Starting Over: Your Life Beyond Regrets - Hardcover

Dave Ferguson; Jon Ferguson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1601426119 ISBN 13: 9781601426116

Publisher: Multnomah Press, 2016

Synopsis

I wish I had loved more. I wish I had been smarter about money. I wish I had thought about God more.

We all have regrets about the past. Many of them come from our attempts to fulfil unmet longings. Dave and Jon Ferguson call this back and forth between longing and regret the Sorry Cycle - and they want to help us escape it.

In Starting Over, Dave and Jon show us how to recognize specific regrets and then release them to God as we learn to see our regrets as opportunities to start over. Finally, we can see God redeem our regrets as he takes the worst things in our lives and uses them for a greater good.

Your regrets don't need to keep you from the joy God has for your life. As you apply the recognize – release - redeem process to your financial, relational, and personal regrets, you will find new freedom in living out your God-given dreams.

Fall in love with your regrets.

It sounds impossible. How can we learn to love our mistakes and failures? Instead, we go over and over them in our mind. Could they ever bring us - or anyone else - good?</p.

Drawing from scientific research and biblical truths, Jon and Dave Ferguson give us tools to redeem our mistakes in five key areas: relationships, health, purpose, finances, and spirituality. Along the way, they teach us lifelong skills for getting unstuck when regret threatens to trap us again. We also learn how to help others escape the Sorry Cycle and experience the Starting Over Loop.

It is possible to learn to love our regrets because through them we see God at work. We see that our weakness does not limit what God can do. Whatever regret is trapping you in the Sorry Cycle, God is big enough to redeem it. What could you do with a life beyond regret?

About this title

About the Author

Dave Ferguson is a spiritual entrepreneur and the lead pastor of Community Christian Church, an innovative multi-site missional church with eleven locations in Chicago. Dave is the movement leader for NewThing, an international network of reproducing churches. He is also the coauthor of The Big Idea. Check out the latest from Dave on his blog (www.daveferguson.org) or follow his everyday adventures on twitter @daveferguson.Jon Ferguson is the cofounding pastor of Community Christian Church - a multi-site church in the Chicago Metro Area. He serves as teaching pastor and leads the Strategic Team of staff champions for adult, student, children s, and creative arts ministries across all CCC locations. Jon is the cofounder and movement architect of NewThing, whose mission is to be a catalyst for a movement of reproducing churches. He also serves on the boards of the Exponential Network and Stadia East and is an adjunct professor at Wheaton College Graduate School in the Evangelism and Leadership Department. Jon previously co-authored The Big Idea with Dave.

Edition details

• Publisher: Multnomah Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1601426119
• ISBN 13: 9781601426116
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224