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Learning from God's Imperfect People
From Flawed to Embracing Your Imperfection to Empower Your Faith
Do you ever worry that your flaws prevent God from working through you? Are these imperfections causing you to doubt your ability to fulfill your destiny?
Throughout the Bible, God used imperfect people to see His will be done. Prolific author and Bible teacher Elmer Towns illuminates the extraordinary journeys of biblical figures whose imperfections God used to weave the tapestry of His redemptive plan.
Through these stories, you will be encouraged that God's power is made perfect in our weakness. This transformative book offers a profound exploration of how God’s grace operates, turning our flaws into avenues for His glory and our spiritual growth.
From this enlightening journey, you will
How God’s grace is sufficient in our weaknesses, transforming them into strengths.The importance of faith and obedience in the face of personal imperfection and doubt.Lessons from biblical figures like Jacob and Peter, whose flaws were integral to their divine purpose.The redemptive power of God to use our imperfections for His greater plan and glory.Encouragement and hope that God is actively working in and through our imperfections to fulfill His divine purpose.
Discover how to embrace your imperfections as God’s strength, power, and purpose manifest in your life. By shifting your focus to Him, you will embrace a life of surrendered trust, assured that God will fulfill His plans through your imperfections.
Do you ever worry that your flaws prevent God from working through you? Are these imperfections causing you to doubt your ability to fulfill your destiny?
Throughout the Bible, God used imperfect people to see His will be done. Prolific author and Bible teacher Elmer Towns illuminates the extraordinary journeys of biblical figures whose imperfections God used to weave the tapestry of His redemptive plan.
Through these stories, you will be encouraged that God's power is made perfect in our weakness. This transformative book offers a profound exploration of how God’s grace operates, turning our flaws into avenues for His glory and our spiritual growth.
From this enlightening journey, you will
How God’s grace is sufficient in our weaknesses, transforming them into strengths.The importance of faith and obedience in the face of personal imperfection and doubt.Lessons from biblical figures like Jacob and Peter, whose flaws were integral to their divine purpose.The redemptive power of God to use our imperfections for His greater plan and glory.Encouragement and hope that God is actively working in and through our imperfections to fulfill His divine purpose.
Discover how to embrace your imperfections as God’s strength, power, and purpose manifest in your life. By shifting your focus to Him, you will embrace a life of surrendered trust, assured that God will fulfill His plans through your imperfections.
281 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 4, 2024
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About the author
Elmer L. Towns
337 books48 followersDr. Elmer Towns is a college and seminary professor, an author of popular and scholarly works (the editor of two encyclopedias), a popular seminar lecturer, and dedicated worker in Sunday school, and has developed over 20 resource packets for leadership education. He began teaching at Midwest Bible College, St. Louis, Missouri, for three years and was not satisfied with his textbooks so he began writing his own (he has published over 100 books listed in the Library of Congress, 7 listed in the Christian Booksellers Best Selling List; several becoming accepted as college textbooks. He is also the 1995 recipient of the coveted Gold Medallion Award awarded by the Christian Booksellers Association for writing the Book of the Year, i.e., The Names of the Holy Spirit.
He was President of Winnipeg Bible College for five years, leading it to receive American Accreditation and Provincial authority to offer degrees (1960-1965). He taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, in greater Chicago, Illinois, in the field of Religious Education and Evangelism (1965-1971).
He is co-founder of Liberty University, with Jerry Falwell, in 1971, and was the only full-time teacher in the first year of Liberty's existence. Today, the University has over 11,400 students on campus with 39,000 in the Distance Learning Program (now Liberty University Online), and he is the Dean of the School of Religion.
Dr. Towns has given theological lectures and taught intensive seminars at over 50 theological seminaries in America and abroad. He holds visiting professorship rank in five seminaries. He has written over 2,000 reference and/or popular articles and received six honorary doctoral degrees. Four doctoral dissertations have analyzed his contribution to religious education and evangelism.
His personal education includes a B.S. from Northwestern College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a M.A. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary also in Dallas, a MRE from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, and a D.Min. from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
He was President of Winnipeg Bible College for five years, leading it to receive American Accreditation and Provincial authority to offer degrees (1960-1965). He taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, in greater Chicago, Illinois, in the field of Religious Education and Evangelism (1965-1971).
He is co-founder of Liberty University, with Jerry Falwell, in 1971, and was the only full-time teacher in the first year of Liberty's existence. Today, the University has over 11,400 students on campus with 39,000 in the Distance Learning Program (now Liberty University Online), and he is the Dean of the School of Religion.
Dr. Towns has given theological lectures and taught intensive seminars at over 50 theological seminaries in America and abroad. He holds visiting professorship rank in five seminaries. He has written over 2,000 reference and/or popular articles and received six honorary doctoral degrees. Four doctoral dissertations have analyzed his contribution to religious education and evangelism.
His personal education includes a B.S. from Northwestern College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a M.A. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary also in Dallas, a MRE from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, and a D.Min. from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
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November 5, 2025I have been blessed reading many of Towns' books over the years and several of late. The man is still writing in his 90s and that is impressive just on the face of it. That his books are so good makes it even better. Perfect? No. I see the irony in calling out any errors or mistakes in a book entitled, "Learning from God's Imperfect People" but here we go.
-this is not a mistake perhaps but Towns claims that history teaches us that "the rich young ruler" from the Gospels is none other than Barnabas from the book of Acts. I'm in my late 60s and have never heard that said and I am a prolific reader, so I find it hard to accept at face value. Not saying it's wrong but it is strange that I have never even heard an inkling that tradition, much less history, teaches that. But it is intriguing to say the least.
in Chapter 1 is the statement "...and today God's nation-the Jewish people-are called by Jacob's new Name, Israelites." Today, a citizen of Israel is called an "Israeli" not an "Israelite."
I have to quit reading this book because I hate being so negative. I also hate giving up on a book but I am only on page 28 and not even a tenth of the way through! What got me?
"But as Jacob deceived his father [true], so according to his nature, Jacob deceived his father-in-law Laban [untrue] (Genesis 30:25-43).
In this case, Laban was the deceiver not Jacob as explained later in Gn. 31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. and in Gn. 31:41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
So its going to be marked "finished" because I just don't have the motivation to read the whole thing.
-this is not a mistake perhaps but Towns claims that history teaches us that "the rich young ruler" from the Gospels is none other than Barnabas from the book of Acts. I'm in my late 60s and have never heard that said and I am a prolific reader, so I find it hard to accept at face value. Not saying it's wrong but it is strange that I have never even heard an inkling that tradition, much less history, teaches that. But it is intriguing to say the least.
in Chapter 1 is the statement "...and today God's nation-the Jewish people-are called by Jacob's new Name, Israelites." Today, a citizen of Israel is called an "Israeli" not an "Israelite."
I have to quit reading this book because I hate being so negative. I also hate giving up on a book but I am only on page 28 and not even a tenth of the way through! What got me?
"But as Jacob deceived his father [true], so according to his nature, Jacob deceived his father-in-law Laban [untrue] (Genesis 30:25-43).
In this case, Laban was the deceiver not Jacob as explained later in Gn. 31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. and in Gn. 31:41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
So its going to be marked "finished" because I just don't have the motivation to read the whole thing.
July 8, 2024
A good learning tool for a devotional group. We enjoyed it. Lots of discussion.
November 16, 2025
great
Learning from imperfect people is a gift I cherish. I plan to buy this book and read it again and underline things in it
Learning from imperfect people is a gift I cherish. I plan to buy this book and read it again and underline things in it
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