Become All You Are Meant to Be in Christ--Author Howard Katz shows us how in his new book, Seven Essential Relationships: How to Pass God's Crucial Tests

Author Howard Katz uses candid examples from his own life, as well as from the life of Joseph, in presenting to us the seven main relationships each believer will be tested in throughout their Christian walk and how to rise to the challenge of meeting these tests. The relationships include the following

 

• our relationship with God's Word
• our relationship with the World
• our relationship with Authority
• our relationship with God's Plan for our Lives
• our relationship with the Way in which God deals with us
• our personal relationship with God Himself
• our relationship with God's Glory

Katz outlines for us not only the seven relationships but he gives us their corresponding crucial tests which he believes every believer must pass in order to progress spiritually. He offers fresh insight into how afflictions can and should shape one's character.

As a continuing theme throughout the book, each relationship is prefaced by a description of how an ancient Israeli potter would mold a clay vessel. Just as each of the seven steps in the molding of a clay vessel, which mirrors one of the seven relationships, ends in a beautiful vessel, likewise the molding of the relationship between the Master Potter and the believer is transformed more and more into the likeness of his Creator, the Master Potter. The catch is to pass each test and Katz shows you how to do that.

Here's what others are saying about Seven Essential Relationships:

"No matter how messy your life is, God wants to make something beautiful out of it. Reading this insightful book, you won't be content to just coast along in your faith. Every chapter challenges you to move closer to the Master Potter and invite Him to touch your life in new and deeper ways. Just like clay, you'll emerge from the process changed, and your new shape will be a perfect fit for God's great plans for you."
"Howard Katz asks us this important question: 'Why are all believers not experiencing victory?' As you study and apply the seven truths this book illuminates, you will find you are able to walk in the victory God desires for you. Read it carefully and you will be blessed."
"Howard Katz didn't write this book like he was cramming for final exams. This is the result of decades of learning intimacy with God at a depth few know about these days. From the life of Joseph, Howard Katz reminds us that there are no shortcuts to really knowing God. Most of it is learned in the school of hard knocks. Howard Katz brilliantly interweaves the vivid metaphor of the potter and the clay--an image that will make this book stick in your brain ten years from now. This is one of those books you shouldn't rush through. And it's one of those rare books you'll find yourself picking up and reading again as a reference, especially when you go through one of those Joseph experiences. This book cuts like a scalpel. But thankfully, Howard Katz provides an anesthetic of humor throughout, while he presses ahead with open-heart surgery. I've known Howard Katz for two decades. He walks the talk. As a businessman and pastor he lives in the real world. In this important book Howard Katz cuts to the chase and gives us the real deal."

Howard Katz is the founding pastor of Open Door Christian Fellowship. The eldest son of a Jewish Holocaust survivor, Howard came to faith in Christ at the age of twenty. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science degree and is currently the president of his family's real estate business. Howard and his wife Lena have three sons and live in London, ON.

Howard Katz wrote and produced the audio-visual presentation entitled 'Noah's Ark and the Flood--Is it Scientifically Possible?' He is affiliated with ministries in Mexico, the United States, Russia, and Switzerland where he frequently visits, ministers, and teaches.

For more information about Seven Essential Relationships, visit www.katzbrothers.org.

To book Howard Katz for speaking engagements and/or book signings, please email: howardkatz@katzbrothers.org.

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