Church category: 10276 books
Why Catholicism Matters
How Catholic Virtues Can Reshape Society in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
In recent years the Catholic Church has gone through turbulent times with the uncovering of horrible abuse--abuse that persisted and which could have been prevented by many within the Church’s own ranks. As a result many positive aspects of what the Catholic Church teaches and practices are now...
by Laura Varnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The meaning of the church was intensely debated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and the...
Summary of Going Clear
by Lawrence Wright | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Summary of Going Clear by Lawrence Wright | Includes Analysis Preview: Going Clear by Lawrence Wright is an in-depth examination of the founding, principles, and scandals of Scientology using eyewitness interviews and original document research. The Church of Scientology...
The Catholic Church
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this extraordinary book, the renowned Hans Kung chronicles the Roman Catholic Church’s role as a world power throughout history. He examines great schisms — between East and West, Catholicism and Protestantism — the evolving role of the papacy and the stories of the great reforming popes;...
Why Some Churches Are Blessed
Putting Faith and Obedience into Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
How do you grow a church?
Unfortunately there is no one-size-fits-all answer. But in Why Some Churches Are Blessed, you'll learn the one biblical principle author Dan Betzer says is the secret: Give and it will be given to you.
Dan first learned that God blesses a giving church while...
Move
What 1,000 Churches Reveal about Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Most church leaders are passionate about their calling to “go and make disciples.” However, despite their most creative thinking, diligent efforts and rigorous assessments, year after year they arrive at the end of a ministry season with no way of knowing for sure whether they have succeeded or...
by Susan Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
For five years, Alban Institute senior consultant Susan Beaumont has been giving voice to the organizational and leadership demands of large congregations. Through her work, she has identified five basic leadership systems that need to stay in alignment for the large church to function well for its...
Small on Purpose
Life in a Significant Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Small on Purpose: Life in a Significant Church is a joyful and honest look at the kingdom-enriching characteristics of small congregations. Lewis Parks demonstrates how to see and build upon those strengths. His premise is not better/worse. Instead, Parks shows us how life in a small congregation...
Integrity at Stake
Safeguarding Your Church from Financial Fraud
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Integrity at Stake: Safeguarding Your Church from Financial Fraud by Rollie Dimos is a financial resource book intended for pastors, church leaders, and church administrators. Dimos' expertise as a certified fraud examiner and internal auditor provides the church audience with essential tools and...
American Catholic
The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
"A cracking good story with a wonderful cast of rogues, ruffians and some remarkably holy and sensible people." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
Before the potato famine ravaged Ireland in the 1840s, the Roman Catholic Church was barely a thread in the American cloth. Twenty...
by Terrence Bull
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Fundamentally our current church structure and systems are upside down. Because of this we are experiencing a systemic failure in our churches and denominations. Evidence of this is that worldwide all major denominations are in decline. What is more, this historical issue is even trapping the wonderful...
Evangelical Catholicism
Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The Catholic Church is on the threshold of a bold new era in its two-thousand year history. As the curtain comes down on the Church defined by the 16th-century Counter-Reformation, the curtain is rising on the Evangelical Catholicism of the third millennium: a way of being Catholic that comes from...
Church History
A Crash Course for the Curious
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
In this concise, accessible guide, author Christopher Catherwood takes his readers through the history of the faith, educating them about the uniqueness of Christianity from its birth to the diverse, global Evangelical Church we know today. Church History is the perfect place to start for anyone who...
Testimonies of Faith
Celebrating 50 Years of Ministry in Scarborough at Faith Baptist Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
This book was compiled to celebrate fifty years of ministry in Scarborough at Faith Baptist Church and to provide a lasting and meaningful memorial to mark this occasion. We recognize the dedication and labour of those who pioneered this work and those who built it up through the early decades so...