You are not a monster. You have an anxiety disorder.The violent images that arrive uninvited. The sexual thoughts you find disgusting. The harm fantasies about the people you love most. The contamination loops, the religious blasphemies that arrive mid-prayer, the existential what-ifs that hollow out an ordinary Tuesday afternoon. You have not told anyone. You have spent years half-convinced you are a future criminal, a pervert, or a person about to lose your grip on reality. The t...

Christianity Today 2025 Book Award Winner in Apologetics & Evangelism and Book of the Year Award of Merit**"Joins conviction and compassion in a sober, cogent analysis."--**Christianity TodayWhat is the relationship between sex and gender?In The Body God Gives: A Biblical Response to Transgender Theory, Robert S. Smith argues that God intends a person's gender to be grounded in the reality...

Millions of American Christians see U.S. support for the State of Israel as a God-ordained responsibility. American sympathies for the State of Israel are consistently and often substantially higher than for Arab states or Palestinians. More Desired than Our Owne Salvation is a compelling historical look at how this consensus came to be. In 2006, John Hagee founded Christians United for Israel. Several high-level policymakers, both Christians and Jews, rushed to endorse the effort...

Meet Angel, a lovely young lady as she invites you to her bedroom, slowly undresses and entices you to join her.This eBook contains a photo set of fine erotic photography and contains no words or stories. Although it can be enjoyed in its own right, this eBook is a collectible item for people who like erotica, erotic photography and beautiful female form.The photos in this eBook were taken in such way as to stimulate and arouse reader’s mind rather than crossing the line of...

Harmony and Harassment traces the headwaters of critical race theory (CRT) to the rural community of Harmony, Mississippi, at the height of the 1960s US civil rights movement. As Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith explore these headwaters, readers meet key community leaders such as Behonor McDonald, Winson Hudson, and Dovie Hudson. These Black women's activism for civil rights, voting rights, and educational access transformed their community while also providing the foundations ...

You were sure you were dying. You were not, and you never were.The racing heart. The air that will not go all the way in. The certainty, total and physical and undeniable, that this is the heart attack, the stroke, the moment you lose your mind in front of everyone. And then it passes. You survive. And under the relief a quieter terror moves in: the fear that it will happen again.That fear is the disorder. It is also the most treatable serious problem in all of mental healt...

The flaw you are proud of is quietly running your life.Perfectionism is the rare weakness people brag about. We confess it in interviews and wear it like a medal, never noticing the sharp pin on the back. Underneath the competence is a particular exhaustion: the second job of monitoring, polishing, and bracing for judgment that never lets the work, or you, be good enough.PERFECT is a clear-eyed, unsentimental guide to loosening that grip, not by lowering your standards, but...

You are not in the wrong relationship. You are caught in a question you cannot stop asking.Do I love them enough? Am I still attracted to them? What if they are not the one, what if I am settling? What if the spark is gone and never coming back? If a kind partner and a genuinely good relationship have somehow become the stage for a relentless inner interrogation, the problem is almost certainly not your relationship. It is relationship anxiety, and for a great many people, a specif...

Everyone calls you strong. So why does being this capable feel so much like being alone?You are the one who handles it. You do not ask for help, you do not lean, you do not let anyone carry the weight, and people admire you for it. But under the competence is a quieter truth: you are exhausted, you are lonely inside your relationships, and you cannot remember the last time you let someone all the way in.What you are carrying has a name. Hyper-independence is not a personali...

Part fact, part fiction, part myth, and part legend, this book brings to life the kingdom of Ayutthaya from its roots in the kingdom of Sukhothai to its eventual destruction by the Burmese in the year 1767. It is the turbulent story of both the kings and their kingdom, from its birth to its downfall.Robert Smith retells the history of Ayutthaya by reimagining and dramatizing the exploits of its rulers, building his account around a framework of documentary evidence and hints in the...

There is so much written about the JFK assassination that it is difficult to separate all the plot details. It is weighed down by minutiae, long histories, conspiracy theories and counter-conspiracy theories, a veritable "poisoned well" of dis-information. Many people feel that the competing theories have come to a stalemate and that the official story of the Lone Gunman is just as probable as the gunmen on the grassy knoll. Actually nothing can be further from the truth. While Kennedy's a...

You don't have an anger problem. You have a swallowing problem.You have felt the flash of heat and swallowed it. You have ended a conversation agreeing with someone you did not agree with. You have been called mature, easy, sweet, low-maintenance, the calm one, the one who never makes a fuss - and worn those words like medals while something inside you went quietly numb. And every so often, the numbness fails, and a year of swallowed anger comes up sideways and too hard, at the wro...