Binding: Paperback Page Count: 255 Publisher: New Growth Press ISBN#: 9781934885536Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 business days.
Description: A changed heart is the bright promise of the gospel. When the Bible talks about the gift of a new heart, it doesn’t mean a heart that is immediately perfected, but a heart that is capable of being changed. Jesus’ work on the cross targets our hearts-our core desires and motivations-and when our hearts change, our behavior changes. It’s amazing to watch people who once seemed stuck in a pattern of words, choices, and behaviors start living in a new way as Christ changes their hearts.How People Change starts with God, and so avoids the fatal flaw in all the self-help books. You become profoundly different as you come into the growing realization, "It's not all about me." It's all about the One who is remaking us--each one and all together--into his image, and thus into a community that practices lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth. 'In these things I delight.'"--From the Foreword by David Powlison "It's encouraging to know that, in God's hands, the winds of adversity that batter our lives are also agents of fruitful change in us. Paul Tripp and Tim Lane have done us all a favor by leading us down that path of change and teaching us how to embrace God's transforming work in our hearts." --Carolyn Custis James, author of When Life and Beliefs Collide "Change doesn't happen overnight for the Christian. It's a lifelong journey. Paul Tripp and Tim Lane masterfully guide us along the biblical path that points us to the cross and a lifestyle of faith and repentance. I recommend this book to all Christians who desire to grow in their relationship with God." --Tremper Longman III, Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies, Westmont College "This book is applied theology. It's about heat, thorns, the cross, and fruit. It's about present grace. In sixteen short and well-illustrated chapters, the wonderful prospect of change for the good is held out for the reader. We are called to consider our circumstances and our responses to them, and beneath that to examine our hearts' desires and to turn afresh to Christ's cross." --Mark Dever, Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church About the Authors Relationships: A Mess Worth Making , and numerous articles and booklets.
