Lina AbuJamra, founder of Living With Power Ministries, is a pediatric ER doctor, now practicing telemedicine. Her vision is to bring hope to the world by connecting biblical answers to everyday life. Lina fell in love with teaching the Bible while working as the Women's Ministry Director at a megachurch. Now a popular Bible teacher and podcaster, she speaks extensively at conferences, retreats and colleges, both here and overseas. Her desire is to ignite passion for Jesus in the hearts of God's people, and to help them experience the beauty of Jesus' healing and the power of hope. Hope to see deep-felt lasting life change, hope to cling to the truth of the Gospel, and hope to believe and live out who Jesus calls them to be. Not unfamiliar with pain and brokenness, Lina's authenticity and humor helps her connect with audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Lina ministers to singles through her Moody Radio show, Today's Single Christian, and also provides medical care and humanitarian aid to refugees in Lebanon, Ukraine, and others in disaster areas. She is the author of several books, including Fractured Faith: Finding Your Way Back to God in an Age of Deconstruction, Resolved, Thrive, Stripped, and her forthcoming book Don't Tell Anyone You're Reading This: A Christian Doctor's Thoughts on Sex, Shame, and Other Troublesome Issues. Her Bible study, Through the Desert, the first Bible study in the Mapping the Footsteps of God series, released by David C Cook in Spring 2023.
In Don't Tell Anyone You're Reading This, Dr. Lina AbuJamra gives a refreshing and honest look at what it’s like to struggle with sexual temptation and shame and how the Church can better support Christians and communities in these challenging and often avoided topics.
Are you wondering why you picked up this book? Don’t worry. Your secret is safe with me. Maybe you’re like me—a good person living a decent life, making a living and working hard. You go to church on Sundays and pray before your meals. But you have a secret, a hidden part of your life that you’d be ashamed for anyone to find out about.
I get it. I really do. I have secrets too. The thing with secrets is that they eventually come out.
Instead of hiding, let’s have a difficult conversation, a real talk about secrets and shame and sex and a lot of things in between. Difficult conversations don’t have to be difficult, but they do have to be honest.
In Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Reading This, Lina shares her own struggle with sexual temptation with openness and vulnerability. She points out where the church and purity culture have failed our communities. Lina gets real about the excuses we make and the lies we tell ourselves even when our behaviors point to a larger problem.
This is a no-holds-barred discussion on why Christians still struggle with sexual sin and what the church needs to be doing to support Christians and the community at large. Most importantly, you’ll see that despite our constant failures as humans, Jesus doesn’t ask us to be perfect. He just asks us to be His.
If you’re going to have a difficult conversation, you might as well have it with a doctor.
Do you want to live a life that is greatly used by God? Do you long to make a difference in the world?
In Stripped, Lina explains the process that God uses to transform you into a person who is ready to receive all that God has planned. You will learn:
1. Pain is not the enemy—it’s the very road God uses to make you stronger.
2. The Christian life isn’t easy, but God’s presence is your guarantee for joy no matter what you’re going through.
Lina helps you to think biblically about your calling and dreams and uncovers the truth about the transformational power of the gospel. Stripped is a book for every person who longs for more but is often surprised that the road usually begins with pain—the pain of being stripped.
Stripped is about the broken and surrendered life, about understanding the stripping process that must take place for sold out Christians to be used by God to build His kingdom. In it you will: