Church category: 10276 books
by J. B. Lightfoot
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
The Shepherd of Hermas is an astounding piece of ancient Christian literature. It is usually dated at between 120 A.D. and 150 A.D.. This means that the author may have been in contact with an Apostle such as John who died around 100 A.D.. And he was most certainly contemporaneous with those who knew...
The Calling of a Part-Time Pastor
A Guidebook for Small Church Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
FROM THE FORWARD: The Calling of a Part-Time Pastor is written for all leaders of small churches. This guidebook is a gateway into fully understanding the trials and joys of working together to lead your small church to fulfill your calling in Jesus Christ. The insights you will discover on these...
by Dr. George Hill, Dr. Hazel Hill
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2019
Church Planting is God's plan for transformation. It is the greatest evangelistic strategy on planet earth. This book gives a number of powerful reasons why new churches must be planted; along with a variety of successful ways of planting them. It offers both instruction and inspiration on key foundational...
by Rodney Harrison, Tom Cheyney, Don Overstreet
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
The past two decades in Christendom have brought forth a proliferation of books about church planting. One denomination (Southern Baptist) has even set a goal to start fifty thousand new churches over the next twenty year period. But what’s missing toward that end is a solid resource that specifically...
Church and State
Examining the Wall of Separation
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Church and State examines the wall of separation Thomas Jefferson spoke of in his letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802 to answer a letter from them written in October 1801. The Danbury Baptists were a religious minority in Connecticut, and they complained that in their state, the religious...
The Gratitude Path
Leading Your Church to Generosity
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The Gratitude Path is a five-session study designed for use by churches, leadership teams, and small groups. This step-by-step guide helps congregations grow in generosity by focusing on gratitude for God’s blessings. Chapters conclude with questions for personal reflection and devotion. The book...
by Bennie L. Ervin
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
It is my desire that this book will help believers in Christ to get a good understanding of what the church is and the reason God called a people out of the world to be His church and to be a mighty force on earth. To help and show the people of God, how sacred and serious Gods work is, therefore...
A Church Beyond Belief
The Search for Belonging and the Religious Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As we move beyond the “emergent” or “missional” church paradigm, pastors and other church leaders are discovering a new reality: people (especially younger generations) are coming to church not as believers, but to find a place to belong—with or without faith. This book describes the dilemma...
by Brenton Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
This book was written because of a question: 'What is the church?' And the answer 'The church is a person and she is female.'You might not have known that because over the last 2000 years the church has become a Pyramid-shaped organisation like any other worldly entity with...
One New Man
The Cross and Racial Reconciliation in Pauline Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In the Bible, Paul argues that sin has broken humanity’s relationship with God as well as his fellow man, and he recognizes Jesus as God’s provision for the universal problem of sin. Therefore, Christ’s death for our sin is God’s only solution to racial hostility and the only provision for...
Marks of a Movement
What the Church Today Can Learn From the Wesleyan Revival
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
Marks of a Movement calls us back to the disciple-making mandate of the church through the timeless wisdom of John Wesley and the Methodist movement. With a love for history and a passion for today’s church, Winfield helps us reimagine church multiplication in a way that focuses on making and multiplying...
Exodus of the Religious Dones
Research Reveals the Size, Makeup, and Motivations of the Formerly Churched Population
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
The reality of the exodus from church is bigger than you feared...and starting much closer to home.That’s what sociologist and author Josh Packard has confirmed in his just-released report, Exodus of the Religious Dones. Packard’s research confirms not only how many people have walked away from the...
by Witness Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1979
The ground of the church is directly related to the importance of the church. Certain portions of the Word such as Matthew, Ephesians, and Revelation reveal the importance of the church. In this book Witness Lee considers the importance of the church as shown in these books. Then he goes on to consider...
Christ and His Church
An Overview of the History of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
BACK TO THE FUTURE! Hope for tomorrow from the church's yesterdays It has been said that history repeats itself because no one is listening. But the truth is that history repeats itself because through it God is speaking, for those who want to hear. This book will help those tuning their ears...