A STRANGER IN BABYLON

You feel it, don't you? That deep, spiritual whiplash.

You're trying to live a faithful Christian life, but the world around you is changing at a dizzying pace. The values you hold sacred are not just ignored; they are celebrated as evil and condemned as hate. You feel increasingly like a stranger in your own homeland, a foreigner navigating a landscape that is both familiar and profoundly alien.

You're told to either conquer the culture through political power or retreat from it into a holy huddle. But both paths feel like a betrayal of your calling. So what do you do? How do you live when you no longer belong?

Your field guide to faithful living in a world gone mad has arrived.

A Stranger in Babylon: A Call to Faithful Exile in an Idolatrous Age is not another book bemoaning the end of civilization. It is a profound, hope-filled, and urgently needed manifesto for every Christian who feels the tension of modern life. This is a deep, diagnostic, and powerfully practical blueprint for how to not only survive but thrive as a citizen of Heaven while living in the heart of a fallen world.

Within these pages, you will discover:

• The Hidden Gods of the Modern Age: Learn to name the new pantheon of idols-from the cult of the Self to the gods of Power, Pleasure, and Profit-that demand your worship every single day.
• The Unchanging Pattern of a Nation's Fall: See how the ancient cycle of rebellion that toppled Israel is replaying in our own time, and understand exactly what we are witnessing.
• The "Jeremiah 29" Strategy for Exiles: Uncover the biblical model for being deeply engaged in your community without giving it your ultimate allegiance. This is the powerful third path between sell-out assimilation and cowardly isolation.
• A Spirituality for the Furnace: Develop the spiritual disciplines of discernment, lament, and renewed thinking that will allow your faith to withstand the heat of cultural pressure.
• The Church as an Alternative City: Learn how your local community of believers can become a radiant "city on a hill," modeling the economics, politics, and sexual ethics of the Kingdom of God in stunning, tangible contrast to the world.
• An Unshakable, Certain Hope: Ground your life not in the shifting sands of politics or cultural trends, but in the triumphant, final vision of a New Jerusalem and the catastrophic fall of every rival kingdom.