Discernment

The church is in trouble - not because the culture has grown more hostile, but because the people of God have stopped thinking carefully.

False teachers fill stadiums. Sincere believers are silenced by cultural pressure on issues Scripture speaks to plainly. Churches that once stood on the Word of God now echo the language of the age. And millions of Christians - good people, genuine believers - are navigating the hardest moral and spiritual questions of their lives without the one tool God designed for exactly this moment: discernment.

Discernment: Discovering God's Wisdom by Applying Biblical Truths is a direct, rigorous, and pastoral response to that crisis.

Drawing on the full counsel of Scripture and the rich depth of the Christian theological tradition - from Calvin and Luther to Schaeffer, Sproul, and Keller - Dr. David Paul Martin equips believers to do what the Bible calls every Christian to do: to test all things, hold fast to what is good, and think with a mind transformed by the Word of God.

This book addresses the questions that are actually breaking churches and fracturing families:

• What is discernment, and how is it developed?
• Why can't we trust our own instincts - and what should we trust instead?
• How do the world, the flesh, and the enemy specifically work to destroy our ability to think clearly?
• What does Scripture say about abortion, human sexuality, and gender - and how do we hold those convictions with both truth and love?
• How do we recognize false teaching and prosperity theology for what they are?
• What does it mean to be a Christian in a culture that has made tolerance the only non-negotiable value?

This is not a book of vague encouragement or spiritual platitudes. It is a framework - biblically grounded, theologically tested, and practically applied - for Christians who are serious about knowing truth and courageous enough to live by it.

God has spoken. His Word is sufficient. What His people need is the training to use it.

Discernment gives you that training.