This foundational book will equip each believer with the basic steps to a life-transforming, deeper intimacy with the Father. Transforming the Inner Man introduces the keys that reach to the depth of the heart with the power of the cross and resurrection to effect lasting change through continual death and rebirth. John and Paula Sandford take a no-nonsense approach to Christian living. A few of their chapter titles are as follows: - Sanctification and Transformation - Performance Orientation - The Central Power and Necessity of Forgiveness - The Role of a Christian Counselor - Bitter-Root Judgment and Expectancy - Generational Sin In this thought-provoking and sensitive message, the Sandfords challenge every believer to focus on change from the inside out. A change that will last.

Do you feel stuck in your spiritual life, struggling with chronic sins or weaknesses that you are unable to get rid of? Do you feel that you have been moving within the same spiritual level and unable to breakthrough to soar to higher spiritual levels and enter into a deeper fellowship with God? This book will help you find your way out of spiritual limitations and struggles to enter into the unsearchable riches in Christ. It will take you step by step into the biblical revelation about the 'inner man' and 'being transformed into Christ-likeness'. In this book you will also find answers and explanations to questions like: What is the 'inner man', according to the biblical revelation? What are the different stages of spiritual growth? Is there a link between the spiritual growth and the 'inner man'? How is this all related to the formation of Christ in us; and how does this formation take place? The book also provides a discussion of the principles of the formation of Christ within us and their practical application as tools that help build our inner man. It then concludes with some amazing results of the formation of Christ in us. The purpose of this book is to help you find true release in your spiritual life, build your inner spiritual life, and enter into the unsearchable riches that have been granted to us in Christ. The revelation in this book is based on the biblical revelation and the teaching and life-experience of the fathers of the Church.

Teaches students about God through the stories and activities centered around the lives of major Bible characters. Designed to challenge the student's heart and his head.

In Preaching and Preachers, the author states unapologetically his attitudes about his role in the church and explains his methodology, all the while addressing various problems and questions that have been put to him.

Have you ever asked yourself what changed when you were "born again?" You look in the mirror and see the same reflection - your body hasn't changed. You find yourself acting the same and yielding to those same old temptations - that didn't seem to change either. So you wonder, Has anything really changed? The correct...

ccording to Scripture, humankind was created in the image of God. Hoekema discusses the implications of this theme, devoting several chapters to the biblical teaching on God's image, the teaching of philosophers and theologians through the ages, and his own theological analysis. Suitable for seminary-level anthropology courses, yet accessible to educated laypeople. Extensive bibliography, fully indexed.