Every Christian struggles daily to live as an authentic follower of Jesus Christ in the midst of an increasingly perverse world. Inevitably there remain within each of us areas, rooms in our hearts, from which we have knowingly or unknowingly excluded Christ and His power to bring about change, areas which desperately need His loving renovation. The ongoing process of renovation by Christ the Master Renovator is the subject of this book. Special focus is directed toward those rooms which tend to be well-hidden and often more closely guarded than the obvious ones we deal with on a routine basis.
Joel Backstrom has been serving bivocationally in the Lord's kingdom work as an educator and an ordained minister since 1975. Most of those years were spent working as a high school teacher, administrator, and coach in both public and Christian schools across the nation. He has also served as an Army chaplain, an institutional chaplain, and a parish pastor in various settings. He and his wife, Jane, have three adult married sons and six grandchildren (so far). They are both now retired and living in northern Arizona.
