Church Institutions Organizations category: 259 books
The Everychurch Guide to Growth
How Any Plateaued Church Can Grow
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
A growing church is a living church, but much of the attention in church growth today is focused on making big churches bigger. This encouraging new book shows members of small and medium-sized congregations how to revive and expand their ministries as well. Churches of every size tend to plateau...
by Anthony G. Pappas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
This demonstrates amazingly, with unflinching honesty and a wonderfully redeeming sense of humor, a resource especially helpful in motivating change and growth by mobilizing the natural strengths of small churches. For you who have been looking for a reliable guide to interpret the world of the small...
The Didascalia Apostolorum
The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Didascalia Apostolorum, or just Didascalia, is a Christian treatise which belongs to the genre of the Church Orders. It presents itself as being written by the Twelve Apostles at the time of the Council of Jerusalem; however, scholars agree that it was actually a composition of the 3rd century, perhaps...
C. H. Spurgeon and the Metropolitan Tabernacle
Addresses and Testimonials, 1854-1879
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed away on January 31, 1892, but the influence of his faith lives on. He is not the Forgotten Spurgeon. Besides, he has been called the Prince of Preachers, the Heir of the Puritans, the Peoples Preacher, the Preacher who had Communion with Christ and his people, and one...
The Church Index
A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise, Part 1: Kensington
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
A comprehensive record of the churches in Kensington, London in the early 1870s. Churches of all christian faiths are covered, with particular emphasis on the ecclesiastical, historical, clerical, architectural, religious and social information for each church and parish.
by William Durandus
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
THE SYMBOLISM OF: Churches and Church Ornaments
A TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE: Rationale Divinorum Officiorum
Author Preface: The interest which has lately been displayed, as on all subjects connected with Ecclesiology, so more especially on the symbolical bearing of...
by Loren B. Mead
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
Mead presents five key challenges facing today’s churches-and how they represent opportunities for the evolutionary, transformative changes he believes must take place in congregations if the church is to remain a viable institution into the twenty-first century. Readers of Mead's Once and Future...
by James Blaine Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Though obviously a book written specifically for the Nazarene church, it would certainly serve as a great study for anyone attending (or interested in) a holiness or Pentecostal / Charismatic church.
The Table of Contents are as follows: THE NAZARENE CREED IN BRIEF ARTICLES OF FAITH OF THE...
by Alan Kreider, Eleanor Kreider
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Today, as Christendom weakens, worship and mission are poised to reunite after centuries of separation. But this requires the church to rethink both mission and worship. In post-Christendom mission, God is the main actor and God calls all Christians to participate. In post-Christendom worship, the...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
A record of the papers presented and recommendations made during the informal dialogue between The Catholic Church and The Salvation Army in five meetings covering the period between 2007 and 2012.
During the conversations papers were delivered which presented the Catholic and Salvationist...
In Academia for the Church
Eastern and Central European Theological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Tension between theory and practice in theological education is an unfortunate yet common occurrence, with educators sometimes finding themselves on one extreme or the other. Some academics can be so immersed in high-level theological discourse that they hardly interact with the main questions of...
Piloting Church
Helping Your Congregation Take Flight
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Prepare your church for take-off
A majority of churches are grounded - shrinking in membership and resources, unsure how to make the changes needed to be vital again. Pastor and pilot Cameron Trimble has helped hundreds of congregations get airborne again, and Piloting Church: Helping Your...
When Leadership and Spiritual Direction Meet
Stories and Reflections for Congregational Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Modern church leaders need to cultivate innovative and creative leadership skills, as they navigate today’s post-Christian world, and as their congregations look to them for insight and guidance. Gil Stafford takes a fresh look at this vital need, drawing upon his experience as a college coach,...
Covenant Keeper's Weapon
Tithes and Offerings
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In my previous book, Giving to God Is an Investment, my emphasis was prophetically based on the auditorium to be built. In this book, I am now talking about the auditorium worth six point five million rand that was dedicated in 2005. With God all things are possible. Those who trust in him, their...