This is a great place to start learning about the Life Model with books, webinars & seminars, online resources, and more. Jumpstart your transformation today!
This is where transformation happens!
Small groups are necessary to develop community, learn relational brain skills, and grow in maturity, which is why we offer a variety of groups throughout the year.
Online Study Groups form three times a year and meet online for several weeks.
We are developing an online community hub for ongoing connection, interaction, and training.
Our Partners also offer related groups with the Life Model at the core.
Learning to Become a Full-Brained Christ Follower
Group Narcissism Training (In development – coming soon!)
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Collaboration, Acceleration, Transformation
This is where transformation takes root!
Integrating the three elements of the Life Model into churches, groups, and organizations is a passion of ours.
We provide personalized guidance to implement the Life Model, unique small group curriculum, and collaborate with practitioners to further develop and enhance what you can offer.
Bringing the Life Model to your church!
Small Group Curriculum that helps people bond and grow together.
Creating Life Model teams to advance transformation into new territory.
The good work of spreading the Life Model is only possible through the support of our generous partners.
We are especially grateful for our monthly supporters who keep the model developing and the staff working month after month.
Life Model Works has a God-ordained history, an amazing staff, a network of dynamic collaborators, and a proven model for transformation.
We invite you to discover Life Model Works and join the joy-filled movement growing a fearless people who love like Jesus!
This is a ministry growing at the speed of relationships and we’d love to connect with you. Just fill out the short form and one of our dedicated team members will reach back to you!
Also, if you are looking for our ministry partners, glance to your right and you’ll find their name. One click takes you to them!
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Videos from the Transform 2019 conference.
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Suppose being a Christian is a bit more mysterious than what we’ve made it out to be. Jesus saves – a phrase plastered on billboard signs and bumper stickers across America has become more associate with avoiding punishment and very little with transformation value for our character. Dr. Wilder proposes that salvation in Jesus Christ is more like forming a new attachment to God, and new followers of Christ should begin to look like their new family right away.
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In this opening session to Transform 19, Dr. Jim Wilder addressed how the authentic love of Christ can rise and grow within the community of faith to “overcome the world.”
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What’s missing? After writing a basic theology book to help mature Christ followers and incorporating a Bible reading plan to give people as much Jesus as possible, Michel Hendricks realized, “something is missing.” Unsatisfied with some people experiencing great results, sometimes, and for others no traction at all, he set out on a quest to find the missing ingredient to help people mature into disciples of Jesus.
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If your heart longs for simple, practical and new ways to improve your marriage, cultivate healthier relationships with friends, and build bonds of peace with coworker, then don’t miss Dr. Marcus Warner, president of Deeper Walk International, delivering an honest insightful and memorable talk on what separates happy relationships from miserable ones.
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Margaret Webb unpacks how the word “in” from John 17:26, “your love for me will be in them and I in them,” helped her move from broken to connected in order to find the best relational attachment to God.
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Amy Howey Pierson delivers an insightful session on how the use of a variety of spiritual growth exercises within a community are best for developing a natural love/joy attachment to God.
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Pastor, Missionary
Michel Hendricks is a pastor, missionary, engineer, inventor and author. He has been teaching and training for over 25 years. He was a pastor of spiritual formation at Flatirons Community Church in Lafayette, Colorado. In addition, he served and trained people in Argentina, Mexico, Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda. He is married to Claudia and they have three adult children.
Founder, Alive and Well, Inc.
Margaret Webb devoted herself to a ministry of emotional healing and maturation in the context of prayer. Margaret has studied with and learned from Dr. Jim Wilder, Dr. Karl Lehman, Chris and Jen Coursey, and Ed Khouri for the past 10 years, and it has changed her personal life as well as her ministry career. Using what she learned from these leaders, as well as her experience as a Christian Counselor, she created the Alive and Well, Inc. curriculum for leading people into the Immanuel Lifestyle and preparing prayer ministers to use the Immanuel Approach. Teaching, training, mentoring and consulting, she is committed to the vision of a network of lay and professional people-helpers bringing the care of souls into the local church. Her website is alivewell.org.
President of Deeper Walk International
Dr. Marcus Warner is the president of Deeper Walk International. He is the author of several books including his most recent work Rare Leadership (with Dr. Jim Wilder), Understanding the Wounded Heart, and What Every Believer Should Know About Spiritual Warfare. A former pastor and Bible Professor (Bethel College). Marcus has done training for Moody Church, Willow Creek Prison Ministry, Navigators and Oak Hills Church. He has also appeared on national radio programs such as Chris Fabry Live and Gary Chapman’s “Building Relationships. His specialty is taking the complex and making it easy to understand, remember and apply.
Founder of Burning Heart Workshops
Amy Pierson is the founder of Burning Heart Workshops, and former executive director of the Spiritual Formation Alliance. She is a 2014 graduate of the Renovate Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation/Santa Barbara Cohort. Amy received her Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism and Advertising from the University of Colorado, Boulder and now lives in the Denver area with her husband, Bill, and a ridiculous but sincere golden retriever. As an empty-nester mom of daughters, Whitney and Haley, she writes, speaks, gathers and enjoys making things with other creative souls.
Founder Life Model Works
Dr. Jim Wilder has been training leaders and counselors for over 30 years on five continents. Jim grew up in South America and is bilingual (English/Spanish). He is the author of nineteen books with a strong focus on maturity and relational skills. His coauthored book, Living from the Heart Jesus Gave You, has sold over 100,000 copies and is printed in eleven languages. Wilder has published numerous articles and developed four sets of video and relational leadership training. Dr. Wilder has served as a guest lecturer at Fuller Seminary, Biola, Talbot Seminary, Point Loma University, Montreat College, Tyndale Seminary and elsewhere.
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