Built for Babylon

Standing without bowing in a culture of compromise

You didn't choose the century you were born into, or the cultural moment that would surround your life. God did. Built for Babylon walks through the book of Daniel to answer the question every believer is now living with: how do we stay faithful in a culture we can't agree with, among people we're commanded to love, without becoming what we were sent to reach?

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What's Inside

Three movements, nine chapters.

Daniel and his friends were carried into an empire that destroyed their city, renamed them, retrained them, pressured them to compromise, and eventually demanded their worship. They lived in Babylon, but Babylon never lived in them. The book follows that arc.

Understanding Babylon

What Babylon actually is, and why your address is part of your assignment.

1 God Plants People in Places
2 The Spirit of Babylon

The Pressure of Babylon

Four pressures every believer feels, named plainly and answered from Scripture.

3 Babylon Will Try to Rename You
4 Babylon Will Try to Retrain Your Thinking
5 Babylon Will Try to Normalize Compromise
6 Babylon Will Demand Your Worship

III

Faithful in Babylon

Conviction without contempt, courage without combativeness, and a life that multiplies where it was planted.

7 I Will Not Bow
8 I Will Bless Babylon
9 I Will Multiply in Babylon

Who It's For

Written for people carrying the tension.

Believers in the workplace

You work inside systems that don't share your convictions and you're trying to serve with excellence without quietly adjusting what you believe.

Parents raising kids here

You're raising children in a culture that wants to disciple them before they can recognize what discipleship is.

Pastors and small groups

Nine short chapters with clear Scripture anchors, sized for a teaching series or a group study through Daniel.

About the Author

Dr. Jason Hanash

Jason is the founding and lead pastor of Discovery Church in Bakersfield, California, which he leads alongside his wife, Dr. Veronica Hanash. He has served as a pastor since 2006. A United States Navy veteran who served in Iraq, he carries a passion to help people encounter Jesus, become disciples, and live with courageous faith in the real world.

He is also the author of Christ Formed in You and The Three Dimensions of Leadership. Jason and Veronica are committed to raising leaders, strengthening families, planting churches, and seeing the kingdom of God advance in California and beyond.

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