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Scripture & Discernment
Decision Making in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Luke Timothy Johnson begins his study of the practical issue of how decisions are made in the church by admitting to a bias: that there ought to be a connection between what the church claims to be, and how it does things. Because the church claims to be a community of faith, it does not reach decisions...
Church Chat
Snapshots of a Changing Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
On March 13, 2013, the Catholic Church changed dramatically when Pope Francis I, the Argentine slum walker, immediately began to redefine the papacy. His refreshing yet humble leadership collides with the approach of previous popes and revives the themes of the Second Vatican Council. In Church Chat,...
by Bob Russell, Rusty Russell
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Pastor Bob Russell shares the ten principles upon which Southeast Christian Church, one of the largest and fastest growing churches in America, was founded. He shares not only the story of one of the most amazing churches in America, but also what your church can become if you follow the principles...
No Longer Church As Usual
Restoring First Century Values and Structure to the 21st Century Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The church is not a brick an mortar building. The church is not choirs, ushers or dynamic preachers. The church is not programs, events, or fundraisers for noble causes. The church is more than just a weekly get-together in a house or dedicated building. The church is life with purpose. It is life...
Your Church Is Too Safe
Why Following Christ Turns the World Upside-Down
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
“These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.” That was the startled cry, circa 50 AD, from a hastily assembled mob in Thessalonica. These men who have turned the world upside: their description of Paul and Silas. Holy vandals on the loose, anointed marauders running amok,...
Beyond the Broken Church
How to Leave Church Problems Behind Without Leaving the Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Beyond the Broken Church is a collection of heartfelt learnings from Sarah Cunningham, a young adult raised in the faith, about the church she's not always sure she wants to be part of. The book engages concerns of a disillusioned generation head on and offers hope and honest, practical ideas for...
The Multiplying Church
The New Math for Starting New Churches
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The Multiplying Church is a primer for pastors and lay leaders involved in, or wanting to learn about, the church multiplication groundswell in North America. It shows how multiplying churches should be a natural, regular function of every church to reach the 70 percent of Americans who have no meaningful...
I Am a Church Member
Discovering the Attitude that Makes the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Best-selling author and ministry leader Thom S. Rainer drew an exceptional response when he posted a 500-word declaration about church membership to his daily blog. "I Am a Church Member" started a conversation about the attitudes and responsibilities of church members -- rather than the...
What's Right with the Church
A Manifesto of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The early believers of Jesus Christ knew that they were not just members of an organization, nor were they just an extension of Old Testament Judaism. They knew that they were followers of the living Lord Jesus Christ. They were members of a thing called the church. Through the centuries, the church...
Church Actually
Rediscovering the Brilliance of God's Plan
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Church Actually is the theme of Spring Harvest 2012. Church attendance in the west has declined in recent years, but decline has been accompanied by growth in spiritual exploration, a desire for spirituality, faith, even Jesus - all without the church. Experience, history and the New Testament suggest...
by Joseph Smith, B. H. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is also the history of the opening and progress of the Dispensation of the fullness of Times; and as that dispensation bears an important relation to all dispensations which have preceded it, let us here ascertain in what that relation...
by Moore, T. V.
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Having shown in a previous chapter that Christianity was introduced into Scotland very near to, if not during the lives of the Apostles, we now propose to show, that this primitive form of Christianity, as we find it in the Culdee Church, was substantially identical with that of the Reformed Church...
Faithful Presence
Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2016 In our quest to renew the church, Christians have walked through seeker-friendly, emergent, missional, and other movements to develop new expressions of the body of Christ. Now in the post-Christian world in North America we're asking the question again:...
by Ken Chant
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
There are two common approaches to the theme of "revival" among evangelical Christians, and also, unfortunately, among many charismatics. I say "unfortunately" because neither of these approaches reflects the New Testament model. This study will argue for a third approach (see...