This Student Manual is the core of a discipleship program for overcoming life-dominating sins. Many today struggle with obsessive thoughts, gambling, eating disorders, cutting, drug addiction (including alcohol and tobacco), stealing, addictions to electronic gaming and social networking, workaholism, sexual sins (including pornography), and other compulsive behaviors. The Freedom That Lasts(R) program teaches that "you do what you do because you are what you are. To change what you do, you must cooperate with God to change what you are." The Student Manual outlines the path of growth necessary to develop a different kind of character - the character of Jesus Christ.