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The Broken Way Bible Study Guide: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life
In this six-session video Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), New York Times bestselling author Ann Voskamp takes us on a personal journey along the broken way. The broken way beckons you into more time, more meaning, more authentic relationships. There's a way, especially when things aren't shaping up quite like you imagined, that makes life take the shape of more--more abundance, more intimacy, more God.
Ann Voskamp asks the following questions not one of us can afford to
How do you live your one broken life?
What does it mean to live cruciform and learn to receive?
What do you do if you really want to know abundant wholeness--before it's too late?
There's a way of honest, transformative power. Dare to take the broken way--to abundance.
Sessions
How Do We Live This One Broken Life?
Living Cruciform
Learning to Receive
Real Koinonia
Embracing Inconvenience
Who We Serve
Designed for use with The Broken Way Video Study 9780310820741 (sold separately).
Ann Voskamp asks the following questions not one of us can afford to
How do you live your one broken life?
What does it mean to live cruciform and learn to receive?
What do you do if you really want to know abundant wholeness--before it's too late?
There's a way of honest, transformative power. Dare to take the broken way--to abundance.
Sessions
How Do We Live This One Broken Life?
Living Cruciform
Learning to Receive
Real Koinonia
Embracing Inconvenience
Who We Serve
Designed for use with The Broken Way Video Study 9780310820741 (sold separately).
122 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 29, 2016
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About the author
Ann Voskamp
92 books1,370 followersAnn Voskamp is a farmer's wife, the home-educating mama to a half-dozen exuberant kids, and author of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, a New York Times sixty-week bestseller..
Named by Christianity Today as one of fifty women most shaping culture and the church today, she's a global advocate for needy children with Compassion International, a loser of library books, a stirrer of soup, a loud laugher, a kid snuggler, a Jesus lover and honestly, a bit of a mess. It’s okay really. Grace is the most amazing of all.
Her online journal, one of the top 10 most widely read Christian blogs online, is a relief of quiet vulnerability and an oasis of sacred, seeing God in the everyday ugly beautiful.
Connect with Ann on:
AnnVoskamp.com
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Named by Christianity Today as one of fifty women most shaping culture and the church today, she's a global advocate for needy children with Compassion International, a loser of library books, a stirrer of soup, a loud laugher, a kid snuggler, a Jesus lover and honestly, a bit of a mess. It’s okay really. Grace is the most amazing of all.
Her online journal, one of the top 10 most widely read Christian blogs online, is a relief of quiet vulnerability and an oasis of sacred, seeing God in the everyday ugly beautiful.
Connect with Ann on:
AnnVoskamp.com
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February 23, 2025
Really well done poetic theology
March 25, 2017
This is an excellent accompaniment to The Broken Way book. The 6 videos are about 20 minutes each and Ann covers various topics she raises in the book using the same stories. There's that old saying that it takes 7 times of repetition before something new sinks in so being reminded of these stories, Ann's takeaways and responding to the questions and actions in the study guide really help consolidate the learnings from the book.
The videos are beautifully created with gorgeous scenery and Ann speaks the way she writes.
The study has 3 components to it:
- notes on the 20 minute video
- discussion questions based on the video content
- work to do between sessions that enable you to practice what you've covered in the previous 2 plus has a small bible study component focusing on a short passage of Scripture.
The later is challenging suggesting we reach out to serve, share our brokenness and engage in another's brokenness to provide 3 examples of the actions.
This is designed as a group study and I did it it on my own but feel its benefits would be maximised in a group situation.
Highly recommended if you've read Ann's The Broken Way as it takes you even deeper.
The videos are beautifully created with gorgeous scenery and Ann speaks the way she writes.
The study has 3 components to it:
- notes on the 20 minute video
- discussion questions based on the video content
- work to do between sessions that enable you to practice what you've covered in the previous 2 plus has a small bible study component focusing on a short passage of Scripture.
The later is challenging suggesting we reach out to serve, share our brokenness and engage in another's brokenness to provide 3 examples of the actions.
This is designed as a group study and I did it it on my own but feel its benefits would be maximised in a group situation.
Highly recommended if you've read Ann's The Broken Way as it takes you even deeper.
April 4, 2021
Such truth - share your brokenness with God and others.
May 9, 2023
Poignant. Brilliant insights. Saved my life.
June 23, 2017
Source: Self-purchase.
Rating: Excellent.
The six sessions contain:
"1. How Do We Live This One Broken Life?"
"2. Living Cruciform."
"3. Learning to Receive."
"4. Real Koinonia."
"5. Embracing Inconvenience."
"6. Who We Serve."
The DVD is necessary to complete this study.
The study is written to be worked on in a group setting.
After watching the DVD, a session (one) is included for individual work. This includes an area to journal.
Pages are included to take notes while watching the DVD.
Questions are included for the group discussion.
Quotes are included from The Broken Way book.
Real Koinonia is the chapter that spoke to me the most. It deals with regrets and Satan's lies. Paul said for us to forget what is behind us and press on. VosKamp presses further by saying "Maybe the miracle of real happens when you let the pain make passion. Maybe that makes us real. Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ."
After reading the book and study, I learned several things:
1. Live in the today. Look for where I can serve today, right now.
2. Don't focus on what I don't have.
3. It is okay to not be okay.
4. Right where I am God calls me.
5. Culture hides suffering. I have a tendency to hide, to turn inward. Instead, turn outward, share our suffering in order to be a blessing.
Rating: Excellent.
The six sessions contain:
"1. How Do We Live This One Broken Life?"
"2. Living Cruciform."
"3. Learning to Receive."
"4. Real Koinonia."
"5. Embracing Inconvenience."
"6. Who We Serve."
The DVD is necessary to complete this study.
The study is written to be worked on in a group setting.
After watching the DVD, a session (one) is included for individual work. This includes an area to journal.
Pages are included to take notes while watching the DVD.
Questions are included for the group discussion.
Quotes are included from The Broken Way book.
Real Koinonia is the chapter that spoke to me the most. It deals with regrets and Satan's lies. Paul said for us to forget what is behind us and press on. VosKamp presses further by saying "Maybe the miracle of real happens when you let the pain make passion. Maybe that makes us real. Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ."
After reading the book and study, I learned several things:
1. Live in the today. Look for where I can serve today, right now.
2. Don't focus on what I don't have.
3. It is okay to not be okay.
4. Right where I am God calls me.
5. Culture hides suffering. I have a tendency to hide, to turn inward. Instead, turn outward, share our suffering in order to be a blessing.
August 29, 2017
A great compliment to the book in helping to apply the concepts. I really liked the letter writing part. Could use more length, her stuff is always short and sweet.
November 20, 2017
Challenging and encouraging study
This study guide was a very good companion to the DVD and I enjoyed and was challenged by "The Broken Way" study.
This study guide was a very good companion to the DVD and I enjoyed and was challenged by "The Broken Way" study.
May 11, 2018
A great companion to the book The Broken Way
May 19, 2025
An incredible read and one that makes you think and grow in your faith of Christianity. Excellent.
March 14, 2017
I loved walking the journey of Ann Voskamp's Broken Way. At times it was painful but the study was encouraging inner growth and maturity. I have bits of the material lingering in my head and feel the study will be one I will do every few years. Life is about learning and growing and this study encourages it.
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