What a privilege it is for me to have the opportunity to finally write the book version of "Christianity and Homosexuality (Reconciled): New Thinking for a New Millennium." For many years, I have been teaching a seminar and workshop on this topic at Christ Evangelical Bible Institute (CEBI) in Phoenix, Arizona. The seminar and workshop became so popular that I eventually received invitations from churches throughout the USA and Canada to present it to their congregations in order that they might better understand the scriptural basis for the affirmation that God loves, and accepts, both heterosexuals and homosexuals alike (without viewing one as better than the other).

In order to help meet the demand, I ended up professionally video taping the seminar and workshop and offered the resulting three-and-one-half hour series through CEBI as both part of our "Christianity and Homosexuality" correspondence course as well as on a stand alone basis for those who were not interested in pursuing certificates of course completion. Overall, the video tape series has done quite well, not only having sold throughout most of the United States but also as far away as Vancouver (British Colombia), London (England) and Harare (Zimbabwe).

Though the video tapes were designed so that they could be used alone, I also developed an accompanying workbook and manual that provides pre-viewing activities, biblical citations, and post-viewing questions for each segment as well as transcripts of the video tapes, edited to enhance comprehension, so that students might better study and reflect on the lessons contained therein. To date, the complete package of video tapes, workbook and manual, and transcripts has been used by many students of the Bible in individual, small group, and congregational study.

Now, recognizing that it is time for new thinking and new ideas on the issue of Christianity and homosexuality to be presented to a significantly greater number of people for this new millennium, I have taken all of my previous writings and additional notes and committed them to book form in order to meet the ever-increasing demand for information of this topic. It is important for more people to be exposed to this information in order to better facilitate discussion, Christian debate, and eventual understanding and acceptance that Christianity and homosexuality are, indeed, reconcilable.

In short, I have written this book: 1) to help resolve conflict within people's minds concerning the reconcilability of Christianity and homosexuality; 2) to better equip both heterosexuals and homosexuals to combat tyranny from those who would try to rob homosexuals of what is rightfully theirs through Christ Jesus (i.e., salvation, spiritual power, peace, joy, faith, hope and love); and, 3) to bring more honor and glory and praise to our Creator and Savior, Jesus Christ, by drawing more people closer to His cross.