Sex, Sacrifice, Shame, and Smiting This practical manual guides churches

This practical manual guides churches through a year-long stewardship program

that expands the scope of interpretation of each story to highlight God's extravagant welcome of all people

Lent and Holy Week

a war to be won

Lemler also provides a variety of models for moving forward in mission and hope

Sex, Sacrifice, Shame, and Smiting This practical manual guides churchesThe Bible presents us with difficult statements about money and finance, social justice, marriage and divorce, sex, religion and politics, and other areas of life. Many of us pick and choose among them, feeling free to treat some of the Bible's moral rulings as absolutes but ignoring those we find unacceptable. Are there areas where we can ignore what the Bible says? Is the Bible is simply wrong about some things? Are we free to argue that we