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

by Christopher Phonk, Christopher Phonk (Narrated by)

Overview

When was the last time God was an active participant in one of your conversations? How does God get into a conversation if His people are sidelined or silent? As ambassadors of the Kingdom of God, it is the Christian’s responsibility to speak the mind of Christ in the context of every cultural conversation, no matter how contentious. If Christians are silent then God is effectively sidelined.

The Christian viewpoint is desperately needed in the cultural conversations of our day but Christians have been effectively muted because they are not equipped to engage and combat the aggressive arrogance of those who actively seek to silence all viewpoints but their own. In Speak the Truth, Carmen LaBerge aims to get Christians off the sidelines and back in the conversation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683669210
Publisher:	christianaudio.com
Publication date:	09/25/2017
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 5.44(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Carmen LaBerge is a writer, speaker and host of the daily Christian talk radio show The Reconnect as well as the President of the Presbyterian Lay Committee (PLC), a ministry that’s been working to equip Christians for faithful witness for more than 50 years. Before becoming president of the PLC, she served in mainline Christian ministry for 17 years. Carmen is the founding Chairman of Common Ground Christian Network and a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Evangelicals. She also participates actively on the Mission America Coalition, the National Religious Broadcasters and the Christian Leadership Alliance. She lives outside of Nashville, TN with her husband Jim and family.

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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