult Bible study based on Biblical truths that provide encouragement, hope, and answers to those enduring difficult times. It's focus is to enlighten participants with very real, very practical answers, straight from God s word. Based on James MacDonald's book, When Life Is Hard, this study shows how MacDonald's teachings came out of his personal struggles during a season of trials. His difficulties included a budget disaster in a multi-million dollar building project, a family crisis, friends tragedy, and personal health issues when James discovered he had cancer. In fact, he preached the heart of this message while going through treatment for prostate cancer. He shares the biblical truths and principles that helped him deal with the trials of life that can provide hope to all who deal with the difficulties of life. When Life Is Hard Leader Kit includes: 6 sessions DVDs of James teaching each session, approximately 45 minutes each DVD introductions filmed on location in Israel Member Book When Life Is Hard Book Benefits: Provides hope based on biblical truth Reminds participants of the trials that Jesus faced and how God uses our hard times to refine us Sessions: What Are Trials? Why Trials? What to Do with Trials What If I Refuse This Trial? Why Some Trials Never End Come Forth as Gold " This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080245870X
• ISBN13: 9780802458704
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Practical and Lucid

This is the perfect book for those who feel that they are somehow failing in their faith, or that God is somehow failing them, when they encounter seasons of suffering and difficulty in life. When I hear Christian teaching that promises that everything will be sunshine and rainbows if you have enough faith, I wonder two things: 1 - Where on earth do they get this idea in the first place, since Christ suffered and died and...

When Life Is Hard

"When Life Is Hard" by James MacDonald is a great and encouraging read for the Christian who is going through some kind of trial (relational, health, career, etc.). Among the points covered include: 1. 3 things to remember when in a trial. 2. One of the fruits of genuine believers is that you endure hardships. 3. 2 good benefits of trials. 4. 4 actions to take when in a trial. 5. 4 ways to respond to a trial. 6. When...

Good Can Come Out of Bad

Life's trials can work either two ways. They either amplify your weaknesses or they make you strong. It's all dependant on your relationship with God. This book helps you to get to the place in your life that you lean on God during a trial or loss. MacDonald's style is warm and inviting and he will lead you into a safe place through the storms of life.

Easy Read, But Meaty and Helpful

This book has kept me reading it because of its easy style of writing while at the same time it provides very clear teachings about trials in life. It's one I have marked up as I have read it and will work through it a second time.

Out of the ashes

I have to disagree with the earlier review. As someone who is still emerging from one of the darkest hours of my life, I have to say that I found the "When Life is Hard" book and podcast series extremely helpful in shoring up my spiritual foundation again after a devastating loss. Last year in February my daughter (age 23) was admitted for "minor" surgery to drain an infected mass on her bladder. During the procedure a...