Bøker av Tim Bayly

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes . . . what, exactly?Marriage is hard work. It's often full of failure and heartache. After all, husbands and wives are sinners. And even if they're both Christians who want to serve God and obey Scripture, it can be hard to know how, especially in twenty-first-century America.Wouldn't it be nice if there was a marriage book that was honest about marriage? One that gave everyday practical advice without pretending like it could solve all your problems in ten easy steps? One that didn't try to hide the Bible's straightforward teaching on sexuality? One that gave you hope in God's promises without papering over the messy work involved in building a godly home in a sinful world? What if there was a marriage book that was just . . . helpful?Pastor Tim Bayly decided to write one. After four decades of pastoral ministry and thousands of hours counseling hundreds of married couples, he boils down some of his most helpful wisdom on marriage. And everything is on the table: birth control, fighting with your spouse, what books to read together, approaching physical intimacy when emotional intimacy is sorely lacking, dealing with sexual abuse, raising kids who love God, confessing sin . . . and much, much more. In these essays you'll find truly practical guidance rooted in the wisdom of God's Word.Marriage is difficult. But with the Lord's kindness, The Helpful Marriage Book will make it a little easier.

Every father knows failure. It comes with the territory. One generation to the next, imperfect men chip away at God's original design for daddies, leaving a flawed pattern for their sons to follow. Overwhelmed by their failures, it's easy for fathers to feel they have blown it for good and can't redeem themselves.Within these pages, Tim Bayly offers a frank and hope-filled path to overcoming the inherent failures of imperfect fathersand to reclaiming manhood and dignity for the man called Daddy. Drawing from decades of his own journey as an imperfect son, father, and pastor, Bayly makes it clear there are no quick fixes. The road to recovery is paved with blood, sweat, and tears, but our Savior walked this path before us.Daddy Tried makes no apologies for being a book for men. Its subject is the male-only club of fatherhood. It takes the only perfect Father as our guide. Bayly stares the sins of fathers past, present, and future squarely in the face and clears a path to overcoming thema path that begins with faith in our heavenly Father who tells us He knows our weaknesses.

For this generation of Christians in the western world, sexuality is the battle being waged in the culture. Traditional marriage is out the window and every manner of sexual perversity is being pushed as good and healthy and normal on TV, in the movies, by the mainstream media, and by the fathers of our city and nation. At the forefront of this battle is homosexuality.It's easy for Christians to see the enemy out thereto see all the ways that the modern tolerance machine is tearing down the bulwark of God's moral law. But what if the culture doesn't lead the church? What if the church leads the culture? What if the real responsibility lies with us?The Grace of Shame exposes the errors the church has made on sexuality over the last several decades, from failing to understand the sin of effeminacy to promoting the ';gay Christian' movement. With reverence for the church universal, and a keen prophetic eye for the sins and failures of our modern church, this book exposes all the ways we have allowed this sin to triumph in the culture at large, and offers hope for the future.