Stories that tickle your funny bone—and touch your heart.Following the wild success of Chicken Lips, Snake Legs, & Jesus, Walker Moore has pulled together a second heaping helping of laughter and hope. Inside Out & Backwards draws on Walker's adventures across the globe, spiced with his unique blend of homespun humor and wisdom. His stories of mishaps in the gym to vacations "somewhere" in America will leave you with a smile and a prayer.

Stories that tickle your funny bone—and touch your heart.For the past twenty years, Walker Moore's popular Rite of Passage column in the Oklahoma Baptist Messenger has delighted thousands of readers every week. This endearing collection pulls together some of his best. From unexpected lessons on the international mission field to fond (and funny) childhood memories, the homespun humor and wisdom of Chicken Lips, Snake Legs, & Jesus will leave you laughing—and longing for more.

It's no secret: something has happened to America's families. Dramatic shifts in our culture mean that what was once an acceptable way to produce mature, capable adults has now all but disappeared. In Rite of Passage Parenting, family expert Walker Moore explains how that happened. And after concisely assessing the problem, Moore teaches you how to build into your children''s lives the essential experiences every child needs: (1) an authentic Rite of Passage, (2) Significant Tasks...

You matter to God. Do you live like you believe it? Satan's deceptive tactics block most Christians from the live God intended. We hide behind rules, masks, and manipulation. We preach the gospel, but our lives proclaim destruction. Escape the Lie provides answers for the deep-seated problem known as the Orphan Heart. Through powerful, biblical teaching and compelling true-life examples, Walker Moore unlocks the door to help you escape the wounds of the past and move into abundant life. Th...

Rite of Passage Parenting Workbook teaches parents how to build into their children's lives the essential experiences every child needs: (1) an authentic Rite of Passage, (2) Significant Tasks, (3) Logical Consequences, and (4) Grace Deposits from parents, grandparents, and other caring adults. Writing from years of experience as a minister, family speaker, youth culture specialist, and father, Walker Moore shows parents how to guide their kids to become capable, responsible, self...

One nation, under God.Religious liberty isn’t a principle for Americans alone, though it certainly has played an important role in the history of the United States. Religious liberty is a matter of authority and allegiance for people of every land. To whom one owes ultimate allegiance is a matter of the conscience, and one that should be protected in every nation.But what if religious liberty gives way, and church’s are faced with the difficult decision between...

You are not what you do.So often, in America, we define who we are by what we do. We introduce ourselves by our job titles. We ask, “What do you do?” to be polite in small talk. We define others by their occupation.But there are good reasons to connect what you do with your time, whether that is 9-to-5 work, or managing a household full of children. God created us to work, not as judgment, but in cooperation with a mandate given to humanity long before the fall. Yo...

We live in a society of broken homes.Having parents in the home doesn’t mean that parenting is actually happening. Parenting is a God-given task that ensures young children are protected and nurtured into maturity in the fear and admonition of the Lord. But America and the church faces a crisis of parenting: detached or absentee fathers, single mothers, and grandparents raising the next generation. What’s more, how should parents actually parent? And what...

The problem isn’t sex.God designed sex; and sex is good. Sex is a powerful union that brings men and women together. But when sex is distorted by sin, the misuse of our sexuality can alienate us from one another, causing immense harm and pain. Enter pornography—the most prevalent distortion of sexual sin in America. Pornography is not only a problem in terms of personal morality, but a social epidemic that is making the possibility of sexually-fulfilled marriages harder to...

The pro-life movement didn’t begin in the 1960s, but in the Garden.Abortion has been a divisive issue in American culture since the sexual revolution. Yet the Bible is an unapologetic defender of human dignity. Moreover, Christians have always cared for the unborn, the orphan, and the least among us. The time is now for this generation to reaffirm what believers have always believed: everybody is created in the image of God.So, what now?Editors

In the kingdom of God, it is not us against them.The problem of racism stretches back as far humanity’s origin in the book of Genesis. Brother pitted against brother, tribe against tribe––people have warred against one another, fueled by contempt for racial differences. Yet the gospel is a message of reconciliation.The kingdom of God is us reconciled to one another.Editors Russell Moore and A****ndrew T. Walker

You are not what you do. So often, in America, we define who we are by what we do. We introduce ourselves by our job titles. We ask, “What do you do?” to be polite in small talk. We define others by their occupation. But there are good reasons to connect what you do with your time, whether that is 9-to-5 work, or managing a household full of children. God created us to work, not as judgment, but in cooperation with a mandate given to humanity long before the fall. Your work isn’t who you a...