Six Basics of a Balanced Life [Paperback]

Karen Lee-Thorp (Author), Carol J Kent (Author), Carol Kent (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 5, 2000 | Series: Designed for Influence Series

Six Basics of a Balanced Life helps women find answers to the key question, “What’s really important?” In this valuable Bible study, you’ll find that it’s not important to “do it all” and see you can relax and have fun as you make important decisions about the way you structure your life.

• Personal study between meetings
• 6 sessions

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From the Back Cover

You were born to be a woman of influence. You were born to model your life on Jesus’ life, and in so doing, be a model for others. It may happen in a few quiet words over coffee, in a hug or a prayer. No matter how you do it, you have what it takes. God wants to influence people through you. Use this study guide with a small group of women who share your desire to grow and give… or use it in your private time with God. Either way, it’s time to begin. Let’s get started…together. Put an End to Your Juggling Act In today’s busy world - ruled by day planners, e-mail, and cell phones - it’s difficult to get everything done. There just isn’t enough time in the day to complete all our tasks. So how can we know where to put our focus? How can we know what-if anything-we should drop…or add? Not just another item on your to-do list, Six Basics of a Balanced Life will help you find answers to the key question, “What’s really important?” In this valuable, six-week study, you’ll find-perhaps surprisingly-that it’s not important to “do it all.” You’ll learn to relax and have fun as you make important decisions about the way you structure your life. And you’ll gain valuable input from the life of Jesus on how to put your life wonderfully in balance.

About the Author

KAREN LEE-THORP is a freelance writer and former senior editor for NavPress Bible studies. She has written or co-written more than fifty books workbooks and study guides. She speaks from years of research on the Bible and women’s issues as well as from her own experience of God’s goodness in the face of incest anorexia and health challenges. She holds a BA from Yale University. Her books include Why Beauty Matters the Doing Life Together series (Zondervan) the Revolutionary Parenting Workbook (Cook with George Barna) and several volumes in the series Bringing the Bible to Life (Zondervan). She lives with her family in Southern California.



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KAREN LEE-THORP (author of the included Reader’s Guide) is the author of more than fifty study guides. A graduate of Yale University Karen has spent two decades studying speaking on and writing about the learning process. She lives in Brea California.

Carol Kent is hilariously funny biblically sound and heartbreakingly transparent in person and in print. Founder and president of Speak Up for Hope (a prison ministry) and Speak Up Speaker Services (a speakers' bureau) Carol is the best-selling author of many books including When I Lay My Isaac Down A New Kind of Normal Becoming a Woman of Influence Speak Up with Confidence Secret Longings of the Heart and Tame Your Fears. She is an expert on public speaking writing and evangelism. Carol travels the world speaking to tens of thousands each year at events such as Extraordinary Women Vision New England Women of Faith THRIVE and Women of Grace. Carol and her husband Gene make their home in Florida.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: NavPress (December 5, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576831353
• ISBN-13: 978-1576831359
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,419,189 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Carol Kent is a popular international public speaker best known for being dynamic, humorous, encouraging, and biblical. Founder of Speak Up With Confidence (a communications training seminar), Speak Up Speaker Services (a speakers bureau), and Speak Up for Hope (a prison ministry), Carol is an expert on public speaking, on writing, and on encouraging people to hold on to hope when life's circumstances turn out differently from their dreams.

Carol has spoken internationally in South Africa, Germany, Bulgaria, China, Korea, Hong Kong, Guatemala, Mexico, and Canada. She regularly appears on a wide variety of nationally syndicated radio and television broadcasts.

She entered the public eye with the story of her only son's imprisonment for murder, a journey she shared in the powerful book, When I Lay My Isaac Down. This painful experience has led Carol and her husband, Gene, down a long road of sacrifice and redemption.

Carol holds a master's degree in communication arts and a bachelor's degree in speech education. Her bestselling books include: A New Kind of Normal (starred review in Publishers Weekly), When I Lay My Isaac Down (winner of Christian Retailers Choice Award), Becoming a Woman of Influence, Mothers Have Angel Wings, Secret Longings of the Heart, Tame Your Fears, Speak Up With Confidence, and Detours, Tow Trucks, and Angels in Disguise (all NavPress). She has also co-written with Karen Lee-Thorp the Designed for Influence Bible Studies (six books in the series, NavPress). Carol was the co-author and general editor of the Kisses of Sunshine Series of five books (Zondervan). Her articles have been published in a wide variety of magazines and in on-line resources.

Her new book, Between a Rock and a Grace Place, will be released by Zondervan in October. This book is the ongoing story of her journey with her son and it includes riveting letters he wrote from behind the razor wire of a maximum security prison. It also addresses the felt needs of people who hurt, and instills a surprisingly new way of thinking, leaving readers irresistibly drawn to see God's astonishing "grace places" in the middle of their roadblocks.

To book Carol for speaking engagements, or for information on her itinerary, or go to www.CarolKent.org. Join Carol on Facebook, follow her on Twitter@carolkentspeaks, or read her blog on the above website.

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This review is from: Six Basics of a Balanced Life (Paperback)

Our Bible study was expecting something a bit different and better than this. There just isn't that much to it. All we are getting out of it is a reassurance that our lives are out of balance but that is about it. There is some scripture but it doesn't always seem to go along with what the chapter is about.

The book has been good in the sense that it does bring us together each week and we do focus on some aspect of the Bible.