In an increasingly secular world, it's difficult to defend biblical values. What are the current issues affecting our society, and how can we lovingly share the truth with our neighbors?

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anxious generation

After over a decade of stability or improvement, adolescent mental health plunged in the early 2010s. Why did rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rise sharply?
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the widespread teen mental health crisis. He investigates how play and independent exploration help children mature into competent, thriving adults. He shows the timeline of the decline of "play-based childhood" starting in the 80s and ending with the arrival of the "phone-based childhood" in the early 2010s. He explores how this "great rewiring of childhood" has interfered with children&rsquo;s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He also explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.
He issues a clear call to action by diagnosing the "collective action problems" that trap us and proposing 4 simple rules that might set us free. He describes the steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take that can end the mental illness epidemic and restore a more humane childhood.

Toxic Empathy, by Allie Stuckey, Pre-Buy

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We are told that empathy is the key to being a good person, but has "empathy," like so many other words-"tolerance," "justice," "acceptance"- been hijacked by bad actors who exploit compassion for their own political ends?
In&nbsp;Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion, Allie Stuckey argues that empathy has become a tool of manipulation by left-wing activists who bully people into believing they must adopt progressive positions to be "loving."
Stuckey exposes the logical pitfalls and moral consequences of toxic empathy and equips Christians with research-backed biblical truths.
She explores 5 heated issues through which "toxic empathy" is deployed:
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<li>Abortion</li>
<li>Gender</li>
<li>Sexuality</li>
<li>Immigration</li>
<li>Social Justice</li>
</ol>
This book isn't about killing empathy. Instead, it's about using our empathy according to God's definitions of love, goodness, and justice.&nbsp;

Hoodwinked: 10 Lies Americans Believe

Millions of Americans have fallen for 10 big lies about God, man, and our country. These ferocious false dogmas are bringing America to its knees.
John Amamchukwu Sr., a pastor and truth-teller, is determined to smash these lies. His compelling stands against gender ideology and race-baiting has made him a leading voice for biblical justice. In Hoodwinked: 10 Lies Americans Believe, Amanchukwu&nbsp;names and analyzes these 10 lies:
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<li>America is a racist nation</li>
<li>Being against abortion is a white Evangelical worldview</li>
<li>Capitalism should be blamed for poverty</li>
<li>Christianity is the white man's religion</li>
<li>Debt can be canceled</li>
<li>Disagreement equals hate</li>
<li>Transgenders are under attack</li>
<li>If you're anti-pornography, you're a book banner.</li>
<li>The Bible isn't political</li>
<li>The Church is non-essential</li>
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The War on Men

The idea that masculine men&mdash;assertive, risk-taking, single-minded&mdash;are a problem to be solved threatens our whole society. Cultural elites are trying to erase God&rsquo;s design for half of the human race&mdash;the half that historically provides, protects, and leads for the good of others, and this is bad news for men, and&nbsp;terrible news for women.
What will happen without the men of conviction? Who will be left to face down evil, strengthen families, build churches, and bolster communities? In&nbsp;The War on Men, Owen Strachan addresses those questions with an inspiring blend of cultural analysis, biblical teaching, and passionate exhortation. If men are told they are not needed, they disappear, becoming&nbsp;lost men, or they get frustrated and lash out, becoming&nbsp;angry men, or they go alpha and chase their lusts, becoming&nbsp;exaggerated men, or they lose their masculinity and embrace effeminacy, becoming&nbsp;soft men.
And yet, hope is rooted in the wisdom and grace of God. In His kindness, He transforms lost, angry, exaggerated, and soft men into a force for good in this world.

Does Bible Affirm Same Sex Relationships?

You may have heard the claims that the Bible is not against monogamous, faithful same-sex relationships. "Jesus never talked about same-sex relationships.&rdquo; &ldquo;Paul was only condemning exploitative relationships, not consensual ones." &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t keep the Old Testament food laws, so why would we keep the ones on same-sex sex?&rdquo; &ldquo;If God is love, he can&rsquo;t be against relationships of love.&rdquo; Have Christians been getting this one wrong?
In&nbsp;Does the Bible Affirm Same-Sex Relationships?, Rebecca McLaughlin looks at 10 common arguments used to claim that the Bible affirms same-sex sexual relationships. She analyzes the associated Bible passages to uncover what they really say. As someone with a lifelong history of same-sex attraction, Rebecca seeks the truth for more than just academic reasons.&nbsp;
She points to the gospel purpose of male-female marriage, a different kind of gospel-centered love between believers of the same sex, and God&rsquo;s life-and-love-filled vision for singleness.

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A Mission Without Borders

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Former Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux knew that innocent people were about to be exposed to untold brutality, but he also knew that God was inviting him to get involved. With a simple "yes," he began gathering a ream of elite special operations veterans and he invited his 25-year-old son, Hunter, a Marine combat veteran.&nbsp;
Across 7 trips, Chad saw Hunter's confidence grow as he exceled with the team. Chad's faith grew as he learned to trust God with his son and what he witnessed in the brutality of war.
In&nbsp;A Mission Without Borders: Why a Father and Son Risked it All for the People of Ukraine, Chad recounts his experience in Ukraine and helps readers:
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<li>Understand what the conflict in Ukraine was like for everyday citizens beyond the political fog;</li>
<li>Discover how a bond can grow between a father and son as they face hardship together; and</li>
<li>Realize that God doesn't just call us to go to the aid of the people we know and love, sometimes he calls us to help strangers--because it's the right thing to do.</li>
</ul>

Created Equal

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The Toxic War on Masculinity

Nancy Pearcey, bestselling author, has a drive for tackling the tough issues of our day. A former agnostic, Pearcey was hailed in The Economist as "America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual." In The Toxic War on Masculinity, she takes readers on a fascinating romp through American history to discover how the secular script for masculinity turned toxic--and what action we can take to fix it.

Religionless Christianity: God's Answer to Evil

Christianity isn't about rituals but changed hearts. In the prophetic tradition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas calls slumbering Christians into battle.


Picking up where he left off in his Letter to the American Church, Eric Metaxas renews and deepens his call to believers not to practice their faith but to live it out heroically and with joy. Invoking famous but misunderstood words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, he teaches that God’s answer to evil is religionless Christianity—the rejection of religiosity and the embrace of a living and active faith, one that consumes the whole person and affects every aspect of his life. The awakening of this faith will bring revival, a new birth of freedom and a renaissance of Christian culture.

Critical Dilemma

Where will the Critical Theory and Social Justice Movements take us?

Ever Loving Truth, Hardcover

In 2004, Voddie T. Baucham Jr. published the first edition of The Ever-Loving Truth, which discussed the cost of being a Christian in modern society. Now, in this revised edition, Baucham keeps the same founding principles, but discusses the more dire nature of these issues: sexuality, gender, government coercion, and the fight for freedom of expression.&nbsp;

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