Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books
Tenacious Solidarity
Biblical Provocations on Race, Religion, Climate, and the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Tenacious Solidarity features essays and new writings from 2014 to 2018. As all of Walter Brueggemann's writing is, the chapters are deeply biblical while also concerned with the identities, practices, and obligations of religious communities in contemporary contexts within the United States. Brueggemann...
by Zacharias Tanee Fomum
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
There are the general purposes of God and the distinct purposes of God that He entrusts to specific individuals, groups of individuals, communities, and even to a Spiritual Movement. Both kinds of callings are documented in the Scriptures and all serve the economy of God’s purposes.
To Zach...
Hungry for Hope
How then shall we live if not by bread?
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
How hungry for hope is the soul? The soul is no less hungry for hope than the physical body is for food. One 501(C)(3) ministry is making what is perhaps the most dramatic and effective effort in American history to emulate Jesus' concept of outreach. When it came time for the most important message...
Eyewitness
Seeing from within an Oppressive Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Gusztinné Tulipán Mária was born to Christian parents in Hungary at a time in that country’s history when Christ followers were being persecuted under Communist rule. By the 1990’s, the culture had begun to change in monumental ways. Mária was an eyewitness to great events. As she reflects on...
Run to Glory
The Story of Eric Liddell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
An Olympic run wasn’t his most important race. Eric Liddell was born to run. From childhood, his physical abilities brought honor and fame—culminating in a gold medal at the 1924 Olympics. But it was another run that really mattered: the race of life mentioned in Hebrews 12 (“. . .and let...
Intercultural Discipleship (Encountering Mission)
Learning from Global Approaches to Spiritual Formation
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This addition to an acclaimed series brings cutting-edge research to bear on a topic of perennial interest: making disciples. The book looks at disciple-making from multiple cultures to help readers discover contextual approaches that are culturally relevant and biblically faithful. It emphasizes...
Nora Trims Her Lamp
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The author of this book languished for forty years in spiritual darkness
until the brightness of God’s light made her lamp shine.
For centuries, God has been on a lookout for people willing to become
part of His kingdom. Millions have responded. It does not matter what...
Life-Widening Mission
Global Anglican Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Each of the young Anglicans who write on the Five Marks of Mission were at the Edinburgh 2010 conference in June of that year. The articles were then reworked in Toronto a year later, so what you read here is the fruit of much labour, writing, and rewriting. These articles are also open and honest...
Gathering at God's Table
The five marks of mission in the feast of faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Taking the framework of the Five Marks of Mission, the author leads the reader to reflect on proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom: teaching, baptizing and nurturing new believers, responding to human need, seeking to transform the unjust structures of society and sustaining and renewing the life of the earth.
by Marshall Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
“Your book made me laugh. …It made me cry, …It made me think, praise and pray.” -Shirley Janzen, long-time friend “Marshall engages his readers with humour. There’s laughter in his voice as he recounts several funny incidents. Marshall makes the reader embrace his world and love his...
Mission as Globalization
Methodists in Southeast Asia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Through an examination of Methodist mission to Southeast Asia at the turn of the twentieth century, this broad-ranging book unites the history of globalization with the history of Christian mission and the history of Southeast Asia. The book explores the international connections forged by the Methodist...
Who Will Care for the Orphan?
If You Are a United Methodist, It Could Be You!
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Feeding, providing potable water, clothing, housing, education, and access to healthcare for orphans and vulnerable children will provide the United Methodist Church its raison d'ê·tre for the 21st century and beyond. It will serve to re-unite and re-ignite the Wesleyan flame that flickers tentatively...
Walk Humbly
Loving, Listening, and Learning in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” The leaders who serve the Church of the Nazarene in the Middle East today are living witnesses to those mentors who obeyed the words of the apostle Paul to...
The Mission of God
Studies in Orthodox and Evangelical Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This is a ‘must read’ collection of essays that are rooted in prayer, in the Scriptures and in the rich histories of two very different traditions. The variety of topics and perspectives are presented by senior scholars and leaders, giving the reader an excellent glimpse into the ways in which...