The Western church has gone feminist. God has given men authority in the home, church, and society. Yet the church has rebelled against God’s design and embraced the unbelieving world’s teaching that women should take on the same roles and duties as men rather than focus on the home and children. Christian scholarship and Bible commentaries are dominated by feminist arguments that both husband and wife should submit to each another (“mutual submission”), that women may be pastors and preach sermons to men, and that the Apostle Paul’s teaching on men and women was limited to Greco-Roman culture and has been transcended by our unity in Christ.\nSadly, the conservative response to feminism—complementarianism—compromised several historic Christian teachings and has thus given feminism an even stronger foothold in the church. Many complementarians fail to root gender roles in the differing natures of men and women. As a result, they have refused to apply the Bible’s teaching about men and women beyond the home and church, leading to the embrace of women in civil office and military combat. In addition, the vast majority of complementarians have adopted the novel interpretation of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 (“the women should keep silent in the churches”) that Paul only prohibited women from evaluating prophecy, which has opened the door to women preaching and teaching men in the church.\nThe result is that the Western church has become effeminate and weak. Pastors are afraid to teach important Bible passages on the roles and duties of men and women, and it is no surprise that young Christian women are trading babies for careers outside the home and that churches are regularly capitulating to subversions of biblical sexual ethics. What the church needs is to recover its masculine calling, where men embrace their God-given authority—and responsibility—in the home, church, and society. This book affirms the historic Christian teaching on men and women, critiques feminist scholarship, and urges complementarians to hold a more robust and consistent position. This is a call to return to the Bible’s teaching on men and women. This is a call to Masculine Christianity.

Masculine Christianity

Religion & Spirituality

Garris, Zachary

Christian Books & Bibles

Reformation Zion Publishing

The Western church has gone feminist. God has given men authority in the home, church, and society. Yet the church has rebelled against God's design and embraced the unbelieving world's teaching that women should take on the same roles and duties as men rather than focus on the home and children. Christian scholarship and Bible commentaries are dominated by feminist arguments that both husband and wife should submit to each another ("mutual submission"), that women may be pastors and preach sermons to men, and that the Apostle Paul's teaching on men and women was limited to Greco-Roman culture and has been transcended by our unity in Christ. Sadly, the conservative response to feminism-complementarianism-compromised several historic Christian teachings and has thus given feminism an even stronger foothold in the church. Many complementarians fail to root gender roles in the differing natures of men and women. As a result, they have refused to apply the Bible's teaching about men and women beyond the home and church, leading to the embrace of women in civil office and military combat. In addition, the vast majority of complementarians have adopted the novel interpretation of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ("the women should keep silent in the churches") that Paul only prohibited women from evaluating prophecy, which has opened the door to women preaching and teaching men in the church. The result is that the Western church has become effeminate and weak. Pastors are afraid to teach important Bible passages on the roles and duties of men and women, and it is no surprise that young Christian women are trading babies for careers outside the home and that churches are regularly capitulating to subversions of biblical sexual ethics. What the church needs is to recover its masculine calling, where men embrace their God-given authority-and responsibility-in the home, church, and society. This book affirms the historic Christian teaching on men and women, critiques feminist scholarship, and urges complementarians to hold a more robust and consistent position. This is a call to return to the Bible's teaching on men and women. This is a call to Masculine Christianity.

Masculine Christianity (revised edition)

Zachary M. Garris

Christianity and Social Justice is everything Christians need to understand and answer the social justice movement in one book. From its history, secular manifestations, and Christian variations, Jon Harris thoroughly describes the movement, shows how it threatens orthodoxy, and offers powerful responses.\n“Jon Harris has laid out the troubled story of the Christian churches in the United States today. No one who cares about the faith can afford to miss what he has to say.” 
- Clyde Wilson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina\n“Western Christianity has waited a long time for this book. Jon Harris has done his faith a great service by applying his considerable academic skills to the elephant in the room – the accelerating Marxist orientation of the American church. Jon Harris not only has the research and writing skills to illuminate this deliberately obscured topic, but most importantly he has the rare courage to name names. Thank you Mr. Harris.” 
- Trevor Loudon, author and filmmaker\n“Jon Harris provides a very informative but deeply disturbing history of the key issues affecting the intersection between two rival religions. Those two rival religions are historic Protestant Christianity and the present-day Social Justice Movement. Each era of the church has had to fight its own battles of syncretism. In our day and age, evangelicalism must fight against syncretizing the faith ‘once for all given to the saints’ with the Social Justice Movement, or any false ideology masquerading as an angel of light for that matter. We owe a great debt to Jon Harris for his diligent study and willingness to stand at the front line in this present-day battle for the purity of the gospel.” 
- William C. Roach, PhD, president, International Society of Christian Apologetics\n“I wish the facts meticulously laid out in Social Justice and Christianity: Religions in Conflict were not true. Thankfully, Jon Harris has enough theological acumen to rightly appraise the current onslaught of the new religion of Social Justice, and he does so with precision. Jon demonstrates that the Social Justice warriors simply, and only, sell law. You ought to read this book because Jon points to the Lord Jesus Christ, grace incarnate, for good news and actual change!” 
- Mike Abendroth, Pastor of Bethlehem Bible Church and host of No Compromise Radio

Christianity and Social Justice: Religions in Conflict

History

Harris, Jon

World

Christianity and Social Justice is everything Christians need to understand and answer the social justice movement in one book. From its history, secular manifestations, and Christian variations, Jon Harris thoroughly describes the movement, shows how it threatens orthodoxy, and offers powerful responses.

Jon Harris

The Bible includes prayers such as, “Blessed are those who take your babies and dash them upon the rocks.” How in the world could such barbaric language be part of the Bible? Moreover, how could God’s holy Word contain an entire genre of cursing psalms, known as “imprecatory psalms”? In this short work, Pastor Sean McGowan explores how to understand these psalms and addresses the question whether these psalms have any place in the church today. Can the church pray and sing these psalms? Can individual Christians pray these kinds of prayers? This book will equip you to answer these difficult questions.\n“Pastor McGowan lays a biblical foundation for the church’s use of the imprecatory psalms. He clearly shows that the Old and New Testaments are not opposed to each other concerning the love of enemies and the seeking of God’s justice. With wisdom and humility, he answers the difficult question concerning how the church can use the imprecatory psalms today. I highly recommend this work.”\n–Dr. Richard P. Belcher, Jr., Professor of Old Testament and Academic Dean at Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte\n“Pastor McGowan has done a masterful job of presenting, clearly and succinctly, the theology and purpose of that body of psalms which are commonly maligned or embarrassingly ignored: the psalms that curse. Why are they in the Bible? How can a believer pray them—if he or she may properly pray them at all? Pastor McGowan has distilled their essence and steers us in a path toward a helpful and hopeful embrace of these prayers once again. May the Lord use this work to embolden the church to both live and pray for ‘Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done.’”\n–Dr. John N. Day, author of Crying for Justice: What the Psalms Teach Us about Mercy and Vengeance in an Age of Terrorism\n“In this very helpful introduction to the imprecatory psalms, Sean McGowan has achieved the all too rare virtues of both brevity and substantiveness, of both popular accessibility and scholarly precision, of both pastoral winsomeness and prophetic urgency. I highly commend it to you.”\n–George Grant, pastor of Parish PCA in Franklin, TN\n“This tiny book comes in fast, focused, and fastidious as it addresses several significant questions. It answers if the psalms that present ‘harsh language’ and make us uncomfortable at times still have any relevance for the church today and ought they to even be used in prayers by the church in our age. McGowan makes convincing arguments in one direction and responds to several doubts in thoughtful ways. Psalms that Curse: A Brief Primer should be in the hands of every pastor and parishioner.”\n–Rev. Dr. Michael W. Philliber, pastor of Heritage Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City and author of Our Heads on Straight: Sober-mindedness—A Forgotten Christian Virtue\n“Bible-believing Christians recognize God’s Word to be a unified, harmonious, and coherent revelation of His character and creation. So what do we do with harsh or difficult passages such as the curses we read in the imprecatory psalms? Surely we cannot omit these verses in our devotions, singing, teaching, or praying. But they present a unique challenge to us when we think about how to apply them. My friend Pastor Sean McGowan has ably written a straight-forward guide to orient our thinking about the imprecatory psalms and to defend the propriety of their use in our spiritual lives.”\n–Rev. Zachary Groff, pastor of Antioch Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Woodruff, SC

Psalms that Curse: A Brief Primer

McGowan, Sean

Sean McGowan

Assailing the Gates of Hell addresses the central threat Christianity currently faces. Leftists, particularly Cultural Marxists, have spent the better part of the past century successfully infiltrating every major institution in the West—with the chief aim of subverting and ultimately destroying Christianity. By means of government agencies, public schools and universities, media and entertainment, and even the churches, the enemies of Christ have dedicated all their resources to this onslaught on Christ’s Kingdom. They undermine Christian morality and doctrine for the purpose of destroying the family unit, erasing our history, and training up our children as soldiers for their cause of establishing an anti-Christ hegemony on earth. Yet like all the enemies of the Lord and King of the universe, Jesus Christ, this adversary too shall fade into oblivion. While the Cultural Marxists have largely succeeded in completing their “long march through the institutions,” their strategy is short-sighted compared to the sovereign plan of Almighty God. Their current success will ultimately prove to be a blip on the radar in the grand scheme of history. King Jesus will conquer all, and He will use His church to accomplish this victory. Now is not the time for passivity. Now is the time to actively fight the forces of darkness and lay the foundations for the coming victory of Christ.\n“As an Afrikaans-speaking American who lived through the South African neo-Marxian revolution and saw firsthand the comprehensive subversion of the once much-Christianized culture of the Afrikaner there, I can recommend this volume by Dr. Schlebusch. That period from 1980 to 1994 was almost an exact parallel to what is occurring in the USA in the last three decades since the election of Nelson Mandela as President of the Republic of South Africa. Schlebusch brings broad reading, insight from key Reformed Protestant thinkers, and a broad stroke analysis to demonstrate the direction that the culture, especially of the USA, is heading. It is similar to but even more radically and consistently leftist than the revolution in the RSA.” 
–Mark R. Kreitzer, DMiss, PhD, Associate Professor, Grand Canyon University, College of Theology

Assailing the Gates of Hell: Christianity at War with the Left

Politics & Social Sciences

Schlebusch, Jan Adriaan

Philosophy

How can Christian men and women live faithfully in a world confused over sexuality and gender? Surely we must be reminded of what Scripture teaches. Yet as God’s design for sexuality is being suppressed and denied in the modern world, we need to hear it articulated in a fresh and accessible way. God’s Good Design presents the historic, biblical view of sexuality in a manner that is appealing even to those who have been conditioned to believe it is scary or oppressive. Readers will be persuaded of the goodness of God’s design through straightforward biblical reasoning, personal illustrations, practical applications, and lots of “I never thought of it that way” insights.\n“The modern conversation on biblical sexuality is dominated by either politically correct social justice warriors or over-the-top shock jocks. Clary’s plain spoken approach is refreshing and helpful. There are no cheap shots but neither are there any pulled punches.” 
–Michael Foster, pastor, East River Church, Batavia, Ohio; author, It’s Good to Be a Man\n“Michael Clary has written a profound and important book. In it he addresses a subject that many powerful and influential people wish he hadn’t addressed. I wish those people were just outside the church, but unfortunately, they’re in it as well. He has had the temerity to speak clearly, and persuasively as an advocate for sexual sanity in an insane time. He’s joined a small resistance movement by doing so. I’m pleased that he’s quoted me—but he also quotes a number of my friends and acquaintances. That says something. There aren’t many of us. A few years ago, it seemed like there were many men and women who could be counted on to endorse sanity. I’m sad to say that has not proven to be the case. But you hold in your hands an invitation to join our intrepid band as we make an appeal for moral and biblical sense in a world of sexual nonsense." 
–C. R. Wiley, author of The Household and the War for the Cosmos and In the House of Tom Bombadil\n“God the Father. Male and female he created them. Jesus as the bridegroom to his bride, the church. All throughout Scripture, we see God’s creational design for the two sexes. Yet our culture has so suppressed the significance of manhood and womanhood that they are now not just interchangeable but exchangeable. Michael Clary offers a deep, biblical corrective to the gnostic thinking that has plagued the Western world for at least six decades now. The irrefutable truth he presents takes the American church to task for its complicity in suppressing God’s good design and reminds us of our call to be distinct from the culture in the matters of sex and sexuality.” 
–Megan Basham, reporter for The Daily Wire\n“God’s design really is a beautiful design. Those given eyes to see it will come away from Michael Clary’s strong book thinking just that. In these packed pages, you'll find many insights here, much pastoral wisdom, and a lot of courageous care for Christ’s church. This is not a book that shames and scorches the reader; it’s a book that tells the truth, but always points us to the upward call of God in Christ. We live out God's good design entirely, it turns out, by God's amazing grace.” 
–Dr. Owen Strachan, Provost, Grace Bible Theological Seminary; author, The War on Men

God's Good Design: A Biblical, Theological, and Practical Guide to Human Sexuality

Parenting & Relationships

Clary, D. Michael

Parenting

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Masculine Christianity

Masculine Christianity (revised edition)

Christianity and Social Justice: Religions in Conflict

Christianity and Social Justice: Religions in Conflict

Psalms that Curse: A Brief Primer

Psalms that Curse: A Brief Primer

Assailing the Gates of Hell: Christianity at War with the Left

God's Good Design: A Biblical, Theological, and Practical Guide to Human Sexuality