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“Asking for Campaign Support” guides church volunteers to visit members to ask them to support their church’s capital campaign. 80% of a church campaign is planning and preparing. Then comes the time to ask for support. This how-to booklet provides guidance for preparing for visits, arranging...

Today's idea of Church is a routine service of a few songs, announcements, a plea for money, and a forty-five minute sermon. Motivated by a deep hunger for more of God, millions of Christians are leaving the traditional church to look for more freedom and fulfillment. The First Church was a Church...

Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it was then that the Gregorian Reform movement established the ecclesiastical structure that would ensure Rome’s dominance throughout the Middle Ages and...

The Church of the Living God is something far beyond what we think or experience. God´s End-time Church will be a powerful tool, changing lives and nations. It´s not what we think; it´s what God says that counts. A blueprint for the End-time Church: • The End-time...

The evangelical church has a social responsibility. But what is that responsibility and what does it look like in practice? This collection explores the nature of the institutional church’s responsibility, but also explores deeper questions related to the church’s social witness: Why is the church...

For too long God’s enemy has effectively separated the Church from the true Word of God and God’s appointed times. This has caused the Church to lack power and influence. Modern-day churches are shells of the original Church that turned the world upside down. The Power of the Original Church practically...

Revised Edition includes: a chronological timeline of the Early Church texts, a map displaying where the New Testament and early texts were written and sent, plus a map of Ignatius’ journey to martyrdom in Rome. As a small added bonus, at the end of each chapter there is now a "Notes"...

Keeping the Church on Track in a Secular World The church today faces great challenges, both from without and from within. Popular culture tempts Christians to compromise truth in the name of relevance and to ignore sin under the guise of tolerance. At the same time, serious doctrinal errors threaten...

This is volume one of four from Nathan Bangs' history of the Methodist Church. Bangs is considered by many to be one of the foremost historians in modern times, and his portrayal of church history is among the best ever written. From the author's preface: The following history has...

How can the church adapt to a constantly changing world? An Episcopal bishop issues a bold call to action.   In order to be vital, the church must be dynamic. In A Generous Community, Bishop C. Andrew Doyle calls on parishioners, congregations, and all people of faith to ask themselves: How should...

Author Frank Viola gives readers language for all they knew was missing in their modern church experience. He believes that many of today's congregations have shifted from God's original intent for the church. As a prominent leader of the house church movement, Frank is at the forefront of a revolution...

The model of the nuclear family unit, once the norm, is now only one of many different forms of family. Fifty percent of the population in the US right now is single. In this original and readable book, Philip Watson examines the phenomenon of singleness in contemporary society and its implications...

The meeting place for the church of tomorrow will be a computer screen. Don’t laugh, and don’t feel alarmed. The real-world church isn’t going anywhere until Jesus returns. But the virtual church is already here, and it’s poised for explosive growth. SimChurch invites you to explore the vision,...

PREFACE "This volume is the result of an effort to fill up a blank in the Ecclesiastical History of Scotland. Monograms exist on periods and persons introduced throughout it; and also brief sketches of the period, in works on Scottish Church History, preparatory to the history of more recent...