Church category: 10276 books
by J. Harvey Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
First published in 1902, this vintage book contains a detailed and fascinating history of the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity of Stratford-Upon-Avon ("Shakespeare's Church"), with information on its architecture, ornaments and decorations, notable personages, and much more. This volume is highly...
Who Is the Church?
An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Many congregations today are beset by fears, whether over loss of members and money, or of irrelevancy in an increasingly pluralistic society. To counter this, many congregations focus on strategy and purpose—what churches “do”—but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches need to focus...
Transforming Parish Communications
Growing the Church Through New Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
"Are we still a Church capable of warming hearts? A Church capable of leading people back to Jerusalem? Of bringing them home?" - Pope Francis, Meeting with the Bishops of Brazil, 28 July 2013.Pope Francis, like his predecessors Benedict XVI and John Paul II, is calling for Catholics to embrace...
The Younger Evangelicals
Facing the Challenges of the New World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Robert E. Webber has led worship workshops in every major city in the United States and Canada. Through his conversations and contacts with a network of emerging church leaders he calls the "younger evangelicals," Webber sees how this new generation and their style of leadership is bringing...
Rise
Bold Strategies to Transform Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Every church has a next step for spiritual growth.
Is your congregation engaged in an on-fire relationship with Jesus and His work in the world? For ten years, REVEAL research has been the gold standard for measuring spiritual vitality based on its unprecedented database of 500,000 congregants attending...
by C. Silvester Horne
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
A Century of Christian Service : Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893
Of the Kensington of 1793 I need not say much; for most of those who read this little book will be quite familiar with the astonishing change that has come over this locality since then. We like...
On with the Reformation
Facing up to the church's misuse of power
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
The church in the Western world is in decline. Sean Devine reflects on the church's 2000-year history to understand what it has become and what it should be. It is not the church's structures, programmes or core theology that needs to change - it just needs to be more like Jesus. The church must be...
by Joseph F. Kelly PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
There have been twenty-one universal gatherings 'ecumenical councils' of the Catholic Church. The first opened in 325, the last closed in 1965, and the names of many ring out in the history of the church: Nicea, Chalcedon, Trent, Vatican II. Though centuries separate the councils, each occurred when...
Reformation Anglicanism
Biblical - Generous - Beautiful
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
With so many people discovering Anglicanism today, especially younger people yearning for a connection with the Early Church, there is great need of this delightful book telling Anglicanism’s story from its early roots to today’s relevance. Reformation Anglicanism by Chuck Collins traces the history...
by Ken Chant
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
All history is modern history," said Wallace Stevens. That is, whatever happens today is built upon yesterday; so the better we understand the past the better we shall understand the present, and the more effectively we will be able to shape the future. Ignorance of history is lamentable, and obliges...
How to Multiply Your Church
The Most Effective Way to Grow
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Churches in North America are bigger than ever, but their slow rate of growth cannot keep up with population increases. Existing churches simply cannot add enough new believers! The good news is that by multiplying--steadily and strategically planting new churches that, in turn, plant new churches--the...
Faith and Leadership
The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This study is a comprehensive history of the papacy, the oldest elective office in the world, and how it has managed over the centuries the most complex voluntary association of faith. The book argues that in fact through most of its existence, the papacy has adapted managerial models of the secular...
OUTCRY
New Voices Speak Out about the Power of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
The OUTCRY tours were born out of a desire to be the lights and sounds of the greatest movement in the world - the local church. While studies and critics may indicate a decline of the local church, Ryan Romeo's OUTCRY attests that the movement is only increasing. It's time we band together to empower...
by Witness Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1989
God's New Testament economy is to build the church with Christ through the kingdom. The church is God's goal, God's desire and destination. His intention is to build the church. As we all know, in order to build anything we need certain material. The material for the building of the church is Christ....