Christianity talks a big game about grace, forgiveness, and salvation. What it doesn't talk about, at least not from the pulpit, is the person left standing in the wreckage after the sinner gets forgiven.After forty years studying the Bible, first as a committed believer and later as a deconstructing Christian who couldn't unsee what he'd found, Marcus Cole lays out five specific ways Christian doctrine lets people off the hook, verse by verse, point by point, with the receipts to ...

You believe you can escape power. You believe understanding manipulation means you're safe from it. This book destroys both beliefs. And you can't stop reading.Anthony Cross is a CIA officer imprisoned for pursuing truth. Alexander Larionov is a dying Russian spy who destroyed him deliberately—then left an archive confessing everything. Cross publishes it. The world reads it. By Chapter 23, a second archive emerges revealing that Cross's entire resistance was antic...

Welcome to Death Incorporated — the only organization with a 100% membership rate, a 0% resignation policy, and a perfect delivery record since the beginning of recorded time.You joined at birth. This is your onboarding manual.Death Incorporated: A User's Guide to the Inevitable is a darkly funny, philosophically serious tour through the one event that is absolutely, positively going to happen to you — written with the cheerful neutrality of a company that has no stake in t...

New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet and nationally renowned minister Timothy Keller exposes the error of making good things "ultimate" in this book, and shows readers a new path toward a hope that lasts.Success, true love, and the life you've always wanted. Many of us placed our faith in these things, believing they held the key to happiness, but with a sneaking suspicion they might not deliver. No wonder we feel lost, alone,...

**New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller shows how God calls on each of us to express meaning and purpose through our work and careers.“A touchstone of the [new evangelical] movement.” —The New York Times**Tim Keller, pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church and the New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God, has taught and counseled students, young professionals, and senior...

Most Christians are asking the wrong questions about money—and it's keeping them stuck.John Cortines and Gregory Baumer met as Harvard MBA candidates in a men's Bible study and stopped asking "How much should I give?" and started asking "How much do I need to keep?" With their top-notch education and rising careers, Cortines and Baumer were guaranteed comfort and security for the rest of their lives. However, when their plans for saving and spending collided with G...

Is it ok to be gay and Christian? Does the Bible really say that homosexuality is wrong? Is sexual orientation fundamental to identity?Author and speaker Sam Allberry has updated his best-selling book to acknowledge the cultural changes in the past decade and has made it more accessible to people who do not follow Jesus. It has also been expanded so that it looks, first and foremost, at the extraordinary claims and promises of Jesus, before examining his teaching on sexuality and t...

Attract kids to church, the logic often goes, and you get parents in the pews. All that's left, then, is to get the kids out of the way. Here children's ministers David Csinos and Ivy Beckwith draw on research in human development and spiritual formation to show how children become disciples and churches become centers of lifelong discipleship. For too long, the local church has focused primarily on programs for children rather than ways of doing ministry with children. But in light of eme...

This groundbreaking work explores how certain cultures consciously and unconsciously dominate in multicultural situations and what can be done about it.

The most urgent call upon God?s people is to live as followers of Jesus.The most indicting critique against the church is as simple: its failure to do so. As the leader of an evangelical theological seminary that trains men and women as leadersfor the church and society, Mark Labberton writes: "People ask many questions about how their lives relate to the world. What are our lives in this world about? What are we to make of being human? Why are we here? Is there a reason we are alive, and,...

Reader's Choice Award Winner"Why doesn't the Christian life work like I thought it would?"While we often start with good intentions, it feels like real transformation is elusive at best, and maybe even impossible. We deeply want to live in the freedom that Christ offers, but we are acutely aware of the gap between a transformed life and our reality. Having the Mind of Christ tackles the issues of lasting life change.When we...

In Astonished, Pastor Mike Erre calls Christians away from simplistic formulas to honest and rugged faith in the mysterious and unpredictable God.God is more about deepening the mystery of faith, not removing it. Jesus should get bigger the longer we walk with him. Life and faith should grow to be more profound and wondrous, not less.In Astonished, you will see how we are far more comfortable with tips, steps and techniques for living, tha...