The 2001 audio recordings of the Changed into His Image seminar at Faith Baptist Church in Taylors, SC are now available for download on the audio page of this website.
Changed into His Image, 2nd Student Edition simplifies the message of Changed into His Image, 2nd Edition for a teen audience or for adults who struggle with reading and comprehension. It combines portions of the text from Changed into His Image, 2nd Edition with portions of the workbook questions from Taking Time to Change, 2nd Edition.
Many youth groups have used this 13-week study with the teens as a stand-alone study or while the adults in the church are going through Changed into His Image, 2nd Edition with its workbook, Taking Time to Change, 2nd Edition. The chapters and daily readings for the 2nd Student Edition parallel those of the 2nd edition text and workbook.
Some parents have studied through this book with their entire family and have successfully used it with upper elementary, middle school, and high school children.
In addition, many home-school parents have used this Student Edition as a portion of their Bible curriculum for juniors or seniors in high school.
In these times of anxiety and despair, we must turn to God and His Word to quiet our noisy souls. These meditations are from the multi-media personal counseling program, Quieting a Noisy Soul: Overcoming Guilt, Anger, Anxiety, and Despair. I hope you will find much comfort from God’s Word!
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The release of Changed Into His Image, 2nd Edition called for an updated version of the companion workbook, Taking Time to Change. The new workbook is now available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and guides readers as they meditate on Scripture and apply the biblical principles in Changed into His Image, 2nd Edition to their daily lives. This workbook has been widely used by church Sunday school classes, small groups, biblical counselors, and parents to disciple believers to greater Christlikeness as they study through Changed Into His Image, 2nd Edition.
I have added the audiobook files for When Trouble Comes on the Audio page of www.JimBerg.com. I have also added a heading on the page called “Additional Audio Files” and have uploaded a recent sermon I preached at Faith Baptist Church in Taylors called “Why Don’t We Get Along Better?”. Check them out. I hope they are a blessing to you.
Why should we go to such effort to teach our children and disciples the principles, applications, and motivations of God-dependent self-denial? One day as I was thinking about my responsibilities to disciple my wife and daughters, I realized that “the biggest day” of my daughters’ lives will not be the day they get married or the day that one of them has our first grandchild. And though my wife and I consider the day we were married a stellar day, it was not “the biggest day” of our lives. That day is yet to come. It will be the day when we all stand before Jesus Christ to give an account of our usefulness to Him during this earthly pilgrimage. The significance of that day is defined by the significance of the one before whom we will appear.
All of our work on earth—every thought and action—will be tried by the fires of His omniscience, and the degree to which we lived to please ourselves or lived to please our Lord will be exposed. Everything we have done will be evaluated for its effect upon His purposes on the earth and will be consequently discounted and disqualified or rewarded and celebrated. It will be a momentous, awe-inspiring day for us! It will eclipse every other day any of us have ever had up to that time.
Being a ministry-minded overseer
My greatest joy in that day will be in seeing His joy, if my wife and children can give a good account to Him. The apostle John urged his “little children” (see 1 John 2:1, 12–13, 18, 28; 3:7, 18; 4:4; 5:21) to continue in what he had taught them so that “when [Christ] shall appear, [they could] have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming” (1 John 2:28). Paul was driven by the same forward look. He said in 1 Thessalonians 2:19, “For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?” (see 1 Cor. 1:8; 2 Cor. 1:14; 5:10; Phil. 1:9–11; 2:16).
May we too be driven by a passion to delight our God by preparing for Him another generation of God-loving, Word-filled, and ministry- minded disciple makers who can stand before Him and hear “well done, thou good and faithful servant: . . . enter thou into the joy of thy lord” (Matt. 25:21). This is our mission—getting them ready for the biggest day of their lives!