Transformed From My Image To His Image

Are you a Believer tired of attending church week after week? Do you feel that how you entered Sunday morning service is the same way you left, hopeless and with an empty smile? Tired of feeling like the church has become more of a fashion show rather than a soul-changing agency? You get in your car, look in the mirror and question yourself as if you have missed the mark some kind of way because you did not “feel” the spirit as everyone else. Believe me, it is not you. Your heart is craving for something not offered and you are crying out for a place to meet God. To feel His presence. To know He is with you every step of the way knowing your heart and desires. You, my sister and brother, are looking for an internal change, a transformation. You have just entered a place that God has been leading you all the time. You are experiencing the hunger and thirst our Father put in you to draw you close to His presence. You are in the right mind for what God, the Father, wants to do with you. You can walk away from everything in your world because of the hunger and frustration of current things to put your broken life in His hands as the clay to the potter and say mold me into whatever you want me to be. You, my dear friend, are ready and in need to be Transformed from My Image to His Image. You have picked up a life-changing book. Through this book, you will understand the process of transformation to live a deeply satisfying life our Father has long to give you. Look no further, your transformed life lies within the content of this book.

Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time. The book explores the crucial role that images have in organising an imperative for transformation and in making possible, or not, the materialisation of a better future. Coleman asks the questions: which futures are appealing and to whom? How do images tap into and reproduce wider social and cultural processes of inequality? Drawing on the recent ‘turns’ to affect and emotion and to understanding life in terms of vitality, intensity and ‘liveness’ in social and cultural theory, the book develops a framework for understanding images as felt and lived out. Analysing different screens across popular culture – the screens of shopping, makeover television programmes, online dieting plans and government health campaigns – it traces how images of self-transformation bring the future into the present and affectively ‘draw in’ some bodies more than others. Transforming Images will be of interest to students and scholars working in sociology, media studies, cultural studies and gender studies.

This book is designed to help us look deeply into the sanctification process, particularly for those who have been in bondage to substances and behaviors that have shadowed them for many years. It will unveil what are often hidden causes for an inability to find freedom from chronic sin patterns. While perfect holiness in our thoughts and actions may be unobtainable in this life, it is most certainly more obtainable than we can even imagine. This book is for those who want to go all the way with God, who truly want to be His disciple.

God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness You are never beyond the reach of God's grace. Neither are you ever beyond the need of God's grace. Without grace we'd never come to Christ. But being a Christian is more than just coming to Christ, it's about growing and becoming more like Jesus. This pursuit of holiness is hard work, and as we enter into this discipline, we sometimes lose sight of grace. Jerry Bridges helps us steer clear of this disastrous distraction, offering a clear and thorough explanation of the gospel and what it means to the believer. Explore how the same grace that brings us to Christ also grows us in Christ. Includes full study guide (which was previously sold as a stand-alone discussion guide, ISBN 9781576839904).

How can we, in our times, understand the biblical concept that human beings have been created in the image of an invisible God? This is a perennial but increasingly pressing question that lies at the heart of theological anthropology. Humanity in God's Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration clarifies the meaning of this concept, traces different Jewish and Christian interpretations of being created in God's image, and reconsiders the significance of the imago Dei in a post-Holocaust context. As normative, counter-factual notions, human dignity and the imago Dei challenge us to see more. Claudia Welz offers an interdisciplinary exploration of theological and ethical 'visions' of the invisible. By analysing poetry and art, Welz exemplifies human self-understanding in the interface between the visual and the linguistic. The content of the imago Dei cannot be defined apart from the image carrier: an embodied creature. Compared to verbal, visual, and mental images, how does this creature as a 'living image' refer to God—like a metaphor, a mimetic mirror, or an elusive trace? Combining hermeneutical and phenomenological perspectives with philosophy of religion and philosophy of language, semiotics, art history, and literary studies, Welz regards the imago Dei as a complex sign that is at once iconic, indexical, and symbolical—pointing beyond itself.

The divine revelation in the holy Scriptures follows a central line concerning the person and plan of our unique Triune God. This revelation is progressive, beginning with God in Genesis 1:1 and culminating in the all-inclusive Christ in Revelation. The sixty-six books of the Bible reveal that the center and highest point of the divine revelation is Christ, who today is realized in our experience as the life-giving and indwelling Spirit. In this Spirit we have everything related to the Triune God, including the all-inclusive death, the powerful resurrection, and all the unsearchable riches of Christ. The central line of the Bible reveals that our wonderful Triune God, who is our portion and day-by-day supply, desires to impart all that He is into us to constitute and build us up as the Body of Christ. In The Central Line of the Divine Revelation, Witness Lee fully unveils this central truth, beginning from Genesis and concluding in Revelation with the New Jerusalem.