Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books
Dynamics of Muslim Worlds
Regional, Theological, and Missiological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Dynamics of Muslim Worlds
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
A Century of Catholic Mission surveys the complex and rich history and theology of Roman Catholic Mission in the one hundred years since the 1910 Edinburgh World Mission Conference. Essays written by an international team of Catholic mission scholars focus on Catholic Mission in every region of the...
The Maturing Church
An Integrated Approach to Contextualization, Discipleship and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
For a church to be considered mature an integrated approach between contextualization, discipleship and mission is required. Globally, the church is facing multiple challenges both rom within and from without. Despite the challenges, however, churches in the Majority World continue to grow rapidly....
Word versus Deed
Resetting the Scales to a Biblical Balance
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
The Bible teaches that the church is called to a balanced ministry of both preaching the gospel in words and showing it with deeds. Yet the church has often found it difficult to find and maintain this balance. Today some are emphasizing deeds at the expense of words, while others hold fast to “talking”...
by Miranda Threlfall-Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This book combines theological reflection on key issues in chaplaincy with a collection of stories from those engaged in chaplaincy in a wide variety of contexts. The essays cover issues, skills and tensions - discussing what chaplaincy is and how to do it.
What Clergy Do
Especially when it looks like nothing
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Clergy have a pivotal role in creating and nurturing church communities in which all people can grow up into Christ. This book explores the nature of that role by considering key similarities with the essential but often conflicting demands of motherhood. Like mothers, clergy need to preserve and...
Mission in the Old Testament
Israel as a Light to the Nations
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Walter Kaiser questions the notion that the New Testament represents a deviation from God's supposed intention to save only the Israelites. He argues that--contrary to popular opinion--the older Testament does not reinforce an exclusive redemptive plan. Instead, it emphasizes a common human condition...
The Insanity of Obedience
Walking with Jesus in Tough Places
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Wise Sheep Among the Wolves
All Christian disciples have one thing in common: as they carry the gospel across the ocean and across the street, persecution will become the norm for those who choose to follow Jesus. How believers respond in the face of persecution reveals everything about their...
Kabul 24
The Story of a Taliban Kidnapping and Unwavering Faith in the Face of True Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
You can't kidnap someone's hope.
They were teachers, engineers, nurses, students, and artists from around the world who answered God's call to help Afghan refugees rebuild their lives following decades of war. But as international tensions reached inferno levels in 2001, extremists set out...
Beyond Fragmentation
Integrating Mission and Theological Education A Critical Assessment of some Recent Developments in Evangelical Theological Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Beyond Fragmentation is an enquiry into the development of Mission Studies in evangelical theological education in Germany and German-speaking Switzerland between 1960 and 1995. The author undertakes a detailed examination of the paradigm shifts which have taken place in recent years in both the theology of mission and the understanding of theological education.
The Gospel and Pluralism Today
Reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Gospel in a Pluralist Society
William Burrows
John Flett
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Esther Meek
Wilbert Shenk
Telling the Gospel Through Story
Evangelism That Keeps Hearers Wanting More
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Outreach Magazine
by Scott Berry
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Return to the Middle is the story of one man's journey, both physically and spiritually. He had always strived to do the right thing, but seemed to be missing the mark. During a short-term mission trip to the Philippines, that man not only traveled through a foreign land, but also through...
by Ulf Ekman
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Nothing could be more important for us than understanding our calling. It is a holy calling from the living God, which encompasses and shapes our whole lives. Responding to God’s calling is to see His plans for us fulfilled. Often we think of the calling as purely personal, but there is a...