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Some teenagers are zeroes, and some are infinite. Elmer Whit may be both.Elmer is used to subtraction. He was born with less than most, and the world keeps making deductions. Until she showed up. An extraordinary girl, the multiplication of strangers, and a road trip to forgiveness prove that love-times-love equals infinite hope.

Can we engage in prayer that is more effective, less harmful, and doesn't make God look bad?This workbook, alongside the book, Divine Echoes, will inform and equip both individuals and small groups to pray transformative and subversive prayers that will increase God's shalom in the world. This study guide will also help readers develop their own theology of petitionary prayer while taking into account theodicy, social justice, and personal moral responsibility.

If you're looking for a cheery, always-uplifting devotional, then you've come to the wrong place. Not that Devoted As F*ck won't uplift and renew your spirit at times, it's merely that the goal of this book is not to make you feel good. Instead, it is an irreverent look at today's version of Christianity that is meant to shake you to your core. Sometimes cheeky, other times profound, but mostly in your face, Distefano has constructed the perfect devotional for the spiritual misfit who doesn't quite fit the cookie-cutter mold.

Protestantism carries on with the practice of making the "pastor" the focal point in church. In The Pastor Has No Clothes, Jon Zens demonstrates that putting all the ecclesiastical eggs in the pastor's basket has no precedent in the New Testament. Using 1 Corinthians 12:14, Zens shows the usual way of doing church contradicts Paul's self-evident remark that "the body indeed is not one part" and then goes on to unfold from that Epistle how the living church functions "with many parts." Jon dismembers the traditional pastor doctrine from various angles by combining two new essays and a response to Eugene Peterson's The Pastor: A Memoir, with three past articles and excerpts from his response to Dr. Ben Witherington's review of Pagan Christianity.

Joe Forester is a recovering Christian who dreams of hosting a retreat at a local hotel with a mysterious background. After leaving a condemning church and years of pain and hurt, he moves to a small Midwest town, turning his attention to uncovering the closely guarded secrets of the hotel and its beloved owner from a century before. As Joe investigates, the black and white images of the past take on a life of their own.Karl Forehand uses his fictional story to illustrate real-life struggles and recovery from the afflictions of life and organized religion. He weaves the past and present storylines seamlessly, demonstrating how religious trauma and life within a community can lead to personal and social oppression. As a response, he purposefully shifts the focus to a journey of self-love and self-realization, acceptance, and forgiveness.In the end, the valuable secrets uncovered are the ones within.

"e;Don't be a dick."e; In today's world, these four words can be the key to making our existence a kinder, more loving place. Within the pages of this book lives 69 practical ways of helping out your fellow human being. Between advice on how to not be a dick to your family and friends, to how to not be a dick to people online, this little hurricane of a page turner covers it all. By the end of it, you'll be returning your shopping carts, cleaning your sweat off the gym equipment, and getting consent prior to any sexual encounter like a boss. Read Don't Be a Dick, put the advice into practice, and I guarantee you'll see your life and the lives of those around you improve.* (*Results not guaranteed.)

The Reconstructionist is about an earthquake of loss one pastor experienced that led him to identify three major fault lines running through the foundation of Western Christianity. You''ll be invited to tour some of the wreckage as he names the fault lines and reconstructs a more sustainable faith. If you''re like countless other people and are looking for something more gracious, open, and inclusive then The Reconstructionist is for you. 

Niq Ruud lied saying he couldn't smell for nearly a decade. He lived in his car during college to afford tuition. He got lost in a blizzard during his first mountaineering trip, then learned to ski a few months later while climbing Mount Rainier. He saved his little sister from a kidnapper by leaping from a plum tree with a Nerf toy while they were children. And it is with wit and a scholar's touch that he uses these and many other stories to wrestle with the question: What if the deity you grew up learning about in church doesn't exist? For while the God of the Christian tradition is often said to be good, that same God doesn't seem to shy away from endorsing genocide, homophobia, racism, sexism, or eternal damnation; leading many persons of faith to justify violence and oppressive behaviors for thousands of years. But in this book, Ruud works readers into the supposition that God desires none of those things. And, on the contrary, with a theology that pushes the boundaries of God much larger than we might ever imagine, he argues that the only god who can truly be good is a God of other-centered, self-sacrificial love. The implications as to what a God of only love means, for everything, are vast-because everything changes when we see God as nothing more and nothing less than love.

What if Jesus was serious about loving our enemies?For too long, those who carry the name "e;Christian"e; have ignored the Christlike path of enemy-love and creative nonviolence. For many of us, the Second Amendment has become more important than the Sermon on the Mount. It's time we begin to walk the path of peace marked out for us by the Prince of Peace and learn to study war no more.

Many think that the phrase "e;body of Christ"e; is just a picture or a metaphor, but in fact it is a reality. Believers are the body of Christ on earth. The ministry of Jesus has continued through His people since the Day of Pentecost in 30 A.D. Frank Viola pinpoints this truth that is revolutionary, but became buried underneath human traditions. What had taken place [on the Day of Pentecost]? The body of Christ was born on the earth. But what does that mean? It means this: The literal body of Jesus Christ had returned to earth. It expanded; God now had a family. Jesus Christ in heaven had dispensed Himself into His body on earth. He returned to earth in the form of His body, the church, and His species was reintroduced to the planet. In the eyes of God, the Church is nothing more and nothing less than Jesus Christ on earth. (From Eternity to Here) In We Are Christ On Earth, Jon opens up a number of crucial implications flowing out of "e;Christ in us, the hope of glory."e; He presents perspectives that liberate the people of God to express and serve Jesus in endless ways. Perhaps we will better understand why Jesus said to Saul, "e;Why do you persecute Me?"e; when he was arresting and hurting believers.