Church Institutions category: 259 books
Transplanted Christianity
Documents illustrating aspects of New Zealand Church history
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1986
Transplanted Christianity is a comprehensive collection of documents detailing the history of the church in New Zealand from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day. Informative introductions and explanations by Allan Davidson and Peter Lineham fill in the context and make...
The Everychurch Guide to Growth
How Any Plateaued Church Can Grow
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
A growing church is a living church, but much of the attention in church growth today is focused on making big churches bigger. This encouraging new book shows members of small and medium-sized congregations how to revive and expand their ministries as well. Churches of every size tend to plateau...
by Anthony G. Pappas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
This demonstrates amazingly, with unflinching honesty and a wonderfully redeeming sense of humor, a resource especially helpful in motivating change and growth by mobilizing the natural strengths of small churches. For you who have been looking for a reliable guide to interpret the world of the small...
The Church Index
A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise, Part 1: Kensington
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
A comprehensive record of the churches in Kensington, London in the early 1870s. Churches of all christian faiths are covered, with particular emphasis on the ecclesiastical, historical, clerical, architectural, religious and social information for each church and parish.
by William Durandus
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
THE SYMBOLISM OF: Churches and Church Ornaments
A TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE: Rationale Divinorum Officiorum
Author Preface: The interest which has lately been displayed, as on all subjects connected with Ecclesiology, so more especially on the symbolical bearing of...
by James Blaine Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Though obviously a book written specifically for the Nazarene church, it would certainly serve as a great study for anyone attending (or interested in) a holiness or Pentecostal / Charismatic church.
The Table of Contents are as follows: THE NAZARENE CREED IN BRIEF ARTICLES OF FAITH OF THE...
by Alan Kreider, Eleanor Kreider
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Today, as Christendom weakens, worship and mission are poised to reunite after centuries of separation. But this requires the church to rethink both mission and worship. In post-Christendom mission, God is the main actor and God calls all Christians to participate. In post-Christendom worship, the...
In Academia for the Church
Eastern and Central European Theological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Tension between theory and practice in theological education is an unfortunate yet common occurrence, with educators sometimes finding themselves on one extreme or the other. Some academics can be so immersed in high-level theological discourse that they hardly interact with the main questions of...
Piloting Church
Helping Your Congregation Take Flight
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Prepare your church for take-off
A majority of churches are grounded - shrinking in membership and resources, unsure how to make the changes needed to be vital again. Pastor and pilot Cameron Trimble has helped hundreds of congregations get airborne again, and Piloting Church: Helping Your...
Catholic Bishops in the United States
Church Leadership in the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
In the past thirty years, the Catholic bishops of the United States have made headlines with their statements on nuclear disarmament and economic justice, their struggles to address sexual abuse by clergy, and their defense of refugees and immigrants. Despite many similarities, the nearly two hundred...
by Dr. Buddy Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2007
Momentary Ministers . . . Most people think it takes a long time--years, months or even days to accomplish something profound, something great for God. The truth of the matter is that church greeters have this opportunity every time someone walks through the doors of their church. Greeters have the...
by Jim Manney
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
What is discernment? Who was Peter Faber? Why do the Jesuits exude such optimism?
Awareness. Emotions. Love. Work. We use such words every day in normal conversation, but those same words take on special meaning when used in the context of Ignatian spirituality. Other words and phrases, such...
Ordained Holy Men
Power, sex and sexuality in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
This provocative work presents a layperson perspective of a Catholic Church bureaucracy, a male clerical caste of privilege, which manifests controlling power, secrecy and resistance to conform to a fast-paced and changing world. The author's three year mission service in Africa became an enlightening...
by G. H. Lang
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
If you've ever wondered what the churches of the New Testament looked like - how they functioned, how they were governed, how they conducted their evangelistic and missionary enterprises, what ordinances they observed, what their liturgy consisted of, how decisions were made, how discipline was administered;...