Deus Misereatur

  This simple 105-page paperback addresses the gender-confusion of our age at two significant levels. The first has to do with same-sex attractions, etc. The second has to do with how we work out our sex as males, and as females. The author, Gary Yagel, founder and director of Family Builders, addresses both issues from a biblical perspective and a complementarian frame of reference. The whole aim of the work is to aid parents and grandparents in communicating this biblical, complementarian framework to our teenagers, who are being hit hard by the current social rush toward casting off all boundaries regarding our sex and sexuality. Yagel makes several helpful observations that speak graciously to our moment, and especially to our children and grandchildren. The author is careful to encourage a healthy approach in communication, as well to motivate readers in being perceptive and listen well to the younger people in their lives. I appreciated the author's awareness of the Gnostic t...

Engendered: God's Gift of Gender Difference in Relationship by Sam A Andreades My rating: 5 of 5 stars In our highly-charged, inflamed moment in history when people are throwing out the maxim, "Gender is a social construct," and heroes are made out of individuals who blend, bend, revamp and rewrite their sex, both inside and outside of Church, what is a body to do? And more specifically, how can Christians know what's right or wrong? Help has arrived in the 256 page paperback "enGendered: God's Gift of Gender Difference in Relationship" written by Sam A. Andreades, a Presbyterian pastor and the founder of Higher Ground, a New York City ministry of Christian discipleship serving those with unwanted same-sex attractions. This volume is ideal for marriage seminars, as well as for homework in marriage counseling and pre-marriage classes. Andreades addresses himself to the topic of gender, what it is, and how it functions, from a biblical perspective: ...

Nancy Pearcey’s 336 page stout hardback, “ Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality,” came out in January 2018, and hit the ground running! It is a book focused on the human body, what it means to be made in the image of God, and how our culture has increasingly become anti-body and anti-human. And it is a book written in the utmost seriousness. According to Pearcey, and my own experiences, we have moved into a Gnostic era, what Hans Jonas defined as an anti-cosmic dualism. In this Gnostic stage, the body is commodified, treated as a malleable substance that can be discarded or remade to suit the customer’s satisfaction, because it is treated as other than “me”. The statement usually runs something like this: “Why are you focusing on this outside stuff (body; genitalia; physique; etc.). The real me is on the inside!” Unfortunately this kind of dualism is the offspring of Christians in North America over the last 200 years. I have heard and read nume...

What happens if someone comes to your church and after some days of getting to know them they inform you they’re Gay or Lesbian? What if a Christian you’ve known for years unexpectedly opens up to you and admits that they find themselves sexually attracted to those of their sex? These real-life possibilities, and more, are addressed in the 96 page paperback “Is God Anti-Gay: And Other Questions about Homosexuality, the Bible and Same-Sex Attraction” by Sam Allbery, who is part of the team at Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, works as UK Editor for The Gospel Coalition, and has been same-sex attracted (SSA) for years. This little handbook is a thoughtful and Scriptural guide, written with solid biblical convictions and compassion. Allberry addresses what the Scriptures say about the beauty of human sexuality, and how from page one God’s plan and standard for sex has always been single and celibate or marriage between one man and one woman as long as they both shall live. He ...