Church category: 10276 books
Put Service Back into the Church Service
Making Your Church Service Look More Like Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Churches around the world are trying to revitalize their church services. There is almost nothing they will not try. Some embark on multi-million dollar building campaigns while others sell their buildings to plant home churches. Some hire celebrity pastors to attract crowds of people, while others...
by Bob Farr, Kay Kotan
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Ten Prescriptions for a Healthy Church offers prescriptions for the top ten issues seen during church consultations. Bob Farr and Kay Kotan share their expertise from working with churches across the country, detailing the most common concerns and obstacles, and then go straight to the point: What...
The Gospel-Driven Church
Uniting Church Growth Dreams with the Metrics of Grace
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Many evangelical churches face the problem of the open "back door"--even as new people arrive, older members are leaving, looking for something else. Combined with this problem is the discipleship deficit, the difficult truth that most evangelicals are not reaching the unchurched at the...
This is the Church that God Built
A History of Crossway Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Crossway church has served the community of the Elephant and Castle for over a century and from three different buildings. Today it is home to ten congregations, three day centres, and numerous community groups.
This book traces some of the church's history against the wider context of urban...
The Eastern Orthodox Church
Its Thought and Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Western European Christendom finds it difficult to comprehend the Eastern Orthodox Church because it knows little about the practice and doctrines of Orthodoxy. Even what is known is overlaid by many strata of prejudices and misunderstandings, partly political in nature. One of the obstacles has been...
La Iglesia
Pueblo de Dios llamado a la comunión
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 3, 2018
The refrain of a popular Spanish hymn proclaims, “I am the Church, you are the Church, we are the Church.” With this as a keynote, Hosffman Ospino draws on the deep conviction among Hispanic Catholics that they are called to be the Church—locally, nationally, and globally—and provides a basic...
One Blood
Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Dr. Perkins’ final manifesto on race, faith, and reconciliation
We are living in historic times. Not since the civil rights movement of the 60s has our country been this vigorously engaged in the reconciliation conversation. There is a great opportunity right now for culture to change, to...
Church History, Volume One: From Christ to the Pre-Reformation
The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Church History offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and developed. It did so, not in a vacuum, but in a setting of times, cultures, and events that both influenced and were influenced by the church. Church History looks closely at the integral link between the history...
What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
This provocative addition to The Church and Postmodern Culture series offers a lively rereading of Charles Sheldon's In His Steps as a constructive way forward. John D. Caputo introduces the notion of why the church needs deconstruction, positively defines deconstruction's role in renewal, deconstructs...
by F Donald Logan
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
"Conceptually well organized, stylistically clear, intellectually thoughtful, and pedagogically useful."
- Thomas Head, Speculum
"For its humane and learned approach to its enormous canvas, as well as for the cogency with which it penetrates at speed to the essentials...
The Catholic Church
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Roman Catholicism stands at a crossroads, a classic ''best of times, worst of times'' moment. On the one hand, the Catholic Church remains by far the largest branch of the worldwide Christian family, and is growing at a remarkable clip. Yet the Church has also been rocked by a series of scandals related...
Church History, Volume Two: From Pre-Reformation to the Present Day
The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Church history is the story of the greatest community the world has known and the greatest movement in world history. Yet, just as the biblical record of the people of God is the story of a mixed people with great acts of faith and great failures in sin and unfaithfulness, so is the history of the...
by Scott Oldenburgh
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Pastor/Author Scott Oldenburgh does more than present a description of the bad state of the contemporary church; he provides a way to return church to what it should be. Using his own experience as a starting point, he offers very workable solutions to improve the current condition of the church.As...
by Caleb Howard Courtney
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2016
The history of Pentecostalism in Sarnia, Ontario has been all but forgotten. For many years, the narrative began in 1936, with Edna Riblet, a Free Methodist lady, who opened a Sunday School on the outskirts of the city. The account in this book celebrates this known story, but also rediscovers a previous...