After nine years of preaching fundamentalist Christianity for the denomination known as the Church of Christ, minister Joe E. Holman decided to call it quits. Walking away from the ministry forever, Holman explains the reasons for making such a life-altering and controversial decision.

You are fearfully and wonderfully made! (Psalm 139:14) Every day we are bombarded with the false truths of this world, overwhelmed with earthly desires, wants, needs, opinions, idea’s, and criticism. The enemy is out to create a spirit of confusion in each of our lives. We can combat this confusion with God’s truth. This study will help you further understand: your biblical truth and what Jesus has to say about you what a personal intimate relationship with Jesus Christ looks like what faith is and how to activate it how to make your faith abundant and have it in full The Blueprint Projects, that you are holding in your hands right now, is an action plan that will help you personalize the Bible to your life, learn God’s Ten Commandments and keep them in your heart forever. By going through this journey, you will gain the tools to become spiritually ready to handle tough situations before they happen. We will transform our spirit to make us pro-active versus reactive. We pray your Godly purpose, your strength and your power comes alive as you dig into the Bible, go through The Blueprint Projects and journal with Jesus right next to you, creating a design plan for your life. You will learn who Jesus is, what he stands for and where your life fits into His great story. Together, through the Ten Commandments, let’s begin to gain clarity in Scripture, confidence in our walk with Jesus, an action plan to fight against the schemes of our enemy and build a powerful faith! Jesus says, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate, to help you and be with you forever.” John 14:15

For anyone looking to deepen their spiritual walk by reading through the Bible in a year, this keepsake journal offers a reading schedule with daily Scripture assignments and room to record three years' worth of responses. Derived from the popular Daily Question series, The Daily Bible Project follows the same three-year structure in this new keepsake journal. Instead of a prompt, however, each page offers a Scripture reading assignment for the day, along with brief journaling spaces to fill with your favorite verses or your own questions and revelations experienced while reading. The daily reading plan is specially designed to keep you on track but not overwhelmed: - The daily readings are chronological but include chapters from the Old and New Testaments. - Each day's reading prompt assigns roughly three chapters of Scripture. - You'll read through the entire Bible each year, for three years. - Indicating just the Scripture reference, the journal can be used with any Bible translation or version. With room for three years' worth of responses, The Daily Bible Project offers a unique opportunity to track your spiritual growth and progress year over year.

Offers a Christian view of sex and relationships designed to help teenagers understand God's plan for their lives.

Imagine what our world might look like if Christians became known for remarkable love, as well as life-giving truth. The stakes are high and the need is great for Christians to represent Jesus to a watching world. And today, we have more influence than ever before--for better and for worse. We are among the first generations to have access to a global megaphone through social media. But it's not enough to speak truth louder to a noisy culture. To counter the reputation Christians have earned, our love must be just as loud. Ask evangelist Matt Brown, and he will tell you Christians today are facing a crisis of influence. In our rush to speak truth to today's tensions, cultural issues, and trending controversies, it becomes all too easy to focus on proving our points rather than extending God's grace. Conversely, when we seek only to love yet never proclaim a better way, we short-circuit God's plan. Truth Plus Love invites you to rediscover the biblical framework for engaging culture as ambassadors of Christ. Through biblical insight, cultural analysis, and practical principles, Matt Brown outlines how to champion truth without compromise, how to love unconditionally, and ultimately, how to step into this great adventure of representing God to the world. It's hard, it's messy, and it's the unfinished project of a lifetime, yet here we find our great adventure: representing God to a watching world.

The audience for this book is twofold: (1) teacher programs in colleges that are training the next generation of Christian school teachers and (2) instructors already practicing their vocation in the Christian academy. The present volume seeks to wed the philosophy of biblical integration with the practice of biblical integration. Biblical integration is hard work. Therefore, many concrete examples will be used to facilitate understanding of the ideas.

For centuries, parents have used the ancient method of learning and reciting questions and answers to teach the core doctrines of the faith. This beautifully designed book uses this regular rhythm of asking and answering to introduce children to spiritual truths and spark a hunger within them to know God even more.