Review
I cannot recommend Jim Robbins' book "Recover Your Good Heart" highly enough. With profound insight, compassion, and solid biblical support, he resurrects one of the most forgotten and overlooked truths in our day--We are not the same people coming out of conversion that we were going in! Our sin nature and old heart are not eradicated but they are offset with a glorious, unalterable, supernatural reality. We have new hearts, new inclinations, and a new identity. We are far more than forgiven sinners. We are renovated saints with new hearts, good hearts; which come wholly through the Holy Spirit. Thank you Jim for reminding us that our hope for godliness is not gritting our teeth and trying harder. It is falling back on the resources and power of our good heart, the "heart of flesh", birthed at conversion and appropriated throughout our lifetime. A great work! --
Dwight Edwards, advisor to Larry Crabb, and author of
Revolution Within www.kindlingforthefire.com
I cannot recommend Jim Robbins' book
Recover Your Good Heart highly enough. With profound insight, compassion, and solid biblical support, he resurrects one of the most forgotten and overlooked truths in our day--We are not the same people coming out of conversion that we were going in! Our sin nature and old heart are not eradicated but they are offset with a glorious, unalterable, supernatural reality. We have new hearts, new inclinations, and a new identity. We are far more than forgiven sinners. We are renovated saints with new hearts, good hearts; which come wholly through the Holy Spirit. Thank you Jim for reminding us that our hope for godliness is not gritting our teeth and trying harder. It is falling back on the resources and power of our good heart, the "heart of flesh", birthed at conversion and appropriated throughout our lifetime. A great work! --
Dwight Edwards, advisor to Larry Crabb, and author of
Revolution Within. --
Dwight Edwards- advisor to Larry Crabb; and author of
Revolution Within
Review
I live in the UK and would love to get further copies here to give to friends and others. I loved the book! ... It's refreshingly true, telling me that I'm actually `more than ok', and the way the Father truly sees and relates to me. It builds up self-esteem by renewing the mind with what is actually fact, not just platitudes. I underlined most of it, and have lent it to a friend who I warned about the underlining... I've gone back over and over to my underlinings, and to contemplate the context of the underlinings, and every time it seems that the truth penetrates even deeper - truly Scriptural, as my life changes a little more each time. How can I find the words to affirm you for the words you've put to paper? I am also a Biblical counselor and train other counselors, so the book will become one of my `I urge you to read this' books. It really is a `must read if you want to change' book.
I live in the UK and would love to get further copies here to give to friends and others. I loved the book! ... It's refreshingly true, telling me that I'm actually `more than ok', and the way the Father truly sees and relates to me. It builds up self-esteem by renewing the mind with what is actually fact, not just platitudes. I underlined most of it, and have lent it to a friend who I warned about the underlining... I've gone back over and over to my underlinings, and to contemplate the context of the underlinings, and every time it seems that the truth penetrates even deeper - truly Scriptural, as my life changes a little more each time. How can I find the words to affirm you for the words you've put to paper? I am also a Biblical counselor and train other counselors, so the book will become one of my `I urge you to read this' books. It really is a `must read if you want to change' book.
