Bøger af Shannon Popkin

"If you know or love a teen, you know comparison is the world they live in. Invite your teen to hear what Jesus has to say about living me-free in a measure-up world. Teen Comparison Girl is a book that helps teen girls identify the ways they are prone to compare and allowing the enemy to distract them from the purposeful me-free life Jesus desires for them. It's a Bible Study with quizzes and evaluations to help you spot your own comparing tendencies with practical tools for developing a me-free mindset"--

"She considered him faithful who had made the promise." Hebrews 11:11 NIV Discover a God who is faithfully working even when you can't see it. In our high-stress, high-anxiety culture, there's much to relate to in Sarah's tumultuous world. God promised Sarah and Abraham a son, but when it wasn't happening in her ideal timing, doubt, worry, and fear for the future tempted her to question God and take matters into her own hands. Join Shannon Popkin in this 6-week Bible study that dives deep into the life of Sarah. You'll spend 5 days a week reading powerful Scripture that will refresh you and remind you of how mighty and trustworthy our God is. Reignite your faith in the One who is always in control even when it feels like nothing else is. Learn through Sarah's story to trust that God is all-knowing and all-powerful and that His plan and timing are perfect.

"Your platform isn't big enough." If you're a writer, speaker, or ministry leader, perhaps these five words have squelched your desire to share the message burning within. In today's digital world, speakers and writers are expected to grow their own following--or platform of influence--before gaining access to a microphone or book contract. But as a Christian, is there a way to gather followers and still follow Jesus? Is it possible to both build up your stats and take up your cross? How can you reconcile promoting yourself when you're called to humble yourself, or elevating your name when you're commissioned to elevate Christ's? Authors Kate Motaung and Shannon Popkin know what it's like to wrestle with these questions. In Influence: Building a Platform that Elevates Jesus (Not Me), you're invited to a platform-building coaching session with the carpenter from Nazareth. Join Shannon and Kate in this challenge to acknowledge the tension, set aside fears, examine hidden motives, and embrace the high calling of serving Christ. By utilizing the practical tools, exercises, and discussion questions provided, you'll emerge with new confidence, awareness, and decision-making clarity--ready to step out and shine the light of Jesus from the platform God has strategically placed beneath your feet.

Women compare constantly--on social media, in their neighborhood, at church, even in the school drop-off lane. They glance sideways and ask themselves, How do I measure up? All this assessment feels like a natural way of finding a place in the world. But it pulls them into feelings of inferiority or superiority, guiding them into a trap of antagonism by the enemy. Satan would like women to strive to measure up, constantly adding to a tally sheet that can't ever be balanced. The way of Jesus is completely upside down from that philosophy. Instead, he says the last shall be first--and the greatest are those who empty themselves, lay down their lives, and serve each other. Through conversations Jesus had and parables he shared, Shannon Popkin has created a seven-week Bible study to address this tendency to compare and judge ourselves and others. Each chapter is divided into lessons, allowing women on a time budget to read a Bible passage, engage in a complete train of thought related to the topic, and then make the content personal--all in one sitting. And the informal teaching tone will make women feel like they're meeting with a trusted friend. Suited for both individual and group study, Comparison Girl will guide women to leave their measure-up ways behind, connect with those around them, and break free from the shackles of comparison!

Un recurso bíblico necesario para las mujeres de hoy en día que quieren vivir libremente en una cultura de continua comparación. ¿Te comparas constantemente con otras personas? En los medios sociales, en tu vecindario, en la iglesia, o al dejar a tus hijos a la puerta de la escuela, ¿te esfuerzas por demostrar que estás a la altura... y luego te sientes avergonzada cuando no es así? Medirse a sí mismo de acuerdo a los estándares de los demás no es saludable. Y no es el plan de Dios. De hecho, el camino de Jesús va completamente al revés del camino de este mundo sumergido en la competencia y la comparación. Jesús nos invita a seguirlo y a recuperar la libertad, la confianza y el gozo. Únete a Shannon Popkin mientras explica lo que ha descubierto acerca de sus propios temores de al competir y compararse y su orgullo al sentirse adelante. Con su característico humor y honestidad directa, ha creado este estudio bíblico de seis semanas para explorar las conversaciones que Jesús mantuvo y las historias de las que habló con personas que, como nosotros, se comparaban entre sí. Deja atrás la competencia y la comparación y conéctate con los que te rodean eligiendo la forma de vida de Jesús, en la que no hay lugar para el yo: ¡animando y siendo generoso con los demás! A needed biblical resource for today's women who want to live freely in a culture of continual comparison. Do you constantly compare yourself with others? On social media, in your neighborhood, at church, or in the school drop-off lane, do you push yourself to prove that you measure up . . . and then feel ashamed when you don't? Measuring yourself against others isn't healthy. And it isn't God's plan. In fact, the way of Jesus is completely upside down from this measure-up world. He invites us to follow him and be restored to freedom, confidence, and joy. Join Shannon Popkin as she shares what she has discovered about her own measure-up fears and get-ahead pride. With her trademark humor and straightforward honesty, she's created this six-week Bible study to explore the conversations Jesus had and the stories he shared with people who--like us--were comparing themselves. Leave measure-up comparison behind and connect with those around you by choosing Jesus's me-free way of living: lifting others up and pouring yourself out!

Little fights with your husband and kids. Unhappiness when things don't match your version of perfect. Tension, anger, fear--it all begins with a heart that craves control. When your vision of how life should be replaces God's vision, you doom your quest for security, peace, and joy before it even starts. Thankfully, there is a better way.Join Shannon as she shares what she has discovered about her own control struggles and about God from studying Control Girls in the Bible. Learn how you too can lay down this burden and find rest in surrendering to the One who truly is in control."In this funny, tender, and truth-telling book, Shannon Popkin peels back the layers of our control problem."--Erin Davis, author, blogger, and recovering Control Girl"In the style of Liz Curtis Higgs, Control Girl is an easy and entertaining read, yet Shannon Popkin packs a punch where we so need it if we are to be set free from the stressful habit that robs our joy and ruins our relationships!"--Dee Brestin, author of Idol Lies"With personal vulnerability, biblical depth, powerful personal illustrations, and pointed application questions, Shannon Popkin reveals how seven women of the Bible can teach us how to surrender our will to God's design for our future."--Carol Kent, speaker and author of Becoming a Woman of Influence"Control Girl is a penetrating look at how selfishness and self-protectiveness wreck lives--and why surrender and trust are God's life-giving pathways to true freedom and joy."--Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, author and Revive Our Hearts teacher and host