Description: Walk with Mary through the unexpected into trust. The Strength to Carry DVD brings author Lisa Toney directly to your group, guiding women through this heartfelt journey into Mary's story and its profound lessons for the life we didn't choose. With warmth and insight, Toney illuminates the faith, courage, and quiet trust that carried Mary through unexpected circumstances, making the richness of this Advent Bible study accessible to women of every background and season of life. The four-session DVD features Lisa Toney guiding participants through the study. All video sessions are closed captioned.
Brief description: Lisa Toney loves to speak and write about ways to build easy, intentional, and powerful faith habits to live for Jesus. As a professor of spiritual formation at Hope International University, diving into "why this is helpful for one's life" is right up her alley. For over twenty years as a full-time pastor, she's listened, learned, taught, and served side-by-side with the church. Her company, Faith Habits, provides classes, coaching, and media to encourage engagement with God. She has a degree in communications from Taylor University and an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary. Lisa speaks at events nationwide such as Women of Faith and the Aspire Women's Events. She is the author of Thrive: Live Like You Matter, The Scripture Challenge, Perfectly Flawed: God Transforms Our Weaknesses into Strengths, Not One Moment Late: Trusting God's Timing for Your Life, and the Wholehearted Devotion series. Lisa lives in Southern California with her husband, four kids, puppy, gecko, and five chickens.