Church category: 10276 books
Are Church Folk Running People Away From God?
Breaking the Code of Silence
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
For generations, several controversial topics have circled the church. As a result, people's hearts have become hardened towards Christianity and God. Today, many churches have become the melting pot for confusion, frustration, and abandonment -- church folk are being named as the blame. ...
Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church (Foreword by Thomas R. Schreiner): A Guide for Ministry
A Guide for Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Capitol Hill Baptist Church associate pastor Michael Lawrence contributes to the IXMarks series as he centers on the practical importance of biblical theology to ministry. He begins with an examination of a pastor's tools of the trade: exegesis and biblical and systematic theology. The book distinguishes...
What Women Wish Pastors Knew
Understanding the Hopes, Hurts, Needs, and Dreams of Women in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
This book will open your eyes to the needs, frustrations, dreams, and potential of your church’s greatest resource—the 60 percent of its members who provide far more than 60 percent of what keeps it going. The women of your church think the world of you, pastor. But they deeply wish you understood...
Preaching The Big Questions
Doctrine Isn't Dusty
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
What is the meaning of grace, of sin, of the sacraments? How are we to understand our dependence on God or relate to the person of Jesus? What roles do the Bible and the church play in our life of faith? Talking about theology needn't be boring or stuffy, the authors argue. Rather, it is exhilarating...
It Takes a Church to Baptize
What the Bible Says about Infant Baptism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
The issue of baptism has troubled Protestants for centuries. Should infants be baptized before their faith is conscious, or does God command the baptism of babies whose parents have been baptized?
Popular New Testament scholar Scot McKnight makes a biblical case for infant baptism, exploring...
Radical Small Groups
Reshaping Community to Accelerate Authentic Life Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
FINALLY, a book that takes you beyond programs and spells out exactly how to put spiritual growth on steroids in your church. Here is an exciting way to think synergistically and dramatically accelerate authentic life change. There has never been a book more urgent to read than this one in our impersonal...
Get Their Name
Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Change your church culture. Create an outwardly focused environment where hospitality and invitation happen Sunday and every day of the week. This book offers five steps to help congregations go public with their faith—from service projects to sharing the faith with persons who want to know more...
by Aubrey Malphurs
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Strong leaders have vision that is both far-reaching and focused on the details. Having that vision is what separates the church with a hodge-podge of ineffective programs and activities from churches that reach people effectively, efficiently, and consistently with the Good News. Now in its third...
Growing One Another
Discipleship in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Discipleship was one of the central themes of Jesus’ teaching, yet it is not a major emphasis today for many churches. This short study guide explores the Bible’s teaching on discipleship, and covers such topics as the need for discipleship, the demands of discipleship, and the enemy of discipleship....
by Jon Richards
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
In Why Church Sucks - And No One Really Wants to Go, Jon R. Richards unapologetically examines the God of Grace and His earthly representative, the church. He invites the reader to fully engage the Father and His outrageous claims of scandalous grace, while also considering why most Americans, if...
by Witness Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
The church should help the brothers and sisters in the way of visiting people to preach the gospel to save sinners, nourishing and taking care of the new believers, and teaching and perfecting them so that all can prophesy and speak for the Lord. When the church does this, sinners will be saved, believers...
by Lowell Uda
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2014
View from the Chancel: Church-related Writings of a Pastor collects four e-books I have at Smashwords for free: Sweet Corn from the Pastor, At the Chancel Steps: Talking to the children of the Congregation, Two for the Chancel, and Ol’ Zak, After the Angel: A monologue. I will be charging for the...
by Charles Spurgeon
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that she should...
The Prodigal Church
A Gentle Manifesto against the Status Quo
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This book is not a tired rant.
This book is not a reactionary diatribe.
This book is a gentle manifesto against the status quo.
In The Prodigal Church, Jared Wilson challenges church leaders to reconsider their priorities when it comes to how they “do church” and reach people in their communities,...