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The Rainbow and the Cross: Help for Pastors: Church Practice Concerning Biblical Sexuality
By Elijah Paske
Christian leaders have been caught off guard as culture is accelerating an acceptance for all things LGBT+. To offer both truth and grace toward people who experience same-sex attraction is becoming confusing and difficult. There is little help for pastors about how to respond to many new and complex pastoral issues. Questions arise when a church needs to find what can be the best way to love a lesbian couple who has come with their children? Or how may a pastor respond when a leader in the church announces that they are gay, and God made them that way? This book will open understanding about how same-sex attracted people and their families experience church. Pastors from several denominational backgrounds provide knowledge from their involvements with such issues, while same-sex attracted congregants tell of their experiences and voice their powerful ideas. |
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Turning Controversy into Church Ministry: A Christlike Response to Homosexuality
By W.P. Campbell
Outreach to those who struggle with same-sex attraction is severely lacking in most churches. Campbell packs his book with insights, tools, and practical guidelines for creating ministry in any size or type of congregation. Implementing these ideas not only helps bring Christ’s presence to those with unwanted same-sex attractions, but also enables Christian congregations to become more relevant to a changing world. |
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Is God Anti-Gay?
By Sam Allberry
Christians, the church and the Bible seems to be out of step with modern attitudes toward homosexuality. Does the Bible prohibit gay marriage? How can we oppose people who are in love, and just expressing how they were made? Can God really be anti-gay?
This short, readable book offers a positive and liberating way forward. It explains clearly and simply what we can say with certainty from the Bible about marriage, sexuality and same-sex attraction. |
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What Does the Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality?
By Kevin DeYoung / Crossway
In this timely book, award-winning author Kevin DeYoung challenges each of us - the skeptic, the seeker, the certain, and the confused - to take a humble look at God's Word regarding the issue of homosexuality.
After examining key biblical passages in both the Old and New Testaments and the Bible's overarching teaching regarding sexuality, DeYoung responds to popular objections raised by Christians and non-Christians alike, making this an indispensable resource for thinking through one of the most pressing issues of our day. |
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The Gay Gospel? How Pro-Gay Advocates Misread the Bible
By Joe Dallas
Can homosexuality and Christianity co-exist? Joe Dallas experienced firsthand the deception of uniting "Gay" with "Gospel" and in this book sheds light on this prevalent, misleading theology that believes being actively gay and Christian are compatible. In a sensitive approach - balanced, yet very straightforward - Dallas provides the tools to communicate truth to those who have adopted a pro-gay gospel. |
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The Gospel and Sexual Orientation
By Michael Lefebvre
In 2010, a committee was appointed by the Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America to study "one of the most important cultural issues of our day." The Synod saw the need to provide guidance for congregations on the subject of homosexual orientation, not simply about the scriptural, scientific and moral issues, but also guidance for care and counsel to someone who believes their identity is homosexual. The result is a rare paper worthy of a book and worthy of a readership beyond a small church denomination and even beyond the realm of conservative presbyterianism. The work not only interacts with contemporary scholarship and holds the Scriptures in high esteem, but also presents a model of how to care for and walk alongside a person who is struggling with his or her sexual identity. In a demonstration of overwhelming acceptance for this compassionate scholarship, the paper was received and adopted unanimously in the RP Synod of 2011. We hope you will read this book, test it against what the Bible says, encourage discussion in your local church and share it with others. |
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The Bible and Homosexual Practice
By Robert A.J. Gagnon
Gagnon offers the most thorough analysis to date of the biblical texts relating to homosexuality. He demonstrates why attempts to classify the Bible's rejection of same-sex intercourse as irrelevant for our contemporary context fail to do justice to the biblical texts and to current scientific data. Gagnon's book powerfully challenges attempts to identify love and inclusivity with affirmation of homosexual practice. |
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Unchanging Witness: The Consistent Christian Teaching on Homosexuality in Scripture and Tradition
By S. Donald Fortson III & Rollin G. Grams
Today the body of Christ is being torn apart on the issue of homosexuality. S. Donald Fortson III and Rollin G. Grams gather together an astounding array of primary texts from throughout Christian history as well as analyze every pertinent biblical passage against its ancient Near Eastern or Greco-Roman context - all coming to one and the same conclusion in Unchanging Witness. |
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Loving Homosexuals as Jesus Would: A Fresh Christian Approach
By Chad W. Thompson
In this book, Chad Thompson, a formerly gay man, calls Christians to disarm the gay community by "loving first". Drawing from the life and words of Jesus, Thompson teaches readers how to love and befriend homosexuals before they change - and even if they never change - their sexual orientation. He addresses in detail many common questions surrounding homosexuality: Is being gay a choice, or is it genetically determined?; Can homosexuals change their orientation?; If so, how does it happen? This book includes an appendix of additional resources as well as a useful list of endnotes for the benefit of therapists or any Christian struggling with the controversy over homosexuality. |
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Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific Research in the Church's Moral Debate
By Stanton Jones
Both liberal and conservative Christians are ignorant about scientific studies of homosexuality. Further, few understand the appropriate role of these studies in the church's ongoing moral debate. This brilliant book provides common sense, reasoned analysis and biblical wisdom for Christians who seek a clear-eyed understanding of this inflammatory issue. |
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Homosexuality and the Christian: A Guide for Parents, Pastors, and Friends
By Mark A. Yarhouse
Homosexuality is one of the most controversial topics of our day, and we all need clear, biblical answers that are grounded in love and compassion. In a clear and compassionate style, author Mark Yarhouse, explains the research regarding what causes same-sex attraction and whether or not it can be overcome. He offers honest, accurate answers to parents and pastors and provides a much-needed understanding of homosexuality to help churches, communities and families speak the truth in love. |
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101 Frequently Asked Questions About Homosexuality
By Mike Haley
The rhetoric surrounding the acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle is everywhere. Parents have children suddenly "coming out." Organizations are accused of "intolerance." And it seems that everyone agrees it's okay to be gay. Learn how to address the issues surrounding same-sex attraction and its implications for society in this thought-provoking book by a man who's been there. |
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Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth
By Jeffrey Satinover
In Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth, psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover examines recent research reported in medical journals and the popular press. He finds many of these studies flawed and cites evidence that homosexuality is indeed changeable. He explains how psychology, biology, choice and habit all interweave to produce deeply imbedded patterns of sexual behavior. |
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Welcoming But Not Affirming: An Evangelical Response to Homosexuality
By Stanley Grenz
In this carefully reasoned and thoroughly researched analysis, Grenz asks: Are same-sex relationships a viable, God-given way of giving expression to our sexuality? He reviews scientific research, the history of Christian teaching on homosexuality, the issue of biblical authority today, and the practical issues the church now faces, such as the blessing of same-sex unions, the ordination of homosexuals, and the church's public stance on gay right issues. Ultimately he proposes that it is possible for Christian communities to welcome homosexuals without affirming same-sex unions. |
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Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction
By Caleb Kaltenbach
Raised by LGBT parents, Caleb Kaltenbach was very familiar with some Christians attitudes toward gays, based on the hatred and bitterness often directed toward his family. It's not surprising then that as he grew into a young man he wanted very little to do with those who claimed to follow Jesus. As a student, Caleb started attending a Bible study and youth group with the purpose of learning more about Christianity in order to attack it. However, the more he learned about Jesus, the more he wanted to know, which ultimately lead to his conversion. Ironically, Caleb was a Christian teen "coming out" to his gay parents.
In Messy Grace, Caleb chronicles his journey of showing love to his family and the LGBT community, while believing the truths proclaimed in the Bible. He also gives hard-earned advice to Christians seeking to understand the tension of real relationships lived in the balance of love and truth. Includes Reflection and Discussion Questions for individual or group study.
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God & Sexuality: Truth and Relevance Without Compromise
By Janet Boynes
Addressing the issue of homosexuality has never been more crucial than it is now. Is the Word of God still relevant today? Can we as believers still be moved with compassion without compromising God's word?
In God & Sexuality, Janet Boynes offers spiritual guidance to parents and pastors around the country as they are inundated with questions about what to do and what to say to someone who struggles with same-sex attraction. In a day of confusion, Boynes forwards profound insight, biblical truth, and deeply rooted compassion when reaching out to the LGBTQ community.
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My Genes Made Me Do It!
The book, written by well-known research scientists Briar and Neil Whitehead concludes that a close, careful examination of the scientific evidence does not support current views that homosexuality is genetic, intrinsic and can not be changed
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Homosexuality: Good and Right in the Eyes of God?
In these tumultuous times of sexual confusions, Father Fox and David Virtue give an indepth treatise on how homosexuality has gotten to this point of acceptance in American culture,
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Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation
By Stanton L. Jones & Mark A. Yarhouse
Can persons who receive psychotherapy offered by religious groups experience a change in their sexual orientation? Is this type of therapy harmful? Jones and Yarhouse's scientifically rigorous and impartially presented study offers startling results that call for a re-examination of current thought that homosexuality is immutable. 420 pages, softcover from InterVarsity.
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