DOES THE BIBLE SUPPORT SAMESEX MARRIAGE?

21 Conversations from a Historically Christian View PRESTON SPRINKLE

With a scholar’s mind and a pastor’s heart, Preston Sprinkle offers a thoughtful and gracious treatment of one of the most divisive topics of our time—whether the Bible supports samesex marriage.

Many arguments are made for and against same-sex marriage, arguments that end with divisiveness and confusion instead of thoughtful conversation. New York Times–bestselling author Dr. Preston Sprinkle provides a resource that will encourage respectful and thoughtful conversations around the question “Does the Bible support same-sex marriage?”

Equipped with thorough research, history, and biblical context, this book will enable you to wade into some of the main arguments against the historically Christian view of marriage:

• The biblical writers didn’t know about sexual orientation.

• Jesus never mentions homosexuality.

• Biblical teachings about women, slavery, and same-sex behavior are on the same trajectory.

• Since some people are born gay, then being gay must be okay.

• The Bible has been mistranslated.

Preston carefully answers 21 of the strongest cases for same-sex marriage and offers a humanizing and thoughtful response to each one.

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Pages 256 | ISBN 978-0-8307-8567-4 | Pub Date August 1, 2023

Category Religion/Sexuality & Gender Studies

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About The Author

Natalie Runion lives in Colorado with her husband, Tony, and her sweet daughters. She is the pastor of women and creative pastor of family ministry at New Life Church and creator of the Raised to Stay Community (@raisedtostay).

Raised To Stay

Persevering in Ministry When You Have a Million Reasons to Walk Away NATALIE RUNION

An honest exploration of disappointment with the church, Raised to Stay is for anyone weary of God’s people but longing to keep their faith in God.

God might seem silent right now. God’s people might seem not worth the wounds. But hold on as Natalie Runion embarks on a journey for all who are wandering, wondering, and wrestling. Together, we will move toward trusting God again, knowing that even though Christian community may fail us, the love of God never fails.

When we say yes to God, we don’t say yes to church politics, ladder climbing, or burnout. We say yes to Jesus. We say yes to hope. We say yes to much that we can still embrace. Through honest words and deeply personal stories, Runion challenges us to be part of a generation known for the passionate pursuit of Christ. To be remembered for loving one another, forgiving one another, and persevering with one another in our hunger for God.

We aren’t quitters. We are the stayers.

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Pages 240 | ISBN 978-0-8307-8460-8 | Pub Date July 4, 2023

Category Religion/Christian Living/Spiritual Growth

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About The Author

Bryan Clark has been a senior pastor for four decades. He is a graduate of the Moody Bible Institute, Talbot Seminary, and Denver Seminary. He has been the Bible teacher for Back to the Bible and currently has a podcast with Dan Whitney (a.k.a., Larry the Cable Guy) called Talk’n Truth Bryan and his wife, Patti, have been married since 1981.

GOD’S NOT LIKE THAT Redeeming Inherited Beliefs and Finding the Father You Long For BRYAN CLARK

This practical guide helps us identify the wrong beliefs about God we received from our families we grew up with and replace them with truth so we learn to embrace the abundant Christian life we long for.

Many of us long for the abundant life Jesus promised, but instead we feel stagnant and frustrated in our faith. More of us cultivate our view of God from our family of origin than from the pages of the Bible—and a faulty view of God will always be a barrier to a satisfying spiritual life.

In his unique and interactive book, author Bryan Clark returns us to Scripture on a step-by-step journey to identify and then correct our misconceptions about God. This highly practical book helps us understand:

• Specific ways our childhood influences our beliefs today

• The difference between a grace-based value system and a performance-based value system

• How to distinguish truth from fiction when it comes to personal beliefs

• Why even a loving and faith-filled family can inadvertently pass on false representations of God

• What the Bible says about how God intended Himself to be depicted in the home

Abundant life has nothing to do with money or prosperity or health. Abundant life has everything to do with a right view of God that sustains us, comforts us, and satisfies us through every season.

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Pages 224 | ISBN 978-0-8307-8439-4 | Pub Date July 4, 2023

Category Religion/Christian Living/Family & Relationships

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Roy Godwin has been an international conference speaker for many years, led a small, remote retreat centre in Wales, UK, for twenty years, and founded a global movement called Local Houses of Prayer. Roy has been married to Daphne for over 50 years. They have two children and three grandchildren.

Dave Roberts is a teacher and an author who has written several books in his own right and coauthored The Grace Outpouring with Roy.

And I Will Bless Them

INCLUDES SEVEN-SESSION VIDEO SERIES

Experience Transformation through the Simplicity of the Spoken Blessing

Roy Godwin And Dave Roberts

This transformational book and video series will lead you into a new experience of blessing and a powerful ministry of speaking transformative blessing upon people, communities, land, regions, and nations.

How can we become God’s conduits for blessing to those around us?

Roy Godwin reveals how God has given believers the authority— and the command—to bless others in order to release the manifest presence of God into our world.

Drawing on the internationally known discipleship tool The Blessings Course as the framework, this new and revised book combines The Way of Blessing with course videos and completely new material from Roy Godwin to create And I Will Bless Them

Meaningful questions—with room for notes and responses—plus stories of powerful blessing with biblical references will raise the reader’s confidence. Practical examples and profiles in people God has worked through will equip the reader to walk into an effective ministry of blessing people, communities, land, regions, and nations.

Taste and see that God is good by blessing others.

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ISBN 978-0-8307-8546-9 | Pub Date August 1, 2023

Category Religion/Christian Living/Prayer

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