This week’s giveaway comes all the way from the UK (the one surrounded by water with a queen, not the one with a wildcat as a mascot).  Tim Chester is co-founder of a church-planting organization in Sheffield, UK, called The Crowded House and has authored several books, including The Busy Christian’s Guide to Busyness and Total Church (co-authored with Steve Timmis).  Tim’s website is always a helpful reference to Christian change and growth and offers advice from a man with over fifteen years’ experience in church planting and preaching.

This week’s book, You Can Change, came out in the UK in 2008, but has just now found its way to American audiences with Crossway publishers.  You Can Change is the fruit of Chester’s own desire to grow in his Christ-likeness.  The book is the methodology he has used in his ministry and in his own life for change, and he encourages his readers to find an area of their lives they wish to change and to make this their “change project” throughout the book.  The book is divided into ten questions:

1. What Would You Like to Change?
2. Why Would You Like to Change?
3. How Are You Going to Change?
4. When Do You Struggle?
5. What Truths Do You Need to Turn To?
6. What Desires Do You Need to Turn From?
7. What Stops You From Changing?
8. What Strategies Will Reinforce Your Faith and Repentance?
9. How Can We Support One Another in Changing?
10. Are You Ready for a Lifetime of Daily Change?

Each chapter ends with questions and encouragements to guide the Christian along his or her way for their change project.  One of the most beautiful aspects of You Can Change is that the change project is from the beginning encouraged in a group context.  Change, says Chester, cannot be done in isolation because sin grows in isolation but when it is exposed to the light of other Christians, we can truly begin to change.

For those of you who find this book helpful (which I believe will be anyone who reads it!), you should really check out Chester’s new book, Captured By a Better Vision, which is coming soon to the US, but for now is hard to find, even on amazon.com.  In Captured By a Better Vision, Chester applies the methodology of You Can Change to the specific area of pornography so that his readers can see how the change process works in a specific context.

To win a free copy of You Can Change, just fill out the form below (one entry per person, please!).  If you are selected as this week’s winner, we will notify you by email and give you instructions for picking up the book.