“What moves cells to work together?  What ushers in the higher specialized functions of movement, sight, and consciousness through the coordination of a hundred trillion cells?  The secret to membership lies locked away inside each cell nucleus chemically coiled in a strand of DNA.  …  The Designer of DNA went on to challenge the human race to a new and higher purpose:  membership in his own Body.” 
~Excerpts from Chapter 5, “Unity”​

​This is the subject matter of Dr. Paul Brand’s Fearfully and Wonderfully Made.  Co-published with author Philip Yancey in 1980, this book takes the Apostle Paul’s correlation between the physical body and Christ’s Body and goes deeper, looking down to the cellular level.   

“Biblical belief is more than just an intellectual acceptance or a heartfelt acknowledgement; it is a commitment to follow.  Following by definition requires more than mental assent, it calls for movement.  …  There is no forgiveness without repentance. There is no salvation without surrender. 
​There is no life without death.  There is no believing without committing.” 
~Excerpts from Chapter 2, “A Decision or a Commitment?”
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When did you believe that Jesus was the only way of salvation?  Did you choose to believe to receive all the free handouts?  Or did you commit to follow Christ?  These are the types of questions that Kyle Idleman asks his readers in this inspirational, convicting, and soul-probing book published by Zondervan in 2011.  

Written by Andrew Murray in the 1800s and reprinted in 2007 by Moody Classics, this short expository on the parable of the Vine and Branches found in John 15 is a must read for 21st century believers today.  Full of rich imagery and straightforward reading, The True Vine provokes deeper thought into the meaning and application of abiding in Christ.