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Renee Swope

Encouraging and equipping moms to parent with God's grace and confidence.

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Carnival of Give-Aways

Today, the P31 Team is celebrating with a Carnival of Give–Aways, and we are inviting you to join us! I’m celebrating the release of our first ever Bible Study DVD teaching at Proverbs 31 Ministries – taught by one of my closest friends and soul sisters as well as President of our ministry – Lysa TerKeurst!

I’ll be launching a 6-week study of “Becoming More” on Mondays, right here on my blog beginning late May/early June. It will be based on Lysa’s 6-week DVD series and I’d love for you, and some friends, to join me! Here’s what one leader recently had to say Lysa’s DVD series:

“I am currently leading a group of 10 women through your DVD study, Becoming More than a Good Bible Study Girl. You (Lysa) are that encouraging and wise girlfriend that every bible study group needs. What makes your study so wonderful it is that so USEFUL. You give us the words to pray. Ideas to act on. Spiritual exercises to do. This is really a tremendous contribution you have made to building God’s kingdom.”

Today, you could win a copy ofLysa’s Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl6-week DVD Set. Click here to find out more about it, then come back and let me know why you want to win it!

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HOW TO WIN

So, let me know WHY you want to WIN this by
clicking the word COMMENTS below, and then type in
the white box. If you don’t have a blog, click anonymous.
Be sure to leave your EMAIL so I can contact you if your name is picked!!

And for Facebook Friends, I’ll be giving away a copy of my message “Living Beyond the Shadow of Doubt” on DVD. If you are a blogger and a face-booker, leave a comment here and on my FB note or wall today, and you’ll be entered for a chance to win both! If we aren’t friends yet on FB, send me a request so we can be!

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Then take time to browse P31’s carnival of giving. Some are celebrating their love of nature. Others grandbabies on the way. Come along and join the fun. Just click on the names below. Here’s what you could win:

Wendy Blight is giving away a copy of the One Year Chronological Bible and her book Hidden Joy in a Dark Corner: The Transforming Power of God’s Story.

Shari Braendel is givng away 3 beautiful jewelry pieces to begin a spring wardrobe with! One for a Glamour Girl, one for a Movie Star and one for a Rock Star!

Micca Campbell is giving away her book An Untroubled Heart, and a cute clutch purse for those fun summer evenings!

Whitney Capps is giving away a $30 Francesca’s Gift card, redeemable at www.francescascollections.com

Melanie Chitwood is giving away One marriage conference call (see her blog for details) and her new book What a Wife Needs from Her Husband.

Lynn Cowell is giving away a prize for mom and a prize for a teen girl in her life – the 3 book series B.A.B.E. series by Andrea Stephens (Beautiful, Accepted, Blessed, Eternally Significant) for the teen and for Mom a $10 gift card to Starbucks along with Lynn’s CD “Building a Bridge to Your Child’s Heart”.

Karen Ehman is giving away a Winter White Basket that includes Skin Milk body wash, a white loofah, Winter White Citrus Bath & Body Works products, white lily linen and room sprays, white hot cocoa, a white mug and white-chocolate macadamia nut cookies. Along with it, a copy of her book on celebrations entitled Homespun Memories for the Heart: More Than 200 Ideas to Make Unforgettable Moments.

Suzie Eller is giving away a webcam!

Zoe Elmore is giving away a journal, a copy of My Heart’s Cry by Anne Graham Lotz and a piece of jewelry Zoe style!

Charlene Kidd is giving away a $20.00 Starbucks Gift Card and a copy of Karen Ehman’s book: A Life That Says Welcome, Simple Ways to Open Your Heart and Home to Others.

Tracie Miles is giving away her CD “Overcoming Stress with Extraordinary Faith” and a Soulmates Slipper with Christian Notepad and Pen.

Rachel Olsen is giving away Bread for Life”: a hardback copy of The Daily Message: Through the Bible in One Year by Eugene Peterson (which you can read this along with her this year) and the Williams-Sonoma Muffins cookbook.

Wendy Pope Wendy is giving away a copy of her book Out of the Mouths of Babes and her CD Yes, No, and Maybe of a Balanced Life

Luann Prater & www.EncouragementCafe.com are giving away an Encouragement Cafe mug and t-shirt at both sites!

LeAnn Rice is giving away a copy of her cookbook Sharing Grace: Recipes- Family Traditions-Gift ideas and a Starbucks gift card.

Susanne Scheppmann is giving away her Birds in My Mustard Tree Bible Study with an I-tunes gift card.

Lysa TerKeurst is giviving away a Mom’s Book Club gift pack including 4 copies of Lysa’s book, Am I Messing Up My Kids? and a 30-minute Q&A conference call with Lysa.

Van Walton is giving away her DVD for children – From the Pound to the Palace

Glynnis Whitwer is giving away her book work@home: A Practical Guide for Woman Who Want to Work from Home and a French Country Wire Silverware Basket

She Reads is giving away two novels, Watch Over Me by Christa Parrish and Screen Play by Chris Coppernoll, and chocolate, courtesy of the authors. They will tell the story of how their writing brought them together – a love story, quite literally, fit for a novel!

RadRevolution Our ministry to teen girls is giving away a copy of Do the Hard Thing along with a RadRev t-shirt!

Comments

  1. I have a home bible study with five women. We focus on discovering who we are as women in the Kingdom of God and how to best present ourselves as servants to Him. Lysa's study would be the perfect addition to our group!

  2. I would love to win this pack! I have just stepped into a leadership role in our women's ministry and would love to bring Lysa's study to them. Our church has been through the ringer in the last year. There is lots of hurt, lots of healing and lots of teaching that needs to be done. This would be a great way to start connecting and leading the women in my church family.

    Thanks for doing this!!

  3. Although I have found joy in the LORD I really want how `Lysa shows women how they can transform their walk with God from lackluster theory to vibrant reality`.

    Thanks

    moma3homeschool{at}gmail{dot}com

  4. While I know that God loves and protects me; I do not have an intimate relationship with Him. Lysa has the kind of relationship with Jesus that I long for.

  6. I am on a journey of God restoring my integrity and He has brought me so far already. I have found intimacy with Him that I didn't know existed and I so need this to help me! I am already reading Lysa's book "What Happens When Women Say Yes To God" and love it. You all are my daily inspiration and edification.

  7. I've read "Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl" and loved it! I'd like to win because I'm planning to use the book as a Bible study with some of my friends and it would be helpful to have the DVD set to go with the books. Thanks for the opportunity!

    [email protected]

  8. Oh I would LOVE to win this set!! I have been wanting to start a bible study out of my home for myself and a few friends and this would be the pefect push to get that started!! I don't know if I am totally qualified to "lead" other woman, but I KNOW Lysa would do a great job throught the DVDs!!:)

    [email protected]

  9. I have had my eye on Lysa's book for a while now and even if I don't win I will eventually get it! One of my goals for this year is to apply God's word to my life – to actually start living and practicing what I read. I long to be more and not to simply know more.

  11. I participated in Wendy Pope's one-year Bible study last year, and realized how much "more" God wants to reveal to me! It's an awesome study, and I gleaned so much from "digging" in God's Word with Wendy.

    I continue to follow along, albeit silently, and would be interested in being "more" than just a good Bible study girl 🙂

  12. I have been feeling like I just read the bible to read it, like it is one of those things to do on your check list. I would love to win this book to find out how to do more.

    [email protected]

  13. I would love to win this book…I have been thinking about starting another study and this might be the jumpstart that I need.

  14. My church has a group of women that I purchased Lysa's book, "What Happens When Women say Yes to God" for each one of them. We have walked with each other through the good and the bad. I would love to have the opportunity to use this gift as a way to minister to this group and encourage others to join us.

    Suzanne
    [email protected]

  15. I would love to win the DVD series. I just finished Lysa's "What Happens When Women Say Yes to God" and found it to be incredibly encouraging. I would love the opportunity to study her new book with some friends.

    Sherry

  16. I would love to learn to enhance my relationship with God so that I might be the wife (and someday mother) that He designed me to be. Several areas in my walk with God could use some work, mainly my prayer life.

  19. I am hungry for God's direction and voice in my life. I'm struggling with what is my answer and what is God's answer to questions in my heart. I want to do more than just live life everyday as just another day. I want to live life everyday as a daughter of Christ.

  20. Lysa's books have always spoken volumes to me and I would love to bring this new study of hers to my small group of intergenerational women. God Bless you in your ministry, Renee! Julie

  21. I have been eye-ing this Bible study book since I first read that it was coming out. I know it is what I need and I've been thinking that the women in my Bible Study group would also feel that way! We're all busy moms trying to juggle kids, time and commitments while keeping God at the top of our priority list!
    [email protected]

  23. This is one DVD study I cannot wait to do with my buddies! We facilated and do Bible Studies together all the time but find that we still struggle with the same challenge – living out what we just learned in God's Word!

  24. God has been speaking to my heart about this Bible study…telling me to step out on faith and teach this class to the younger women at my church. When I saw this chance to win this book and study guide, it was like God saying "see go for it" I truly believe if I win this, it will be God's affirmation to me to get out of my comfort zone and teach this to others. Thanks for the chance to win…[email protected]

  25. Well, I read the book…loved it…and let my Bible study leader borrow it because she was trying to decide what study to do next! I KNOW she'll want to do 'Bible Study Girl', so I would love to have the DVD set ready…to click play! Thanks for the chance!

  26. I would really like to win this because I really want the ladies bible study I lead to do this study. Our chuch does things on a pay as you go basis and there's not a lot of extra cash so this would be great! Thank you and God Bless You!

  29. This would be a perfect tool for me to use in advancing my Christian walk. I feel such a longing to do more, be more and getting some clear direction just might help me move further along! Thanks!

    Melissa R.
    [email protected]

  30. I have been struggling for a while with my Christian walk, God has really been working in my heart and life and I think this book would give me another perspective. I love Lysa's books.

    Thanks for sharing.

    Hugs,
    Cindy

  32. I would love to win this prize so that i may participate in your Monday night Bible Study and possibly share it with my neighbors. I love Lysa's books and personally feel "stuck" in my Bible Study – like I just do it to check it off my "to do" list. I'd love to read what Lysa has to say about being more intentional about my Bible Study time.
    Thanks! Tracey

  33. I have wanted to read this book…..I am a pastors wife and could use some encouragement myself then share it with my ladies.

    dy

  34. I feel like the person that said sometimes they feel really clsoe to and in tune with God and other times they feel like they couldn't be further away from God. right now I feel in the far away valley and I would love to win this so the Bible study group I particpate in can use it to collectivly become what God is calling us too. We are just finishing up Beth Moore's study on the book of Daniel and it has been awsome! Would be great to follow it up with this one! 🙂

    Thank you,
    Janet Jackson
    [email protected]

  35. I feel that God wants me to lead a women's Bible Study…my spiritual gift being wisdom and my passion being seeing the Christian growth of young women around my age (23). I'm getting married in May, moving to Syracuse, NY with my husband, and likely being a stay-at-home wife. I'm excited about meeting new women in that area and starting a Bible Study group in our home.

    I think this book and DVD would be a great way for me to get started!

  36. I want this because my "One Thing" to accomplish this year is a more personal relationship with Christ that I am accomplishing by being in God's word every day!!!! I have gone "through the motions" for a long time, but I truly want a close relationship with Christ!
    Staci

  37. I have read Lysa's book and loved it! It would be great to win the books and DVD set for my Bible Study Buddies. I'm sure the DVDs complement the reading and we could learn that God desires for us to become more.

  38. I would love to win Lysa's study to do with a group of friends! We have done several Bible studies together in the past but not any recently. This one would be awesome! Would love to have the DVDs to watch to join you in this study this summer as well 🙂

    God Bless,
    Brandee

  39. I would LOVE to have a copy of Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl. This offer has come at a time when I have a huge burden for the young women in our church who float around on the fringes. Just yesterday I decided I needed to have regular 'Gal's breakfasts' to encourage and teach them. I was thinking about WHAT I wanted to help them with when I found out about this…help with how to teach prayer, Bible study and authenticity as well as coping with life's struggles and finding joy in the process. Lysa, this is SO inspired!

  40. To know God intimately, the real true God is my desire I set this as my 2009 life focus- I still strive and struggle in this area- so this year I am seeking all the guidance available to me, this book sound as if it would be a great help to me in this Journey of Intimacy with God. I would love to win it. Blessings to you and thanks for the opportunity.

  41. Why do I want to win? Because I want to share this book/DVD series with the beautiful ladies that I've been in Bible study with for the last two years. Some of our studies have been great and some not so great but I believe we have all glorified God in our desire to know more about Him. What would be better than going through this study with these ladies to learn how we can take our time with Jesus to the next level. *sigh*

  42. I would love to have victory over everyday life. It is so easy to let the fruit of the spirit blow out the window on the way home from church… I want to glorify God everyday, even when I'm tired, cranky, stressed, and out of patience. Every book I have read of Lysa's has been a blessing, I'm sure this one is no different. Thanks for all of your encouraging words, as we all strive to walk closer with Jesus.

    Julie Roat

    [email protected]

  44. Wow Renee! What a generous offering. I would love to have Lisa's Bible Study because Lisa is speaking at Crossline's next women's retreat (one year after you inspired me to accept Jesus into my heart) and I won't be able to be there! Thank you! Caprice
    [email protected]

  45. I have not considered myself to be 'a woman after God's own heart' nor the wife and mother that I ought to be according to God's word. It is too often that I do the things that I do not want to do. Often I fail and even become complacent…but my heart's desire is to be more like Jesus – sold out – advancing His kingdom. Not a hypocrite or a Pharisee, but a true witness in every way for Jesus!
    I have been on the milk way too long and sadly I admit that ought to be further along…but oh that is my desire.
    Anything that would help and encourage me in my walk with Christ would be a blessing. Thank you for what you make available to all us women!
    Always striving…
    [email protected]

  46. I read Lysa's book and LOVE it. God has been nudging me for a while to do this Bible study with a group of friends. Over the last 2 weeks he has made it clear this is something he wants me to do this summer. I would love to win the DVD so our group can use it for our study. I am excited about going through the study with you on your blog! It will help me as I prepare to lead my first Bible study completely on my own.

  47. i so desperatly want to find god in my life one minute i feel he's there and then the next i feel lost, forgotten & forsaken by him.i was going to church but i just didn't fit in i never felt good enough or christian enough. when i went to the womens bible study class i have never felt so out of place and scared it was high school all over again on the outside of all the cool people looking in. if i won this maybe i could get the knowledge and feel confidante to go back to church and show them that just like the bible teaches i am good enough and if i didn't fit in with them i would still have the confidence to know i fit in with god and he's all that matters. i want that knowledge thats why i would like to win.

  48. Although I have the best, most supportative family, I feel all alone. Although my husband has a decent job, I feel lost as what my job/career should be to help support our family. I just can't find my way, I don't know how to find my way….. I feel alone.
    [email protected]

  49. I think I'm always looking for "the more," while at the same time wanting to be satisfied and content. I'm interested to know Lysa's perspective! Thanks for this!

  50. I would desperately like to become "more" than what I am right now – discouraged. I am struggling with my walk with God, with being a good wife and a good mother all at the same time. Thank you for the opportunity to win this book!!