Made for Glory

In the Image and Likeness of God

Award-Winning Finalist in the “Religion: Christianity” category of the 2017 International Book Awards”

Through the ages, mankind has been roused to understand and explain our origin. The Bible tells us we were created in the image and likeness of God and that God formed our body from the dust of the ground. But exactly how were we made? What was our form like? How did this body differ from Jesus’ body when he took on human flesh? What’s more, how do we rightly address the relationship between Creation and incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection of the body, and re-creation? Without this understanding, how are we to make application for our lives?

In Made for Glory, award-winning author Joshua A. McClure combines powerful testimony and biblical inquiry to unlock mysteries that have great implications for our lives today. Over the years many erudite voices have weighed in on the question of our beginnings. So, where are we? Do we understand Creation any better, or is it yet unknowable? McClure posits that if we don’t get it right, we fail to understand God’s eternal purpose for those created “in his image and likeness.”

McClure’s flair for graphic, powerful biblical study removes blinders and opens the way for deep reflection on past assumptions and misinformation about the purposes of God for his created beings. A must-read for anyone pursuing the truth of who you are and what it means to be made in God’s glorious image.

“The combination of personal and pastoral . . . strikes a near-perfect balance between instruction and fellowship.” — Kirkus Review

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Author Bio

Joshua McClure, once a successful businessman, received God’s “vision to ministry” in 1976 and returned to school, graduating from Barrington College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biblical studies as well as the school’s Biblical Studies Award. He later added a certificate of advanced theological studies from Andover Newton Theological School.

Joshua served for nearly three decades as the senior pastor of The Pleasant Street Baptist Church in Westerly, Rhode Island, and has authored four books: Can These Bones Live?; Almost Persuaded, Now To Believe; The Crimson Thread of the Bible; and Who Do You Say I AM? In 2010, the Rhode Island State Council of Churches presented him with the first annual Heroes of Faith Life Achievement Award. The Evangelical Theological College of Africa awarded Joshua two degrees: Doctor of Theology, and Doctor of Christian Education.

Joshua lives in Bradford, Rhode Island with his wife, Ida.