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 Christians 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.
Author Hosts Daily Radio Show: LaBerge is a hugely popular Christian speaker who will be featuring the book prominently on her daily radio show and her frequent appearances on prominent Christian radio programs.
President of the Presbyterian Lay Committee: As the president of the Presbyterian Lay Committee, Carmen LaBerge has an extensive platform to promote her book to all of its members and followers who share likeminded views on Christians engaging with culture. Beyond this platform, she is also the founding Chairman of Common Ground Christian Network and a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Evangelicals and participates actively on the Mission America Coalition, the National Religious Broadcasters and the Christian Leadership Alliance.
Extensively Published Author: LaBerge writes regularly for The Layman, a quarterly newspaper/magazine with a nationwide distribution of 90,000 households in addition to writing regularly for digital publications, including Layman.org, Everyday Theology, and other secular and Christian media outlets.
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"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. 19812014)
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Chapter 1 Where God Belongs |
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Chapter 3 Truth Has Consequences and So Do Lies |
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Chapter 4 I Know Something's Wrong, but What's Right? |
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Chapter 5 The Necessity of Restoring the Word of God to Its Rightful Place |
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Chapter 6 Yes, It's Personal (and You Should Take It That Way) |
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Chapter 7 The Call to Look Up, Suit Up, and Speak Up |
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Chapter 8 Counteracting Fake Good News |
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Chapter 9 Offering a Reorientation to Truth Consistent with Reality |
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Chapter 10 Getting God Back into Every Conversation by Reconnecting the Eternal with the Everyday |
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| Conclusion Reentering the Conversation, Reengaging the Culture, Reconnecting the Eternal with the Everyday |
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| Appendix |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Notes |
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Carmen LaBerge hosts The Reconnect with Carmen LaBerge, a radio and online ministry featuring a daily one-hour program and daily one-minute commentaries called Reconnect One. She also serves at the president of the Presbyterian Lay Committee, a national evangelical ministry that has been equipping Christians for faithful witness for more than fifty years. Carmen earned a BS in business administration from the University of Florida and an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary. Previously, she served for seventeen years in churches in Texas, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina. Now, she resides outside Nashville, Tennessee, with his husband Jim and family.
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