The Blessing: A Study Guide for Small Groups [Paperback]

John Trent (Author), Gary T Smalley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1988

The Blessing’s powerful message has helped thousands find emotional healing and experience restored relationships with God, family, and friends. In The Blessing Study Guide you will find all the key principles.

Includes

• self-tests
• application-oriented exercises
• discussion questions for small group or individual study

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From the Back Cover

BRING HOME THE BLESSING. Each of us has a God-given need to feel blessed. To be loved and accepted for who we are, regardless of what we’ve done or failed to do. Gary Smalley and John Trent masterfully addressed that need in their best-selling book, The Blessing. Since its publication, The Blessing’s powerful message has been instrumental in helping thousands find emotional healing and experience restored relationships with God, family, and friends. Now, all the key principles of The Blessing are carefully examined in this new companion volume, The Blessing Study Guide. As you work through the concepts with the help of challenging questions, self-tests, and application-oriented exercises, you’ll discover what it is to feel blessed, and you’ll learn how to pass that blessing on to your family and friends. Designed to stimulate lively small group interaction (although it’s also well-suited for personal study), The Blessing Study Guide will help you get the most out of Smalley and Trent’s life-changing best seller.

About the Author

Dr. Gary Smalley is one of the country’s best-known authors and speakers on marriage and family relationships. He is the author or coauthor of fifty-five best-selling award-winning books and DVDs selling more than twelve million copies.

The Blessing and The Two Sides of Love won the Gold Medallion Award for excellence in literature. The Language of Love won the Angel Award as the best contribution to family life. All other titles have been top-five finalists for the Gold Medallion Award.

In forty years Gary has spoken to more than two million people in live conferences and has appeared on national televisions programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show FOX & Friends Larry King Live TODAY and James Robison's LIFE Today as well as numerous national radio programs such as Sean Hannity Focus on the Family and Oliver North. His award-winning infomercial “Hidden Keys to Loving Relationships” has appeared before worldwide television audiences.

Gary is president and founder of the Smalley Relationship Center providing research relationship coaching conferences books videos and small-group curriculum. He and his wife Norma have been married forty-four years and live in Branson Missouri. They have three married children (Kari Greg and Michael) and nine grandchildren.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: NavPress (September 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891092757
• ISBN-13: 978-0891092759
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #459,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. John Trent is the President of The Center for StrongFamilies and StrongFamilies.com (registered as a 501(c)(3) under the name of "Encouraging Words"). He is a nationally known speaker and award winning author. His recent books include the recently revised and updated million selling book, The Blessing, (An ECPA Gold Medallion Winner) The 2 Degree Difference, The Treasure Tree (a children's book that is also a Gold Medallion Winner)and Chasing Skinny Rabbits.

Dr. Trent released two new books in 2011 in addition to the re-release of The Blessing. 2011 new releases are: "I'd Choose You" a children's book and "A Place Called Blessing". Both are partner books with "The Blessing" and help families participate in The Blessing Challenge.

Dr. Trent speaks at marriage and family conferences across the country, as well as in many corporate settings (including being a past presenter at YPO's prestigious Global Leadership Conference). He has been married for 30 years to his wife, Cindy, and they have two outstanding daughters, Kari and Laura.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A True Blessing, August 13, 2008

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This review is from: The Blessing: A Study Guide for Small Groups (Paperback)

When I read the book this study guide is based on I wanted everyone in the world to read it too! I was so excited that they had already created a study guide to make my job of sharing this message so much easier. I only wish they would update the study guide so that the extra reading assignments matched the new edition of the book.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding why you feel what you feel., June 4, 2000

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This review is from: The Blessing: A Study Guide for Small Groups (Paperback)

I read this book several years ago and was amazed at the new understanding of why we act the way we do. It is definitely an eye opener for everyone.