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Sharing God’s Word through Bible study

It is such a blessing and a fun moment to hear from a group who is using one of my books to study God’s Word and grow closer to Him. It’s also a sobering reminder of the responsibility that comes with it.

Have you participated in many Bible studies? For several years, I convinced myself I was too busy. I didn’t have time. Quiet times were enough for me. The first study I ever sat in, that I can remember, was Beth Moore’s Esther study, led by my good friend Dori Cook. Dori is an incredible Bible study teacher. I could sit and listen to her as long as she’s willing to talk. She knows how to research, knows how to ask questions and most important, has a huge heart for women coming closer to the throne of God. It was because of her that I began to see the enormous value in studying God’s Word with friends.

Posted by Sara Horn on July 13, 2012 in Faith

Here it is!

Thought I’d share with you what’s been keeping me away for the most part all summer long – my new Bible study, Tour of Duty: Preparing Our Hearts for Deployment! -

It’s now available on LifeWay’s website for pre-orders and comes out this fall. I am so excited to share this with other military wives – this study walks through the hard emotions we so often experience going through deployment and how we can overcome them by staying focused on the One who brings us through this journey. It can be done both as an individual and with a group. I pray it’s a blessing and an encouragement to many who are going through these seasons away from their husbands.

My first deployment was wrecked – and I do mean wrecked with emotion. The emotions of Cliff leaving, the emotions of being by myself, juggling home and child, the emotions of the fears and the worries and just the weariness that can so often hit you as you go through it. And it occurred to me much later, even after I wrote GOD Strong, how I had spent so much time preparing in every way for deployment except spiritually, and yet that was the most important way I could prepare.

So that’s how Tour of Duty was born – I wanted, for myself, a study – a tool to take me through the Bible and God’s truth - that would help me get ready for deployment and something I could refer to as well when I’m in the thick of it. I’m praying it’s a help to other wives as well.

This was definitely one of the most challenging projects I’ve worked on, mainly because of the tight deadline we were working with and my own changing situation, going from writing at home to working a 40 hour work week and then writing in the evenings. I’m grateful for the LifeWay Women’s team and all of the time and energy (and patience) they put into this project and me. Compared to the audience for the other Bible studies they do (anyone ever hear of a lady named Beth Moore? ), this is a small niche but they saw the importance and the necessity to have a study like this out there for military wives. I, for one, as a military wife, am deeply thankful. If you are too, you may want to stop over at their blog and let them know! I’m sure they would love to hear from you.

Before I close, let me just tell you that as we get ready to start our own deployment soon (this is our second), I’m so grateful I can share this journey with my sister Wives of Faith! These ladies are such an encouragement and an inspiration to me and I’m so excited about the plans we have for a new website and message board that’s coming soon. We have a new weekly newsletter and in my columns I’ve started writing about our experience as Cliff prepares to leave for another tour, this time to South America. If you’re not getting the newsletter, let me encourage you to sign up and we can go through this journey together.

I’ll try and post more updates as they come. In the meantime, go ahead and get your copy of Tour of Duty!

Posted by Sara Horn on September 9, 2010 in Writing

Share God Strong with others

One of the exciting things about this new book (I think, anyway) is the Bible study that goes along with it. I started out wanting to put together something simple that a military wives group could do together as they read the book – a few discussion questions, a couple of scriptures. I had no idea when I started writing it, though, that it would turn into a full-fledged Bible study! But that’s what God laid on my heart to share and there is quite a bit of extra material in the study that wasn’t in the book.

Right now, the study is FREE and available on my web site. When designing this study, I wanted to make it super easy for anyone to do. You DO NOT have to have a theology degree to teach this! In fact, you’re not even really teaching. You’re facilitating – a fancy word for keeping the discussion going. Everything is written out in the study and can be read out loud and there are plenty of questions posed to get some good conversation going for each of the chapters.

Here’s a sample of the first session – let me know what you think!

Posted by Sara Horn on February 1, 2010 in Writing

Waiting on the Thing

I’m substitute hosting for our Wives of Faith/FMWCN radio Bible study today. The topic is “Wait on God.” It’s the final week of the study – next week, Jennifer Rothschild will be joining Shannon to answer questions about the study. You can listen live at 9 a.m. CST or to the recording after the show’s over, on our Wives of Faith page.

Posted by Sara Horn on August 20, 2009 in Faith

The Samson Study, Part One

A few months ago, I ran across the story of Samson as I was looking for something else in the book of Judges. Though I’ve read his story before, something this time seemed to flag it for me and I made a mental note that I needed to go back and read it again.

For the next several weeks, I’m going to walk through Samson’s story and see what lessons God can teach me as I do. I hope you’ll join me.

When you think of Samson, what do you think about? For me, it’s his strength. Samson was one mighty strong dude, the Bible’s version of Hercules, if you will, though there seems to be good evidence for some biblical scholars that unlike Hercules, Samson actually existed.

But when I think about Samson, I also think about some of his weaknesses – he was pretty cocky. He was easily influenced by the ladies. Sex won out over integrity and honor many times. He had no problem lying, and his actions brought serious consequences to the others in his life.

Posted by Sara Horn on August 13, 2009 in Faith