Rebound & Keep Moving! is the key that unlocks the Christian way of life. After salvation the sin nature remains a relentless adversary, tempting the believer to sin and live in carnality. When the believer sins, fellowship with God is destroyed, the filling of the Holy Spirit is temporarily lost, and spiritual progress ceases.
Rebound is the simplest yet most incredible concept in the spiritual life. Rebound defeats sin. Guilt, anguish, remorse over past failures vanish knowing that God forgives and forgets all past sins. Rebound is our access to intimacy with the Lord, the gateway to divine power in our lives, our license to serve the Lord. Rebound opens the door to the wonderful freedom the grace of God offers to every believer in Jesus Christ.
This title is also On the MP3 CD special Spiritual Logistics I Online (PDF file) As an individual cassette tape In Spanish
Thieme was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana to Anna (Cloakey) and Robert Bunger Thieme, and was raised in Beverly Hills, California. There he attended Beverly Hills High School which included four years of study in Latin. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Arizona at Tucson where he majored in Greek, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa after graduating with honors in 1940. While attending university he met and married Betty Beal, the daughter of a Baptist minister. Thieme's seminary studies at Dallas Theological Seminary were interrupted by World War II service, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Corps, and was in charge of training all Army Air Corps cadets at Luke Field. After World War II he resumed his theological studies at DTS where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. His 1949 Master's thesis was entitled Armageddon: An Investigation of the Campaign of the Great Day of God the Almighty. During his time at DTS, he held a part-time pastorate at Reinhardt Bible Church in Dallas, Texas. Thieme became pastor of Berachah Church in Houston, Texas in 1950, interrupting his doctoral work at DTS after Dr. J. Ellwood Evans recommended him to the church. He was pastor at Berachah Church until he retired in 2003 due to Alzheimer's disease. Thieme dedicated his life to intensive study of the scripture and teaching his congregation. Gifted in intellect and indefatigable in production, Thieme held Bible classes most nights of the week and twice on Sundays. Requiring strict academic discipline from his congregation as well, he earned the genuine respect of those in regular attendance. Those close to him knew him as humble and gentlemanly. Over the years Thieme spoke at numerous Bible conferences, and ordained dozens of men to the ministry. His recorded Bible classes and books are available free of charge. After retiring in 2003, Thieme's only son, Robert "Bobby" Thieme III, was elected by the congregation of Berachah Church to serve as the new pastor. Around this time R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries began reformatting and revising existing material into modern formats (e.g. DVD and MP3).
When we sin, guilt is close by. Along with guilt comes discouragement, ineffectiveness, and even doubt of whether one is a Christian. There is only one cure; confession. The author calls it rebounding. Like a basketball player who makes a shot that hits the rim, he must rebound the ball and attempt the shot again. Confession for the believer works the same way. No believer is sin free. All have sinned. But when a shot is missed, a sin is committed, the believer must rebound by confessing (actually naming his sin) before God. The forgiveness which follows is not based on our tears (even though there may be some), it is not based on how miserable we feel for committing a sin (and we probably will be), rather it is based solely on God's grace to cleanse us from all unrighteousness simply by naming our sin (1 John 1:9).
Without confessing our sin, we cannot be filled with the Holy Spirit and we become weak, ineffective, miserable Christians This short book offers a good reminder to confess often and keep moving ahead in our Christian walk.