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    If Participant's Guide: Trading Your If Only Regrets for God's What If Possibilities
    If Participant's Guide: Trading Your If Only Regrets for God's What If Possibilities
    If Participant's Guide: Trading Your If Only Regrets for God's What If Possibilities
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    If Participant's Guide: Trading Your If Only Regrets for God's What If Possibilities

    By Mark Batterson

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    New York Times bestselling author and pastor unpacks Romans 8, reminding readers that God is for them--all the time, in every way imaginable. Participant's guide.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateOct 6, 2015
    ISBN9781493400676
    If Participant's Guide: Trading Your If Only Regrets for God's What If Possibilities
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    Mark Batterson

    Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, DC. One church with multiple locations, NCC owns and operates Ebenezers Coffeehouse, the Miracle Theatre, and the DC Dream Center. NCC is currently developing a city block into the Capital Turnaround; the 100,000-square-foot space will include an event venue, a child development center, a mixed-use marketplace, and a coworking space. Mark holds a doctor of ministry degree from Regent University and is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty books including The Circle Maker, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day, Wild Goose Chase, Play the Man, Whisper, and recently released Win the Day. Mark and his wife, Lora, have three children and live on Capitol Hill.

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      If Participant's Guide - Mark Batterson

      © 2015 by Mark Batterson

      Published by Baker Books

      a division of Baker Publishing Group

      P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

      www.bakerbooks.com

      Ebook edition created 2015

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

      ISBN 978-1-4934-0067-6

      Some portions of this book have been adapted from If: Trading Your If Only Regrets for God’s What If Possibilities (Baker, 2015).

      Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

      Scripture quotations labeled KJV are from the King James Version of the Bible.

      The author is represented by Fedd & Company, Inc.

      Contents

      Cover    1

      Title Page    3

      Copyright Page    4

      Introduction    7

      Session 1:  If Only    9

      Session 2:  As If    31

      Session 3:  What If    45

      Session 4:  No Ifs, Ands, or Buts about It    59

      Notes    71

      About the Author    73

      Back Ads    75

      Back Cover    79

      Introduction

      If.

      It’s a tiny two-letter word, but it’s pregnant with possibilities.

      There are 1,784 ifs in the Bible. Most of those ifs function as conditional conjunctions on

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