story and cultivating the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that fit within it.4 In a nutshell, this is the aim of the Transformative Word series, of which this book is a part. The apostle Paul declares, “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness” so that we may be “thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Tim 3:16–17). We could hardly find a better description of the power of Scripture to transform us than that. Since, as D. L.