Church category: 10276 books
Launch
Starting a New Church from Scratch
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Starting a church from scratch? Start here! Launch offers specific strategies for beginning a church with no members, no money, and no staff. Readers get clear, practical how-to strategies for quickly raising funds, creating a team, planning services, effective evangelism, and rapidly developing a...
When Not to Build
An Architect's Unconventional Wisdom for the Growing Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Wise insight on building a church, growing a church, and keeping costs low. For pastors, leaders, and building committees.
by Alan Drake
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
The story of the Tower of Babel. Is it just a simple narration included in the Bible solely to explain why there are so many different languages in the world, or is there more to it than that? As it turns out there is… much more! The author reveals how the account of the Tower of Babel in Genesis...
Ushering 101
The Complete Handbook of Ushering for the Local Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1998
Ushering in the local church is much more than just shaking hands and passing offering plates. Fulfilling your role as an usher is just as important to the body of Christ as that of a prophet, teacher or evangelist.
This book covers both the biblical and the practical aspects of church ushering. Buddy...
by Chuck Lawless
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
This compact prayer manual shows how to build and participate in a praying church and includes stories and examples from a cross section of churches, evaluation charts, and discussion questions so both church staff and lay leaders can use it individually or in group settings.
Get Their Name: Participant Workbook
Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The Participant Guide is a workbook to facilitate the layperson’s experience as the church studies Get Their Name. It includes group and individual activities, and personal devotional material.
Church leaders and members should all read the original Get Their Name book during the month of this church-wide experience.
A Church Music Director's Handbook: Volume 1
Theology, Vision and Team Building
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
You are a music director. Maybe you are paid a few days a week; probably you are doing this for the love. Either way, it’s a huge job. And it’s an important job – one which requires you to have your head around both the contentious theology of worship music, and the musical and relational challenges...
God's Unwelcome Recovery
Why the New Establishment Wants to Proclaim the Death of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
There is a huge disconnect between the official account of church demise and the death of faith peddled in political and media circles, and the vitality of churches in every corner of the country. Why do the pundits ignore what is happening? Sean Oliver-Dee counters that the ongoing health of the...
Me and We
God's New Social Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
When Christians answer the clarion call to be missional, too often it is primarily to feel good or to grow in their own faith. But ultimately we remain unsatisfied because, in the end, it’s still about “me”—my church, my faith, my salvation. Then sometimes inspiration dries up. We forget that...
Beyond Reformation?
An Essay on William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The essay form that Aers has chosen for his book contributes to the effectiveness of the argument he develops in tandem with the structure of Langland’s poem: he sustains and tests his argument in a series of steps or “passus,” a Langlandian mode of proceeding. His essay unfolds an argument...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Wealth and poverty are issues of perennial importance in the life and thought of the church. This volume brings patristic thought to bear on these vital issues. The contributors offer explanations of poverty in the New Testament period, explore developments among Christians in Egypt and Asia Minor...
by Oliver Thatcher
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
A Sketch History of the Apostolic Church is a brief history of the early church by noted historian Oliver Thatcher. A table of contents is included.
Primal Fire
Reigniting the Church with the Five Gifts of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
In the earliest days of the church, followers of Jesus embraced five core spiritual gifts—apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teachers—and the world was set on fire as a result. Over the past two thousand years, however, some of these gifts have been neglected or set aside, and we’ve...
by Dr. James Barkley
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
This e-book is an actual dissertation which takes a deep look into the leadership crises within today's church and culture. It is a dissertation which attempts to discuss and describe what true leadership is, and the attributes that leaders who follow the example set by Christ would possess and demonstrate...