{"title":"Rebecca Mclaughlin","description":"\u003cp\u003eRebecca McLaughlin is a Christian author, speaker and apologist known for engaging hard questions about faith, culture, sexuality, science and Scripture. Author of Confronting Christianity and The Secular Creed, she writes with intellectual clarity and pastoral sensitivity for believers and sceptics alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"navigating-gospel-truth-a-guide-to-faithfully-reading-the-accounts-of-jesuss-life-dvd-only-set-2-dvds-630511","title":"Navigating Gospel Truth: A Guide to Faithfully Reading the Accounts of Jesus's Life (Dvd Only Set, 2 Dvds)","description":"The Gospels-Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John-are 4 accounts of 1 extraordinary life. Each book tells the story of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. These book aren't fairytales, fiction, or legend; they are gospel truth. 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But Jesus said there was no greater love than sacrificial friendship love. What's more, He issued a command to His disciples that they live into this kind of love. Christian friendship isn't just a nice-to-have. It's vital. But it's also dangerous.**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFriends can pull us up when we're knocked down, embrace us with their love, and spur us on to follow Jesus better. But friends can also grind us to the ground, exploit, or invite us into sin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn *No Greater Love*, Rebecca McLaughlin walks us through the highs and lows of friendship love—a love that's been neglected and malnourished in our modern world. She draws especially on Jesus in the Gospels and on Paul to show how powerful and precious Christian friendship is and how we can walk through the hurt, loss, and disillusionment that comes from broken friendship trust. Beginning with the words of Jesus on the night He was betrayed and abandoned, she points us to His battle-tested love as the unending source of our best love for one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMale or female, single or married, joyful or lamenting, lonely or embraced, we all need friendship love. This book will help us give and receive it in a way that calls us back to Jesus's commandment: that we love each other just like He loves us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e---\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e### ABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca McLaughlin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREBECCA MCLAUGHLIN holds a PhD in Renaissance Literature from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill College in London. Her first book, *Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion*, was named book of the year by *Christianity Today*. Her subsequent books include *Exploring the Earliest Gospel*, *The Secular Creed: Engaging 5 Contemporary Claims*, *10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) about Christianity*, and *Is Christmas Unbelievable?: Four Questions Everyone Should Ask about the World’s Most Famous Story*. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, three children, and church family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e---\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e### ENDORSEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In a time of such profound loneliness and isolation it's hard to think of a more urgent book than this one. The health of our churches and strength of our witness are both bound up with our understanding of the beauty and importance of the kind of friendship Jesus is inviting us into. This is the most significant book I've read in many years.\"  \u003cbr\u003e—SAM ALLBERRY, associate pastor, Immanuel Nashville; author of *7 Myths about Singleness* and *Is God Anti-Gay?*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Friendship is a dying art. In an age in which any strong emotion toward another person is interpreted as romantic or sexual, Rebecca offers Christians a much-needed corrective. Not only can we love one another deeply and genuinely, we must. Where else will the world witness the pricelessness of a friend who sticks closer than a brother, if not in the church? Imagine what a light in the darkness we would be if we committed to love one another and to love our neighbours as only those unbound from the fear of relational loss can do. *No Greater Love* gives us an excellent place to start the work of reclaiming the essential art of Christian friendship. I absolutely loved this book.\"  \u003cbr\u003e—JEN WILKIN, author and Bible teacher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I haven't read a book on friendship in a decade, and this felt so fresh. Whether you are single or married, young or old, male or female, this is the book you need to read this year. Rebecca demonstrates that friendship is a lost art and the missing element in most churches. Its absence robs every other part of our lives. This is a delightful, important, and (crucially) biblical book.\"  \u003cbr\u003e—J.D. GREEAR, pastor, The Summit Church; author of multiple books, including *Essential Christianity*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We crave authentic friendships where we can be known, accepted, loved, and challenged to grow. Most of us have experienced the pain and heartache of friendships that have not delivered what we expected. In *No Greater Love*, Rebecca offers us a transparent, vulnerable, and challenging view of the costs and benefits of biblical friendships, and their necessity for our spiritual growth and witness in the world. This book will cause you to rethink popular notions of friendship and encourage you to pursue God's plan for healthy relationships.\"  \u003cbr\u003e—CHRISTINE CAINE, founder, Propel Women \u0026amp; A21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Every so often a book comes along that masterfully weaves together the compassion of Christ and the spiritual muscle of practical theology. *No Greater Love* does this through Rebecca's real-deal wisdom regarding friendship. Readers will be discipled and helped in the beautiful calling to lay down our lives for each other as friends.\"  \u003cbr\u003e—ELLEN MARY DYKAS, director of Equipping for Ministry to Women, Harvest USA; author, *Toxic Relationships: Taking Refuge in Christ*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I know of no one better to write a book on friendship than Rebecca, who is the very best of friends. Though she would be quick to protest and point to her failures, the people who love her and have been loved by her will testify that everything she writes here, she lives. But this is not a book about Rebecca; it is a book about what is available to us in Christ, our supreme, unfailing friend. No matter what your past experience has been, you will find encouragement, hope, and conviction in these pages to take the risk of deep friendship and enjoy its reward.\"  \u003cbr\u003e—RACHEL GILSON, writer, speaker, and author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For far too long, many Christians have been taught that friendships are a luxury. Rebecca has written the most compelling case for why the church should see friendships as absolutely central to spiritual formation and the biblical vision of the Christian life. In the spirit of Bonhoeffer, *No Greater Love* challenges our minds and hearts to take seriously the gospel's call for us to embrace life together. This is a must-read for every Christian leader.\"  \u003cbr\u003e—CHRIS BROOKS, Senior Pastor, Woodside Bible Church\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e---\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 14.0 x 21.6 cm","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51565046038815,"sku":"9780802428929","price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780802428929_3D.jpg?v=1769216813"},{"product_id":"exploring-the-earliest-gospel-a-kids-bible-study-on-jesus-and-his-good-news-634371","title":"Exploring the Earliest Gospel: A Kids Bible Study on Jesus and His Good News","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHelping kids fall in love with God and His Word as they study the Bible for themselves\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e **Now more than ever, kids need to know and explore their Bibles.**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Getting our kids engaged with Scripture early on is vital to their discipleship. In fact, research shows that Bible reading is the number one indicator for spiritual growth. *Exploring the Earliest Gospel* gives kids the chance *and* tools to know God through His Word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this kids' Bible study, Rebecca McLaughlin and her young theologian daughters Miranda (12) and Eliza (10) guide your kids through the book of Mark. This adult-child collaboration will help your kids see themselves not just as passive recipients of teaching from grown-ups, but active participants who can engage with the Bible for themselves. At its heart, *Exploring the Earliest Gospel* is a study of a person: Jesus. Through sixty-six days of fun and fast-paced study, your kids will get to understand more of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mark's Gospel was the first gospel to be written, and it's based on the memories of Jesus' disciple Peter. Since Peter was an act first, think later kind of guy, your kids will notice that Mark uses the word \"immediately\" a lot. This is an action-packed book! As your young disciples enter the stories that were written and meant for them, they will learn how to observe, interpret, and apply God's Word to their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If you're looking for a theologically rich, accessible bible study that helps your kids know and fall in love with Jesus and paves the way to a lifelong love of God and the Bible, give them *Exploring the Earliest Gospel.*","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51565046071583,"sku":"9780802428936","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780802428936_3D.jpg?v=1769216816"},{"product_id":"the-secular-creed-engaging-five-contemporary-claims-591923","title":"The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims","description":"You may have seen signs with some of these messages in your neighbourhood:  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e- Black Lives Matter  \u003cbr\u003e- Love Is Love  \u003cbr\u003e- Gay Rights Are Civil Rights  \u003cbr\u003e- Women's Rights Are Human Rights  \u003cbr\u003e- Transgender Women Are Women  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThese statements offer us an all-or-nothing package deal - in short, a secular creed.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eIn this provocative book, Rebecca McLaughlin helps us disentangle the beliefs Christians can gladly affirm from those they cannot embrace, and invites us to talk with our neighbours about the things that matter most. Far from opposing love across difference, McLaughlin argues, Christianity is the original source and firmest foundation for true diversity, equality, and life-transforming love.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eEndorsements:  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Addressing five key cultural topics of the day in this vital book, Rebecca McLaughlin deftly examines the pernicious lies that have insidiously infiltrated our world, including the church, and gives a solid and biblical rebuttal to each lie. Every Christian needs to read this book.\"  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e- Becket Cook, author of A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption and host of The Becket Cook Show  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"In this book, Rebecca McLaughlin offers a gentle, yet powerful biblical corrective that calls readers to holistic Christian love - a higher calling than the call of the culture, and, often, a harder calling. She examines popular cultural mantras and answers each one with the truth and application of the gospel of Christ. In her balanced and gracious approach, she paints our culture's arguments in the most compassionate light possible - and then shows the beauty of a more excellent way!\"  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e- Jasmine Holmes, author of Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Rebecca McLaughlin's first book was the best all-round defense of the Christian faith I had read in a decade. This one is the perfect complement. In it the author points the way to a different kind of 'muscular' Christianity, one that is able to flex the muscle of conviction and the muscle of compassion at the same time. For a church - and a world - too often forced to choose between smug conservatism and acquiescing liberalism, McLaughlin recovers the genius of Jesus Christ, showing us how to love the truth and humans with equal passion. The result is an utterly compelling and humane treatment of five vital contemporary issues.\"  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e- John Dickson, author and historian, Distinguished Fellow in Public Christianity at Ridley College, Australia  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"This book is so powerful on a thousand levels. It's compelling, accessible, informative, captivating, convicting, and empowering. It gives Christians understanding and language to be able to engage and not retreat, love and not compromise, accept and not affirm, empathize and not sympathize. It moves the conversation forward not just left or right. This is a discipleship book, not just an apologetics book. It's incredible.\"  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e- Christine Caine, founder, A21 \u0026amp; Propel Women  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"There are few whose voices I trust more in translating the claims of Christ for a new generation than Rebecca McLaughlin. She writes with a gospel clarity, keenness of insight, and personal winsomeness that make her one of the best apologists of our generation. As with her debut book, Confronting Christianity, I enthusiastically endorse this one.\"   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e- J. D. Greear, pastor, The Summit Church, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; president, Southern Baptist Convention  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Rebecca McLaughlin goes where few dare to go-head first into the hardest questions and issues of our cultural moment, with compassion, clarity, and conviction in order to show the beauty and cogency of the Christian faith. She is one of the most important writers serving the church today. She proved this with Confronting Christianity and has cemented that status with The Secular Creed. A potent blend of cultural analysis and biblical reflection, this is the rare book that's vital for believers and skeptics alike. I'm eager to get The Secular Creed into the hands of both my congregants and non-Christian friends.\"  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e- Claude Atcho, pastor, Fellowship Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee; author of a forthcoming book on African American literature and theology (Brazos)  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"The people around us care deeply about diversity, equality, and justice-and many think Christians stand against those values. As a pastor of a diverse, urban church, I need help to wisely and winsomely address their concerns. This is why I'm thankful for the major assist I've gotten from this book. McLaughlin knows today's issues well and has the biblical, historical, and sociological knowledge to help us understand them and be equipped to answer them well.\"  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e- Vermon Pierre, lead pastor, Roosevelt Community Church in Phoenix, Arizona; council member of The Gospel Coalition","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51566466203935,"sku":"9780999284308","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780999284308_front.jpg?v=1769266877"},{"product_id":"world-on-fire-walking-in-the-wisdom-of-christ-when-everyones-fighting-about-everything-595690","title":"World on Fire: Walking in the Wisdom of Christ When Everyone's Fighting About Everything","description":"Does it feel like no matter where you look or what the issue is, everyone seems to be fighting about everything?  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e We live in the information age, with more access to knowledge than ever before, flowing to us in a never-ending digital stream of updates, statistics, polls, opinions, news, and narratives from those on opposing sides of any issue. And while we'd assume this influx of information would help us find a good, informed way forward in our culture, it actually stirs up all sorts of anger, anxiety, and even loneliness. **This all contributes to an increasingly defensive society that feels like it's not only fracturing, but could go up in flames at any moment.**  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e If you're anything like the contributors to *World on Fire,* you've realized that all this knowledge isn't the same thing as wisdom. While our world relies on expected, reflexive, status-quo, earthly wisdom to make a way forward or take a side on any given issue, **Christ would rather us rely on his unexpected, counterintuitive, going-against-the- grain, heavenly wisdom as outlined in his famous Beatitudes.** This surprising wisdom is not a call to be removed from the fire we feel blazing around us, but one to engage and tame it-beginning with our own hearts.  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e Whatever those nearest you seem to be arguing about today, and no matter what the fire looks like in your neck of the woods, Jesus has an answer for the ways his kingdom citizens should walk as they navigate the flames in his power and posture. 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In this bombshell of a book packed with myth-busting statistics, McLaughlin reveals the many surprises in authentic Christianity.\" Peter J. Williams, Principal, Tyndale House, Cambridge; author, Can We Trust the Gospels?  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"A deep and caring response to current criticisms and confrontations of the Christian faith fills Rebecca McLaughlin's book. She speaks from real-life experience of the personal and intellectual challenges we encounter today in considering the claims of Jesus Christ. Her open and faithful answers to serious questions provide not an easy stroll through imagined virtual reality but an adventurous rocky pathway through true and abundant life.\" Ian Hutchinson, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author, Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Apologetics with heart, discernment, empathy, and rigorous study. Confronting Christianity will help you understand the hard questions of the Christian faith while also igniting a love for neighbor. McLaughlin doesn't shy away from tough questions about diversity and the nations, as well as slavery and facing America's past and present. Her answers are not only insightful; they have the potential to transform a heart of stone to a heart of flesh. Take up and read.\" Trillia Newbell, author, Sacred Endurance; If God Is for Us; and God's Very Good Idea  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Rebecca McLaughlin refuses to duck the biggest challenges to the Christian faith and takes on the hardest questions with empathy, energy, and understanding. She has studied widely, thinks deeply, and argues very persuasively. 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