Jim Berg at the BJU Commencement, 2009

James Arland Berg (born 1952) is a writer on biblical topics, especially counseling, discipleship, and Christian growth. Berg was reared in a working-class home in South Dakota, where he did farm chores, worked in a restaurant, and learned to trouble-shoot machinery with his father. Many of his illustrations are taken from his varied life experiences.

Berg earned an undergraduate degree in Bible (1974) and an M.A. degree in Theology (1976) from Bob Jones University; he received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Tabernacle Baptist Theological Seminary (Virginia Beach, Virginia). Jim Berg has taught seminars on biblical counseling and leadership development coordinated through fundamentalist Protestant churches.

Berg has served as Dean of Students at Bob Jones University since 1981 and currently teaches the freshman Orientation course there. His wife, Pat, also teaches at BJU and assists him in his counseling ministry. They have three married daughters (Kirsten, Angie, and Michelle).

Berg's book, Changed into His Image, has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, and Chinese. Of it, Roy B. Zuck, editor of Bibliotheca Sacra, writes that "it is filled with extensive discussions of Bible passages dealing with various aspects of spirituality and with numerous practical illustrations of real-life situations. These evidence Berg's long-time ministry in working with college students and speaking in Bible conferences."^[1] Biblical Viewpoint notes that Berg "has done his exegetical homework" in Created for His Glory, and his "words are direct and simple."^[2]

[edit] Books

• Basics for Believers (1978) ISBN 1-57924-315-0
• Changed into His Image (1999) ISBN 1-57924-205-7
• When Trouble Comes^[3] (2002) ISBN 1-57924-812-8
• Created for His Glory (2002) ISBN 1-57924-809-8
• Quieting a Noisy Soul (2005) ISBN 1-59166-495-0
• Essential Virtues: Marks of the Christ-Centered Life (2008) ISBN 1-59166-883-2

[edit] References

1. ^ Bibliotheca Sacra 158 (October 2001), 486-87. "In the forward Ken Collier writes that he has used the...book to disciple new believers, instruct newly married couples, encourage new parents, help parents with wayward children and even explain to teenagers how to have meaningful devotions." Less sympathetic is Camille K. Lewis, "Publish and Perish? My Fundamentalist Education from the Inside Out," KB Journal 4: 2 (Spring 2008).
2. ^ Biblical Viewpoint 37 (November 2003), 102-03.
3. ^ review in Baptist Bulletin

[edit] External links

• Jim Berg website

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