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With so many social challenges facing our world, trying to effect change feels daunting. The problems are complex, the politics murky, and the players innumerable. Yet, every day there are regular heroes making a significant impact on our most intractable social issues. "Can't Not Do" is a catchphrase for the urge that captures the heart of effective social change agents-explaining, in their own words, their passion and drive: "I can't not do this."...
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Cultural disorientation has become pandemic. Children act like adults and adults act like children. Mother Earth is worshiped but motherhood is despised. Free speech may get you free room and board in jail. Life is denied and death is affirmed. Dictators are treasured but duly elected leaders are treated with contempt. Honest men are smeared while thugs are celebrated.
Our nation suffers from an epidemic of "upside-down thinking" and we are poorer...
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Restoring America to the Strength of its Roots
The United States became a unique, prosperous, and admired nation because of its faith in God and the willingness of the people to abide by God's standards and principles. Over time, however, the people's urge to glorify self rather than God has seriously eroded the strength and potential of the nation.
U-Turn examines current cultural trends and historical patterns to reveal that America cannot sustain...
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Is America going to fall? With all our problems, can God restore America?
This book will open your eyes and ears to understand the weapons formed by Satan that are destroying our nation. God's people are being destroyed by a lack of knowledge. With the knowledge contained in this book, the church will be ready to pull down all the strongholds that are destroying America. Folks, that is a fact, period! The Holy Spirit pressed upon me to write this...
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Culture is in right now for Christians. Engaging it, embracing it, consuming it, and creating it. Many (younger) evangelicals today are actively cultivating an appreciation for aspects of culture previously stigmatized within the church. Things like alcohol, Hollywood's edgier content, plays, art openings, and concerts have moved from being forbidden to being celebrated by believers. But are evangelicals opening their arms too wide in uncritical embrace...
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Brennan is a father of two boys and a disabled Iraq and Afghanistan veteran who has struggled with addiction and alcoholism until he found Christ and his faith. He loves helping and guiding those who are lost and struggling to find their faith and guide them to improve their circumstances. As a retired Airforce Security Forces veteran and prior law enforcement officer, his passion is giving back to veterans, law enforcement, and first responders....
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Morning headlines announce renewed violence and fresh calls for peace negotiations, while pundits on talk radio and cable TV shout conflicting opinions at anyone who will listen. Between perplexing contradictions and inflammatory rhetoric, it is often difficult to find out what's really going on in the Middle East. Former TIME magazine Jerusalem bureau chief David Aikman, who has spent decades reporting on Mid-East issues, takes a sober, balanced...
8) We Will Not Be Silenced Workbook: Responding Courageously to Our Culture's Assault on Christianity
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In We Will Not Be Silenced (200,000+ copies sold), author and pastor Erwin Lutzer, unraveled the complex threats faced by Christians in a society that has weaponized race, gender, sexuality, and more to divide individuals and undermine freedom.
Now with this companion guide, you'll dive deeper into the biblical perspectives on today's controversial issues, learning how you can best respond to cultural hostility with Christ-like strength and compassion....
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The Let My People Go handbook is a practical guide to equip churches to love their most vulnerable neighbors. The name, Let My People Go, recalls the words of Moses as he spoke to those who had enslaved his people. Moses called for holistic freedom, freedom from physical and spiritual bondage. It's the authors' prayer that this guide would help you and your church take up this mantle of liberty in your community.
Human trafficking is the exploitation...
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What difference would Catholic Social Tradition make if it guided our personal and communal financial decision-making? The Sermon on the Mount reminds us of this fundamental decision-making when it comes to questions of faith and money: "No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth" (Matthew 6:24). In Counting the Cost, Clemens...
11) Stand and Trust
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Jeremiah 17:7 says, "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is."
Trusting in the Lord has proven to be a true blessing. In this story, you will see many different reasons for placing faith in, Standing in, and trusting the Lord. You will read important scriptures and understand how and why I choose to follow the Word of God. Also, what He has brought me through and the advantages I have been given, some to be expected,...
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"The Judge and the Left-Footed Leaders" explores the messages of the Old Testament books of Judges and Ruth. The book of Judges describes a nation strikingly similar to the modern United States. Israel was racked by violence, greed, sexual abuse, political turmoil, and racial tension. On the other hand, the book of Ruth portrays a community bound by kindness and civility. Ruth demonstrates suffering transformed by love and how that quality of living...
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PRIVILEGE. OPPRESSION. POWER. INEQUALITY. Racial Discrimination. Hot-button concepts as these drive a current polarization in America which has split even family members into viciously competing political blocs and threatened to plunge an entire nation into civil war. This division has by no means avoided the Church. What is most troubling, however, is that too often Christians are found arguing their positions on race as "God's truth" without resorting...
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What if, instead of focusing on church programs, we shared meals with people? What if, instead of starting more building initiatives, we fed the hungry? The Old Testament is filled with stories of food, nourishment, and the struggle against hunger. Jacob and Esau fought over soup, God saved the world from famine through Joseph, and the people of Israel received manna from God when they were starving in the wilderness. Similarly, Jesus's ministry was...
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The Reconciliation of Theology and Social Work seeks to add to the discussion between Christian theology and social work. William C. White's goal is to offer a practical approach and theoretical framework for service grounded in the spiritual wisdom of God's word. As he writes, "There is an extremely rich background that exists between theology and social work."
In a time when the winds of change have impacted the faith community, White thinks it...
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The WHO, WHAT, and HOW of Responding to Those Who Want to Silence You
You've based your understanding of today's sensitive social issues on the Bible's truth. Mainstream culture not only sees these issues differently but calls you bigoted for rejecting views they've deemed self-evident. So how do you witness Christ's love to those ready to write you off as hateful?
Christians in a Cancel Culture breaks down how you can speak wisdom about politically...
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2000 Gold Medallion Award winner! Christianity is more than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It is also a worldview that not only answers life's basic questions-Where did we come from, and who are we? What has gone wrong with the world? What can we do to fix it?-but also shows us how we should live as a result of those answers. How Now Shall We Live? gives Christians the understanding, the confidence, and the tools to confront the world's...
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Today's culture is saturated with news about celebrities and their beliefs. Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise, and Madonna all promote their own brand of spirituality. What do they really believe, and does it line up with what the Bible teaches? This book answers these questions, appealing to those curious about the religions of the rich and famous while holding up their beliefs to the light of the gospel. Concerned parents will also gain insight into the...
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As a child, I was never afraid to die but, I was afraid to live.
In America, there are thousands and thousands of foster children. Most have a happy place to call home. There are a percent, who live in a home of abuse of all forms. I am writing my autobiography to bring attention, to those who are, abused and have no way, out. I lived in six different foster homes and two group homes, and in three of the foster homes, I was abused, beaten, raped,...
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The author has, has for several years now, observed the serious problem of homelessness and addictions in a large metropolitan city. It is believed that this is something that the general population may be aware of, but needs to consider just how our communities can deal with these issues. It is hoped that this book, with its stories, will make everyone more aware of the needs of these that we see daily on our streets.
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