Kelly Needham was a great speaker for our women's event. She worked with us before the event to discover what we were expecting and needed. During the event, Kelly was warm and gracious, available to those that attended, willing to make adjustments and fit into our plans. Her presentation on friendship was gospel-centered, down-to-earth, applicable, challenging, encouraging. We would ask her back in a heartbeat.
Kelly Needham
Author, Speaker, Bible Teacher, Friendship Guru, Adoption Advocate
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Kelly Needham
Biography
Kelly Needham is a servant of Jesus Christ, a student of the Bible, and the COO of her home, where she lives with her husband, Jimmy and their five children.
She is the author of Purposefooled: Why Chasing Your Dreams, Finding Your Calling, and Reaching for Greatness Will Never Be Enough and Friendish: Reclaiming Real Friendship in a Culture of Confusion and has been a contributing author to other books including Faithful and Beautifully Distinct.
Kelly and her husband Jimmy co-host a weekly podcast called Clearly where they tackle the complex, confusing, and controversial parts of following Jesus. She has served on staff at two different churches, serving in youth, college, and women's ministry and is the co-founder of Teach Equip, a training program that coaches women to become better teachers of God’s Word.
Whether writing or speaking, Kelly’s aim is to convince as many people as possible that nothing compares to knowing Jesus. You can find more of her writing and speaking at jimmyandkelly.com or follow her on social media.
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Connecting with God through the Word
The Bible is not our savior; it simply points us to Him. So how do we make sure we aren’t making the same mistake the Pharisees did, becoming experts in theology and never connecting with Jesus?
Real Power for Lasting Change
We naturally gravitate to five-step plans or self-help advice to bring about change in our own lives. But lasting transformation comes not as we follow a to-do list, but as we walk with a Person.
Friendish
Counterfeit Friendship (First of 3-part seminar based on the book, Friendish)
We’re more connected than ever. And we’re lonelier than ever. What’s the problem here? In this first session, you’ll see the real culprit behind our loneliness and the only solution while learning about 3 counterfeits of true friendship that we all need to avoid.
Redefining Friendship (Second of 3-part seminar based on the book, Friendish)
How does the gospel change friendship? How does our access to the fountain of living water transform how we relate to others? This session seeks to redefine four things in light of the gospel: how we practice friendship, our needs in friendship, the true enemy of friendship and our mission in friendship.
Fostering a Culture of Healthy Friendships (Third of 3-part seminar based on the book, Friendish)
How can you help change the culture of your school, church, and community? Here are 5 sure-fire ways to fight for deep and meaningful community for yourself and for others.
What Does it Mean to Know God?
(3-part series)
How can you tell if you truly know God? There are 3 counterfeit versions of knowing God to watch out for and a few key signs that you have the real thing.
What Do I Need to Know God?
What is required to have a friendship with God? To find the answer, we’ll a look at the woman at the well in John 4. In this scene, we see (1) what Jesus offers, (2) what Jesus reveals, and (3) who Jesus is.
How Do I Live to Know God?
We were made to know God. But how do we know a God we cannot see? How do we foster a friendship with a God we cannot sit across from? First, we need to count the cost. And secondly, we need to learn to use the paths God has given us to know him.
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Friend-ish
by Kelly Needham
Purposefooled: Why Chasing Your Dreams, Finding Your Calling, and Reaching for Greatness Will Never Be Enough
by Kelly Needham
Author and Bible teacher Kelly Needham reveals how we've been fooled into chasing meaning in all the wrong places, identifies the source of our hunger for the extraordinary, and shows us the steps we can take today to build a purpose-filled reality without turning our lives upside-down.
Many of us are exhausted from dreaming big and chasing the extraordinary lives we long for, but when we try embracing the everyday and find meaning in the mundane, we fear we're settling for a boring life. Are we missing something?
Kelly Needham has been the keynote speaker, the person folding T-shirts backstage, and the mom dealing with the ups and downs of daily life. By sharing her experiences with both the extraordinary and the humdrum--and wrestling with feelings of disappointment along the way--Needham helps readers discover for themselves the truth that changes everything: we weren't made to do something, but to know Someone. And it's that Someone who can infuse our lives with infinite purpose and meaning. In Purposefooled she explains
- why we feel like we were made for more and shows us the freeing answer to our longings,
- the ways modern technology affects our desires and dreams--and how to live free from its pressures and pitfalls,
- how familiar Bible stories reveal that being a world-changer is more accessible and simpler than we think,
- why we need to reclaim our imaginations from culture and steward them with eternity in mind, and
- what it looks like to live a deeply meaningful life today instead of wearing ourselves out trying to reach the next big thing.
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