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...

Preaching magazine’s 2008 Book of the Year! The theme of doctrinal preaching and teaching comes to life through the enthusiastic and inspired writing of professor Robert Smith in Doctrine That Dances.Advance Praise:“At a time when so much of the conversation on preaching deals with presentation, Robert Smith has reminded us that effective teaching must also take the theological task seriously. He makes his case so well that his book, D...

In his debut book and memoir, Robert goes through his harrowing tale of surviving a life-threatening illness while also dealing with the loss of loved ones. Robert has successfully beat cancer, and in many ways that were the least of his accomplishments. It seems difficult times and challenges come at us in immense waves, and Robert's story is no exception. Throughout the book, he details his journey and the choices he made to leave his comfort zone and press onwards.His book takes...

Chinese Internal Boxing: Techniques of Hsing-I and Pa-kua is an illustrated martial arts guide to two soft-style Chinese martial arts.Chinese internal boxing and other internal martial arts do not depend on muscular strength. Instead, their power is drawn from the cultivation and practical application of internal energy, or ch'i, making them perfect for people of all ages and all levels of fitness.With clear, easy-to-follow instructions and over 38...

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...

Speak with biblical clarity on gender and identity.Can someone be born with the wrong body? This question raises moral, social, and legal implications. Do you have a biblical response?In How Should We Think About Gender and Identity?, Robert S. Smith recognizes that to properly respond, we must first understand. Smith first defines terms and outlines the history and current debates around transgender. God's word is brought to bear, including its pe...

The message has been read for nineteen minutes - and a trapdoor just opened in your chest.None of it is in the phone. All of it is in you. But it doesn't feel like you. It feels like news: they're pulling away, you said too much, you've ruined it again. If a slow reply can hijack your whole evening, if you love with one eye always on the door, if you reach and test and over-give and then drown in shame for needing too much - this book was written for you.The name for the pa...

Master Chinese internal boxing or Hsing-I with this illustrated martial arts guide.Unlike most martial arts, Chinese internal (soft-style) boxing does not depend on muscular strength. The secret behind its power lies in the cultivation and practical application of internal energy-ch'i, There are basically three soft-style martial arts: T'ai-chi, already well known worldwide, and Hsing-I and Pa-kua, relative newcomers to the West. Although they are not esse...

Your friendships didn't end. They just got quieter.Somewhere between the last group house and the second mortgage, your close male friendships went quiet. There was no fight. Nobody moved across the country, nobody got divorced, nobody died. The texts just got shorter. The plans got vaguer. The last time you sat with him for two hours without a screen or a beer or a kid present was a wedding three years ago. You meant to call. You did not. He did not call you either.The Lon...

There is a sound in your ears that no one else can hear. You are not imagining it, and you are not without hope.If you have lain awake at two in the morning, listening to a ringing, hissing, or buzzing that will not stop, certain this was the end of your peace, this book was written for you. Tinnitus affects ten to fifteen percent of adults, and almost none of them are told the one thing that changes everything: the loudness of the sound and the suffering it causes are two differen...

Everyone loves a good ghost story. Somehow the creepiest, scariest ghost stories always feature sadness at their core.From a story about a woman who must face her ghosts on Christmas Eve night, to a ghost detective stuck in his own cemetery helping other ghosts move on by solving their own murders, to a ghost who writes letters to the living—these ghosts seem more alive than dead. Their sagas just continue into another realm.So, steel your courage and delve into these ten s...

Imagine a lush, resource-rich homeland, its people living in harmony with the land for centuries, suddenly invaded by outsiders who see only dollar signs beneath the soil. That's not just the plot of Avatar—it's the true story of Banaba, a tiny Pacific island whose people were displaced so foreign powers could mine the phosphate beneath their feet.Like Pandora's unobtanium, Banaba's "white gold" drew prospectors from across the British Empire the moment its value was discovered in ...