Cheri Cowell
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Direction and Discernment website
Cheri Cowell writes and speaks from a well of knowledge and a willingness to become vulnerable about her own struggles with the deep questions of faith. From over 200 articles in such magazines as Marriage Partnership, the Lookout, and Light & Life, to the stories she has in over ten anthologies including Chicken Soup for the Grandma’s Soul, you will find a fellow sojourner in the faith-walk of life. Cheri draws upon her nearly 20 years in both professional and lay Christian ministry and her current studies at Asbury Theological Seminary to address the unspoken questions of faith. Her book, Direction: Discernment for the Decisions of Your Life (Beacon Hill, Nov. 2007), is hailed as “a biblically sound, no-nonsense approach to making God-centered life choices.” Her second book, Ponderables: Reaching the Next Generation Through the Language of Story, is to be released in the spring of 2010.
Direction: Discernment for the Decisions of Your Life
Are you searching for a better way of discerning God’s will? Do you have a big decision looming and wish God would just pick up the phone and tell you what to do? Like a lot of Christians, I used the common methods for knowing God’s will, but the more I used them, the more questions I had. Direction shares the journey I took to a new understanding of knowing God’s will. Through a six-question process, you will learn how to make decisions more confidently, pray more openly, take risks more frequently, and know God more intimately than you’ve ever believed possible.
The Six-Question Spiritual Discernment Process:
1. Is this aligned with the character of God?
2. Is there an obstacle or opposition?
3. Is it God-sized?
4. Is this requiring steps of faith?
5. Is this stretching, growing, and strengthening me?
6. Is this requiring me to adjust, prune, and realign my life?
Direction also has a Companion Bible Study Workbook, making it a great choice for Bible studies and small groups. The workbook had 40 individual lessons and 8 group lessons.