Spiritual Transformation

God created people in his own image, so we could reflect his character and represent him here. We have tainted that image with sin, but God promises to restore us to reflecting his image through the transformation process known as sanctification. The sermons are each independent, but do build upon one another as I traced the growth cycle explained by the Bible, so it makes sense to listen in order.

I don't have many good resources to suggest for further reading on these issues. The poor quality - or at least limited breadth - of what I found in my outside research is what led me to spend so much time looking into what the Bible teaches about our sanctification/transformation. The bibliography on the crisis paper will lead you to some sources for various schools of thought, as will the historical treatment in Bruce Demarest's The Cross and Salvation[pp.386-405] and my review of Five Views of Sanctification. Chafer's He That Is Spiritual is a great book about submitting to Christ and yielding to the Holy Spirit, but a little hard to understand [and I disagreed with one point in my crisis paper].