"With profound insight, compassion, and solid biblical support, Jim resurrects one of the most forgotten and overlooked truths in our day."
~Dwight Edwards, author and advisor to Larry Crabb
"Still the best book on the theme out there."
~Alice F.; Arizona
*Read more reviews on Amazon...
What if your heart is no longer 'prone to wander?' What if God is more interested in releasing a noble goodness He's already placed within you, rather than pressuring you to be more 'holy?' Discover the book by Jim Robbins.
Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 10:52AM 
My book, Recover Your Good Heart - Living free from religious guilt and the shame of not good-enough, is now available in Amazon's Kindle Store. Click here to view.
"I cannot recommend Jim Robbins' book Recover Your Good Heart highly enough...A great work!"
-Dwight Edwards, advisor to Larry Crabb
and author of Revolution Within
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 3:50PM I've just published this free e-book, "ENOUGH IS NEVER ENOUGH -- How spiritual abuse sabotages the heart." Feel free to download and share.
You can also leave a comment by clicking, "Post a Comment" below.
E-book - "ENOUGH IS NEVER ENOUGH - How spiritual abuse sabotages the heart" - by Jim Robbins
Sherpa carrying load photo:
Courtesy of PaulPrescott: paulprescott.com/
Jim Robbins
Note: Once you download the e-book, or open it in your reader, the clarity improves quite a bit. What you see on screen here is the preview version, which lacks a bit of sharpness.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 10:24AM 
The audio book is done!
The files and artwork have been sent off to the CD duplicator. The audio book CD sets should be shipping to me at the end of the week, and I'll make them available on the blog next week. [CD sets and MP3 download.]
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 11:30AM Quite frankly, it's difficult to believe I have a good heart sometimes. The evidence against it seems too strong.
Lately, there's been almost an unseen pull downwards, a drain-circling suck towards hopeless futility. That dark undertow almost got me to draw some fatal conclusions about my own heart. That pull is towards shame:
I've blown it with my kids a lot lately; not given myself to my wife as she needs. I'm actually craving the goodness of Jesus and his choices, begging him to give me his own maturity. (If you think holiness is hard, try out your favorite addiction or uncontrolled craving for a while. That's harder to live with.)
In these moments, we have two choices: fatalism or freedom:
Stay with the truth: your heart is good now. Jesus made it so.
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To understand your new heart more, Recover Your Good Heart -- Living free from religious guilt and the shame of not good-enough unpacks what Scripture says about your new heart.
Or you can start with the FREE e-book I wrote: click here.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 1:17PM Friday, July 24, 2009 at 4:13PM 
Steve Brown (Steve Brown, Etc. radio show) talks with Jim about his book, Recover Your Good Heart -- Living free from religious guilt and the shame of not good-enough.
Here's the 'live' interview. The full interview will be posted next week.
etc., interview, recover your good heart, steve brown in Podcasts, grace, new book, new heart Permalink Monday, July 20, 2009 at 12:00PM 
This Friday..Steve Brown's interview with me will air. Steve has interviewed the likes of Frank Viola, John Eldredge, Tony Campolo ... and now...to my grateful amazement, me.
We talked about my book, Recover Your Good Heart, the kind of authenticity we really need, and the struggle of living from a new and good heart.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 11:57AM
“Rescuing the Heart” - 10/29/07
Jim shares excerpts from his upcoming book, Recover Your Good Heart. Is the Church really giving people the cure we claim to have? Or, are we busy managing externals?
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 8:14AM 
INTERVIEW: Special Guest, Jim Robbins. 8/20/08. Jim was interviewed by the guys at Family Room Media. Topic: Jim’s new book, Recover Your Good Heart. The promise of the Gospel goes beyond forgiveness to the promise of a new heart. God must rescue people at the level of the heart. This is why you already have a new goodness, new power and new desires. — Thanks to Bob, Dave and Loren at Family Room Media.
Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 1:03PM 
There's more to grace.
Grace without restoration is cruel. It must go beyond forgiveness to the gift of a new and supernaturally-good heart.
Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 8:40AM There's still time to participate in the online study of my book, Recover Your Good Heart.
Joel, over at graceroots.org, is leading the online study each Sunday evening. Last Sunday was the kick-off, and the group discussed the book's Introduction.
If you don't have the book or Study Guide yet, you can get them more quickly as downloads:
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 11:58AM 
Mariah Secrest, Arts & Culture Editor for Wrecked for the Ordinary ezine, just posted a very thoughtful review of my book, Recover Your Good Heart.
Wrecked for the Ordinary has a great mission. This is from their website: Wrecked for the Ordinary is "an online magazine for spiritual misfits. Each week, we publish six new stories from Jesus-followers who are re-imagining culture. We’re members of a generation that is not content to view the world through the drab lens of materialism and hand-me-down religion... We want more. We want to live life on purpose, actively participating in true community, intimacy, and adventure. We are re-imagining culture."
Monday, January 12, 2009 at 7:01PM 
Julie Arduini (The Surrendered Scribe) asked me if she could post a chapter-by-chapter review/summary of my book, Recover Your Good Heart, on her blog. Thanks, Julie!
Monday, January 12, 2009 at 11:56AM 
My friend Joel, over at Graceroots.org, is leading an online study group on my book, Recover Your Good Heart, Sunday evenings, beginning January 11th -- at 7pm Eastern.
They're using Yahoo Messenger so that anyone who wants to, can join the conversation.
You can still participate even if you don't have the study guide.
Joel has more information here on his blog.
I think you'll really enjoy this interactive event!
Thanks, Joel.
Update below...
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Jim Robbins
Monday, November 24, 2008 at 9:44AM 
Show me a person who has lost his or her sense of desire, and I'll show you someone who doesn't know what their calling is.
You find your calling through your deepest desires.
There are those who would advise us not to do this, because it could lead to sin or some form of ruin. Their assumption is that all desire, or the vast majority of it, is fleshly and self-centered and must be avoided. Yet, this is not a New Covenant view of desire ... because it's not a New Covenant view of the believer's heart.
With our new heart, given by God when we said 'yes' to Jesus, comes a reservoir of good and noble desires. Find those desires and you'll find your calling.
As you trace desire throughout your life, from childhood to today, what are the recurring themes?
Our giftedness tends to go beyond mere competency or training, as we find that there is something spiritual occuring that is both us, and beyond us in its working. It is the outflow of the Holy Spirit in us, working as us.
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Gary Barkalow, formerly of Ransomed Heart ministries, has recently launched a full-time mission to help others discover their calling. I've experienced his teaching and found nothing else like it in depth and scope. Here's a link to Gary's site: The Noble Heart
Jim Robbins
I don't want to have a derivative life: No mimicry of other's personal aspirations; no living from someone else's script. A vicarious life is a borrowed life. I want to offer the weight of my own heart and the artistry that proceeds from there in ways that are not driven by sales outcomes, market expectations, or religious sub-cultures. I must be me. That is the nature of incarnation - the self-revelation of God through a Body of bodies who can only represent him faithfully if they are themselves.
As the Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once said, "What I do is me: For that, I came." As Gary Barkalow of The Noble Heart asks us, "What is in you that is so unique, that if you don't live with it, the Kingdom of God will live without it?"
Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 12:14PM 
For those who are eager to discover more of the deep riches and truth of their good heart, I've just published a study guide for Recover Your Good Heart. It's designed to bring even more and deeper heart-life to those who have been under the gospel of flesh-management for too long.
The study guide can be used by individuals, small groups, fellowships, tribes, platoons, herds, pods, gaggles or however people gather themselves.
Click here to see the study guide.
The book itself, Recover Your Good Heart, is now available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.
Monday, October 20, 2008 at 9:58AM Blogger, Joel Brueseke (www.graceroots.org), has opened up an invitation for those interested in forming an on-line study group, centered around my book, Recover Your Good Heart. I recently published a study guide for the book. You can purchase it for download or hardcopy here.
Here's the link to Joel's study group invitation. Online study group.
The book itself, Recover Your Good Heart, is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com.
Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 3:38PM A review of my book, Recover Your Good Heart, from blogger Joel Brueseke:
In the midst of a church culture that tends to put a huge emphasis on outward behavior change and religious activity, Jim Robbins’ book Recover Your Good Heart is a refreshing and much needed look into the true life that we have in Christ that is lived freely and abundantly from within -- through the new heart that God gave us when we were raised to life with Christ.How many Christians are still living with the mentality of something that was true at one time -– that our hearts were deceitful and desperately wicked -– when the scriptures tell us that in Christ God has taken away the old, unredeemed, sinful heart and placed in us a brand new heart that is holy, righteous and good!
It’s in our new God-given heart that we find real life and our true identity. Robbins examines the scriptures to show us what this new heart is and how we live from our good heart rather than trying harder to become something better. I highly recommend this book for anyone who tends to live in guilt and shame, or for anyone who simply wants to grow in understanding their true identity in Christ so they can freely live the life they were always meant to live.
--Joel Brueseke, www.graceroots.org
