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The Vatican Exposed
Money, Murder, and the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Over 50 billion dollars in securities. Gold reserves that exceed those of industrialized nations. Real estate holdings that equal the total area of many countries. Opulent palaces containing the world's greatest art treasures. These are some of the riches of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet in 1929...
I Server at God's Altar
The Ministry of Acolytes
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018
• An acolyte resource for the 21st-century Episcopal Church • Fully illustrated (black-and-white) with reproducible handouts Despite the changing landscape of the Episcopal Church, one ministry that continues but gets little attention is that of acolytes. Whether second graders or adults, the...
The Destiny of Israel and the Church
Understanding the Middle East Through Biblical Prophecy
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Israel is at the center of a powerful clash of forces, but God has established firm covenants with both Israel and the church. The only reliable source of light upon the situation in the Middle East is provided by God’s prophetic Word. If we do not seek the light that comes from this source, we...
The Weeping Church
Confronting the Crisis of Church Polity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Weeping Church was first published in 1985. It continues to be an effective tool for pastors and churches who are seeking to follow the clear teaching of scripture on the polity of the local church. Over the thirty three years in publication hundreds of letters have been received expressing gratitude...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Study of church and state in the United States is incredibly complex. Scholars working in this area have backgrounds in law, religious studies, history, theology, and politics, among other fields. Historically, they have focused on particular angles or dimensions of the church-state relationship,...
Henry Chadwick
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Rare scholarly insight into the early church — still relevant for the church today
This anthology offers a choice selection of writings by one of the twentieth century’s premier church historians, Sir Henry Chadwick. Many of Chadwick’s considerable contributions to a fuller understanding...
Can These Bones Live
A Practical Guide to Church Revitalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Churches are closing today at an alarming rate. Pastors are disillusioned, church members are discouraged, and the world has lost interest. Can this disturbing tide be stemmed?
Bill Henard believes that there is hope for the established church – for your church. Some people...
Trustworthy Men
How Inequality and Faith Made the Medieval Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
The medieval church was founded on and governed by concepts of faith and trust--but not in the way that is popularly assumed. Offering a radical new interpretation of the institutional church and its social consequences in England, Ian Forrest argues that between 1200 and 1500 the ability of bishops...
by Petersen, Bruce L.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Most people focus on pastoral ministry--the activities, programs, and outreach connected with the life of the church--when considering the work of a pastor. But one of the most important parts of a minister's job is pastoral care--activities such as compassion, healing, sustaining, guiding, and reconciling...
The Church Planting Wife
Help and Hope for Her Heart
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Nothing in my life goes untouched by my husband's calling. Christine Hoover's words in the first chapter describe so well the life of a church planter's wife, which is enormously difficult yet extraordinarily rewarding. To be married to a church planter is a calling all its own with richness all...
The Church in the Early Middle Ages
The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
The creation of a new history of the Church at the beginning of the third millennium is an ambitious but necessary project. Perhaps nowhere is it needed more than in re-describing the Church's development - its life and its thinking - in the period that followed the end of the 'early Church' in antiquity....
Thriving as an Artist in the Church
Hope and Help for You and Your Ministry Team
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
• Great for individual or group use• Includes provocative discussion questions and practical action steps• Features four-color art plates and literary quotesIt’s not easy being an Artist in the church.But whatever your passion—music, visual art, drama, dance, writing, technical arts—you...
Forgotten Power
A Simple Theology for a Praying Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
“Much power has been ignored by the Church because of its failure in the area of prayer.”—David Butts, from the Introduction.
Forgotten Power is a simple theology book on prayer in the church.
No one argues against prayer, but few churches utilize prayer as a power source. Yet...
The Two Churches
Catholicism and Capitalism in the World System
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The single most important change now well under way within Catholicism is its transition from a First World to a Third World entity. How this enormous shift will affect the Catholic church's role in the world economy is the subject of Michael L. Budde's book, the first world systems study of the mutual...