Church category: 10276 books
Reformers and Babylon
English Apocalyptic Visions from the Reformation to the Eve of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Starting in the 1530s with John Bale, English reformers found in the apocalyptic mysteries of the Book of Revelation a framework for reinterpreting the history of Christianity and explaining the break from the Roman Catholic Church. Identifying the papacy with antichrist and the Roman Catholic Church...
Taxing the Church
Religion, Exemptions, Entanglement, and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book explores the taxation and exemption of churches and other religious institutions, both empirically and normatively. This exploration reveals that churches and other religious institutions are treated diversely by the federal and state tax systems. Sectarian institutions pay more tax than...
Renovate or Die
10 Ways to Focus Your Church on Mission
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Be the Church Jesus calls us to be.
Bob Farr asserts that to change the world, we must first change the Church. As Adam Hamilton says in the Foreword, “Read [this book] carefully with other leaders in your church…You’ll soon discover both a desire to renovate your church and the tools...
Church That Works
Your One-Stop Resource for Effective Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The expertise of veteran church consultant and best-selling author Gary McIntosh is now available in an easily portable format. McIntosh offers readers his invaluable insights on the church in order to help leaders make their churches more effective. It's just like hiring your own church consultant,...
by Stuart Murray
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
How will the western church negotiate the demise of Christendom? Can it rediscover its primary calling, recover its authentic ethos and regain its nerve? If churches are to thrive--or even survive--disturbing questions need to be confronted and answered. In conversation with Christians who have left...
Renovation of the Church
What Happens When a Seeker Church Discovers Spiritual Formation
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Copastors Kent Carlson and Mike Lueken tell the story of how God took their thriving, consumer-oriented church and transformed it into a modest congregation of unformed believers committed to the growth of the spirit--even when it meant a decline in numbers. As Kent and Mike found out, a decade of...
by Larry Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
In Sticky Church, author and pastor Larry Osborne makes the case that closing the back door of your church is even more important than opening the front door wider. He offers a time-tested strategy for doing so: sermon-based small groups that dig deeper into the weekend message and tightly velcro...
Why Nobody Wants to Go to Church Anymore
And How 4 Acts of Love Will Make Your Church Irresistible
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This book will forever change the way you think about church! The statistics are clear: The American church is in decline. People are leaving in astounding numbers, with no sign of a turnaround. And despite church leaders’ best efforts to stem the tide, more than 80 percent of people are finding...
Change Your Church for Good
The Art of Sacred Cow Tipping
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2007
The church is the hope of the world when it's working right...and therein lies the problem. Most aren't. This has led both Christians and non-Christians to give up on the church entirely; it has led many others to give up on all existing churches-and maybe even start new ones. But all church can and...
by Mark Paul
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Why is the church of today so different than what we read in the Bible? Why aren't there any real miracles today like there were back then? Why is the world in such a horrible state and why isn't America leading the way to make it better the way we used to?
The answers to these and many questions...
Ekklesia
Three Inquiries in Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has not been one of freedom or separation but one of unstable...
Religious Routes to Gladstonian Liberalism
The Church Rate Conflict in England and Wales 1852–1868
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 1994
This book, covering the period 1832 to 1868, describes how the so-called "church rates" controversy contributed to the rise of a secular liberal state in England and Wales. The church rate was an ancient tax required of all ratepayers, regardless of denomination, for the upkeep of parish...
The Measure of a Healthy Church
How God Defines Greatness in a Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
In a world of competing voices about what church is all about, Gene Getz, with the wisdom God has granted him over decades of ministry, provides a solidly grounded and thoroughly biblical approach to how God assesses the strength, health, and maturity of a local church. Previously titled The Measure...
by Nathaniel Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Unique as it is, the black church of America appears to be confused. If the church really has elevated the culture, experience, and tradition of its people above the truth of the Word of God, then now is the time to observe, study, and ultimately transform the black church into all it can be.
Nathaniel...