Books
My first full length book on the topic of faith, quantum physics, science, and the stuff of life is available at:
Here’s what a few people have to say about it:
“Most people will go through life never being challenged or inspired the way this book will do that to you. So if you are afraid of challenges and inspiration don’t buy or read this book.”
– Dennis Aaron, Pastor of Open Range Fellowship
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“If you like the idea of sharing a cup of coffee and a conversation with a bright and caring person that leaves you walking away with more answers than questions…then you’ll love “Prayer, Quantum Physics and Hotel Mattresses”. This book is intelligent, insightful and just far enough outside the box!”
– Scott Schang, Author…”The Rhema Code”
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“If there’s one thing that is desperately needed in the church today it is imagination – the ability to think about life and faith in new ways while still remaining true to scripture. Jim Berge brings a keen creative insight to his faith and a desire to synthesize faith, science, and everyday life. This book will push you to think about your life and faith in new and different ways.”
– Stephen Redden, Pastor of Community, New Denver Church
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“My doctor walked toward me with a stainless steel rod in his hands, the one he had removed from my leg. He said, “This is 825 Surgical Steel: it doesn’t bend, crack, or twist– it shatters. This rod is twisted, bent and cracked in three places. This type of surgical stainless steel would have to have been near the melting point for this to happen. And your leg would have disintegrated from the intense heat that would have caused this. Now, tell me: what happened?”
So I shared with this doctor how God had reached out in His sovereign mercy and by grace performed a miracle of healing in my leg. He looked at me for a brief moment then looked back down at the rod in his hands. He spoke without looking at me and said: “There are a lot of people out there walking around with broken Brady Splints in their legs. They break off and we can only get the top half out. This is just unreal. But I guess it just goes to show WHO is still in control!” He then handed me the rod and walked out. I carry it in a wooden case and it is a part of my personal testimony of the grace and power of Almighty God.
Yes, I believe in God’s ability to manipulate matter and energy on a sub-atomic level to heal and to perform all kinds of other miracles of body, soul and spirit. Jim Berge’s book takes a big step in helping us understand God’s world of infinite, loving power and bring it across the divide into our everyday lives. On earth as it is in Heaven!”
– Reverend George Collins
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“I was raised by a beautiful couple. They had been married for nearly five decades when my mom died.
Everything they had, is everything I want.
Unfortunately I didn’t realize this until mom was on her deathbed.
I am earnestly and eternally grateful for what seems to have been woven into the fabric that is me, by my parents.
I learned to harmonize standing close to my mom as she bellowed out the melody of each and every hymn – she had such a beautiful voice. Very tender and honest.
My dad remains, to this day, my hero. It was under his tutelage that I developed an unflappable work ethic.
Because of their commitment to The Church: It’s religion&community, I was left not having to ask one question about any of it.
I followed and followed and followed.
I dressed the right way, sang the right songs, memorized the right scriptures, threw down a full 10% in the offering plate and won my fair share of sword drills.
It was the perfect way to grow up.
And then I grew up.
I believe in Jesus the Christ, and know fully that if I follow his teachings life is better. It’s hard to argue with things like peace, patience, kindness and the like…
I believe in God.
With all of the tiniest, light filled, energetic and remarkable bits of me, I believe.
I have my own children now.
I watch them process things – topics ranging from divorce to Darfur.
They ask questions about timelines and science and mythology and evolution.
Ten years ago, if I had overheard people around me asking these questions I would have had 2 options: 1. Shun them. 2. Pray for them. But they would have never, ever, ever been my friends.
I didn’t need their stinking blasphemy in my periphery. I had God all sorted out.
I look back at the mental pictures of that day and see that God looked suspiciously like me.
Anne Lamott said it this way: You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
The honest truth is that I can’t stomach my own hypocrisy. I’ll let science hurl me through space for a visit down-unda, I will sprint to science when my child has a suspicious lump in his bone. But I say ‘oh no you di’int’ when science offers up anything to do with all that I think I believe – as if!
I really see it as everyone’s fault (but mine), as the Christian community and the scientific community trend to three legged races for the prize in Arrogance and Smarmy.
HEAR ME HERE:
I LOVE THE CHURCH.
The beautiful Bride. Unblemished, perfection, so white your eyeballs burn.
But now:
If we take GOD, the Supreme Ultimate BEYOND THE UNITED STATES & EVEN PLANET EARTH GOD, and subjugate Him to OUR understanding, what we think we know, what we groan to understand and finally, our twisting of scripture to prove it, we will get no where: and that’s a hysterical understatement.
The bottom line for me is this: Keeping God as small as me takes too much energy.
And anyway, I’m a messed up girl – so I need a really big God.
I need a God whose ways are not known to me. Whose decisions and methods are not dependent on my approval.
A God who needs no instruction. And finally, though humbling, A God who prefers from me stillness and praise.
Jim has written a powerful book. I believe it to be God inspired. It is a celebration of brains and metrics and science and space and math. Can also be said this way:
This book is a celebration of the mighty, mighty God that I serve.”
– Kate Miner, Music Director, Munger Place Church, Dallas, TX