Charles R. Swindoll - So, You Want to Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There

So, You Want to Be Like Christ?

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So, You Want to
Be Like Christ?

Eight Essentials To Get You There

CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Copyright 2005, Charles R. Swindoll

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With great love and deep respect,
I dedicate this book to my granddaughter,

HEATHER NELSON.

Even though only sixteen years old,
Heather wants to be like Christ as much
as anyone I know
in fact, more than most I know.

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Mike Hyatt of Thomas Nelson Publishers and David Moberg of W Publishing Group first urged me to write on this subject. I have both of them to thank for their encouragement, commitment, and loyal friendship through many years.

I also express my profound appreciation to the one with whom I have worked the closest, Mark Gaither, who has taken my original words (usually handwritten) and breathed fresh life into them with his editorial skills and creative turn of a phrase. Thanks, Mark, for a job very well done!