This Thanksgiving, we want you to know we are thankful for you! By allowing God to work IN you and THROUGH you, you help to make this ministry possible . We wouldn’t be able to do this without your prayers, financial support, or volunteering.
Praying you have an amazing Thanksgiving!
Jim, Kathie, John, Thea, Roberta, Devin, and Sherri
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Would you please consider joining us on “The Journey” to help make a way for others to receive emotional healing and life transformation so they can live out their God-given purpose?
We want to see more people experience the same emotional healing and life transformation you did, but that takes resources. Our goal is to raise an additional $125,000 by the end of the year and recruit an additional 25 monthly donors. We realize these are big goals but with your help we are confident we can get there.
Your partnership will pave the way for others. No amount is too small, whether it is a $5 or $500 monthly gift, or a one-time gift of any amount, it all makes a difference. You can donate by simply clicking the DONATE button below, by going to www.theultimatejourney.org and clicking on the DONATE tab or by mailing a check to Christ-Life Ministires at P.O. Box 3841, Des Moines, IA 50323.
If you prefer to donate stock or other assets, or have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me directly, jim@theultimatejourney.org. Thank you for partnering with us.
We are so grateful for you!
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The idea of getting together with family for the holidays can bring joy and excitement or, in some cases, lots of anxiety and stress. Whatever you are feeling, here are a few suggestions that might help you navigate some of those feelings that pop up or some of those family members that pop in. While we have sent out these helpful suggestions in the past, we learned in Phase 3 that in order to implement new patterns in our lives, we all need repetition, repetition, repetition. So here are a few tools to help you navigate the upcoming holidays.
1. This Year, Take Your Adult Ally With You!
Are you making plans to reconnect with family over the upcoming holidays? If you are, remember, the hardest place to not fall back into old childhood patterns is with your family. Whether it is shame, pain, rejection, unforgiveness, anger, having to be the responsible one, or just plain not feeling good enough, those old mental patterns you worked so hard to replace can come flooding back. But you don’t have to face it alone! This year, make plans to take your Adult Ally with you. Of course, now that you are an adult, your brain only listens to you. That means, Your Adult Ally Is You! We are once again making our Allying Yourself Handbook available to you for FREE.
Just because you are getting together with family, it doesn’t mean you have to revert back to your old childhood patterns and conform back into the old family system. Instead, when you feel yourself being pulled back into that old pattern, you can choose to respond with TACT.
1) Identify what is Triggering you.
2) Acknowledge and accept any feelings you are having.
3) Comfort yourself by paying attention to what you need to hear from yourself as the ally.
4) Talk Truth to yourself by identifying the messages/lies you are believing regarding the situation and then replacing them with the truth.
Want more details on how to do this? Click here for a free download of our Allying Yourself Handbook.
2. Having trouble forgiving someone? Maybe these articles will help.
Do You Need to Change Your Glasses?
Forgiveness Comes in One Big Package
Forgiveness: No Longer a Slave to the Past
Forgiveness Isn’t Going Back to the Way Things Were
Does Someone Have to Ask for Forgiveness Before I Forgive Them?
3. For healthy suggestions on how you can respond to The Advice Giver, The Critic, The Rager, The Braggart, The Black Sheep, The Alcoholic, The Downer, and The Controller, click here.
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FALL CLASS SCHEDULE
Classes start the week of September 8th!
Fall classes have arrived. For more information, visit us at www.clcenter.org and register TODAY!
Classes include:
Registration: www.clcenter.org
Questions, call the Christ-Life Center at 515.251.6838.
Learn more at www.clcenter.org.
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A silversmith places the silver into the fire to purify it. He refines it over and over until all the dross is removed and he can look into it and clearly see his reflection. Similarly, God continues refining us so we can clearly reflect His image and likeness.
Going through The Ultimate Journey/Christ-Life may have felt like you were going through God’s refining fire. No doubt, a number of your corrupted childhood mindsets were brought to the surface, and like dross, were burned away by exchanging them for God’s truth. One of the tools used to stoke that refining fire was the allegories; for example, do you remember The Beach Ball of Truth?
Perhaps on this leg of your journey, you see yourself needing more refining. Just like the silversmith is not focused on the impurities but on the end result, God refines us for our good and for His glory to be seen through us.
We are excited to make available a free, four-week demo of Refine Your Mind – A weekly audio allegory series designed to bring your mind into alignment with God’s truth about you.
Each week you will receive an email with a link to listen to an allegory from the TUJ curriculum and a few reflection questions for you to ponder.
To take advantage of this free, four-week demo simply click HERE. The full Refine Your Mind weekly audio allegory series includes 50 different allegories and can be purchased in our store or by clicking HERE. We hope you will find this four-week demo beneficial and will choose to purchase the full 50-week series for only $20.
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This Giving Tuesday, we ask that you “Take a Step of Generosity to Help Pave the Way for Others” to receive emotional healing and life transformation so they can live out their God-given purpose. “Those things that I was told and believed that I should just get over are no longer holding me back. Through Phase 3 came the complete understanding of the oneness with God. He lives in me and through me and I don’t have to live in fear anymore.The understanding that Christ lives in me and I am a vessel for Christ to live through has changed my view on life and made me a better person.” Kathy C. |
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Over the years, we have seen thousands of people like Kathy whose lives have been changed by going through The Ultimate Journey. We want to see more people experience this same emotional healing and life transformation. Our goal is to raise $300,000 by the end of the year and recruit an additional 100 monthly sustainers. If God is putting it on your heart to give towards something that will impact lives for generations, please click the give button on the right of this email. You can also donate by going to www.theultimatejourney.org and clicking on the DONATE tab or mailing a check to Christ-Life Ministries at P.O. Box 3841, Des Moines, IA 50323. Thank you for your help! Jim Hobson |
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We started our end of the year giving campaign and have been praying for the “big bucks” to come in. We either need to be more specific in our prayers or God has a sense of humor! This BIG BUCK showed up at our building. So to be more specific with you, please send your “big bucks ($$$)” to help us reach our year-end goals. |
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Our goal is to raise $300,000 by the end of the year and recruit an additional 100 monthly donors. We realize these are big goals, but with your help we are confident we can get there. For more about our “Take a Step of Generosity to Pave the Way for Others” campaign click here.
Jim Hobson |
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This Thanksgiving we want you to know that we are thankful for you! Thanks for allowing God to work IN you and THROUGH you to help make this ministry possible. We wouldn’t be able to do this without your prayers, financial support, or volunteering.
Praying you have an amazing Thanksgiving!
Devin, Thea, Jim, Kathie, Roberta, John & Sherri (not pictured) |
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P.O. Box 3841 |
Des Moines, IA 50323
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