RPM Ministries’ First-Ever Webinar!

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RPM Ministries’ First-Ever Webinar!

One of life’s 7 ultimate questions is, “How can I help? Do I have a purpose and how do I fulfill it?” I want to help you to answer these questions...for free.

I’m excited to announce that I’m able to offer you something very valuable for the low price of…$0.00!

You’ve heard me talk about my How to Care Like Christ seminars.

Now, for the first time, I’m presenting part of that seminar as a webinar. From the comfort of your home and the privacy of your computer screen, you’ll be able to hear my presentation while viewing the entire PowerPoint presentation.

But That’s Not All!

But that’s not all. I’m working in partnership with three other nationally-known biblical counselors. Their three webinar sessions also cost...$0.00!

Over the course of two weeks, we’ll offer four interactive sessions that each last an hour. Topics include:

1. How to Identify the Ruling Idols of Your Heart (Rick Thomas, December 1, 2009, 7-8 PM EST)

2. How to Help People to Overcome Addiction to Pornography (Luke Gilkerson, December 3, 2009, 7-8 PM EST)

3. How to Care Like Christ (Bob Kellemen, December 8, 2009, 7-8 PM EST)

4. How to Revise Conflict and Revive Romance in Marriage (Brad Hambrick, December 10, 2009, 7-8 PM EST)

All sessions will include practical advice, examples, and a Q/A time.

What You’ll Learn to Do in My Webinar

Everyone wants to do biblical counseling and to be a spiritual friend, but what does it actually look like in practice? In my webinar you’ll be equipped to:

1. Use God’s Word to bring Christ’s hope to people’s suffering.

2. Offer sustaining care for discouraged people by weeping with those who weep—learn how to empathize with people’s hurts.

3. Bring healing comfort for suffering people by exploring Christ’s hope in the midst of people’s grief—learn how to encourage people with Christ’s truth.

The Details

The date/time for my webinar are December 8, 2009, 7-8 PM EST.

For more details and to register for any or all of the four webinar sessions, visit: http://christiancounselorresourcecenter.com/rpm/

This invitation is being sent to over 200,000 (not exaggerating) people, and we only have room for the first 1,000 people for each webinar. So registering quickly is a good idea.

Be equipped to care like Christ.

Fresh Site, Free Book

Visit and Follow Our New Website, Receive a Free E-Book

RPM Ministries has a fresh, new look. Same name, same purpose, same address, but easier to navigate and nicer on the eyes.

Visit us at: www.rpmministries.org.

Win a Free E-Book

Win a free copy of our E-Book, How to Care Like Christ. In this 55-page e-book, I summarize my entire model of biblical counseling. Learn what makes counseling truly Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed.

Normally $10.00, I’ll send you your copy for free when you:

1. Visit the site: www.rpmministries.org

2. Become a Follower of the site. Just scroll down on the left of the home page to the Follower area and add yourself.

3. Send me an email at rpm.ministries@gmail.com so that I can send you your free copy of How to Care Like Christ.

Note: This offer is good for the first fifty followers of the new site.

Soul Contact

Begin Before the Beginning: John 1:1—Soul Contact

Before God created, what was He doing? This vital question exposes the vital quest in the human soul created in the image of God.

Before God created; He related.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God” (John 1:1).

In the Greek, this little preposition with signifies “before, in the presence of, face-to-face with.”

When my children were young, we played a game called “Eye Contact.” I would bellow, “Josh! Marie! Let’s play ‘Eye Contact!’” They’d race to me, shove their eye sockets into my eye sockets, press their eyeballs into my eyeballs, and we would make eye contact.

Father and Son (and Spirit) play an eternal game of “Eye Contact,” except they call it “Soul Contact.” The Trinity always enjoys the sheer delight of eternal, unbroken communion, connection, and community.

Their love teaches us how to love in spirit and in truth.

Life's Seven Ultimate Questions

Learn Biblical Answers to Life's Seven Ultimate Questions

What does the Bible say about the core questions we all ask?

1. What is truth? Where do we find answers?
2. Who is God?
3. Who am I?
4. What went wrong? Why do I sin and suffer?
5. How do people change?
6. Where am I headed?
7. How can I help?

Find out Friday, November, 6, from 9 AM to Noon during my interactive Christian Counseling In-Service “How to Care Like Christ” at Family Concerns Counseling in Valparaiso, IN.

Space is limited, so if you are interested in attending please contact:

Dave Bauer
Family Concern Counseling
2004 Valparaiso St in Valparaiso, Indiana
219-477-5646
famcounseling@yahoo.com
For direction or more about Family Concern Counseling visit: www.familycounsel.org

Purchase “How to Care Like Christ”

You can purchase a copy of the manuscript on which the seminar is based at: http://bit.ly/DEKwc

Other Opportunities

If you're not in the Northwest Indiana area and would like to attend or host a seminar, contact me at rpm.ministries@gmail.com to discuss a half-day In-Service or a Full-Day seminar in your area.

Christian Counseling Training in NW Indiana

Christian Counseling Training: How to Care Like Christ

Do you care deeply for people, but sometimes pray that you had further equipping in how to care like Christ?

I'll be presenting a 3-hour interactive Christian Counseling In-service at Family Concerns Counseling in Valpo (NW Indiana, about an hour SE of Chicago).

It will be on Friday, November 6 from 9-noon. There is no charge, but Family Concerns is footing the bill so donations to offset their costs will be accepted.

The seminar is especially geared toward Christians who counsel professionally and pastorally.

We'll learn how to address life's seven ultimate questions.

And we'll learn how to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions--biblically.

Space is very limited, so if you are interested in attending, here's contact information:

Dave Bauer
Family Concern Counseling
2004 Valparaiso St in Valparaiso, Indiana
On November 6th from 9:00 AM to Noon

To Register Contact: 219-477-5646 and famcounseling@yahoo.com

For direction or more details about Family Concern Counseling go to
www.familycounsel.org

Are You Looking at Life with Eyeballs Only or with Spiritual Eyes?

Are You Looking at Life with Eyeballs Only or with Spiritual Eyes?

In yesterday’s blog post, I shared about how the extension cord connected to my computer was accidently unplugged during my How to Care Like Christ seminar (http://bit.ly/3YYAR4), causing my computer to go into hibernation. To read that entire post, please visit http://bit.ly/LLrwI.

As I asked yesterday, I’d ask you again today to imagine the scene and to put yourself in my shoes as a speaker.

Your computer is going into hibernation and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. Your entire presentation is PowerPoint driven. Most of the audience doesn’t know you. The whole start and set-up for the entire day could be ruined.

What would you do? What would you think? How might you respond?

With Eyeballs Only

My immediate, fleshly, emotional, eyeballs only response was to think and feel, “The day is ruined.” “They will think I’m a hapless presenter.”

With eyeballs only, with a fleshly mindset, I was thinking about me, and not about God and not about them. Hardly a reflection of Matthew 22:35-40!

With Spiritual Eyes

Interestingly, just moments before this event, the seminar host and my spiritual friend, Pastor Mark Tanious, had taken me aside to pray with me. Pastor Mark specifically prayed that God would lead me not to say anything I should not say, and to say anything He wanted me to say, even if it wasn’t in my pre-planned presentation. Mark is a young man mature beyond his years.

So what did I say? How did I react?

Well, read part one for my first response which was a God-led object lesson about how we desperately need to stay plugged into our personal power source—God—because when we live in the power of the flesh we will eventually go into spiritual hibernation mode.

A Second Object Lesson

But God’s Spirit wasn’t done teaching lessons that were not in my lesson plan!

A second major point of the How to Care Like Christ seminar highlights our need in spiritual friendship to help our spiritual friends to look at life with renewed minds—with spiritual eyes, with faith eyes. The only other option is to look at life with eyes of the flesh, with eyeballs only—conformed to the world, the flesh, and the devil.

So later in the morning when we arrived at the point in the seminar where we address spiritual eyes, I confessed to the audience my earlier temptation to look at my hibernating computer with eyeballs only—with a “woe is me,” “I am defeated,” “it’s all about me” fleshly attitude.

Open the Eyes of My Heart, Lord

And I shared with my audience that through Pastor Mark’s earlier pray, and certainly through their silent prayers during the hibernating moments, that God’s Spirit did a work in my heart. He enlightened my eyes. He opened the eyes of my heart. His Spirit transformed and renewed my thinking in the moment.

The eyes of my heart were enlightened:

*With the reminder that, “It’s not about me; it’s all about Him.”

*With the reminder that, “God is in control and He cares.”

*With the reminder that, “God allows negative events to occur so that we might not rely on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead.”

*With the reminder that, “I was not there to impress people, but to serve people and to serve God.”

*With the reminder that, “I had a choice—I could look at life with eyeballs only or I could look at life with spiritual eyes.”

*With the reminder that, “It’s not what happens to us that matters most, but how we respond to what happens to us that is the real measure of our walk with God.”

How’s Your Eyesight?

So…how’s your eyesight?

Are you looking at situations in your life today with eyeballs only or with spiritual eyes?

As Elisha prayed for his sight-impaired servant, ask God to open your eyes so you may see, so you may really see reality, God-reality (2 Kings 6:17).

Connecting to Christ's Resurrection Power

Are You Plugged In?
Connecting to Christ's Resurrection Power

This past Saturday, I was presenting one of my How to Care Like Christ seminars (http://bit.ly/3YYAR4).

About five minutes into the presentation, my computer started to go into hibernation mode! Nothing I could do would stop it. The cords all seemed plugged into the power source, but it just shut down on me.

Imagine the scene. Put yourself in my shoes as a speaker.

My entire presentation is PowerPoint driven. Most of these people didn’t know me. The whole start and set-up for the entire day could be ruined.

What would you do? What would you think? How might you respond?

That’s When God Showed Up

The tech guys (always have tech guys!) discovered that someone had accidently unplugged the extension cord from the wall hidden behind the platform. We were disconnected from the power source.

As Forest Gump might say, “That’s when God showed up.”

God’s Spirit not only calmed my spirit, He enlightened my mind.

What Satan Meant for Evil, God Meant for God

I shared with the crowd, “Satan wants to ruin our day. God wants to empower our day.”

I continued, “My computer had been disconnected from the power source. It shut down, hibernated, because it has limited battery power of its own.”

I went on to say, “A major theme of the How to Care Like Christ seminar is that we must tap into Christ’s resurrection power (Philippians 3:10). The same power that raised Christ from the dead, is within every Christian (Ephesians 1:18-20).”

“Our limited power of the flesh is nothing compared to the infinite resurrection power of Christ. His power is not some impersonal force, for our God is infinitely powerful and infinitely personal. We tap into His power by connecting to Him; by fellowshipping with and worshipping Him; and by communing with Christ through spiritual disciplines.”

All of a sudden, every person in that room realized that God had shown up!

He blessed us with a disconnected power cord that shut down my computer and could have ruined my presentation because He wanted to teach us not to rely upon ourselves but upon the God who raises the dead!

Are You Plugged In?

At the end of the seminar, I always have us spend time reflecting on and sharing together about what most impacted us, about what we will “take home with us.”

Thankfully, many things we had shared in the How to Care Like Christ seminar impacted people.

But guess what impacted many people the most? Yep. It wasn’t anything I said or did. It was what God did. It was an unplugged power cord.

So many people shared, “What God taught me today is that in my Christian life, I have to stay connected to Him.” And, “If I am going to minister to others and care like Christ, then I have to stay plugged into Christ.”

Are you plugged in?

Or are you trying to live your Christian life on battery power?

The limited power of the flesh will eventually cause us to hibernate spiritually.

Let’s stay connected to our infinitely powerful and infinitely personal God.

Let’s stay plugged in!

Answering Life's Seven Ultimate Questions

Be Empowered to Care Like Christ

Do you minister to people’s personal needs and care deeply, but desire further equipping so you can care like Christ?

Do you want to be empowered to use the Bible more wisely, powerfully, and lovingly?

Would you like to learn biblical answers to life's seven ultimate questions?

Then attend the RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ.

Our next upcoming How to Care Like Christ Seminar:

Saturday, October 31, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, 1615 Third Street, N.W., Washington DC.

*Cost:

$25 per person. Your costs include a continental breakfast, a light lunch, the seminar notes, and the full-day seminar presentation by Dr. Kellemen.

*To Register:

Contact the Church Office at 202-667-1833 and ask for Minister Charles Traylor and the Changing Lives Seminar.

Or email Paula Stevens-Lassiter at mtsinaidc@verizon.net

How to Care Like Christ

RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar

Do you care deeply for people, but find it difficult to obtain equipping that empowers you to care like Christ?

Are you ready to learn the art of Christ Care?

*Learn How to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth

*Learn How to Care Like Christ

*Learn How to Use the Bible Accurately, Powerfully, and Lovingly in Your Personal Relationships

A One-Day Seminar Presented by Dr. Bob Kellemen

Bob is a nationally-known speaker, writer, consultant, educator, and counselor. He’s the author of Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Beyond the Suffering, Sacred Friendships, and God’s Healing for Life’s Losses. He has equipped thousands of lay people, pastors, and counselors as Chairman of the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship Department (Capital Bible Seminary), as Director of the Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network, and as Founder/CEO of RPM Ministries.

Learn Biblical Answers to Life's Seven Ultimate Questions

1. What is truth? Where do we find answers?
2. Who is God?
3. Who am I?
4. What went wrong? Why do I sin and suffer?
5. How do people change?
6. Where am I headed?
7. How can I help?

Be Equipped for One Another Ministry as a Spiritual Friend, Biblical Counselor, and Soul Physician:

*Learn how to understand people biblically: Discover how God designed us to live, love, and relate.

*Learn how to diagnose problems scripturally: Uncover what went wrong—why do we do the things we do?

*Learn how to prescribe God’s solutions effectively: Apply Christ’s answers for our daily life problems.

*Learn how to weep with those who weep: Offer sustaining care for discouraged people—empathize with people.

*Learn how to give hope to the hurting: Offer healing comfort for suffering people—encourage people as you relate God’s truth to daily life.

*Learn how to be a dispenser of grace: Offer reconciling care-fronting for sinning people—enlighten people as you speak the truth in love.

*Learn how to disciple, coach, and mentor: Offer guiding counsel for growing people—empower people to tap into Christ’s resurrection power.

Changing Lives Seminar Schedule

8:30-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00-12:00 Morning Session with Two Breaks

How to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth: Become a Christ-Centered, Comprehensive, Compassionate, and Culturally-Informed Soul Physician

Everyone talks about biblical counseling, but how do we make biblical counseling truly biblical? Learn how to use God’s Word accurately, powerfully, and lovingly. Be equipped to become an artful soul physician by developing a Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed biblical model of people helping, counseling, and one another ministry that values and applies the sufficiency, supremacy, authority, and relevancy of Scripture to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.

12:00-1:00 Lunch Fellowship Together

1:00-4:00 Afternoon Session with Two Breaks

How to Care Like Christ: Become an Empathizing, Encouraging, Enlightening, and Empowering Spiritual Friend

Everyone wants to “do biblical counseling” and to “be a spiritual friend,” but what does it actually “look like” in practice? Learn how to use God’s Word to empathize, encourage, enlighten, and empower others. Be equipped to become a skillful spiritual friend by developing the biblical soul care and spiritual direction arts of sustaining, healing, reconciling, and guiding to care like Christ.

Contact Us:

To host or to attend an RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar contact us:

RPM Ministries
PO Box 270, Crown Point, IN 46308, 219-662-8138
www.rpmministries.org, rpm.ministries@gmail.com

Equipping You to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth

Christ-Centered, Comprehensive, Compassionate, and Culturally-Informed Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation

How to Care Like Christ

Be Empowered to Care Like Christ

Do you minister to people’s personal needs and care deeply, but desire further equipping so you can care like Christ?

Do you want to be empowered to use the Bible more wisely, powerfully, and lovingly?

Then attend the RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ.

Select from two upcoming RPM Ministries How to Care Like Christ Seminars:

1. Saturday, October 10, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Grace Baptist Church, 7210 Race Track Road, Bowie, MD 20715.

Cost: $25 per person if registered by October 3. ($35 at the Door.) Your costs include a continental breakfast, a light lunch, the seminar notes, and the full-day seminar presentation by Dr. Kellemen.

To Register:

*Contact Pastor Mark Tanious at 301-262-1767.

*Or, download the online registration at: http://bit.ly/zJMvy

*Or, contact: secretary@gbcbowie.org

To Learn More:

Please visit: http://bit.ly/lX5PG

2. Saturday, October 31, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, 1615 Third Street, N.W., Washington DC.

*Cost: $25 per person. Your costs include a continental breakfast, a light lunch, the seminar notes, and the full-day seminar presentation by Dr. Kellemen.

To Register:

*Contact the Church Office at 202-667-1833 and ask for Minister Charles Traylor and the Changing Lives Seminar.

*Or, email Paula Stevens-Lassiter at mtsinaidc@verizon.net