The Beginning of Our "Sweet Journey"

We are beginning our online study of Teri Maxwell's book Sweet Journey, and are glad you've decided to join us! If you haven't already gotten a copy of the book, you can do so from Teri's website here , or you can get the Kindle version from Amazon here.


I’m going to start with the same caveat that I think all book studies should start with: This book will not solve all your problems. This book is just that – a book. It is a book that is designed to encourage you to study the Word and to pray regularly, and it is designed to get you going in the right direction. But ultimately, it is just a book – written by a fallible human.  This book will not solve all your problems. But the Bible will!  This book will not be error free. But the Bible is! The author of this book will make mistakes.  But the Author of the Bible has NEVER made a mistake and never will!  So please, use this book and this study the way it was intended – as a way to get you into THE Book that will help you know and love THE One who gave everything for you!

I know she says the book is designed to be done one chapter a week, but I think a couple of the chapters go together very nicely and are short enough to combine. So I suggest we break it down this way:

Week 1: Chapters 1 and 2 - Complete and Respond by May 30

Week 2: Chapters 3 and 4 - Complete and Respond by June 6

Week 3: Chapter 5 - Complete and Respond by June 13

Week 4: Chapter 6 - Complete and Respond by June 20

Week 5: Chapter 7 - Complete and Respond by June 27

Week 6: Chapter 8 - Complete and Respond by July 5

Week 7: Chapters 9 and 10 - Complete and Respond by July 12

Week 8: Chapter 11 – This is the wrap up chapter.   

This will take us through most of the Summer.  I realize that we are all coming to this study in various stages of spiritual growth and understanding and that some of us are also doing (or will be doing) other Bible studies this Summer. If you fall behind or can’t respond in any particular week, please don’t feel like you can’t continue. Participate as much as you can, however you feel led to, and we will work with what we have. This is a casual study group – designed to give us a way to talk about things and “study” a book together without actually seeing each other face to face. Ultimately, you will benefit the most from interacting, but if you feel that you just want to “lurk” then go ahead and do so; just please don’t forget to actually DO the study and read the Word and learn and grow!

Each chapter comes with questions inside, and I suggest that you do those on your own as you study. The answers, should you need them, are at the end of each chapter.  

I will post something at the beginning of each week and include some additional questions or topics for discussion. Come back any time during the week to respond and participate.  

Try to come back more than once – in case someone responds to your questions/comments or has a question for you.

One last thing - if you need to be reminded to come and check the blog each week, just contact me, and I'll put you on the automated reminder list. If you use a blog reader with RSS feeds, you can just subscribe on the right-hand side of this page, where it says "subscribe."

In a few minutes I'll post the first set of questions - for Chapters 1 and 2. Here we go!