"Now, for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." - 2 Peter 1:5-8
Based on this passage, the Principles of Life DVD and Bible Study Series tackles the eight principles that will change your faith. This engaging series uses a variety of horses from Dr. Lew's stallions to young foals to illustrate these key topics.
8 DVDs. Approx total running time: 7 hours. 8 correlating workbooks. Approx. 40 pages each.
From the back cover:
This study comes with a fail-proof lifetime warranty: For as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble. In addition to this promise, the Lord Jesus Christ, through His own power, has granted us everything pertaining to life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3-10).
These sequential and cyclic principles are found throughout Scripture with similar promises and results. Over the years, Dr. Lew Sterrett has used these basic principles as a foundation in counseling, consulting, parenting, and coaching. In addition to Sermon on the Mount, Dr. Lew uses these concepts in the Principle-Based Training series for horses, and in his leadership training programs (LEADERS BY H.E.A.R.T.) The results are indisputable.
The only disclaimer to the warranty is that this material must be received with an honest and hungry heart for it to be of any benefit. May God bless you in your pursuit of Him and His life-giving principles.
FAITH (54 min.) - Watch a DVD sample
Life Application
- How to cultivate healthy trust
- Experience benefits from boundaries
- Learn how confidence and security are dependent on the object of trust
- Turning little faith into great faith
- Learn why it is impossible to please God without faith
- Understand how anxiety and disorders result from pacing faith in ourselves
Horse Training Content
- Haltering a foal
- Leading and ground manners
- Crossing obstacles on the ground
- Blindfold liberty ride with Spark
VIRTUE (55 min.) - Watch a DVD sample
Life Application
- Understand the nature of poor choices, bad habits, and addictions
- Learn how character is the result of a four-phase sequence
- Insights on facing fears and temptations
- Discover how focus is the secret to change
- Learn how pride undermines true success
Horse Training Content
- Analyzing a horse's thoughts and behavior during the jump process
- Changing undesirable habits (helping a horse that refuses a jump)
- Overcoming a fearful response to a tarp
- Building security in a spooky horse
MEEKNESS (59 min.) - Watch a DVD sample
Life Application
- Learn why deeds without heart result in mere religious expression
- Observe how and why daily yielding is necessary to be fit for service
- Understand that how and what we listen to affects our usefulness
- External pressure exposes internal values
- Witness the connection between angry reactions and pride
- Questions can reveal hidden motives and assist a person in resolving issues
- Recognize that victory or defeat is determined by “when” we take responsibility
Horse Training Content
- Giving direction through all four riding aids
- Harnessing your horses natural power
- Recognize risks before a dangerous encounter
- Disengaging the shoulder and engaging the hip in order to minimize a horse’s resistance
SELF-CONTROL (56 min.) - Watch a DVD sample
Life Application
- Getting part behavior modification to lasting heart changes
- Learning how to turn threatening situations into an opportunity to do good
- How to deal with “the self” in self-control
- Observe how a person’s character is most revealed in responses to unfair treatment
- Learn the secret of resting in the Lord
- Understand how love is often best seen through the way a person uses their “ liberties”
Horse Training Content
- Understanding and correcting the behavior of a horse that bites and strikes
- Gain insight into a horse’s maturity level by how he handles feeling trapped and by being given free rein
- Training a horse to ravel a consistent rate of speed without constraint (rating)
PERSEVERANCE (58 min.) - Watch a DVD sample
Life Application
- Learn how faith has as much to do with perspiration as inspiration
- Building the basic disciplines of excellence
- Realizing one cannot persevere without joy
- Insight on success during times of testing
- Why behavior must change from the inside out
- Why perseverance must be more than just stubborn determination
Horse Training Content
- How pressure exposes a horses training level
- Understand “It takes a lot of wet saddle pads to make a good horse”
- Observe how poor performance goes back to undeveloped basic disciplines
- Necessary prerequisites for lead departures/canter departs
- Exercises and drills that will improve your horse's performance
GODLINESS (56 min.) - Watch a DVD sample
Life Application
- Cultivate the ministry of reconciliation by going back and righting past wrongs
- Observe how a horse’s ability to back up is a good picture or repentance
- Understand why obedience must come from the heart
- Observe how godliness results when disbelief is transformed into believing behavior
Horse Training Content
- How pressure exposes a horses training level
- Understand “It takes a lot of wet saddle pads to make a good horse”
- Observe how poor performance goes back to undeveloped basic disciplines
- Necessary prerequisites for lead departures/canter departs
- Exercises and drills that will improve your horses’ performance
BROTHERLY KINDNESS (50 min.) - No DVD Sample Available
Life Application
- Illustrating how fear enslaves or empowers
- Discovering the four secrets to the greatest riches on earth
- How wisdom is obtained and revealed through relationships
- Observe how defensiveness results in dullness
- Learn how wisdom only results when God's ways (vertical) are applied to man's needs (lateral)
Horse Training Content
- Clipping
- How healthy fear can provoke excellence
- How to turn reactions into wise responses
- Developing lateral and vertical softness
- How softness and flexion are essential for power and confidence
LOVE (57 min.) - Watch a DVD sample
Life Application
- The fruit of going the extra mile
- Getting and staying usable requires continued yieldedness
- Learn how love is the result of seven basic commitments
- Understand that love grows as we grow
Horse Training Content
- Liberty work through trail obstacles
- Freestyle ponying
- Daily warm up exercises for advanced work
- Flying lead changes
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