Watch a video about Daniel Darling’s latest release, REAL: Owning Your Christian Faith.
Download a free sample chapter of REAL here.
Read a recent blog from Daniel Darling, “The Real Reason Kids Abandon Faith,” at this site: http://thinkchristian.net/the-real-reason-kids-abandon-faith/
Read a review of REAL at Aaron Armstrong’s blog: http://www.bloggingtheologically.com/2012/07/03/book-review-real-by-daniel-darling/
Daniel Darling is the senior pastor of Gages Lake Bible Church in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. He is an active writer and blogger; among his credits are iFaith and Teen People of the Bible. He has been interviewed on TV and radio outlets across the country, including Chris Fabry Live, Harvest TV, American Family Radio, and Life!Line with Craig Roberts. He has guest-blogged for Michael Hyatt, as well as others. You can follow Daniel’s blog at danieldarling.com; you can also find Daniel on Twitter, @dandarling.
Daniel has been a regular contributor to NewHopeDigital.com through podcasts and articles.
The US Department of Homeland Security recently posted a new video designed to increase awareness among first responders of human trafficking.
Many Christians work or volunteers as first responders (police, fire, rescue) and this video is designed for all emergency services personnel. However, anyone interested in helping victims of human trafficking may benefit.
The video is a concise, clear presentation that defines human trafficking, distinguishes it from human smuggling, and offers some guidance on identifying possible victims.
Please watch the video at this link:
http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/human-trafficking-awareness-training-first-responders.shtm
The Department of Homeland Security’s Blue Campaign offers many resources to the public on the issue of human trafficking. Click here for more information.
Author Kathi Macias notified NewHopeDigital.com of this resource. Her most recent series of novels focuses on the perpetrators, victims, rescuers, and others involved in the human trafficking crisis: Deliver Me from Evil, Special Delivery, and The Deliverer (scheduled for August release).
Tony Merida and David Platt discuss orphan care in the local church. Merida advocates a 3-prong strategy for church leaders: leading with the Word, leading by example, and leading with a simple plan of engagement. The Father to the fatherless will empower the local church to succeed in this mission, says Platt.
Tony Merida is coauthor with Rick Morton of Orphanology: Awakening to Gospel-Centered Adoption and Orphan Care. Merida is also professor of preaching at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and lead pastor of Imago Dei Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. David Platt, pastor of the Church at Brook Hills, wrote the foreword to Orphanology. Merida, Morton, and Platt are all adoptive fathers.
There are a number of articles, videos, and podcasts addressing orphan care on NewHopeDigital.com. Here are just a few links:
Watch as Denise Morton discusses how she handled the waiting process in the adoption of her children. Rick and Denise Morton have adopted 3 children from the Ukraine.
The Mortons played an integral role in the cofounding of Promise 139, an international orphan-hosting ministry. Rick, coauthor of Orphanology, is now associate pastor for discipleship and equipping at Faith Baptist Church in Bartlett, Tennessee.
Orphanology: Awakening to Gospel-Centered Adoption and Orphan Care by Tony Merida and Rick Morton is available as a paperback and an ebook.
Special Delivery, the second novel in the “Freedom” series by Kathi Macias, releases in March 2012. Watch the trailer to learn more about this riveting upcoming release.
Follow Mara as she risks her own precarious safety to rescue a pregant young woman held in modern slavery.
At the same time, halfway around the world in a Thai brothel, a young girl is rescued with the promise of being reunited with her younger sister who was adopted by an interracial couple in the States. They (the couple) are friends of the family of Jonathan Flannery, the Bible student to whom Mara now finds herself attracted.
Meanwhile, Jefe—Mara’s uncle who formerly held her as a sex slave in his San Diego brothel—seeks revenge for Mara’s testimony that put him behind bars for life.
If you have not already, you’ll want to read the action-packed first novel in the “Freedom” series, Deliver Me from Evil. Learn more about Mara, Jonathan, and Jefe—as well as the horrific and all too real problem of human trafficking, which stretches around the world even to our own neighborhoods.
The third and final novel in this series, The Deliverer, is scheduled for release in the fall of 2012.
Watch as Jennifer Kennedy Dean shares insights on the miracle of the Incarnation.
“Jesus came to earth and took upon Himself the constraints of space and time. Born unceremoniously in a stable, His birth was greeted with stable smells and cattle lows. But that hidden moment, noticed by no one of consequence in the world’s estimation, is the moment that defines all other moments. The Word became flesh and made His home among us.”—from Pursuing the Christ by Jennifer Kennedy Dean
Artist Roxanne Lingle also performs original music (“For Me”) with lyrics by Jennifer Kennedy Dean.
Well-respected author and speaker Jennifer Kennedy Dean is executive director of the Praying Life Foundation. Her recent works include Live a Praying Life! and The Power of Small. Don’t miss her upcoming release, Altar’d.
Watch as Kathi Macias discusses serious real-life topics related to her missional fiction.
For more information on sex trafficking, see resources here. You can also download the first 2 chapters of Deliver Me From Evil, which is the first novel in the “Freedom” series. An estimated 27 million people worldwide are held in some form of modern slavery.
People of the Book takes readers deep into Saudi Arabia. Download the first 3 chapters here and begin to learn more about the horrific issue of honor killings. People of the Book is the fourth novel in the “Extreme Devotion” series, which highlights the persecuted church around the world.
Download a free sample of A Christmas Journey Home. This edgy yet heartwarming novel looks at the immigration issue from several angles. Two widows, victims of border violence, find their lives intersect in an unusual way on Christmas Eve. You can also watch a video trailer here.
This segment originally aired October 14, 2011, on The Harvest Show.
A great thought for Thanksgiving and all year from Kimberly Sowell!
What a wonderful banquet God has laid out for us in His Word. He satisfies fully.
Kimberly Sowell has written and contributed to several books from New Hope Publishers. Some of her recent titles include Women of the Covenant, A Passion for Purpose, and Soul Shaping. She is a regular voice on New Hope Digital as well, offering content on adoption, missions, evangelism, parenting, and other subjects.
Watch as Kathi Macias discusses human trafficking and her novel, Deliver Me from Evil. Download the first 2 chapters of the novel here now.
Deliver Me from Evil is the first novel in Kath’s 3-novel Freedom series focused on human trafficking. The second novel, Special Delivery, is scheduled for release in March. You may preorder now.
Find out more about human trafficking by starting with resources and information provided here on New Hope Digital.
This video aired October 13 on The Harvest Show.