This past Sunday, you may have noticed some books on the shelves of the welcome desk in the foyer. These are resources we would like to highlight to the congregation for a period of time.    

This semester’s books have been selected to fall into five categories. Categories and titles include:  

Theology: A Theology of Biblical Counseling by Heath Lambert.  

Sanctification: Precious Remedies for Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks.  

Christian Biography: Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor by D. A. Carson.  

Church History/Cultural Evaluation: 5 Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age by Rosaria Butterfield.  

The Church: The Book Your Pastor Wishes You Would Read by Christopher Ash.  

The purpose of highlighting these resources is simply to put biblically solid, Christ-exalting, affection-fueling resources in the hands of the members at Summit Woods for their personal growth in the Lord, to equip them to do the work of ministry, and for use in discipleship relationships.   

Perhaps you’ve been looking for a new book for yourself to read in your devotional time, or perhaps you’ve been wanting to get together with a brother or sister in the Lord and desire to encourage them in their walk with the Lord – these resources are there to be readily available for you in addition to the books provided in the resource room.   

Today's highlight is Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age by Rosaria Butterfield. 

“This book is for Christians, especially Christian women, who aren’t ashamed of the Bible and its teachings—or who are and want to change.” This is the opening statement of Butterfield’s preface to Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age. The book is written for Christians living in an age and culture “blinded by the god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4), and who want to know what some of the most prevalent and damaging lies of this current blindness are. 

In the forward to this book, Kevin DeYoung notes that “The devil is a liar...[he] lies to us in many ways...That is why the book you are reading is so important...this book is a book about truth—truth you may have never heard, truth you may have forgotten, or truth you already know but haven’t dared to embrace.” 

Butterfield tackles five key lies across fourteen chapters: (1) that homosexuality is normal, (2) that being a spiritual person is kinder than being a biblical Christian, (3) that feminism is good for the world and the church, (4) that transgenderism is normal, and (5) that modesty is an outdated burden that serves male dominance and holds women back. Amid the world’s claims, Butterfield takes readers through Scripture to see the truth of God on these pressing issues. And although she has women readers particularly in mind, both men and women would benefit from reading through this book as an excellent biblical evaluation of the culture around us. 

Butterfield writes with both past personal experience and present academic knowledge of the LGBTQ+ community and claims, and she offers a biblically robust response to these five lies that equips readers with insight and confidence in Scripture’s answers. 

This book would serve as a great introduction to the topics of homosexuality, transgenderism, and feminism, and help root readers not in political or worldly stances, but in God’s unchanging Word on gender, humanity, and truth.