David W. Jones

How should Christians live in a created world? God cares deeply about the world he created. And he invites us to engage with, not detach from, the material world. In Every Good Thing, David W. Jones helps Christians think biblically about how to engage with our world, covering topics such as wealth, poverty, stewardship, vocation, and Sabbath.

David Jones' stories and affirmations, cultivated through the tremendous challenges of his recovery journey, have inspired hundreds of people in classes and on social media for over a decade. These affirmations - powerful statements of intention - can be used to transform anxiety, self-doubt, and shame by anyone recovering from trauma and addiction, whether in early recovery or years into their healing journey. To help you understand the practical application of each affirmation, David tells the real story of how and why he created the affirmations and how he uses them daily. He illustrates the book with beautiful photographs spanning his many years of work as a professional photographer. The writing is brave and transparent; David shares how these affirmations changed his life and gives practical suggestions for how they can inspire and empower you in your recovery journey. Whether you read the book cover-to-cover or pick an affirmation for each day, this book can inspire you to keep showing up and changing your thinking from fear to love. David has dedicated his life to gratitude, self-love, and helping others discover the power to transform their own lives by sharing his experience, strength, and hope. He is a lifelong community activist and a trauma-sensitive yoga teacher working in the addiction and mental health industry for twenty years. His story is powerful: it is a story of incredible resilience, trial-and-error, and ultimately creating a recovery path that is unique to him, incorporating AA/twelve-step, Toltec Wisdom, and Yoga. In this book, you will discover how David turned self-hate into self-love and how you can do the same.

THIS BOOK IS NOT JUST FOR PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, IT IS FOR EVERYONE: PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND YOU WHO WONDERS, "WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON?" There is a saying in Texas that goes, "Don't mess with Texas". But DJ, still behind bars, figured, "What are they going to do, lock me up?" In Texas, they do things big and DJ messes with Texas in a big way as he recounts his story of survival and rehabilitation in a Texas prison. A place that says its mission is to, "Promote positive change in offender behavior...", but the reality may just surprise you. Resistance is futile. DJ says, "If you want to know about a society, look at their prisons. What does the government NOT want you, "The People", to know? The short answer is everything. The long answer is in this book. Join DJ as he gives a day-to-day account of prison life, the criminal mind, and demonstrates how harmful Mass Incarceration is to society. Did you know that Texas has as many people incarcerated as does the whole US Federal Prison System? Our nation, society, throws elderly into nursing homes and the people who have anti-social, criminal problems into prisons. There are two very big potholes in the road of life and they cannot just be covered up and ignored. Where did Covid-19 hit the hardest? Nursing homes and the prisons. When DJ began on this road, he lived in a fantasy world. This book is his story of survival, not just in prison but also his childhood. There were a lot of potholes in this road and he hit every one of them. And one of them made him realize that he needed to start Living in Reality. There is no other book that reveals the stark reality of these issues. DJ shares how he changed despite the prison's anti-rehabilitation practices. He delves into his development of criminal thinking, and warns parents of today that if they are not careful, they may be raising future criminals. DJ touches on all hot topics of today, i.e., LGBT, Identity Crises, #metoomovement, criminal justice, crime, hate, racism, sexual assaults, Mass Incarceration, and ex post facto laws, and he shows that the people in prison and in society, though different, are really alike. DJ believes that we, The People, need to hit all these potholes, instead of covering them up. We may find that resistance is not always futile and that we, as a nation, need to begin Living in Reality. Everything you need to know is in this book.

Christianity is taking a giant stride into the absurd. Remove from Christianity its ability to shock and it is altogether destroyed. It becomes a tiny superficial thing, capable neither of inflicting deep wounds nor of healing them. It's when the absurd starts to sound reasonable that we should begin to worry. Soren Kierkegaard

When someone challenges you to think outside of the box, just laugh because you know there is no box. This is The Way. Those who think they know, do not know. Those who think they do not know, know. When you seek knowledge, every day you add something. When you seek wisdom, every day you let something go.

This book serves as an introduction to the field of biblical ethics, a subcategory of the discipline of moral theology. It differs from moral philosophy in that biblical ethics is distinctively Christian, and it is more specific than Christian ethics proper because it specifically focuses upon the application of the moral law -- as it is revealed in Scripture -- to daily living. "Introduction to Biblical Ethics" explains the nature, relevancy, coherency, and structure of the moral law as revealed throughout the Bible. In addition to covering the foundational elements of biblical ethics, major issues investigated in this volume include: different types of law in Scripture, the relationship between the law and the gospel, and issues related to the prospect of conflicting moral absolutes. Additionally, after a discussion of ethical methodology, and using the Ten Commandments as a moral rubric, author David W. Jones explores the place of the moral law in the lives of believers. In the final chapters, the events surrounding the giving of the Decalogue are surveyed, and the application of each of the Ten Commandments to Christian living is explored.

The recent rulings on gay marriage and debates on family-related issues have placed marriage and family at the forefront of the public eye. More so than at any point in history, we are now confronted with the need to carefully define the meaning of marriage and family. Professor Andreas Köstenberger and ethics expert David W. Jones speak to the issues at hand and guide us through the fray. Presenting a Christian theology of marriage and parenting, they offer insight on issues such as: abortioncontraceptioninfertilityadoptionhomosexualitydivorceMarriage and Family: Biblical Essentials points the way to the spiritual solution to our culture’s confusion: a return to, and rebuilding of, the biblical foundation of marriage and the family.

The release of the landmark first edition of God, Marriage, and Family provided an integrated, biblical treatment of God's purposes for the home. Since then, explain authors Andreas Köstenberger and David Jones, the crisis confronting modern households has only intensified, and yet the solution remains the same: obedience to and application of God's Word. In the second edition of God, Marriage, and Family, Köstenberger and Jones explore the latest controversies, cultural shifts, and teachings within both the church and society and further apply Scripture's timeless principles to contemporary issues. This new edition includes an assessment of the family-integrated church movement; discussion of recent debates on corporal punishment, singleness, homosexuality, and divorce and remarriage; new sections on the theology of sex and the parenting of teens; and updated bibliographies. This book will prove to be a valuable resource for personal and group study, Christian counseling, and marriage and family courses.

Mass Motorization and Mass Transit examines how the United States became the world's most thoroughly motorized nation and why mass transit has been more displaced in the United States than in any other advanced industrial nation. The book's historical and international perspective provides a uniquely effective framework for understanding both the intensity of U. S. motorization and the difficulties the country will face in moderating its demands on the world's oil supply and reducing the CO2 emissions generated by motor vehicles. No other book offers as comprehensive a history of mass transit, mass motorization, highway development, and suburbanization or provides as penetrating an analysis of the historical differences between motorization in the United States and that of other advanced industrial nations.