For close to two thousand years, Christian theology has been captivated by a sacrificial rendering of the Gospel that renders God as retributive, arbitrary, and Janus-faced. In the past fifty years a non-sacrificial way of perceiving the Gospel, God, and the mission and message of Jesus has challenged this sacrificial hegemony. Now what began as a trickle in the 1960s has burst the dam and the Gospel is on a collision course with Christianity. What are some of the implications of this mome...

Liberating the Gospel from the Christian Myth tackles Christianity's oldest problem: What does the loving God of the New Testament have to do with judgment, retribution, and violence? How did a message of enemy love become propaganda for enemy hate? Bringing biblical, church historical, theological, and pastoral emphases together creates a truly new frame for dealing with the most vexing questions facing Christians today. Liberating the Gospel from Christian Myth opens up a way to hear God...

Knowing God? is an indictment of Protestant American Christianity in its failure to follow Jesus of Nazareth. Consumer Christianity is laid bare before the gospel and found wanting. After exposing the superstition of American Christianity, Hardin examines the gospel narrative and demonstrates that a truly Jesus-oriented approach must be non-sacrificial in all its ways. Like Jeremiah, Kierkegaard, or the early Barth, Knowing God? rings with a clarion call for followers of Jesus to ask what ...

Do "eschatology" and "peace" go together? Is eschatology mostly about retribution and fear--or compassion and hope? Compassionate Eschatology brings together a group of international scholars representing a wide range of Christian traditions to address these questions. Together they make the case that Christianity's teaching about the "end times" should and can center on Jesus's message of peace and reconciliation. Offering a peace-oriented reading of the Book of Revelation and other bibli...

Who am I? Who are we? Simple yet profound questions. What does it mean to be human? Why does society sometimes make us feel inadequate and diminished as humans? Where does the church and religion slot into this sense of dehumanization? What are we doing to ourselves and to others to impede our journey as humans living to the fullest? Why does it feel as if violence and fear is the dominant narrative in this modern world? Who is Jesus? Again, a simple yet profound question. A question that ...

Relive once more the action packed, shoot em up western in the tradition of Zane Grey. Ride with Marshal Woodrow Kinslow as he brings an embittered Colorado landowner to justice. An accident claims the life of a young son of a Colorado rancher, Johnathan Birk. Although, he reluctantly agreed to let homesteaders onto land that he claimed for his own, the death of his son sends him on a vengeful crusade to rid the valley of all the homesteaders. Marshall Woodrow Kinslow is shot at on a high ...

Transform the overwhelming pressure of daily life into unshakeable spiritual leadership with rugged, everyday faith. When you feel spiritually empty or paralyzed by the heavy responsibilities of family, finances, and work, finding time for quiet reflection feels impossible. This grounded, energizing guide delivers a realistic spiritual toolkit designed specifically for the busy, distracted man.Stop treating connection with God like a tedious religious performance and start wielding...

Transform the overwhelming pressure of daily life into unshakeable spiritual leadership with rugged, everyday faith. When you feel spiritually empty or paralyzed by the heavy responsibilities of family, finances, and work, finding time for quiet reflection feels impossible. This grounded, energizing guide delivers a realistic spiritual toolkit designed specifically for the busy, distracted man.Stop treating connection with God like a tedious religious performance and start wielding...

Transform the overwhelming pressure of daily life into unshakeable spiritual leadership with rugged, everyday faith. When you feel spiritually empty or paralyzed by the heavy responsibilities of family, finances, and work, finding time for quiet reflection feels impossible. This grounded, energizing guide delivers a realistic spiritual toolkit designed specifically for the busy, distracted man.Stop treating connection with God like a tedious religious performance and start wielding...

Transform the overwhelming pressure of daily life into unshakeable spiritual leadership with rugged, everyday faith. When you feel spiritually empty or paralyzed by the heavy responsibilities of family, finances, and work, finding time for quiet reflection feels impossible. This grounded, energizing guide delivers a realistic spiritual toolkit designed specifically for the busy, distracted man.Stop treating connection with God like a tedious religious performance and start wielding...

“Read this astonishing novel . . . The magic of his prose equals the horror of Johnston’s story.” —The Washington PostDon't miss DISTANT SONS, the new literary thriller from Tim Johnston, available now.The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, who are taking a family vacation before their daughter leaves for college. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning ru...

The Texas Frontier comes to life in this Spur Award–winning Western by the acclaimed author and great-grandson of True Grit legend Rooster Cogburn.Texas, 1880s. Into the wild unknown country of the Texas Panhandle ride two young cowboys. Nate Reynolds is the scion of a well-to-do family who lit out in search of adventure—and gold. Billy Champion is a devil-may-care ne’er-do-well with a stubborn streak and an eye for the ladies. Together they aim t...