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[Un]Intentional shows how our obsession with screens often takes us - unintentionally - to places we regret. It reveals the way many apps, games, and videos are designed to entice us to make decisions and form harmful habits that profit the creators at our expense.

Drawing Lines Building Bridges seeks to bring clarity to the confusion Christians have today concerning what to do about homosexuality in the church and how to respond to homosexuals in their lives. While drawing lines between the values held by society and the traditional morality preserved by the church, Drawing Lines Building Bridges advocates strategies of bridge-building engagement between Christians and the LGBT community - strategies which model the example of Jesus and Paul in the Bible and reflect the concerns of the LGBT community.

Our nation faces perilous times economic uncertainty, natural disasters, terrorist threats, and an overall spiritual and moral decline. To withstand these storms and keep our nation from falling, we must have a solid foundation for the next generation to build upon. Orphaned by the loss of natural and spiritual leadership, an entire generation is searching for something real to hang onto during life's storms. By demonstrating the love and nature of our Heavenly Father, the people of God can bring hope to a fatherless generation, setting them upon the rock foundation of Christ.

This book of hope deals with the ongoing threat of pandemics. The uncertain darkness of poorly understood infections dims confidence. The authors promote well-being rather than simply helping to eliminate anxiety and sadness. A focused, calm new attitude leads to positive social, emotional, and physical habits. Sudden Fear documents our world-in-distress and the rapidly spreading fear associated with pandemics. The specter of widespread epidemics leaves individuals and communities afraid, anxious, and emotionally drained.

"No codiciarás" es uno de los 10 mandamientos. Sin embargo, lo que esto abarca es mal entendido o mal interpretado por muchos. ¿Quién es culpable de este pecado? ¿Qué consecuencias tiene el pecado de la envidia? ¿Son la envidia y los celos lo mismo? ¿Hay momentos en que está bien o incluso mejor sentir un poco de envidia o celos? ¿Cómo testifican las Escrituras de la severidad del pecado? Y por último pero no menos importante, ¿cómo lo superamos? Estas y muchas otras preguntas serán respondidas en este libro analítico y espiritual de un cristiano devoto.

Charlie Dates, Romell Williams, George Parks, Jr., Terry D. Streeter and a cast of pastors and preaching professors collaborate to demonstrate the power of exposition in the cradle of the Black pulpit. The contributors in this volume give examples of African American biblical exposition in every section of the Old Testament and New Testament. They also explain how to preach from narrative, poetical, prophetic, epistolary, and apocalyptic genres throughout the Scriptures.

For the last several decades, Western churches have focused the bulk of their resources on the early stages of discipleship - children’s Sunday school, youth group, college ministry. While these are all important, we have neglected the spiritual growth of those in the second half of life. In fact, an outside observer might think that after the growth of the college years, the goal is simply to coast through the rest of your Christian life.

Spiritual victory has never been relegated to the personal sphere of the believer. For example, David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, Elijah and the prophets of Baal, Paul at Mars Hill, Jesus and Satan, Jesus and Pilate, to name a few. All of these engagements had broad covenantal and cultural ramifications, and were not limited to the personal behavior and lives of those directly involved in the conflict.

Being pro-life means that not only do we see abortion as a murder, but we also see our apathy against injustice toward outside of the womb as a coconspirator in the fight for life. It means that we fight for racial equality. It means that we love - the woman walking into the abortion clinic - passionately with the love of Christ, and it means we embrace life no matter what label may be attached to a person's identity.

Pain knifed Ron Dotzler’s heart when he saw the lifeless bodies of the next-door neighbor girls inside the two small caskets. Freckles smattered Carissa’s face, while Chloe’s lips turned into the hint of a smile. Red roses lined their sides and notes written in crayons rested on their blue print dresses. Their mother asked Ron to speak, yet what could he say? Ron wanted to move back to the suburbs in 1993 after the murder of his daughters’ friends.

When a tragic drowning accident leaves 15-year-old Jacob in a coma, the faith of his family and community is shaken. Medical experts used phrases like persistent vegetative state and said Jacob would never wake up. Without sugar-coating the realities of pain and suffering, Parting the Waters presents the heart-warming, true story of what can happen when a community rallies around one wounded family.

Los pensamientos, inquietudes y propuestas más personales del papa Francisco sobre la crisis del Covid-19 y el mundo que emergerá de ella. Para salir mejores de esta crisis necesitamos ver claro, elegir bien y actuar en consecuencia. Hablemos del cómo. Atrevámonos a soñar.

“An indispensible study” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience that presents a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for White Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation.

In 2016, many Christian leaders opposed candidate Donald Trump. He was a social liberal, and his vulgarity, divorces, affairs, and scandals made it impossible for him to defend Christian values in public life. Or so they thought. Trump nevertheless won an overwhelming majority of the Evangelical vote in 2016, as well as the Catholic vote. And in 2020, the idea that he can’t represent Christians is demonstrably false.

In this new edition, popular author Walter Brueggemann writes that the Sabbath is not simply about keeping rules but rather about becoming a whole person and restoring a whole society. Brueggemann calls out our 24/7 society of consumption, a society in which we live to achieve, accomplish, perform, and possess. We want more, own more, use more, eat more, and drink more. Brueggemann tells listeners how keeping the Sabbath allows us to break this restless cycle and focus on what is truly important: God, other people, all life.

On the Threshold of Hope offers hope and healing to men and women who have been traumatized by sexual abuse. Dr. Langberg's insights and the quotations from many survivors assure listeners that they are not alone and that Christ, the redeemer, can heal their deep wounds. Through stories, Scripture, questions, and encouragement, Dr. Langberg walks with survivors on the road to healing through Christ's love and power.

While patriarchy and misogyny are problems everywhere, they take on a particularly pernicious form in Christian churches, where those with power have been insisting, since many decades before #MeToo, that this sexually dysfunctional environment is, in fact, exactly how God wants it to be. #ChurchToo turns over the rocks of the church's sexual dysfunction, revealing just what makes sexualized violence in religious contexts both ubiquitous and uniquely traumatizing.

When Rodgers came out to her family as a junior in high school, she still believed that God would sanctify her and eventually make her straight. Wanting so intensely to be good, she spent her adolescent and early adult years with an ex-gay ministry, praying for liberation from her homosexuality. In Outlove, Rodgers details her deeply personal journey from a life of self-denial in the name of faith to her role in leading the take-down of Exodus International, the largest ex-gay organization in the world, to her marriage to a woman at the Washington National Cathedral.

Here is a riveting story of seeking safety in another land. Here is a gripping journey of loss, alienation, and belonging. In The God Who Sees, immigration advocate Karen González recounts her family's migration from the instability of Guatemala to making a new life in Los Angeles and the suburbs of south Florida. In the midst of language barriers, cultural misunderstandings, and the tremendous pressure to assimilate, González encounters Christ through a campus ministry program and begins to follow him.

More than 90 people die from gun violence every day in the United States. Some 50 children and teens are shot. There are more than 35,000 gun-related deaths every year. Yet many Christians say gun violence shouldn't be talked about in church. In Collateral Damage, pastor and activist James E. Atwood issues an urgent call to action to Christians to work together to stop gun violence. An avid hunter for many years, Atwood enumerates the tragic and far-reaching costs that accrue in a country with more guns than people.