Freeway: A Not-So-Perfect Guide to Freedom

by Mike Foster, Garry Poole, SecondChance.org (Editor)

This innovative workbook and small group study will lead you and your friends on a powerful soul adventure. This six-step guide is a powerful exploration of pain, loss and the power of God's amazing grace. Filled with core biblical insights, unique learning experiences and engaging group questions, Freeway will lead you to freedom.

Learn How To:

-Heal your deepest hurts & learn to be OK with being OK.
-Let your identity & value be shaped by a loving God.
-Overcome your setbacks & pursue your dreams.
-Break cycles of shame & feeling like you're "never enough."
-Discover how pain, fear and loss hijack our God story.
-Allow yourself to be loved by the one who loves you most.
-Face your fear of failure and be liberated by amazing grace.

Genres: Faith, Christian, Personal Development

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Mike Foster is the Chief Chance Officer at People of the Second Chance. He has dedicated his life to helping people relaunch their lives with a sense of hope and purpose. He has been featured on Good Morning America, The 700 Club, and in The New York Times.

Reviews

[J. Alfred · Rating 2 out of 5]

Are you more interested in the person of Jesus Christ if I call him a "Celestial Warrior Poet"? Are you more interested in Christianity if I kind of equate salvation with feeling good about myself, and the process of sanctification with repeating vaguely theological nice things about myself?
What if I set the whole thing in a font that looks like it came from a comic book?
WHY AREN'T YOU INTERESTED

All of which is to say, if you're an adult and you do any kind of emotional self-check ups or maintenance, you might find it hard to keep patience with this book.

[Tamara Lane · Rating 2 out of 5]

"For you, my beautifully broken soul, will now be leading the ragamuffin parade and will march the captives from their prison cells. Why? Because you know the free way and have discovered what all of us are searching for. You've met the heavenly liberator and realize that the ending to every story God writes is freedom." Mike Foster, Garry Poole pg. 199

[Nikki · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not nearly enough biblical reference for this to be considered a bible study. Written like a comic book. Seems very superficial for most of the book and then randomly asks you to divulge your deepest darkest secrets.

[Dustin Tramel · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is only feel good pop psychology disguised as a bible study.

[Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book! This is a great book for individual or group study, although I think I'm partial to group study use. I used this book in a Woman's Jail Ministry. I loved that it looks at where we got our identity from... who told us who we are, then examines how that lines up with what our Creator says. It helps us break down the lies the enemy has told us & then gives us the truth in order to rebuild our foundations on. I love that the book is fun, creatively designed, thought provoking & belief challenging. I've used this book over 8 semesters in the jail program & all of my students LOVED it! Thanks so much!

[Crystal Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're willing to truly explore those ugly parts of your past and be vulnerable with a group of friends, this workbook can really stretch and grow you. I love "self-help" books and metacognition, and so I'm very grateful Sarah presented our life group this opportunity. New year, new decade, new me.. a free me!

[Yolanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super easy workbook but has some great thought provoking and soul digging applications.

[Joy · Rating 5 out of 5]

No matter your age, race, gender, education, career field, or relationship status, we can all agree that none of us work towards being in bondage to anyone or anything. And yet somewhere along the way, for many of us, we find ourselves enslaved by a person or habit. One that may have started out rather innocently and turned into something else entirely.

I wish this book had been around when I was 16 years old. I wish I had a resource this applicable while navigating the unpredictable season of my 20's. The cool thing is, I have it now. And it's never too late to start the internal renovation most of us desperately need to live a purpose filled, life. If no one has encouraged you today, let that be of great encouragement to you. It's never too late.

This resource is great for groups as well as individuals, who are ready to clear away the spiritual, mental, and emotional, clutter of the past and present and being to live an intentional life of abundance.

Mike Foster gives tangible ways to free yourself from those things that are (knowingly and unknowingly) holding you back.
This is a guide to doing more than surviving.
By bringing your past failures and future hopes together, this is an investment in who you are today and who you will be going forward.

It's time to stop simply surviving and start truly living.

[Louise Lambrecht · Rating 1 out of 5]

Did not work well for our study group.