Who God Intended

Perhaps you’re:

• struggling with anxiety, guilt, or habitual sins
• frustrated because your experience doesn’t seem to match what the Bible talks about
• wondering if your emotions and feelings fit into the Christian life at all

If so, you may be working from the wrong set of pictures.

GOD HAS A GREAT NEW PICTURE FOR YOU!

Getting the true pictures in your mind—grasping reality from God’s perspective—will help bring your thoughts and emotions under control. It will lead you to a life filled with the positive emotions of love, joy, and peace, and you will finally be able to live out the richness of true Christianity…the life God the Father has always intended for you.

About the Author

David Eckman, PhD, grew up in a dysfunctional family and came to the Lord as a teen. His emotions remained frozen through years of theological study and pastoring, until he finally gained a picture of how God truly loved him. When he became dean and professor at Western Seminary, he began to do extensive personal counseling; and in 1997 he cofounded BWGI Ministries, which seeks to bring about spiritual transformation through helping people understand who they are in Christ.

Comments from Authors, Pastors, and church members…

“David Eckman is a man you can trust… His teaching resonates with God’s wisdom and compassion”

Stu Weber
Author of Tender Warrior
and Four Pillars of a Man’s Heart

“I am astonished the impact your book Becoming Who God Intended is having on me! It is answering questions about myself and the pitfalls I seem to get into over and over.  My fear and anxiety has been replaced with the love, joy, and peace of the Holy Spirit!  Your book has profoundly put into focus many aspects of my life that I was unable to put together myself. Thank you so much!  I will suggest your book for my small group because I think it is imperative for every Christian to read.”

Unsolicited comment from
a reader in California

“I have read Becoming Who God Intended and found it one of the best, most helpful books I have every read. I have read many good books, thinking ‘Yes, I should change’, but nothing would really happen. This book has made a real difference! Thank you. Dr. Eckman’s teachings on God’s personal, passionate delight in me have transformed how I think about God, which has in turn transformed the way I do ministry. I now share with greater personal depth of meaning the fact that God truly loves them, because His love has begun to transform my thinking.”

Holly Menzer
Campus Crusade for Christ
NDSU, Fargo, ND

“How do you personally experience the transforming intimacy with the Father so kindly offered to us in Jesus?  Living openly and freely with the Father provides the joy we all seek and the power we all need…not just for ourselves but for the dear people we love and minister to in our congregations.

At times the sorrow of trapped lives and broken relationships in our churches become more than our souls can endure.  Is the Gospel truly transformational?  Can the Holy Spirit perform the life changes today that we rejoice in reading about on the pages of the New Testament?  How does it happen?  Really, how does God set a heart free and keep it from enslavement to the flesh and it’s appetites?  Where’s the joy that Jesus promised and died for?

My friend Dr. David Eckman has answered these questions for me from the pages of scripture.  God has used David in my life, and that of thousands of others to walk us down the biblical path of freedom, joy, and a rich experience of the Father’s affection.  David is a biblical scholar who opens treasure chests of scriptural truth that allow us to see just how good and powerful our Savior really is.

For your own delight and for the life-change and freedom of your people, I’d encourage you to pour over the pages of Dr. David Eckman’s Becoming Who God Intended, by Harvest House publishers.  Get this book in the hands of your congregation and watch their hearts and lives experience the freedom that Jesus paid so dearly to give them. ”

Alan Hlavka
Teaching Pastor at
Good Shepherd Community Church
Portland, Oregon.

Be sure to get the Becoming Who God Intended: Facilitator’s Guide. This guide aids group leaders in leading your group through the book. Don’t forget one with your group’s books.

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