Mirror, mirror

Bibliotherapy!

MIRROR, MIRROR
Discover your true identity in Christ
By Graham Beynon
IVP. 156 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978-1-84474-325-4

The author, a serving pastor, tackles the subject of self-image for the contemporary Christian reader. The book is non-technical, but not trite or superficial. Each of the nine main chapters finish with practical reflection and study questions, and all the anecdotes are relevant for the UK market.

The book is a kind of ‘biblical cognitive therapy’. For me the most helpful chapter was chapter 3: ‘the original design’, a concept from Genesis 1 that would benefit from even more unpacking than the space allowed in this book.

The diagrams help explain the text and are great visual aids. I can see this book being very useful to pastoral workers who may want to use it in a one-to-one relationship as ‘bibliotherapy’.

Sheila Stephen,
Lecturer in Active Listening for Pastoral Practice, Wales Evangelical School of Theology

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Main Articles

• NWA: turning the tide
• The Commentary
  Global problems, global solutions?
• Some evangelists
  Jonathan Carswell talks to Nick Howard
• Every child matters
  The challenge of and need for Christians to do schools work
• The sufficiency of God's sovereignty
  How God can use even those apparently opposed to his will for his purposes
• The Christians' advocate
  Interview with Andrea Minichiello Williams of CCFON
• The Bible and the banks
  Dr. Philip Sampson looks at the current financial disaster, part 1
• Monthly arts and media column
  Taking the love dare
• Letter from America
  The tipping point
• The Music Exchange
  A bit of a rethink!

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• The Reader (15)
• Jesus: dead or alive - An extract
• The Young Victoria (PG)
• 'L' is for Lifestyle - Christian living that doesn't cost the earth
• When will there be good news? - Shelf life: Looking at secular books
• The longest week - The truth about Jesus' last days
• The lady church planter - Selina, Countess of Huntingdon
• Biblical church - A challenge to unscriptural traditions and practice
• The preaching of Jonathan Edwards
• The art of the public grovel
• Faith lacking understanding - Theology 'through a glass darkly'
• When God goes to Starbucks - A guide to everyday apologetics
• Under God's smile - The Trinitarian blessing of 2 Corinthians 13.14
• The truth shall make you free - Westminster Conference 2007 papers
• Mirror, mirror - Discover your true identity in Christ
• Any complaints? Blame God! - God's message for today - Habakkuk the prophet speaks
• Make your church's money work - Achieving financial integrity in your congregation
• A year in China
• The Letters to the Colossians and to Philemon
• The things he carried - A journey to the cross: meditations for Lent and Holy Week
• Lifesong - Bible-centred worship for the emerging congregation