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No Reason To Hide
Original price was: $18.99.$12.98Current price is: $12.98.Add to cartWill You Be Complicit, Complacent, or Courageous?
In a culture with an ever-narrowing definition of tolerance, Christians can no longer stay silent about the divide between the Bible’s truth and the world’s lies. From bestselling author Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer, No Reason to Hide examines the toxic roots behind the alarming symptoms of a nation in spiritual freefall—and why your faith must empower you to engage rather than hide.
As you read, you’ll be equipped to defend your biblical beliefs with confidence and compassion. You’ll also identify how you can respond to the battleground issues of today, including
- identity-driven social justice ideologies that seek to divide rather than unite
- cultural attacks on the definitions of sex and gender that turn language into a war
- progressive pushes within the church that ultimately desecrate the Bible’s teachings
A call for believers to standing firm in today’s oppressive world, No Reason to Hide is a rallying reminder that will ready Christians everywhere to have the courage to proclaim Scripture’s truth to a culture in desperate need of what only God can offer.
God & The Transgender Debate
Original price was: $16.99.$14.99Current price is: $14.99.Add to cartHelps Christians engage lovingly, thoughtfully and biblically with discussions on gender identity. Originally released in 2017, this version has been updated and expanded.
In the West, more and more Christians are coming across the topic of gender identity in their everyday lives. Legislative changes are impacting more and more areas of life, including education, employment and state funding, with consequences for religious liberty, free speech and freedom of conscience that affect everyone. So it’s a crucial moment to consider how to engage lovingly, thoughtfully and biblically with one of the most explosive cultural discussions of our day.
This warm, faithful and compassionate book that helps Christians understand what the Bible says about gender identity has been updated and expanded throughout, and now includes a section on pronoun usage and a new chapter challenging some of the claims of the transgender activist movement.
Andrew T. Walker also answers questions such as: What is transgender and gender fluidity? How should churches respond? What does God’s word actually say about these issues?
Christianity And Wokeness
Original price was: $25.99.$14.99Current price is: $14.99.Add to cartIn a world that is woke, how many Christians are actually awake? This short, theologically sound primer is a resource for pastors, ministry leaders, community leaders, and other thinking Christians that explains carefully and clearly what Critical Race Theory and wokeness truly are, what the Bible teaches about race and ethnicity, why wokeness is distinct from Christianity and should be rejected, and how the church can work for unity based in the gospel of grace.
Owen Strachan is a respected Reformed theologian and thought leader who can help Christians:
*Better understand Critical Race Theory, something very few do;
*Understand the high stakes–for the church and society at large–of wokeness as a movement;
*Think through America’s complex past with nuance and sensitivity;
*Study how God has made humanity one through the imago Dei;
*Grasp the beauty of the biblical doctrine of ethnicity and race; and
*Be ready to work for unity in perilous timesFault Lines : The Social Justice Movement And Evangelicalism’s Looming Cata
Original price was: $24.99.$18.49Current price is: $18.49.Add to cartWe are standing on shaky ground.
As a wave of violent riots protesting the death of a black man at the hands of police shook the nation in the summer of 2020, most Americans were shocked. Christians nationwide, eager to fulfill their God-given calling to bring peace and reconciliation, took to pulpits and social media in droves to affirm that black lives matter and proclaim that racial justice is a gospel issue.
But what if those Christians, those ministers, and those powerful ministries don’t know the whole story behind the new movement that’s been making waves in their congregations? Even worse: what if they’ve been duped into adopting a set of ideas that not only don’t align with the Kingdom of God, but stand diametrically opposed to it?
In this powerful book, pastor, professor, and leading cultural apologist Voddie Baucham explains the sinister worldview behind the social justice movement and how it has quietly spread like a fault system, not only through our culture, but throughout the evangelical church in America. He also details the devastation it is already wreaking–and what we can do to get back on solid ground before it’s too late.
Whether you’re a layperson who feels like you’ve just woken up in a strange new world and wonder how to engage both sensitively and effectively in the conversation on race, or a pastor who’s wondering how to deal with increasingly polarized factions within your congregation, this book will provide the clarity and understanding you need to either hold your ground, or reclaim it.
Free To Believe
Original price was: $24.00.$10.49Current price is: $10.49.Add to cartA leading religious freedom attorney, the veteran of several Supreme Court battles, helps people of faith understand religious liberty in our rapidly changing culture–why it matters, how it is threatened, and how to respond with confidence and grace.
Many Christians and others are concerned about rising threats to religious freedom. They feel the culture changing around them, and they fear that their beliefs will soon be marginalized as a form of bigotry. Others, younger Christians in particular, are tired of the culture wars, and they wonder whether courtroom battles are truly worthwhile, or even in line with the teachings of Jesus. Luke Goodrich offers a reasoned, balanced, gospel-centered approach to religious freedom. He applies biblical understanding to a number of the most hot-button cultural issues of our day. He also offers practical steps Christians can take to respond to religious freedom conflicts in an informed, responsible, and graceful way.
Christians In The Crosshairs
Original price was: $14.99.$12.19Current price is: $12.19.Add to cartIntroduction: Why This Book On Christian Persecution?
Part 1: The Meaning And Magnitude Of Christian Persecution
1. Toward A Definition Of Christian Persecution And Martyrdom
2. Christian Persecution Around The World Today
Part 2: The Biblical Portrait Of Persecution
3. The Genesis Of Persecution And Martyrdom: Abel Or Stephen?
4. Sermon On The Mount: Blessed Are The Persecuted
5. The Gospel Of Mark: Following Jesus Comes At High Cost
6. Luke And Acts: Persecution In Salvation History And The Early Church
7. Paul’s Letters: The Righteousness Of Christ Enflames Persecution
8. The Book Of Hebrews: A Call To Remember The Persecuted
9. Peter’s Epistles: Persecution And The Blessed Life
10. John’s Writings: Idolspizing And Vindication
Part 3: The Implications And Practical Applications
11. The Presence Of Christ: The Source And Comfort Of Persecution
12. Ministry To The Persecuted Church: Why It Should Be The Top Soical Justice Concern For The Church
13. You Can Make A Difference
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My hope for all who read this volume, writes the author, is a strengthened faith. One of the most surprising aspects of studying persecution has been its effect on me. I thought I would be dour and woeful-defeated-after hearing of great suffering. The opposite is true. The gospel-with its resurrection power-is able to take the worst situations and reframe them in victory. Hearing stories of triumph through suffering has been nothing short of glorious. Studying persecution biblically has led to the same conclusion. The gospel is truly the power of God to salvation for all who believe. Studying persecution has encouraged stronger faith. My hope is that this book will have such an effect for you as you consider what the Scriptures teach about persecution.When A Nation Forgets God
Original price was: $11.99.$9.65Current price is: $9.65.Add to cartIn When A Nation Forgets God, Erwin Lutzer studies seven similarities between Nazi Germany and America today-some of them chilling-and cautions us to respond accordingly. Engaging, well-researched, and easy to understand, Lutzer’s writing is that of a realist, one alarmed but unafraid. Amidst describing the messes of our nation’s government, economy, legal pitfalls, propaganda, and more, Lutzer points to the God who always has a plan.
At the beginning of the twentieth Century, Nazi Germany didn’t look like a country on the brink of world-shaking terrors. It looked like America today. When a Nation Forgets God uses history to warn us of a future that none of us wants to see. It urges us to be ordinary heroes who speak up and take action.
We Cannot Be Silent
Original price was: $24.99.$15.49Current price is: $15.49.Add to cartTwenty years ago, not one nation on earth had legal same-sex marriage. Now, access to same-sex marriage is increasingly seen as a basic human right. In a matter of less than a generation, western cultures have experienced a moral revolution.
Al Mohler examines how this transformation occurred, revealing the underlying cultural shifts behind this revolution: the acceptance of divorce culture, liberation of sex from reproduction, the prevalence of heterosexual cohabitation, the normalization of homosexuality, and the rise of the transgender movement. He then offers a deep look at how the Bible and Christian moral tradition provide a comprehensive understanding upon which Christians can build their personal lives, their marriages, church ministry, and cultural engagement.
Mohler helps Christians in their understanding of the underlying issues of this significant cultural shift and how to face the challenge of believing faithfully, living faithfully, and engaging the culture faithfully in light of this massive change.
Culture Shift : The Battle For The Moral Heart Of America
Original price was: $13.99.$10.99Current price is: $10.99.Add to cartMass media and technology are exploding. Popular entertainment relentlessly pushes the envelope. Biomedicine stretches ethical boundaries. Political issues shift with the polls. Christian orthodoxy is questioned on every front.
The world in which you live is undergoing a major cultural transformation-one leading to a widespread lack of faith, an increase in moral relativism, and a rejection of absolute truth.
In Culture Shift, Dr. R. Albert Mohler-one of today’s leading Christian thinkers and spokespersons-addresses these and other tough topics clearly, biblically, and passionately:
* The effect of the digital deluge on individuals and families
* The truth about terrorism
* Christian parents and public schools
* The rise of an aggressive new atheism
* The abortion debateHere is trustworthy help for developing a comprehensive Christian worldview…based on timeless truth.
Is God On Americas Side
Original price was: $6.99.$5.30Current price is: $5.30.Add to cartWith typical wisdom and lucidity, Lutzer addresses a fundamental question – a question begging for an answer after a frenetic election – Is God really on America’s side? To answer, the reader is carefully led through seven vital principles of a biblical understanding of judgment.
– God can both bless and curse a nation.
– God judges nations based on the amount of light and opportunity they are given.
– God sometimes uses exceedingly evil nations to judge those that are less evil.
– When God judges a nation, the righteous suffer with the wicked.
– God’s judgments take various forms.
– In judgment, God’s target is often His people, not just the general population.
– God sometimes reverses intended judgments.Throughout, Lutzer’s insights into how Christians should view government equips them ‘to think with the Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other.
Bible And Homosexual Practice
Original price was: $43.99.$33.49Current price is: $33.49.Read moreThis is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the biblical texts that are generally associated with homosexual practice and of the arguments used to interpret them. Gagnon contends that the Bible unequivocally defines same-sex intercourse as sin
