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CityServe
Your Guide to Church-Based Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
CityServe will open your eyes to the possibilities of reaching your community through compassion ministry. Packed with real ministry examples any church can do, CityServe shows you how easy it is to equip and inspire your church to be difference-makers for Christ. Explore advice from leading compassion...
Becoming a Blessed Church
Forming a Church of Spiritual Purpose, Presence, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Pastor and author N. Graham Standish describes how a church that is open to God’s purpose, presence, and power can claim God’s blessing. Becoming a Blessed Church will help you discern God’s purpose and the path God is calling your congregation to walk. This book will help you find Christ in...
by James K. Wellman, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The Christian message needs a new interpreter: one that is particular enough to know and interpret the tradition but broad enough to evoke thought and feeling from broader groups of people, including evangelicals, liberals, and those who are disenchanted with churched religion and who describe themselves...
by T. Austin-Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
The Church is a heavenly body not an earthly society, institution, organisation. The ecclesiastical systems of this world which call themselves "the Church" and "the Churches," are too often a grotesque caricature. There are no sects, denominations, "branches of the church,"...
C. H. Spurgeon and the Metropolitan Tabernacle
Addresses and Testimonials, 1854-1879
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed away on January 31, 1892, but the influence of his faith lives on. He is not the Forgotten Spurgeon. Besides, he has been called the Prince of Preachers, the Heir of the Puritans, the Peoples Preacher, the Preacher who had Communion with Christ and his people, and one...
by Charles Spurgeon
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers". Spurgeon was to 19th century England what D. L Moody...
by Isaac Everett
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Many alternative and emerging church communities have begun exploring ancient music and liturgical traditions despite a lack of high-quality, published liturgical music which does not require (or even desire) an organ and a four-part choir. The Emergent Psalter serves to provide that resource. Featuring...
by Nathan Bangs
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This is volume two of four from Nathan Bangs' history of the Methodist Church. Bangs is considered by many to be one of the foremost historians in modern times, and his portrayal of church history is among the best ever written.
From the author's preface:
The following history has...
Ancient-Future Disciples
Meeting Jesus in Mission-shaped Ministries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Fresh expressions of church may offer a fresh take on ancient Anglican tradition and worship. But what difference are they making for the people who call them their church home? Journalist and religion commentator Becky Garrison spent a year visiting US based mission-shaped ministries. Where most...
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Religion and Politics in America: An Encyclopedia of Church and State in American Life [2 volumes]
An Encyclopedia of Church and State in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
There has always been an intricate relationship between religion and politics. This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the interrelation of religion and politics from colonial days to the present.
• Enables readers to understand why religion and politics are necessarily interrelated
•...
The Father We Never Knew
The Unbinding of the Lazarus Church by the Restoration of the Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The gospel of Gods grace announces nothing less than the abolition of religion. But we have taken a supernatural message and turned it into a mere natural one, and the result is a spiritually immature church that sees strength primarily in natural terms, and church growth as being about congregation...
Early Christians Speak, Vol. 1 3rd Ed.
Faith and Life in the First Three Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
These studies in early church history cover various aspects of the church life of early Christians. They focus on the second century.
What did the second century Christian leaders say about faith, baptism, infant baptism, worship services, the Lord's Supper, prayer, singing, church organization,...
by Robert W. Caruso
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
The Old Catholic Church aims at informing and inspiring its readers to reflect and entertain the theological richness of the Old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht, a Catholic tradition that is unknown and misunderstood by many in North America. Caruso presents much more than a mere history...
To All Nations From All Nations
A History of the Christian Missionary Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Sharing the Good News might be understood as the prime directive of the Church from its earliest times, but the Church soon discovered unforeseen obstacles and its own set of temptations, including its lust for power and domination. Although the gospel might be joyfully offered, it was not always...