Church Institutions Organizations category: 259 books
by J. Gresham Machen
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
The general purpose of this course of lessons has been set forth in the introduction to the Student's Text Book. There is a tendency in the modern Church to neglect the study of Bible history. Such neglect will inevitably result in a loss of power. The gospel is a record of something that has happened,...
by Travis Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
In the last decade, a giant cultural wave has swept the North American church into a brand new world—a pluralistic, complicated, high-tech/low-touch world. Faced with the challenge of engaging a jaded culture, a fresh expression of church has emerged alongside the traditional church. This short...
The Younger Evangelicals
Facing the Challenges of the New World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Robert E. Webber has led worship workshops in every major city in the United States and Canada. Through his conversations and contacts with a network of emerging church leaders he calls the "younger evangelicals," Webber sees how this new generation and their style of leadership is bringing...
On with the Reformation
Facing up to the church's misuse of power
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
The church in the Western world is in decline. Sean Devine reflects on the church's 2000-year history to understand what it has become and what it should be. It is not the church's structures, programmes or core theology that needs to change - it just needs to be more like Jesus. The church must be...
Paperwork for Church New Hires
Church Office Series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
PAPERWORK FOR CHURCH NEW HIRES is a practical and concise guidebook to lead you through New Hire forms and documents. This guidebook will help you understand and complete the following:
Form I-9
Form W-4
New Hire Reporting
E-Verify Program
Other New Hire Paperwork
Hiring an employee should...
The Great Beyond
Restoring women to their God-given role in the church
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Society is waking up to the notion that equality between the sexes extends beyond words and into action. This means equal pay for doing the same job regardless of gender. It means equal opportunities to study and progress in any career regardless of any preconceptions concerning whether the job is...
by Dr. Buddy Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2007
Momentary Ministers . . . Most people think it takes a long time--years, months or even days to accomplish something profound, something great for God. The truth of the matter is that church greeters have this opportunity every time someone walks through the doors of their church. Greeters have the...
Ordained Holy Men
Power, sex and sexuality in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
This provocative work presents a layperson perspective of a Catholic Church bureaucracy, a male clerical caste of privilege, which manifests controlling power, secrecy and resistance to conform to a fast-paced and changing world. The author's three year mission service in Africa became an enlightening...
Straight Talk on Spiritual Power
Experiencing the Fullness of God in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Every church wants to experience the fullness of God, but many feel discomfort and confusion when the question of gifts of the Holy Spirit is raised. What does it mean to move in the power of the Holy Spirit? Isn't the issue of gifts of the Spirit divisive to evangelical churches?
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by G. H. Lang
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
If you've ever wondered what the churches of the New Testament looked like - how they functioned, how they were governed, how they conducted their evangelistic and missionary enterprises, what ordinances they observed, what their liturgy consisted of, how decisions were made, how discipline was administered;...
The Once and Future Church
Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1991
Mead takes a broad look at past and present changes in the church, and postulates a future to which those changes are calling us. Denominations, once structured to deliver resources to far-off lands of foreign mission, now encounter the mission field in the layperson's workplace and the community...
by Arthur Herzog
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Churches today are caught in a sociological trap. Parishioners want to keep comfortable status quo organization. Churchmen feel pressure to modernize, to "get where the action is." This book is a provovative and zesty analysis of the problem. The churches have followed corporations in emphasizing...
The Practicing Congregation
Imagining a New Old Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
The conventional wisdom about mainline Protestantism maintains that it is a dying tradition, irrelevant to a postmodern society, unresponsive to change, and increasingly disconnected from its core faith tenets. In her provocative new book, historian and researcher Diana Butler Bass argues that there...
Transplanted Christianity
Documents illustrating aspects of New Zealand Church history
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1986
Transplanted Christianity is a comprehensive collection of documents detailing the history of the church in New Zealand from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day. Informative introductions and explanations by Allan Davidson and Peter Lineham fill in the context and make...