Church category: 10276 books
Woke Church
An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
“Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” –Frederick Douglass, 1845
The prophets of old were not easy to listen to because they did not flatter. They did not cajole. They spoke hard words that often chafed and...
The Church of the East
An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
The so-called 'Nestorian' Church (officially known as the Apostolic Assyrian Church of the East, with its See in Baghdad) was one of the most significant Christian communities to develop east of the Roman Empire. In its heyday the Church had 8 million adherents and stretched from the Mediterranean...
The Lord’s Work
A History of the Catholic Apostolic Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
The Catholic Apostolic Church combined liturgical worship, charismatic experience, ecumenical vision, and eschatological expectation. Philip Schaff commented that the claims made for its apostles, if true, commanded every Christian's attention. Historians and liturgists alike have been fascinated...
by John George Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
John Arthur is looking for a church. Not literally of course, those are quite easy to spot usually. He is looking for "a reading" of church through a reading of Jesus. He wants to examine whether the Jesus we have in the church is, well, big enough really. Are the relationships we pursue, with God and...
60 People Who Shaped the Church
Learning from Sinners, Saints, Rogues, and Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The Church exists today in its current form because of the people who have come before us. Who were those people? Staid and dour scholars? Cultural movers and shakers? How does their contribution to history affect us today?
From a consummate storyteller comes this collection of inspiring biographical...
by Paul E. Engle, Zondervan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
For:•Individual use•Group trainingGreeters are the welcoming arms that people long to find in a church. This practical guidebook will help you reach out to people who need to experience the warmth of belonging to a church family.Serving as a Church Greeter sheds light on•The Ministry of Church...
Bullseye: Aiming to Follow Jesus
Practical Ideas for Individuals & Groups
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Once you decide to follow Jesus, what does it look like? Many people who come to church aren’t really sure. Bullseye maps out six markers that are signs of a Christian life. In practical, inviting, and clear ways, Bullseye examines: Using Spiritual Practices; Worshipping Together Weekly; Discovering...
Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church
The findings of the investigation that inspired the major motion picture Spotlight
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
The story behind this groundbreaking book--one of the most significant works of investigative journalism since Woodward and Bernstein's reporting on Watergate--has been brought brilliantly to life on the screen in the major new movie Spotlight,...
by J. Gresham Machen
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
The general purpose of this course of lessons has been set forth in the introduction to the Student's Text Book. There is a tendency in the modern Church to neglect the study of Bible history. Such neglect will inevitably result in a loss of power. The gospel is a record of something that has happened,...
by David Murrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
It's Sunday morning. Where are all the men? Golfing? Playing softball? Watching the tube? Mowing the lawn? Sleeping? One place you won't find them is in church. Less than 40 percent of adults in most churches are men, and 20 to 25 percent of married churchgoing women attend without their husbands....
Peter, Stephen, James, And John
Non-Pauline Diversity in the Early Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
It is plain from Paul’s writings that presentations of the Christian message other than his own were current during his apostolic career. This concise and scholarly study describes four of the non-Pauline movements in the early church, each of which can be identified with a particular leader: Peter,...
by Daniel Dreisbach
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation between church and state,” and few metaphors have provoked more passionate debate. Introduced in an 1802 letter to the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist...
by William Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The Gospel was first brought to the Teutonic conquerors of Britain by Roman missionaries, and was received by the kings of various kingdoms. From the first the Church that was planted here was national in character, and formed a basis for national union; and when that union was...
Hitler's Cross
How the Cross Was Used to Promote the Nazi Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The story of Nazi Germany is one of conflict between two saviors and two crosses.
“Deine Reich komme,” Hitler prayed publicly—“Thy Kingdom come.” But to whose kingdom was he referring?
When Germany truly needed a savior, Adolf Hitler falsely assumed the role. He directed his...