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WomanWoman

Passion #1Passion #1

To Be a Difference-To Be a Difference-MakerMaker

Passion #1: To Be a Difference-Maker

• Wanting to make a mark on the world is part of God’s design for us

• The world’s definition of making a difference

• A mark of a different kind—one that will last into eternity

Loving People Shapes Their Souls for Eternity

• Changing diapers with tenderness and cheerfulness

• Answering 14,000 “Why?” questions every day with patience

• Being polite when you feel like being cranky

• Making dinner night after night after night

Loving People Shapes Their Souls for Eternity

• Doing a kindness in Jesus’ name• Pouring your energies into a family• Giving money to people and

organizations that are doing God’s work

• Doing your job to bring glory to God and meet the needs of people He created

Passion #2Passion #2

To Connect with To Connect with Other WomenOther Women

Why It's Good to Be a Why It's Good to Be a WomanWoman

• We got off the Titanic first.We got off the Titanic first.

• Taxis stop for us.Taxis stop for us.

• We don't look like a frog in a blender We don't look like a frog in a blender

when dancing.when dancing.

• We don't have to pass gas to amuse We don't have to pass gas to amuse

ourselves.ourselves.

• We can congratulate our teammate We can congratulate our teammate

without ever touching her rear end.without ever touching her rear end.

Why It's Good to Be a Why It's Good to Be a WomanWoman

• We never have to reach down every so We never have to reach down every so

often to make sure our privates are still often to make sure our privates are still

there.there.

• We have the ability to dress ourselves.We have the ability to dress ourselves.

• If we marry someone 20 years younger, we If we marry someone 20 years younger, we

are aware that we will look like an idiot.are aware that we will look like an idiot.

• We will never regret piercing our ears.We will never regret piercing our ears.

• No fashion faux pas we make, could ever No fashion faux pas we make, could ever

rival the Speedo.rival the Speedo.

Passion #3Passion #3

To Know TruthTo Know Truth

Passion #3: To Know Truth

• World’s view– We can not know truth– There is no Truth– Everyone creates their own reality– Whatever works for you

• God’s view– There are things that are true at all

times, in all places, for all people– Absolute Truth

Passion #3: To Know Truth

• Three worldviews– Naturalism– Pantheism– Theism

• Ways to know– Experience– Reason– Observation– Revelation

Passion #4Passion #4

To Fill the Hole in To Fill the Hole in Our HeartsOur Hearts

We try to fill the hole We try to fill the hole with...with...

• FamilyFamily• RomanceRomance• Sex Sex • ChocolateChocolate• Material stuffMaterial stuff• ShoppingShopping

• Food Food • WorkWork• ChocolateChocolate• FriendshipsFriendships• TravelTravel• ChocolateChocolate

Passion #5Passion #5

To Be BeautifulTo Be Beautiful

Passion #5: To Be Beautiful

• Attached to every girl’s heart is a question: Am I beautiful?

• God thinks so. “The King is enthralled with your beauty.” Ps. 45:11

Wild at HeartWild at Heart John Eldredge John Eldredge

Masculine Masculine heart:heart:

A battle to fightA battle to fight An adventure to liveAn adventure to live A beauty to rescueA beauty to rescue

Feminine heart:Feminine heart: To be fought for, To be fought for,

pursued, and wantedpursued, and wanted An adventure to An adventure to

shareshare A beauty to unveilA beauty to unveil

"Eve is the crown of creation. "Eve is the crown of creation. She embodies the exquisite She embodies the exquisite beauty and the exotic mystery beauty and the exotic mystery of God in a way that nothing of God in a way that nothing else in all creation even comes else in all creation even comes close.”close.”

John Eldredge,John Eldredge,Wild at HeartWild at Heart

"The deep cry of a little girl's "The deep cry of a little girl's heart is heart is am I lovely?am I lovely? Every Every woman needs to know that she woman needs to know that she is exquisite and exotic and is exquisite and exotic and chosen.chosen. This is core to her This is core to her identity, the way she bears the identity, the way she bears the image of God. image of God. Will you pursue Will you pursue me? Do you delight in me? Will me? Do you delight in me? Will you fight for me?"you fight for me?"

John Eldredge,John Eldredge,Wild at HeartWild at Heart

Passion #5: To Be Beautiful

• The essence of a woman is beauty; the essence of a man is strength

• We don’t have to manufacture beauty, it’s already there. It’s part of the image of God. We just need to unveil it.

• Ta-Da!

Passion #6Passion #6

To Have Fun, to Feel To Have Fun, to Feel Alive: Alive:

An Adventure to An Adventure to ShareShare

Passion #6: To Have Fun, To Feel Alive: An Adventure to

Share• OT celebrations and vacations• “What do you do for fun?”• Turn challenges into adventures• “God, help me experience this as

an adventure”• Different kinds of fun

Passion #7Passion #7

To Be Loved and To Be Loved and Cherished by the Cherished by the Ultimate LoverUltimate Lover

Passion #7: To Be Loved and Cherished by the Ultimate

Lover• Everyone longs for romance• Romantic love promises but

ultimately disappoints• Romantic love doesn’t want to

possess, but to be possessed• Romantic love is a sign of

something beyond, like road signs

The Perfect Lover

• Anticipates our every need and desire, and meets it

• Can read our mind• Knows us and loves us anyway• Loves us passionately, intimately,

unconditionally, aggressively, realistically, with a holy jealousy

• Appreciates us

The Perfect Lover

• Takes our breath away with the exquisite goodness of loving and being loved

• Totally committed to our happiness and well-being

• Will possess and penetrate us without making us lose our identity

• Will sing love songs to us like in the movies

The Perfect Lover

• Strong, beautiful, handsome, tender, compassionate, sensitive, manly, smart, capable, ingenious, creative, romantic, self-sacrificing

• Jesus is the Lover, the Husband, who fulfills the infinite desire within us.

“The believer’s leap of faith in response to God’s leap is like the acceptance of a marriage proposal, which permits the divine bridegroom to impregnate us with his life. What God asks of us is not to try a little harder to obey his laws, or to experiment with mystical stages of consciousness, but to give ourselves recklessly to him, to leap out of our skins in holy abandon.”

--Peter Kreeft

Heaven: The Heart’s Deepest Longing