Church category: 10276 books
by Godwin Nwaokike
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
While I was giving a talk to the Youth Organization of a church, I asked about the objectives of the organization from the members. There was no answer. There was not a single member who knew any of the objectives of the group to which (s)he belongs! This gave me some concern. If they do not know...
by Thabiti M. Anyabwile
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Biblically and practically instructs church members in ways they can labor for the health of their church.
What Is a Healthy Church Member? takes its cue from Mark Dever's book What Is a Healthy Church?, which offered one definition of what a healthy church looks like biblically and historically....
The Third Disestablishment
Church, State, and American Culture, 1940-1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
In 1947, the Supreme Court embraced the concept of church-state separation as shorthand for the meaning of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The concept became embedded in Court's jurisprudence and remains so today. Yet separation of church and state is not just a legal construct; it...
The Future Church
How Ten Trends are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
One of the world’s foremost religion journalists offers an unexpected and provocative look at where the Catholic Church is headed*—and what the changes will mean for all of us.*
What will the Catholic Church be like in 100 years? Will there be a woman pope? Will dioceses throughout the...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
An ecumenical council (or oecumenical council; also general council) is a conference of the bishops of the whole Christian Church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice. The word derives from the Greek language "οκουμένη", which literally means "the inhabited world",...
by Francis Chan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
What does God want for His Church? For your church?
Building on each of the nine chapters of his latest book, Letters to the Church, Francis Chan urges Christ-followers to
ask honest questions about the structure and values of our churches;
study God’s commands for the body of Christ;
pray...
Focusing Your Church Board
Using the Carver Policy Governance Model
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Church boards are often the scene of confusion, conflict, and chaos. What’s the job of a board? What’s the role of the pastor in relation to the board? Should there be an elder board and an administrative board? Ted Hull’s use of illustrations and analogies bring these questions—and answers—into...
Manual on Ministerial Training for Church Workers
Ministerial Training for Church Workers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The role of the Pastor in providing leadership in the church is a very significant spiritual responsibility. The Church’s progress to a large extent will depend on the Pastor’s ability to identity potentials in the members of his Church and help to develop such potentials to profitable use. A potential...
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The Pastoral Search Comitttee Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Finding your church’s pastor is as serious as an organ transplant.
You need a pastor that matches your church’s vision, culture, and most importantly, your church’s heart. While there is no simple, one-size-fits-all solution to the puzzle of planning for a seamless pastor search, this...
by Kevin D. Hendricks
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Church websites are too often woeful. Websites are the digital hub of church communication and it’s time to make them better.
Here’s to church websites that wow.
The Getting Started in Church Communication series goes online to tackle websites. If your church needs a website or...
All Things to All People
A Catholic Church for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The word but was used by Jesus often to clarify to his disciples his teaching was different from the conventional wisdom of the time: "But I say to you..." This was never more true when he was speaking about how the disciples (right up to today) were to act toward one another and toward those outside...
by Terry Austin
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
A recent survey discovered that one-tenth of the U.S. population has a sincere Christian faith and made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ, but don’t attend church. The number is increasing, up from 7% a decade ago. What’s going on?
“Why I Quit Going to Church” is one man’s explanation...
The Church
What On Earth Is It?
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This book argues that the authentic church is the most precious thing on earth. It addresses such critical issues as the Church’s true identity and God’s intention for the Church on earth in the 21st Century as opposed to alternate humanly devised paradigms. It directs us back to God’s original...
Imagining Church
Seeing Hope in a World of Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Imagination is one of the great gifts bestowed on us by our Creator, observe authors Gary and Kim Shockley, and it can be the spark that ignites a fire of change in our lives. Drawing on their more than thirty years of pastoral and church consulting experience, the Shockleys illustrate the power of...