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Modern church leaders need to cultivate innovative and creative leadership skills, as they navigate today’s post-Christian world, and as their congregations look to them for insight and guidance. Gil Stafford takes a fresh look at this vital need, drawing upon his experience as a college coach,...

Why do some churches grow while most don’t?  The mission of the Church has always been to “go and make disciples of all people”.  But between “going” and “making” the Church has to Connect with people. The way disciples are made has not changed in 2000 years. But how we “go”...

In my previous book, Giving to God Is an Investment, my emphasis was prophetically based on the auditorium to be built. In this book, I am now talking about the auditorium worth six point five million rand that was dedicated in 2005. With God all things are possible. Those who trust in him, their...

In our challenging economic times, it is no surprise that churches must get creative with their resources. But the authors of The More-with-Less Church believe pastors, leadership teams, and planning committees should look on times such as these not as hurdles to overcome but as opportunities to reconsider...

During the eighteen centuries that have elapsed since the close of the Scripture canon, not a single statement of the written word of God has been disproved by any human discovery. All the attempts of scoffers and critics and historians and scientists and philosophers to throw discredit upon the inspired...

The Canonical Gospels. As far back as we can trace them the four Gospels known as Canonical hold a place of honour and authority peculiar to themselves. Irenæus of Gaul (circa a.d. 175) recognises four, and only four, Gospels as the ‘pillars’ that uphold the Church (Adv. Haer. iii. 8). Origen,...

Michael Peppard provides a historical and theological reassessment of the oldest Christian building ever discovered, the third-century house-church at Dura-Europos. Contrary to commonly held assumptions about Christian initiation, Peppard contends that rituals here did not primarily embody notions of...

John Bunyan (28 November 1628 31 August 1688) was an English Christian writer and preacher, famous for writing The Pilgrim's Progress. Though he was a Reformed Baptist, in the Church of England he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August, and on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church...

The Church of the East is currently the only complete history in English of the East Syriac Church of the East. It covers the periods of the Sassanians, Arabs, Mongols, Ottomans, the 20th century, and informs about the Syriac, Iranian and Chinese literature of this unique and almost forgotten part of Christendom.

Eusebius of Caesarea (c. AD 263339) also called Eusebius Pamphili, was a Roman historian. Little is known of Eusebius since much of his work is lost, and no copies remain of a biography of Eusebius by Acacius. He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Together with Pamphilus,...

Leadership in the church is both a basic requirement and a significant problem. For every congregation that has benefitted from good leadership, there is at least one more that has suffered from bad leadership. This Bible Study has been prepared to help church leaders focus on their call to leadership...

“I fear that many of our churches may well have unwittingly become conspirators in the domestic violence and abuse of our sisters, and our brothers.  Not only have we been silent, we have silenced the victims.”  Windsor Queensborough How has the Church managed to turn itself into a place...

Tap into the power of social media. Make it work for you. Like. Dislike. Repost. Hide. How has social media affected your church? Are you aware of all the advances to using social media in your ministry? Are you making it work for your church? How can your ministry fully take advantage of everything...

This is a summary, sad but true, of what was intended to be the greatest demonstration of God's wisdom, to the world, throughout the ages. Through a single body of people called the Church. Sadly, today the Western Church is anything but that. Rather, it is an object of ridicule, fragmented into tens...