Church category: 10276 books
by R. B. McDowell
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
First published in 1975. In 1869 the Church of Ireland, until then part of the Church of England, was disestablished and partially disendowed. The author traces the changes in the Church of Ireland’s organization and function and the decline of its influence and numerical size during the hundred...
Pastors and Public Life
The Changing Face of American Protestant Clergy
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
America's clergy are not just religious leaders. Their influence extends far beyond church doors. Houses of worship stand at the center of American civic life-one of the few spheres in which relatively diverse individuals gather together regularly. And the moral authority granted to pastors means...
DEVELOPING HEALTHY CHURCHES
A Case-Study in Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In an age obsessed with physical and psychological health the author emphasizes the importance of spiritual well-being as an essential element of holistic health for the individual Christian and for Christian communities. This work constitutes a template for a spiritual audit of the local church....
by Anne Kaestner
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
This is book 1 of a 3 book series. It answers questions many Christians have but not known where to look. Chapter 1 is “Our Responsibility To God.” The question here is how can I be sure that I’ll end up in Heaven? People hope that good works will get them there. Yet the Bible says, “...all...
by William Durandus
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
THE SYMBOLISM OF: Churches and Church Ornaments
A TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE: Rationale Divinorum Officiorum
Author Preface: The interest which has lately been displayed, as on all subjects connected with Ecclesiology, so more especially on the symbolical bearing of...
The Forgotten Jesuit of Catholic Modernism
George Tyrrell's Prophetic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Reception of the theological voice in the Catholic Church is far from laudable. This book highlights the prophetic voice of one priest-theologian, amongst many others, who courageously challenged the hegemonic abuse of power within the church. The former Jesuit George Tyrrell has rightly been described...
Twelve Keys to an Effective Church
Strong, Healthy Congregations Living in the Grace of God
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of one of the most trusted and authoritative strategic resources for church leaders
In this second edition of his groundbreaking book, Kennon Callahan identifies the twelve essential qualities of successful, growing churches and offers all congregations...
by Witness Lee
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
In The Life and Way for the Practice of the Church Life Witness Lee speaks not only of our need to know Christ but also of our need to receive a vision of the church, His Body. Enjoying Christ as life will lead us into the proper practice of the church life. In the proper church life we all live and...
Church Planting Is for Wimps
How God Uses Messed-up People to Plant Ordinary Churches That Do Extraordinary Things
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This latest addition to the IXMarks series tells the story of the revitalization of Guilford Baptist Church in northern Virginia. Weaving together scripture and biblical principles with humor and personal anecdotes, author Michael McKinley asserts that a pastor's faithful exposition of God's Word,...
The Coming Chinese Church
How rising faith in China is spilling over its boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
While China is shaking the world in ever increasing ways, behind the scenes it is the Church that is moving China. And the Holy Spirit will not stop at China's borders. From the fires of persecution to the toughest frontiers of mission, the Chinese Church is rising up. Many Chinese Christians are...
by Floyd Larck
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
World’s Great Sermons Volume I was published so that pastors and laypeople could have these wonderful texts available for their use.
BASIL - The Creation of the World
Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great was the Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor. He...
by James Blaine Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Though obviously a book written specifically for the Nazarene church, it would certainly serve as a great study for anyone attending (or interested in) a holiness or Pentecostal / Charismatic church.
The Table of Contents are as follows: THE NAZARENE CREED IN BRIEF ARTICLES OF FAITH OF THE...
The African American Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1815-1963
A Shelter in the Storm
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This study, first published in 1997, attempts to fill a gap in the historiography of the African American church by analysing the role and place of the African American church in one city, Birmingham, Alabama. It traces the roles and functions of the church from the arrival of African Americans as...
The Diminishing of the Divine
Why I Stopped Going to Church and Started Being the Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The Diminishing of the Divine is an insightful commentary on the current standing of the Christian church and how it has in many ways lost its original purposes as God intended. Noting that the church has become increasingly guided by human will power and not Gods Spirit, the author invites readers...