Awesome on the Inside

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'Image is everything' say the adverts - and we believe them. But God wants to do something amazing with each one of us. He wants to break through the shallowness of looks and image, and change us deep down - in our hearts. He wants us to grow to our full potential by making us 'Awesome on the Inside'.

How can you grow to become the person that you were destined to be? How can you achieve your full potential? Written for teenagers of the 21st century, Tim Hawkins explores the Bible so that you can discover the big things that God wants you to do with your life.

In this book you will discover how the Bible shows we can grow...
- a heart that is powerful
- a heart that is prayerful
- a heart that is passionate
- a heart that is pure
- a heart that is positive

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Section 1. A heart that is powerful
1. The problem of just 'looking good'
2. The inside is more important
3. All change starts from the inside
4. The inside always comes out
5. The three principles in action
Section 2. A heart that is prayerful
6. The problem of feeling powerless
7. The power of prayer - James
8. The power of prayer - Elijah...and you!
Section 3. A heart that is passionate
9. The passion principle
10. Four steps to a passionate heart
Section 4. A heart that is Pure
11. Stop scoring goals for the opposition
12. Joseph and the desperate housewife
13. Four safety barriers to protect your heart
14. The problem of hanging around
Section 5. A heart that is positive
15. Three steps to a negative heart
16. Three steps to a positive heart
Section 6. A heart that is pumping
17. Stay where the action is
18. A spirit-filled heart
19. How to tap into God's power
20. A brand new heart
21. A new beginning
Acknowledgments

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Author	Tim Hawkins
ISBN	9780958184311
Dimensions	128mm x 196mm
Pages	144
Publisher	The Good Book Company
No of Bible studies	N/A
Format	Paperback
Suggested Age Range	13 - 18
Bible Book	N/A

Customer Reviews

Excellent book

We used this book with the 14-18s youth group at church. It was very challenging to read as a leader and really try to think how to put it into practice. This book is well written showing how the Bible can be applied in today's life and how we can be changed people. I would really recommed this book to others

| Review by | 09/12/2010 | Did you find this review helpful? Yes | No

amazing

This study guide helped me see the right and wrongs through life and how to stay in the right path. I started reading this when i was about 11 and still read it now 4 years later over and over. It is a really good read for all teenagers and young adults. I feel AWESOME ON THE INSIDE :)

| Review by | 16/01/2010 | Did you find this review helpful? Yes | No

disappointed!

I was really excited to hear about this book. First, it is a book that speaks about the heart. About inner change. And about how God would change you from the inside out. On the outside it looks just the sort of book to
give to youth group members about what it means to grow in godliness.

And the first section was great at explaining the dynamic of ‘all change starting from the inside’ and about ‘the inside always coming out.’ Great I thought!

But as I moved into section 2- I was getting a little worried as it seemed to be talking a lot about what I had to do for a prayerful heart rather than what God has done/is doing in me to give me a prayerful heart.

But not to worry. I thought- here comes section 3- and ‘Four steps to a Passionate heart.’ This is when we will get the glories of the gospel and what Christ has done for us (For example, I thought about what my four steps
would be. Something like:
1. Meditate on God’s rescue of you from judgment and hell. You are forgiven!
2. Meditate on God’s rescue of you for life with him for eternity. You belong to God!
3. Meditate on what God has made you in Christ- you are a brand new person!
4. Mediate on the Holy Spirit at work in your life. You are being made perfect!)

However, the four steps for a passionate heart according to Tim Hawkins are all things I have to do for God:
1. Hunger to be with God
2. Expect God to answer
3. Praise God with everything you’ve got
4. Proclaim God’s word boldly

Hang on a sec- I thought this was a book about how to be changed by God from the inside out. But here are four steps about how I change my heart- and steps 3 & 4 are outwards activities!

Unfortunately, I felt the rest of the book continued in this vein- apart from chapter 18. Chapter 18 was great about the Holy Spirit being God’s power and God’s guarantee and God’s way of changing you- but I was thinking:
“Give me more of this.”

I do want to affirm that everything Hawkins writes is biblical and helpful. It’s written well. And it’s illustrated well. But it is what’s missing that disappointed me. I felt the book was a little like reading the exhortation sections of the New Testament letters without the doctrinal sections.

Over and over- I kept thinking where is the motivation and means for this change of heart? Where is the dynamic? Basically I was thinking- where is the cross centred dynamic of the gospel?

Marvellously, the gospel did appear in the penultimate chapter- chapter 20. And what a wonderful explanation of the gospel it is. But do you know how this chapter starts? I quote:

“God is rebuilding you from the inside out……Is that you? Well done! You probably don’t need this chapter! You can skip straight to Chapter 21!”

Finally we get to the gospel in ch 20- the motivation and God-given means of change from the inside out- but if you are a Christian reading the book- you get told to skip over this chapter!

In short, I think this book fails at what it sets out to achieve. Rather than letting God change you from the inside out- as we dwell/meditate/appreciate/ the gospel to greater depths - this book encourages you to do outward things to get that inner change and worse, it
perhaps encourages some readers to think they don’t need the gospel once they are Christian! Ironically- I was left thinking that the book is awesome on the outside- but lacking on the inside.
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Editor's comment: Mark makes some valid and important points. Thank you for sharing them with us, and we will consider the implications when we reprint this title.
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Author's comment:

I love to get feedback from people. And I agree with your comments about the introduction to Chapter 20, potentially misleading. With those wonderful people at The Good Book Company, I've been working on a revision to clarify things, which will make things much clearer. I have re-written this section. Thanks for your helpful suggestion.

I have had a good look again at the four ways to build a passionate heart, which can be summarised as:

1. Read the bible
2. Pray
3. Praise God
4. Proclaim God's Word

How did I get to these? By entering in the words "bold", "passion" etc into my computer bible to find put when these words were used to describe God's people. I then analysed all the verses to discover what God's people were doing at the time they were described at "bold" etc. The four categories (above) emerged. Upon reflection, I still think they are very biblical answers! So I am happy to stick with them.

| Review by | 28/02/2007 | Did you find this review helpful? Yes | No

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