If you are a Christian woman in a difficult marriage, you are wondering what you can do to make things better. Without effective tools, you probably react in ways that actually make your problems worse. You may try to force change through anger, threats, and control. You may deny, pretend, fix, cover up, enable, tolerate, and appease.

This ten-week group offers practical tools based on scriptural truths that will enable you to respond differently and effectively to the complex situations that you face. It is taught by Karla Downing and based on her book “10 Lifesaving Principles for Women in Difficult Marriages.” The class includes teaching, testimonies, and small group discussion.

Here are the 10 Lifesaving Principles:

• Understand Difficult Marriages. Explains the types and characteristics of difficult marriages.
• Understand Scriptural Truths. Shows you what the Bible really says about submission, rights, respect, gentleness, perseverance, forgiveness, and keeping the peace.
• Change Yourself, Not Him. Provides ideas for how you can take the focus off of changing your husband and put it onto changing yourself.
• Detach with Love. Explains how you can detach from your husband’s anger, moods, threats, arguments, blame, and crises, as well as how to allow him to be responsible for his own choices.
• Nurture Yourself. Suggests ideas for how you can take care of your emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental needs.
• Face Your Fears. Describes specific fears women in difficult marriages deal with and how you can face your fears and do the right thing in spite of them.
• Speak the Truth in Love. Helps you know your own truth and then speak it to your husband in love.
• Set Boundaries. Defines boundaries, explains how to develop them, and shows how to set them in the midst of your difficult marriage.
• Prioritize Your Children. Gives ideas on how you can take care of your children in the midst of the dysfunction, as well as how to handle discipline disagreements with your husband.
• Enter God’s Rest. Shows you how to enter God’s rest by surrendering the things you cannot change.

Date: September 12, 2016 – November 14, 2016

Location: Friends Church Yorba Linda, 5211 Lakeview Avenue, Yorba Linda, California in the Old Chapel on the Upper Campus

Time: Monday nights 7-9 pm

Cost: $25 for materials

NEW SMALL GROUP FOR SPANISH SPEAKING WOMEN with SPANISH STUDY GUIDE!!