Terms like same-sex marriage, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gay Christian are part of daily discourse; yet enormous controversy surrounds them. They are the stuff of news headlines and vitriolic social media posts. But they also reflect stirrings of the heart in real people with real questions and concerns. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, once a leftist professor in a committed lesbian relationship and now a confessional Christian, but always the thoughtful and compassionate professor, has written a followup to The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert. This book answers many of the questions people pose when she speaks at universities and churches, questions not only about her unlikely conversion to Christ but about personal struggles that the questioners only dare to ask someone else who has traveled a long and painful journey. Dr. Butterfield not only goes to great lengths to clarify some of today's key controversies, she also traces their history and defines the terms that have become second nature today-even going back to God's original design for marriage and sexuality as found in the Bible. She cuts to the heart of the problems and points the way to the solution, which includes a challenge to the church to be all that God intended it to be, and for each person to find the true freedom that is found in Christ. --

When you have been bound by the things of this world for too long, this book will encourage you to believe that a new day has come. Now is the time to follow God and walk out a faith that you didn’t even know was possible. Place your worry, doubt, and fear on Him. He has created you for more. Revival is driven by emotion and revolution by action, but transformation is the outcome of those things working together. The power and purpose of all you are meant to be are rising within you as you walk out your unhindered, mountain-moving, white-pant-wearing faith. The movement begins in you today!

Rewire Your Brain with Truth from Scripture Have you ever felt stuck in your Christian life? Have you wondered if the abundant life Jesus promised is really available for you right here and right now? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then this book is for you. This book will help you identify the spiritual growth barriers that are keeping you stuck as well as show you the way to experience more of the abundant life: a life characterized by more love, joy, peace, and hope than you ever dreamed possible before. Ken Baugh draws us into the inner workings of the brain and the heart, which inform how we process negative and traumatic experiences, but which also can be diverted from health and wholeness by such negative experiences. How we process hard things intellectually and spiritually recalibrates us toward either health and wholeness or bitterness and defeatism. Ken helps us rewire our brains by simmering in the Scriptures that remind us whom we belong to and what God has promised us. The end result is a resilient, robust faith prepared to weather every storm and keep in step with Jesus.

Aligning the story of your heart. The story of your heart has been edited and influenced by myriad sources. Some of these influences-maybe family, friends, or loved ones-have helped write a story that's in line with the unhindered life God has for you. Others have taken up the pen and added negative influences: pain, fear, doubt, bitterness, and resentment. God's desire is to be the ultimate author and editor of your heart's story-to align your heart with the incredible, unhindered life that he crafted specifically for you!

Discover the five keys that God has given His people to unlock the freedom He offers. Focusing on God’s platform, provision, power, presence and promise, Life Unhindered! reveals how to run the race set before you and emerge as a winner. Full-spectrum freedom is God's gift to every believer—freedom in every area of your life. It is for freedom that Christ has set you free, says Paul (Galatians 5:1 NIV). Learn to lay aside every hindrance to the abundant life Christ bought with His blood.

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton Theological Seminary, 2009.