Meet Julie Morris

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Julie's Bio:

Julie Morris, author of 11 books and founder of the Step Forward Christian Weight-Loss Program, has been helping people to grow in their relationship with Christ for over 25 years. In her books, seminars and retreats she reveals practical ways to draw closer to Him and experience His transforming power. In 1982, after a lifelong struggle with overeating and the health problems that went with it, Julie began discovering how to rely on God's power to help her lose her harmful extra pounds and keep them off. She delighted in sharing what she learned, and became involved in a lay counseling ministry, helping others to grow spiritually and make healthy lifestyle changes. She founded the Step Forward Christian Weight-Loss Program and wrote the Step Forward series--nine books that share biblical principles that have changed so many lives, including her own. In 2003, New Hope published the first book in Julie's God Help Me series, From Worry to Worship. Last year they published the second book in this series, From Worthless to Worthy.

In addition to being an author, newspaper columnist, lay counselor and dynamic motivational speaker, Julie has worked as a secretary at the Pentagon, Spanish teacher, coronary intensive care nurse and the supervisor of a large hospital medical-surgical unit. She has taught the Bible for 25 years. She is the mother of two adult children and has been married for over 30 years to her college sweetheart.

Julie's Speaking Topics:

• Step Forward to the New, Thinner You! (Adapted from my Step Forward series.) - I reveal exciting biblical principles that are helping people across the country to lose weight and make other healthy lifestyle changes. Some of these things include practical ways we can rely on God's power when we lack will power and how we can
deal with stress by casting our cares on the Lord, not the refrigerator.

• Step Forward with the Lord. (Adapted from my Step Forward series.) - I demonstrate how working the Christian 12 Steps leads to a more intimate walk with the Lord and helps us to let go of hurts, habits and hungers that hinder our relationship with Him.

• From Worry to Worship. (Adapted from my book, From Worry to Worship.) - I tell the story of how I became an ex-worrywart, and share practical biblical principles that help us to stop worrying and start living life to the fullest.

• From Worthless to Worthy. (Adapted from my book, From Worthless to Worthy.) - I reveal how we can overcome feelings of inferiority getting the gospel message from our head to our heart by learning how to accept God's unconditional love for us the way we are, and letting Him transform us into the people we have always wanted to be.

• From Disorganized to Disciplined. - I share how we can experience God's harvest of righteousness and peace by learning innovative ways to become more disciplined with our time, thoughts, words and actions.

• From Misery to Ministry. - I discuss how to let God turn our misery to ministry by sharing specific things we can do to surrender our hurts to Him and allow Him to use them for our good and His glory.

Meeting Planners Say:

• "I could listen to you talk all day. Your seminar inspired me to finally start doing something about my problems."

• "Thanks to Julie's teaching, I have grown spiritually in ways I never thought possible. I now understand what God's love and grace truly mean."

• "The principles Julie shares can change your life!"

• "Your material is so rich and wonderful. It's just incredible!"

• Sherry Melecki, Director of Adult and Small Group Ministries, Saint Paul United Methodist Church, Lincoln, Nebraska - "I cannot say enough concerning how positive and easy it was to work with Julie as we planned the seminar. Julie was very organized and helped me be very organized. Julie's presentation was wonderful. She had a lot of information to share. She used humor, inspirational stories, handouts and many other methods to make her points. She made a very positive impact on the lives of a lot of people."

Julie Says:

When I transparently share some of the mistakes I've made (for example, silly excuses for overeating) people at my conferences identify with me, feel better about what they've done and laugh with me.
Gospel Presentation? I always present the gospel by sharing how, as a very skeptical agnostic, I came to the Lord. In addition, I emphasize the full meaning of God's grace, which includes His unmerited favor of us and His unlimited power in us. I work with event planners to determine other ways that we will encourage attendees to dedicate or rededicate their lives to the Lord during the conference.

Why Julie Speaks:

God has done such amazing things in my life, turning my weaknesses to strengths, and my misery to ministry. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to see this process reproduced in others when they hear my words of encouragement and apply the biblical practical principles I teach.

Julie's Goal:

I pray that the Holy Spirit will help each lady who hears my words to understand how precious she is to God -- that she is unique, created with a purpose and a plan. I pray that He will help her to surrender her life to the Lord in a deeper way than she ever has and that she will experience the Lord's unconditional love and forgiveness, through Christ, like she never has before -- that deep within her spirit she will find a new confidence and a new hope. I know, from experience, that when this happens, an exciting transformation takes place: She will finally be free to become the person she has always wanted to be.

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