Putting Biblical Truth Within Reach
There are places where people genuinely want to know more about God and His Word, but access to structured biblical discipleship can be limited.
The Renewing Your Mind Special Edition was created for those places.
It brings the foundational biblical teaching of Renewing Your Mind together with guided personal application in one resource, giving someone an opportunity not only to read biblical truth, but to engage it personally.
Teaching and Guided Application in One Resource
The original Renewing Your Mind book explains biblical principles that became foundational to this ministry.
The Special Edition takes another step.
Teaching from the book is integrated with guided questions and personal application throughout the resource.
Scripture is woven through it as well. The Special Edition contains more than 675 individual verses of Scripture within its pages, so readers are engaging God’s Word itself, not only reading about it. For a reader whose access to a Bible may be limited, the passages they are invited to consider are printed right there on the pages.
Readers can pause.
Reflect.
Write.
Consider what Scripture is revealing.
And begin applying what they are learning within the circumstances of their own lives.
That makes the Special Edition particularly useful in environments where regular access to structured biblical discipleship may be limited.
I Saw Something There I Never Forgot
Years ago, life gave me a brief opportunity to see inside a local correctional facility.
What stayed with me was the spiritual hunger I saw there.
One inmate was already helping other inmates learn about God.
There was a Sunday service.
There was a Bible.
And there was a chaplain who was doing what he could with the time and access available to him.
What struck me was not an absence of interest.
It was the opportunity.
There were people who wanted to know more.
People asking questions.
People trying to understand Scripture.
People who could potentially benefit from something they could keep with them, read personally, write in and return to again and again.
That stayed with me.
The Special Edition Wasn’t an Afterthought
After completing Renewing Your Mind, I believed God wanted me to finish this resource before moving ahead with anything else. Its integration of teaching and guided application later became part of the foundation from which DeepDive and Milestones grew.
Teaching That Invites Participation
James writes:
“But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says.”
James 1:22 NLT
Biblical teaching matters.
And Scripture repeatedly calls us to respond to what God reveals.
That is why the Special Edition was designed to invite participation.
The reader is not simply moving from one chapter to the next.
They are being invited to stop and consider:
What am I recognizing in my own life?
What does Scripture reveal here?
What might need to change in the way I think or respond?
What does obedience look like in this circumstance?
The resource creates an opportunity for biblical truth to become personal.
What the reader does with that opportunity remains their choice.
And what God chooses to grow from it belongs to Him.
A Resource They Can Call Their Own
One of the things that matters most about the Special Edition is simple:
It can become theirs.
A resource they can hold.
Read.
Underline.
Write in.
Return to.
Take with them.
Continue engaging over time.
Where institutional rules permit, that creates something different from a conversation that ends when someone leaves the room.
The teaching remains available.
The questions remain available.
The Scriptures remain available.
And the reader can return to them when they are ready.
One Resource Can Travel Further Than One Person
The person who receives a Special Edition may use it privately.
They may discuss something they are learning with someone else.
They may share an idea.
They may help another person understand a passage of Scripture.
We cannot know what will happen with any particular copy.
And we do not need to pretend that we can.
Jesus called His followers to make disciples.
Helping someone gain access to Scripture and guided application is one practical way to share in that work.
How Special Editions Are Placed
Special Editions are given, not sold.
They are placed with people in these environments through appropriate avenues, such as chaplains, ministries and organizations that serve them, and always within the rules of each institution.
If your organization serves people who could benefit from the Special Edition, please contact us.
What Could One Book Begin?
A Special Edition sponsorship is $10.
That puts one copy into someone’s hands.
Not a guaranteed outcome.
An opportunity.
An opportunity to read.
To reflect.
To engage Scripture personally.
To begin asking different questions.
To share something with someone else.
Paul described ministry with a perspective worth remembering:
“I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.”
1 Corinthians 3:6 NLT
That is the posture behind the Special Edition.
We can help put biblical truth within reach.
We can create an opportunity for someone to engage it.
And then we trust God with what grows.
Put a Special Edition Into Someone’s Hands
$10 sponsors one Special Edition.
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.