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Reaching our youth across the digital divide is a struggle for parents, ministers, and other adults who work with Generation Z-today's teenagers. While we work to keep up with digital advances, our youth, as digital natives and early adopters, learn on the go.#Connect is not just about technology. Rather than focus on the tension between church and culture, Brian Foreman has provided insight for using the new communication tools to teach Generation Z the lessons of Christ.#Connect leads readers into the technological landscape, encourages conversations with teenagers, and reminds us all to be the presence of Christ in every facet of our lives.

Jesus' teachings in the Sermon on the Mount are foundational to all that it means to be Christian. Here the Sermon is read in the context of its setting in the world of Matthew's Gospel. The continuing impact of the Sermon is traced through the experience of significant groups and individuals such as the Anabaptists, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Clarence Jordan. Central to both lines of study is the overarching question of what the Sermon means for us and how its values may be realized in our world.

This volume honors the life and work of James Dunn. It represents a warm, from-the-heart remembrance from the pen of thirteen people who know him well. Each chapter addresses Dunn's life from a personal perspective. In addition, the foreword by Bill Moyers is a touching tribute to James Dunn the humanitarian. It will tug at your heartstrings and bring tears to your eyes.J. Brent Walker, an ordained minister and attorney, is Executive Director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty in Washington, D.C., and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.

The Baptist tradition stands in great peril of losing the cherished principles of the free exercise of religion, the freedom from political interference with faith, and the right of self-determination in all matters related to religion.The authors discuss the importance of the Bible in the Baptist faith and the responsibility of people for their actions regarding church, family, and beliefs. Our relationship with God is an individual responsibility. It is God to whom we are ultimately responsible. Soul freedom, all freedom, and responsibility are God's supreme gift to humanity. The dignity and respect afforded to persons come from God as revealed in Scripture.Soul Freedom contains essays that examine considerably controversial issues. This book comes at a time when the Baptist commitment to soul freedom feeds the deeper hunger of the hearts of millions of persons seeking authenticity in religion.

The words that describe our deepest longings for God, our highest praise for God, and our most distant wanderings from God are often the starting points of our prayers. Prayers & Litanies for the Christian Season focuses each prayer or litany on one word in the vocabulary of our faith, moving through the liturgical year by voicing the language of our hearts.The book is divided into the six seasons of the Christian year: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. Primarily designed for congregational worship, the words are appropriate for invocations, prayers of confession, pastoral prayers, and benedictions. A reader using the book for personal devotion will find the poetic style of the prayers fitting for moving through the year "word by word."

The most exasperating, important, difficult, thankless, yet fulfilling assignment in life is parenting. Coaching Kids is a guide to creating and maintaining harmonious communication with children when they are small that will last throughout their adult years when they are parents.Excellent parenting is not a substitute, but merely a launching pad for children to develop their own identity. The authors present to young parents, single parents, grandparents, teachers, and caregivers the importance of understanding who kids are and aren't-for everyone's good. With this understanding in mind, the book guides readers toward diplomatic dialogue and how to blend effectively several different personalities in a family setting.