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Lamb's Agenda: Why Jesus Is Calling You to a Life of Righteousness and Justice
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Lamb's Agenda: Why Jesus Is Calling You to a Life of Righteousness and Justice

by Samuel Rodriguez

Narrated by RC Bray and R Bray

Is There a Divine Cure for Our Ailing Nation?In The LambÆs Agenda Samuel Rodriguez offers a blueprint for Christian rejuvenation, a prophetic call to orient our lives at the nexus of the cross.Joining the Christianity of Martin Luther King Jr. and Billy Graham, The LambÆs Agenda reveals the crucial connection between biblical social justice and spiritual r… Read more…

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Not From Around Here: What Unites Us, What Divides Us, and How We Can Move Forward
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Not From Around Here: What Unites Us, What Divides Us, and How We Can Move Forward

by Brandon J O'Brien

Narrated by O'Brien, Brandon J.

Brandon O’Brien writes about his life growing up in rural America, young adulthood in the suburbs, and midlife in Manhattan. Through personal stories, humor, and reflection he looks at how the place we grow up shapes our lives, beliefs, and faith.… Read more…

Imprints: The Evidence Our Lives Leave Behind

Imprints: The Evidence Our Lives Leave Behind

by Patrick Gray and Justin Skeesuck

Changing the world does not always require grand gestures or an audience of millions. The little things we do often have the most significant impact on those we encounter. Each small choice we make can spread joy or pain, light or darkness, to others. Examining our influence on the lives we encounter through a lens of love and compassion, Imprints explores t… Read more…

Christ and the Kingdoms of Men: Foundations of Political Life

Christ and the Kingdoms of Men: Foundations of Political Life

by David C Innes

Why should we study politics? Because God himself is political—our sovereign Lord who governs the world and makes laws with complete authority. Beyond our petty jockeying for power and our strife over how best to live, God calls our human officeholders and their civic business to a high moral purpose. Rather than trivialize God, his involvement reveals the… Read more…

Spirit Outside the Gate: Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South

Spirit Outside the Gate: Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South

by Oscar García-Johnson

Throughout the history of the Christian church, two narratives have constantly clashed: the imperial logic of Babel that builds towers and borders to seize control, versus the logic of Pentecost that empowers "glocal" missionaries of the kingdom life. To what extent are Westernized Christians today ready for the church of the Pentecost narrative? Are they eq… Read more…

Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues

Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues

by Karen Swallow Prior, Joshua D Chatraw, Joshua Chatraw and Josh Chatraw

How should Christians approach important contemporary issues like war, race, creation care, gender, and politics?Christians in every culture are confronted with social trends and moral questions that can be difficult to navigate. But, the Bible often doesn't speak directly to such issues. Even when it does, it can be confusing to know how best to apply t… Read more…

Costly Obedience: What We Can Learn from the Celibate Gay Christian Community

Costly Obedience: What We Can Learn from the Celibate Gay Christian Community

by Mark A. Yarhouse

Though we often hear about the "gay problem" today, there is an even deeper problem in the church today--one that we often overlook. The call to follow Christ is a call to costly obedience for all, not just for gay Christians. Far too often, the church has elevated homosexuality above other sins and required a costly obedience from gays that it is unwilling … Read more…

Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies

Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies

by David T. Koyzis

What you believe about politics matters. The decades since the Cold War, with new alignments of post–9/11 global politics and the chaos of the late 2010s, are swirling with alternative visions of political life, ranging from ethnic nationalism to individualistic liberalism. Political ideologies are not merely a matter of governmental efficacy, but are intr… Read more…

Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Media Age

Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Media Age

by Tony Reinke

We live in a world full of shiny distractions, faced with an onslaught of viral media constantly competing for our attention and demanding our affections. These ever-present visual "spectacles" can quickly erode our hearts, making it more difficult than ever to walk through life actively treasuring that which is most important and ye… Read more…

Can I Get a Witness?: Thirteen Peacemakers, Community-Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice

Can I Get a Witness?: Thirteen Peacemakers, Community-Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice

by Charles Marsh, Shea Tuttle and Daniel P Rhodes

How do we transform American Culture through our religious convictions? Discover here the compelling stories of thirteen pioneers for social justice who engaged in peaceful protest and gave voice to the marginalized, working courageously out of their religious convictions to transform American culture. Their prophetic witness still speaks today.… Read more…

Theft of America’s Soul: Blowing the Lid Off the Lies That Are Destroying Our Country

Theft of America’s Soul: Blowing the Lid Off the Lies That Are Destroying Our Country

by Phil Robertson

It's time to take back what the devil has stolen and bring God back into our culture.Phil Robertson, patriarch of A&E's Duck Dynasty and one of the most recognized voices of conservative Christianity in America, believes that little by little, generation by generation, America has allowed the lines of morality, decency, and virtue to be erased. Our v… Read more…

Color of Life: A Journey toward Love and Racial Justice

Color of Life: A Journey toward Love and Racial Justice

by Cara Meredith and James Meredith

In this spiritual memoir, a white woman in an interracial marriage and mixed-race family paints a beautiful path from white privilege toward racial healing, from ignorance toward seeing the image of God in everyone she meets.Author and speaker Cara Meredith grew up in a colorless world. From childhood, she didn't think issues of race had anything to… Read more…


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