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The Pastor Has No Clothes — $12.00
Protestantism carries on with the practice of making the “pastor” the focal point in church. In The Pastor Has No Clothes, Jon Zens demonstrates that putting all the ecclesiastical eggs in the pastor’s basket has no precedent in the New Testament. Using 1 Corinthians 12:14, Zens shows the usual way of doing church contradicts Paul’s self-evident remark that “the body indeed is not one part” and then goes on to unfold from that Epistle how the living church functions “with many parts.” Jon dismembers the traditional pastor doctrine from various angles by combining two new essays and a response to Eugene Peterson’s The Pastor: A Memoir, with three past articles and excerpts from his response to Dr. Ben Witherington’s review of Pagan Christianity.
The Spirituality of Discontentment — $11.00
In this endearing book is a letter from father to son. Retired Filipino pastor Bong Manayon, shares his thoughts on the meaning and application of the Sermon on the Mount to his son and succeeds in sharing insights and understanding that will encourage and challenge every reader. Manayon shows how his mother tongue enriches the meaning of this formidable teaching of Christ. Few works are as accessible, practical and deep concerning this portion of scripture. If you want a fresh look at the Sermon on the Mount this book will not disappoint.
No Will Of My Own: How Patriarchy Smothers Female Dignity & Personhood — $7.00
Church history reveals that Roman Catholicism and Protestantism taught and practiced forms of patriarchy that essentially sided with the evil one’s disdain for females. Women were not allowed to function or speak in the church, were viewed as existing to serve males, and were seen as conduits of sin and error. John Calvin, for example, rashly affirmed “Therefore all women are born to submit to the pre-eminence of the male sex . . . . Let the woman be content in her position of subjection, and not feel indignant because she has to play second fiddle to the superior sex.”
In No Will of My Own, author Jon Zens compares the patriarchy taught to families by the Roman Catholic and Dutch Reformed churches in Holland with an aggressive patriarchal wing of the home-schooling movement in America. He shows that the earmarks of patriarchy doctrine result in varying levels of abuse of young girls and wives. This book serves as a vital warning concerning the misuse of Scripture and church tradition to smother female worth and dignity.
The Diluted Church — $15.00
This book is about the major diluting factors in the organized church in this country (USA). This dilution has to do with the church’s – particularly the conservative religious right crowd’s – dependency and focus on politics as the major means of changing culture in this country. This book was written to conservatives by a former conservative.
Prepare to Meet Your God– $13.00
Prepare To Meet Your God is about learning and experiencing an intimate relationship with Jesus through a dark hour. God’s gift of forgiveness and eternal life awaits you. Fear of death can be replaced by His peace. Doubts can give way to trust. Unanswerable questions will yield to faith. The pure joy of salvation will drive off depression and despair. Eternal hope assures meaning, purpose and destiny beyond the grave. The sting of death is gone! You can be prepared to meet your Maker.
A Church Building Every ½ Mile– $10.00
Today denominationalism and the existence of institutional churches (buildings) abound across the fruited plain. Did you ever wonder where it all came from? Jon Zens takes a part seperated people of faith by distinctives that Christ did not author.
What’s With Paul and Women– $10.00
Forever it seems the gender question rages in religious circles. Arguments range from polemics on both sides of the subject to purely theologically works in support of a hallowed religious tradition… Most of these are leveled by the high and mighty of religious intellectuals of christian institutionalism in a delivery that is hard to get one’s head around. Jon Zens, a simple church pioneer, seeks to make the entire subject accessible to any believer. His work will combat the faulty ideas of the highest of intellectuals yet it is understandable to the most common person who seeks to follow Christ. This book will challenge ingrained traditions and provide hope and freedom to many, both male and female. It marshals an immense amount of sourcing to help blow the cover on the charade of religious hegemony. We need not fear women unshackled from religious traditions based in purposeful mistranslations. Jesus honored all women in any level of ministry. Paul, aside from ancient to modern religious spin, encouraged women and allowed them to minister as equals to men. Join Jon in combating religious foolishness and proclaiming freedom to the oppressed and silenced gender.
Happiness Doesn’t Just Happen– $14.00
Wade Burleson, senior teaching pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, Oklahoma writes that the unbelieving world around us finds happiness in their happenstances (circumstances). However, the Apostle Paul said, “I have learned, in whatever state I am in, therewith to be content.” Burleson thus proposes true happiness comes from an inner satisfaction of knowing who we are by the grace of God’s remaking us into new creations. To the extent that God’s people appreciate His work in them, His blessings and His watchful care is the extent that they can learn to be satisfied in this life regardless of our circumstances.
