Author: Macchia, Stephen Publisher: Baker Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A healthy church is possible. Here are ten traits to help you diagnose the state of your church and start it down the path to improvement.
Author: Kelly, Christopher J. Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores Cassian's use of scripture in the 'Conferences', especially its biblical models to convey his understanding of the desert ideal to the monastic communities of Gaul. This book demons...
Author: Bandy, Thomas G. Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In his previous books-Kicking Habits, Growing Spiritual Redwoods, and Moving Off the Map-Thomas Bandy has drawn a compelling contrast between two kinds of congregational systems: The thriving church s...
Author: Sider, Ronald J. Publisher: Baker Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Churches over the past generations have been weakened by a failure to meet both the physical and spiritual needs of their communities. Many have adopted a narrow vision, focusing on only one aspect of...
Description: This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between western monasticism and lay society in east central Europe from the late medieval period to the eighteenth century. It is an importa...
Author: Perry, John Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: When Charles Colson was released after seven months of prison time following the Watergate scandal, the last thing on earth he wanted to do was go back into those dark, frightening prisons, but God ca...
Author: Morris, Scott Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This is a collection of sermons which explores Christian understandings of healing, wholeness, and restoration. Among the contributors are Walter Brueggemann, Barbara Brown Taylor, Maxie Dunnam, Barba...
Description: Based on the Revised Common Lectionary and broadly ecumenical, this newest addition the Just In Time! series provides: Sitting with the Text: Scripture commentary for each of the three lectionary year...
Description: In Knowing Me, Knowing God, Malcolm Goldsmith provides an easy-to-follow introduction to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as it pertains to the spiritual life. The heart of this book is a spirituality ...
Author: Bandy, Thomas Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In his book Kicking Habits: Welcome Relief for Addicted churches, Thomas Bandy provided the "big picture" of the five stages of congregational renewal and transformation. Similarly, in Growing Spiritu...
Description: There is no shortage of books these days on new ways of ""doing church."" New church models have been both warmly embraced and roundly criticized. What are church leaders and others concerned about th...
Description: The first book to explore the use, interpretation, development, translation and influence of the Psalms in the Atlantic world during 1400-1800, this volume showcases essays by scholars from literature...
Author: Ware, Corrine Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How can we heal the rift between our daily lives and the sacred? How can we live a life capable of hearing "the still small voice" of God while experiencing the speed and sensory overload of modern l...
Description: We live in an age when the growth of the Internet has made it easier than ever to gain access to information and accumulate knowledge. But information is not the same as meaning, nor is knowledge iden...
Author: Monk, Maria Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: I cannot banish the scenes and characters of this book from my memory. To me it can never appear like an amusing fable, or lose its interest and importance. The story is one which is continually befor...
Author: Monk, Maria Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: I cannot banish the scenes and characters of this book from my memory. To me it can never appear like an amusing fable, or lose its interest and importance. The story is one which is continually befor...
Author: Furnish, Victor Paul Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this expanded and updated third edition of an important work, respected Pauline scholar Victor Paul Furnish presents an analysis of some of Paul's most famous yet often misunderstood ethical teachi...
Author: Milner, Matthew Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Challenging the assumption that medieval Catholicism was overly sensual, whilst Protestantism rejected any element of worship appealing to the eye, ear, or nose, this study asks fundamental questions ...
Author: Miller, Helen Elizabeth Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: SERVE A NEW MIXED MENU OF WORSHIP Worship Feast: A Broad Menu of Extraordinary Worship Dramas Serve an extraordinary worship experience to your youth. Engage them, and move them. Make an imp...
Author: Wallace, Robin Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Offers pastors new inspiration and fresh worship encounters with God. Worship is the most important time in the life of the gathered faithful. Inspirational and accessible, this book is will help pas...
Author: Shepard, Ellen Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A collection of retreats for women's groups. Various retreat models and options are provided, including one-day retreats, weekend retreats, retreats based on books, and retreat options for groups incl...
Author: Haggard, Ted Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Ted Haggard presents a successful and tested model for a small group ministry here that can be implemented by a church of any size. By enabling members to embrace and capitalize on their own unique ab...
Author: Stolarski, Piotr Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Focusing on the Dominican Order's activities in south-eastern Poland from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries this book reveals the renovation and enduring popularity of the pre-existi...
Author: Berger, Teresa Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mapping uncharted territory in the study of liturgy's past, this book offers a history to contemporary questions around gender and liturgical life. Berger looks at liturgy's past through the lens of ...
Author: Van Gelder, Craig Publisher: Baker Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In a time when churches are focusing on finding strategies and techniques to guarantee success, a movement toward the missional church is emerging. Missional churches are communities created by the Sp...
Author: Storey, Peter J Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Often the church is accused of being so embedded in the culture that effective prophecy leveled at the culture is impossible. But this book illustrates that there was a time and a place where the chur...
