Bøker av Kyle Roberts

We live in a great big world where we receive and send messages every day. Some of these messages are about our bodies and can alter the way we see ourselves. Join Wade on his quest as he first struggles and then--with the help of parents and friends--comes to understand that he is happy to be himself and is truly beautiful the way he is.Our kids receive hundreds, possibly thousands of messages every day from friends, family members, acquaintances, advertisements, social media, TV, and elsewhere. So many of these messages are about our bodies and can alter the way we see ourselves. It is so important for us to teach our kids to filter out negative messages and develop a healthy body image. And that is the purpose of Wade''s Story!This fun, extremely relatable story helps kids see they are not alone in feeling confused and sometimes bombarded by "messages" all around them. Written by parents and professionals who have struggled with body image issues themselves and understand the magnitude of cultural, familial and media messaging, this book is a great way to combat the barrage of negative messages continually saturating our kids.Be sure to read Messages About Me more than once with your child and check out the highly useful workbook section at the end of the story. With meaningful discussion questions, activities, and tips, it provides parents and teachers ample opportunities to teach and reinforce positive body image practices. These resources focus on messages we receive from peers, adults and media, how to combat unhealthy messages, and how to develop a truly healthy body image.Parents can pick and choose from various discussion questions, reread the books during different phases of life and engage in other important discussions when their child is ready.Helpful Features for Parents and Teachers include:ΓÇóConversation starters ΓÇóWorkbook questions ΓÇóSimple, meaningful activitiesAlso available in ebook format.Feel free to check out Messages about Me for girls, Sydney''s Story: A Journey to Healthy Body Image. For free lessons and helpful resources look for us online, Educate and Empower Kids.

We live in a great big world where we receive and send messages every day. Some of these messages are about our bodies and can alter the way we see ourselves. Join Sydney on her journey as she first struggle and then--with the help of parents and friends--comes to understand that she is happy to be herself and is truly beautiful the way she is.This fun, extremely relatable story helps kids see they are not alone in feeling confused and sometimes bombarded by "messages" all around them.Our kids receive hundreds, possibly thousands of messages every day from friends, family members, acquaintances, advertisements, social media, TV, and elsewhere. So many of these messages are about our bodies and can alter the way we see ourselves. It is so important for us to teach our kids to filter out negative messages and develop a healthy body image. And that is the purpose of Sydney''s Story!Written by parents and professionals who have struggled with body image issues themselves and understand the magnitude of cultural, familial and media messaging, Sydney''s Story is a great way to combat the barrage of negative messages continually saturating our kids.Be sure to read Messages About Me more than once with your child and check out the highly useful workbook section at the end of the story. With meaningful discussion questions, activities, and tips, it provides parents and teachers ample opportunities to teach and reinforce positive body image practices. These resources focus on messages we receive from peers, adults and media, how to combat unhealthy messages, and how to develop a truly healthy body image.Parents can pick and choose from various discussion questions, reread the books during different phases of life and engage in other important discussions when their child is ready.Helpful Features for Parents and Teachers include:ΓÇóConversation starters ΓÇóWorkbook questions ΓÇóSimple, meaningful activitiesAlso available in ebook format.Feel free to check out Messages about Me for boys, Wade''s Story: A Quest for Healthy Body Image. For free lessons and helpful resources look for us online, Educate and Empower Kids.

Kierkegaard was a prophet who critiqued ""Christendom,"" the perversion of authentic, New Testament Christianity into the institutionalized, materialistic, triumphalist, and flabby religion of modernism. Emergent Christianity is attempting to carve out a more authentic way of being Christian and doing church within--and beyond--the ineffectual, institutionalized church of modernity. In many ways, Kierkegaard''s critiques, concerns, and goals overlap with emergent Christianity and the emerging church. For the first time, this book brings Kierkegaard into a dialogue with various postmodern forms of Christianity, on topics like revelation and the Bible, the atonement and moralism, and the church as an ""apologetic of witness."" In conversation with postmodern philosophers, contemporary theologians, and emergent leaders, Kierkegaard is offered as a prophetic voice for those who are carving out an alternative expression of the New Testament today and attempting to follow Christ through works of love.""Following Kierkegaard, Roberts encourages and displays a healthy rhythm of critical distance and active engagement--funding both the critique of the idols of modernism, moralism, and Christendom, and the creative retrieval of a proper understanding of the revelation of God in Scripture and our imaginative, hermeneutical engagement with it.""--Christopher Ben Simpson, author of The Truth is the Way: Kierkegaard''s Theologia Viatorum""To ''emergent'' Christians experimenting with faith apart from the benefits of established Christianity, Roberts introduces Kierkegaard as an invaluable resource. To those of us who have wrestled with Kierkegaard, Roberts introduces a growing group of creative, faithful Christians who wrestle with radical discipleship. Whether they are scholars, students, or seekers, this book is for all who wonder and worry about the shape of Christian faith and church today.""--Jason A. Mahn, author of Fortunate Fallibility: Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin""As emergent Christianity has gained more traction in the church, serious scholars have been paying attention and adding to the conversation. Rarely has a book been published in this vein about which I am as excited as I am about Emerging Prophet. To put the emerging church movement into conversation with Kierkegaard is, I think, a stroke of genius--it''s a match made in heaven.""--Tony Jones, author of The Church Is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement""In this compelling and well-written volume, Roberts brings the postmodern commitments of the emerging church into fruitful conversation with Kierkegaard. In so doing he makes a powerful case that emergence Christianity is generally consistent with Kierkegaard''s vision of a Christian alternative to Christendom. This is one of the best books yet on the potential significance of the emerging church movement for the future of Christianity in the West.""--John R. Franke, author of Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth""At a time when the church is in the midst of transition, Roberts calls out the passionate, ironic, scathing, beautiful voice of Kierkegaard to help us imagine faithful ecclesiological alternatives. It''s a brilliant move--hopeful, generative, insightful, and instructive.""--Debbie Blue, author of From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live AgainKyle A. Roberts (PhD) is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Lead Faculty for Christian Thought at Bethel Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota.