Our natural conception and birth is a result of human cooperation and establishes the priority the Creator places on our dependency on others for success and personal progress. This work is evidence to this collaboration and substantiates the reality that we are a sum total of all the influences made to our lives by the people we have had the privilege to come across on the journey of life. I am deeply appreciative for the inspiration and wisdom of the men and women, both past and present, which, through their lives, instructions, corrections, challenges, commitment, and example, disturbed gifts within me I never knew existed.

In the preceding decades, the world has envisioned significant changes in the makeup of families. Since the seventies, the divorce rate has doubled increasing to single-parent households, remarriages, and extended families. The book is a discussion of the many definitions of family and how they demonstrate the changes that are occurring within the family. Many of us today including myself, when we hear the word family, father, mother, and children automatically come to our thoughts. This view represents the traditional family or the nuclear family by definition consisting of father, mother, and children. Family Manifesto is defined as a books written statements that describe the familys dynamics, functionalities, family types as well as describing functional and dysfunctional families. This book Family Manifesto provides a biblical-based design for developing a Christ-Centered home. We all know the complexity of raising a family in todays world. We also know families possess the significant capability to improve and strengthen their family dynamic substantially.

Protestant Periodicals in Transition: From the Twentieth Century to the Digital Age demarcates the field of religious periodical studies by offering a range of historical and contemporary case studies from different Protestant traditions drawn from various regions of the world. Taking religion, periodicals, and their cultures seriously, this volume focuses not only on content but on the people, processes, networks, technologies, and economics involved in periodical publishing. Case studies explore the role of the Protestant magazine in defining, policing, and extending the boundaries of religious communities, of engaging with and influencing the surrounding society through political activism and lifestyle advice, and adapting to and sometimes spearheading technological changes to keep relevant in changing times.

A True Theology for the Twenty-First Century. "He is not righteous who does much, but he who, without work, believes much in Christ. The law says, 'Do this' and it is never done. Grace says, 'Believe in this' and everything is already done." These and other truths were presented by Martin Luther in his 1518 Heidelberg Disputation. The ideas presented would comfort and give clarity to the consciences of many; yet they would eventually disturb and challenge the foundation of the medieval church. In The Word of the Cross: Martin Luther's Heidelberg Disputation, Charles Fry presents a theological and historical exposition of this important document, explaining what Luther taught at Heidelberg and why it was so important to him—and to us. The ramifications of his argument have everything to do with the course of human history and with the trajectory and comfort of our own lives. May Luther's Heidelberg Disputation be understood, and treasured in our own day for the theological health of Christ's Church. May it raise up a generation that will boast not in human wisdom and reason, but only in the word of the cross—Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

In the midst of the stress and pressure of everyday life, Moments Together for Couples will give you and your mate a chance to pause, relax and draw upon the strength of the Lord. This easy-to-use devotional helps you set aside anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes every day with your spouse to grow closer to God and closer to each other.

The authors kindle a new vision for the creative masterpiece marriage can become when husband and wife become mom and dad.