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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. Ever since I heard of this book, I have wanted to do this study. It describes me exactly! I struggle every day to 'do devotions' but I never feel like my time is doing anything. I would love to learn how to become more and have more of a relationship with God! He deserves MORE than what I am giving Him now.
    ([email protected])

  2. I have been looking for ways to be closer to God and become more intimate with him. I study the bible all of the time in many different ways but I just feel like I am lacking something right now. This series has interested me since the first time I heard about it and I would absolutely love to be given the opportunity to see what Lysa has to offer.
    [email protected]

  3. I would LOVE to win this study because I would love to share it with my neighborhood girlfriends. I would definitely want to start a home Bible study for these ladies, so we could all journey together and learn how to become more than just Bible study girls, but the amazing women of God that He created us to be! Thank you for this opportunity.

  6. I think this study sounds great and I've been feeling that maybe I should "host" a Bible study. I have friends who talk of wanting to do a study and we just haven't begun anything yet, I feel God telling me to "just do it" and invite them to come…I just don't know how to start, winning this would give me a boast…I'd have a study in hand!! Even if I don't win, thanks for having the giveaways today and I will definitely be getting the book sometime soon!

  7. I would love to win this series, because I am constantly looking for ways to strengthen my own intimate relationship with the Lord. I don't want that "plastic/fake" stuff anymore, and I long to see my girlfriends get to that same place. What a great way to study that together! I love that the series teaches us how to "cultivate greater authenticity and depth in their relationships". That's it! That's what I aim for and would love to share with some other gals!

  8. I would love to win this giveaway because I have recommitted myself to studying God's Word and furthering my relationship with Him, and could really use some help in that path. I want more than a daily bible reading and devotional – I want that intimate, speak to me, faithful, love-filled relationship!

  9. I have been sharing with my girlfriends all of the excitment that's been going on with P31 today so thanks for the great opportunity to talk to them about this ministry.

    The past few weeks I have been struggling with my marriage which has directly affected my walk with the Lord. So, I took Stormie's advice and created my own prayer circle. I have been in daily communication with my close girlfriends, encouraging them in their marriages as God is encoraging me in mine. I challenged them to take Tracie's challenge with me and a few of them are! A few have commited to the Marriage conf. call with Melanie in March. We're going to schedule a lunch date and all listen together and have a bible study afterwards. Can I tell you just how excited I am about this… Yeah!! All because I decided to step out and stand up for God. One of my friends told me today that "(I)possess a lot of great management qualities including: not accepting excuses and providing positive motivation for people, and not to mention your extreme attention to detail and organization." This is encouragement enough to know that the pull I've been feeling about wanting to help other women/wives isn't just a thing, it's real and it's from God. I am not sure how God is going to make this work or what He has in store, but I can't wait!

    Becca

  10. I'm entering your contest, but not for me. I am honored to have the best daughter in law in the world. She is constantly searching how to be a better mom, wife and mostly…a better child of God. This 'give-away' is just up her alley!

  11. I have just written an outline for a book using Galatians 5 as the topic. I am working on the idea of making a following God by using Paul's principles of authentic relationship and accepting God's grace and mercy for salvation because we can't earn it by following a simple checklist of do's and don'ts. I would so love to have Lysa's study on how to be more and to share that with a group of women would be the ultimate blessing.

  12. This is perfect!!! I lead a Brown Bag Bible Study at my church (a group of women meeet during the lunch hour and I provide lunch for them). We do short (6 to 8 weeks), inviting and fellowship based Bible studies. I have had a hard time finding Bible studies that fall within the 6 to 8 week range. I have been searching and searching for one to begin in April.

  13. I would love to win the bible study. I am starting up a new woman's bible study in a few weeks and we haven't picked a study yet. This sounds like it would be a perfect gift for our group.
    [email protected]
    Thank you,
    Stefani
    Suprise, AZ

  14. I usually have a Bible study that I am doing. I would like to win this one to share with friends at Church. I think it would be a great study for this purpose.

  15. This study sounds absolutely fabulous! I think we can all benefit from striving to be more than just a "Bible Study Girl", that being said, lol, I would love to do this study with my girlfriends! hee hee!

    in Him,
    Tricia
    (tricia at free to dance dot com)

  17. Renee, I am wanting to lead this bible study at my church as well. I would love to get this so that I can gift it to someone in my group. Going to go leave a message on your FB page now too. This is so much fun!

  18. I'm in a bible study over at Wendy's and it would be great to win this book. (I have been trying!) Who wouldn't want to live the teachings that we learn in our bible studies? Thank you for the chance. I love visiting the different blogs. It does feel like being in a carnival.

  20. Renee, I'm waiting for my copy of the book to arrive as I write this! I'm really praying about leading a study with our women's group and this would be the one. I just got the info from Lysa to purchase at a discount, but winning the DVD portion would be huge! Fingers, toes crossed! [email protected]

  21. I'm in a spiritually dry spell and thinking that maybe this study will help give a new perspective and help move me out of the rut I'm in.

  24. I'd love to win Lysa's book…money is tight in our family right now and our local library hasn't added the book to their collection.

  25. I'd definitely like to win this giveaway, as I've been so blessed and challenged by all of Lysa's materials. I, too, like many others, want to be more than a good Bible study girl. With the situation in my life right now, I've never needed to know how to do this more.

    Thanks,
    eLisa

  26. "Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study" would give me an opportunity and a tool to align myself with God more fully, to share this study with others, and to help me understand the importance of having an authentic relationship with Jesus Christ! I've felt I've been asleep all my life and I feel the Lord's calling to live my life the way God made me to be. I'm awake now and I hope and if it's meant to be, that I will be able to experience, "Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study" – thank you for all your blessings!

  27. Lysa recently spoke at my church's women's conference. I would love to go through the study (and win the prize) because I've always been a Good Bible Study Girl, and I'm ready to break out of that into the abundance God has for me!

  29. Why i want to win?? Not only was I blessed to hear both you and Lysa speak in the same night I became an instant fan:) Being in a dorm full of girls and at a Christian university this might be the way we can connect as women of good!:)

  30. I would LOVE to win this special package as I'm a long time fan of yours in this ministry. I know we could put it to good use right away! ohhh pick me please! ~smile~ Thank you for being so transparent and sharing your gifts and wisdom with all of us!
    Giselle
    [email protected]

  31. Becoming more than a good Bible study girl is exactly where I am right now. I want to delve deeper into relationship with God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. I switched devotional books at Advent to get a new perspective and am always looking for ways to grow a deeper faith, walk and relationship.

  32. I would like to win this because I feel I am rather stagnant in my walk with God at this time and feel this would get me going again.And this might inspire me to lead this study to a few of the ladies in my church who have shown interest. thanks for the giveaway.

  33. This is just what I could use right now. For me and my small community of friends. Thank you for the opportunity to "Be More."
    jennamccrady at hotmail dot com

  34. Lysa is one of my favorite writers! I would LOVE to win this bible study. My small group of ladies just finished Breaking Free by Beth Moore last night & we need a new and delightful study to begin.

    Thank you for your awesome blog.
    [email protected]

  35. I'd love to win Lysa's DVD set because I teach bible to high school girls – and am looking for material to share with them. 🙂

    Thank you for this amazing give- away!

  36. I feel God's tug at my heart here lately to be more than a good Bible Study girl. There are some ladies in my church that have been talking about this and it would be a great study for over the summer. (Which is what we are looking for right now.) Love your posts. God bless you and all the ladies.
    [email protected]

  37. I truly would love this study. I just finished a 40 day fast (only eating fruits and veggies) and I have learned quite a few things from God.

    One thing I learned is that because of issues with my Father, etc…. I was equating my Heavenly Fathers love with my Earthly fathers love and that is wrong. I have always felt my Dad didn't love me, I didn't have his attention – I felt like there was not enough love for me. And through this time of fasting and praying I realized that I let that seep into other areas of my life. With food, other realationships, etc…. And I always felt like I had to be good enough for God. I had to know more about the Bible than everybody else and I had to serve in more ways than everyone else. Subconciously I felt like God would only have enough love for me if I was good enough.

    But one day while I was drying my hair, God spoke to my heart and said, "Stacie, I have enough love for you. No matter what it won't run out – I have enough for you, I love you!" Now this may seem obvious to some but to me it really made me open my eyes and to really feel the love of God.

    I think that this study from Lysa would be beneficial in my ongoing journey of not trying to "be the best Christian or know more than others." I want more than that – I want the real thing.

    Thanks for the opportunity and I'm glad that I have a new blog to visit!

    Stacie
    [email protected]

  39. I would love to win because I have read the Bible, but feel unfed at times. I have often heard of studying the Bible, which is great, but I want to LIVE the Bible, which is after all, God's true and LIVING word. I don't want to study/read, I want to live it! Especially with difficulties I am going through (marriage, finances, school) I need to really realize what a rock I have to stand on.
    Julia

  41. I'm struggling with my walk with God right now and I respect Lysa and her teaching. I feel that she could really help me get back on track. Thank you for this opportunity.

    Blessed Mom
    [email protected]

  42. I would love to have this Bible Study. Just recently I was talking with a friend and told her that I needed a group of women to meet with and study/pray/fellowship with. I am going through a rough spot in life and am searching for the "more" that God has for me. I know that He has a plan and that he will show me that plan if I press in. I am believing for a new beginning in my life in many areas. Thanks for all that you.

  45. What a Awesome gift give away!! I gotta tell ya that I feel Lysa's words of wisdom speak directly to me!! I have heard her speak twice and read her blog regularly. God has gifted her with the heart & ability to speak directly to the heart & soul of women!! I would LOVE to do her Bible with a group of dear friends and experience the transformation of what God's Love can do for each one of us!!

  46. I would love a copy to use at our church's women's bible study. I recently switched from events lead to Bible study lead at our church. I love to throw parties and event planning was so much fun for me, but without a Bible study lead we would not be able to offer a weekday Bible study. God placed on my heart that if we didn't study his word, there was no need to party. Our Bible study group is growing. I would love to introduce my MO friends to Lysa and her teaching. I met Lysa at a retreat in NC while living in that state. Moving to MO has provided me the opportunity to share some of the resources God has used in my life to bless others. Thank you for the chance to introduce myself and share why I would like to win. [email protected]

  49. I would love to have this Bible Study to share with some dear friends of mine. We live in such a busy world…..but we can never forget the most important thing we need to do is study God's word and be a shining example!

    [email protected]

  50. I have a wonderful group of 15 women that show up faithfully every Wednesday night to lead little girls aged preschool through 5th Grade to become Godly women. Most of these ladies work full time jobs and cannot attend the daytime ladies Bible Study at our church and since they are working with our future Women of God when the evening ladie's Bible Study meets, I like having something to share with them on the occasional Saturday that we meet together as Girls Ministries MPact Leaders. This would be an incredible blessing for them! My e-mail is [email protected]. Arla Hoagland, Girls Ministries director, CCC – Sacramento, CA