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Many of us long for a faith like the first Christians. We speak ideally of the earliest followers of Jesus and use them authoritatively for current church doctrine and practice. But do we know what that means? What happens if we actually learn what early church leaders wrote? What might they be able...

  The prospective ruin of Christendom was repeatedly predicted at the beginning of the fifteenth century. In 1494, Sebastian Brant wrote “ship of fools”. In 1511, Erasmus wrote the Prize of Folly. In 1515, Thomas More wrote Utopia. It describes the repugnant state of the French...

On the day when our lives are reviewed, God will not request a recommendation from your reverend. He will look you in the eye and ask you, “What did you do?” It is the duty of Christians to paint a picture of Jesus by our actions. This cannot be done effectively from the current church...

The battle for the soul of the earth was reignited when the second Adam (Christ), returned to take back the mandate Satan stole from Adam in the Garden of Eden. Christ sealed the final victory with His resurrection, to Satan’s embarrassment and shame. However, Satan is not giving up. As the...

Drawing on his experience at Prince of Peace, Foss makes the case for transforming congregations from a membership model to a discipleship model of church affiliation. The book begins with a careful analysis of recent patterns in church membership/demographics which argue for this paradigm shift....

Local church pastors, church planters, and nonprofit organizational leaders are beginning to recognize that tithes and offerings alone are no longer enough to provide for the needs of their ministries, enable them to pursue opportunities, and sustain long-term impact. Growing financial burdens on...

If you've read the book or viewed the course, now lead your church in study with this workbook approach to Alban's Inviting Church materials. Its fifteen sessions are designed to help clergy or lay leaders guide committees or study groups through a dynamic exploration of their congregation's IQ (invitation...

Our society changes constantly, and the values that currently dominate it did not come from God. Nowhere is this more evident than in the church, where the role of women has become the subject of hot debate and disagreement. The changed values that have become an accepted part of a woman’s role...

Dizzying changes have taken place in American religious life in the last half century. Yet in spite of that fact, taking a snapshot of a “typical” Christian church in America would reveal a surprising number of small-to-mid-sized congregations, rooted in a local neighborhood or community, tied...

Bullying. It’s an issue that has taken on renewed emphasis in our electronically-connected, social media world. We’re more aware than ever that bullying happens in many places: in the workplace, on professional sports teams, in schools and on social media. Everyone from supermodels to...

“I will build My Church...” The Lord has always had His Church (Matthew 16:18), it has not been perfect, has failed and at times, has needed to be reformed and restored. There has always been a continuation in the work of God and we are not called to start something new but rather continue something...

24/7 Prayer Arise: Building the House of Prayer in Your City is a mentoring manual that will give you bite-size steps to enhance your own prayer life and teach you how to introduce prayer into your church and city. The three separate teachings in each chapter are practical, motivational, and helpful...

The Antipedo Baptists of Georgetown is the history of the First Baptist Church of Georgetown, South Carolina, as well as the history of Baptists in the colony and state. Roy Talbert, Jr., and Meggan A. Farish detail Georgetown Baptists’ long and tumultuous history, which began with the migration...

It’s not a mystery why some churches grow, some remain stagnant, and others decline. The biblical principles for spiritual multiplication are evident in the pages of the Scriptures . . . if we’ll only notice them. InA Spirit-Empowered Church, Alton Garrison points us to the heart...