Speak the Truth: How to Bring God Back into Every Conversation

by Carmen LaBerge

Overview

Animosity, confrontation, confusion—from cable news right down to our kids' classrooms, Christians are waking up to a world very different from the one we once knew. We are quick to blame everyone else from Hollywood to Washington, but it is not the culture's fault God is sidelined.

If God is missing from the conversation, then it is because His people have failed to represent Him there. Christians have been far too silent for far too long, retreating out of fear of offending someone or the unpleasantness of stepping outside our comfort zone. When Christians have spoken up, too often it has not been in ways that honor Jesus. We have inserted our own opinion, obscuring the beauty and truth of the Gospel in favor of our political, ideological, or personal agenda.

It's time for us to embrace our calling as Christ's ambassadors. To do that, we must be equipped to engage the world in ways that bring the mind of Christ to bear on the matters of the day.

Carmen LaBerge's Speak the Truth seeks to give believers the confidence to speak the truth and the tools to re-engage in the culture and address the problems we are facing today by boldly—and lovingly—bringing God back into every conversation

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621576341
Publisher:	Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date:	09/25/2017
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	745,092
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

The list of Regnery authors reads like a "who's who" of conservative thought, action, and history.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii

Chapter 1 Where God Belongs 1

Chapter 2 God, Muted? 23

Chapter 3 Truth Has Consequences and So Do Lies 45

Chapter 4 I Know Something's Wrong, but What's Right? 63

Chapter 5 The Necessity of Restoring the Word of God to Its Rightful Place 87

Chapter 6 Yes, It's Personal (and You Should Take It That Way) 105

Chapter 7 The Call to Look Up, Suit Up, and Speak Up 123

Chapter 8 Counteracting Fake Good News 143

Chapter 9 Offering a Reorientation to Truth Consistent with Reality 163

Chapter 10 Getting God Back into Every Conversation by Reconnecting the Eternal with the Everyday 181

Conclusion: Reentering the Conversation, Reengaging the Culture, Reconnecting the Eternal with the Everyday 201

Appendix 207

Acknowledgments 211

Notes 213

Index 219

Editorial Reviews

"Carmen LaBerge is a smart leader with years of experience in the trenches of church and culture skirmishes. In this book, Carmen challenges believers to view every person as an image bearer of God and to live each day in light of the redeeming love of Christ. We would all do well to heed that challenge."

—RUSSELL MOORE, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention



" Speak the Truth is a journey through culture with a wise guide. Carmen LaBerge brings clarity to the current chaos, by bringing all issues back to the one issue: God. I am thankful for her voice in the culture, and pray this book receives the wide reading it deserves."

—JOHN STONESTREET, president of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview



" Speak the Truth is a wake-up call for Christians who have become complacent and fallen asleep in the pew. There is a world in desperate need of the Gospel and Carmen has written a book to both motivate and equip every Christian to bring the Truth into their own spheres of influence."

—DONNA VanLIERE, New York Times bestselling author and speaker



"In Speak the Truth , Carmen LaBerge is calling people of faith to reject fear of engagement and live as God's ambassadors in a world desperately in need of hope and truth. This book is a straightforward resource for anyone who has been wanting to reenter the cultural conversations but did not know how."

—CONGRESSMAN FRANK R. WOLF (Ret. 1981–2014)

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