The Church and the Churches
The Church and the Churches
Orthodox Church in Ukraine
The bitter separation of Ukraine's Orthodox churches is a microcosm of its societal strife. From 1917 onward, church leaders failed to agree on the church's mission in the twentieth century. The core issues of dispute were establishing independenc...
Who Runs the Church?
Churches have split and denominations have formed over the issue of church government. While many Christians can explain their church's form of rule or defend it because of its "tried and true" traditions, few people understand their chu...
Becoming a Contagious Church
Discover a Proven Approach to Raising Your Church's Evangelistic Temperature Evangelism. It's one of the highest values in the church. So why do so few churches put real effort into it? Maybe it's because we don't understand the evangelistic poten...
Clark: Totems Flare LP
Clark: Totems Flare LP [Vinyl LP]
Guest in the House of Israel
In this thought-provoking book, Clark Williamson challenges churches and theologians to become aware of the inherited ideology of anti-Judaism that has distorted their teaching, even on such key matters as Jesus, the Scriptures, the church, and Go...
Understanding Church Discipline
Should we actually practice church discipline today? Is it unloving? Once an ordinary part of church life, churches gradually stopped practicing church discipline in the 20th century. But Jesus commands it. Paul practiced it. And churches benefit ...
Beginning Database Design
Beginning Database Design, Second Edition provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database ...
Beginning SQL Queries
Get started on mastering the one language binding the entire database industry. That language is SQL, and how it works is must-have knowledge for anyone involved with relational databases, and surprisingly also for anyone involved with NoSQL datab...
Beginning Database Design
Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-...
Care of Souls
In a time when many churches have lost sight of the real purpose of the church, The Care of Souls invites a new generation of pastors to form the godly habits and practical wisdom needed to minister to the hearts and souls of those committed to th...
Infants and Children in the Church: Five Views on Theology and Ministry
Infants and Children in the Church: Five Views on Theology and Ministry addresses an important, but often overlooked, theological and ministry issue facing the church today: How should churches receive and minister to the infants and children God has entrusted to their care? Various Christian traditions affirm different theological views and ministry practices concerning the spiritual status of children, how they relate to God, and how churches can best minister to and promote their growing response to the grace of God in Christ Jesus. To help address this critical area of concern, the contributors to this volume provide a comparative analysis of the views and practices of five major Christian traditions. The book begins with a brief biblical and historical overview of the church's theological understanding of ministry to children. Then, advocates from the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, and Baptist perspectives each address the following critical questions as
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Apostolic Church Planting – Birthing New Churches from New Believers
Apostolic Church Planting – Birthing New Churches from New Believers
Graveland: In the Glare of Burning Churches
Isengard Studio 93, Demo II 93. Isengard Studio '93 EP 93. Eastclan '93 från Epilogue promo tape 93. Isengard Studio 93 Rehersal 93. Remastrad med bonusspår. Aldrig tidigare publicerade bilder, ny grafisk design med 20 sidors booklet, linernotes av Knjaz Varggoth / Nokturnal Mortum, Nergal / Behemoth.
Martin Claire: Devil May Care
Martin Claire: Devil May Care [CD]
Law, Liberty and Church
Law, Liberty and Church examines the presuppositions that underlie authority in the five largest Churches in England - the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church and the Baptist Union. Examin...
Taking Your Church to the Next Level - What Got You Here Won`t Get You There
All local churches experience a predictable life cycle of growth and decline. But if a church is on a downward trend, how can it turn around? Taking Your Church to the Next Level explains the impact of age and size on churches and outlines the imp...
Taking Your Church to the Next Level
All local churches experience a predictable life cycle of growth and decline. But if a church is on a downward trend, how can it turn around? Taking Your Church to the Next Level explains the impact of age and size on churches and outlines the imp...
Outdoor Church
Helping churches to reconnect and value their environment. A creative worship and activity resource for churches to use outside the church building, Outdoor Church functions in any green space and is suitable for churches in urban, suburban and rural contexts. - Four sessions for each season - Four stand-alone service outlines, one for each season - Material based on Bible stories and parables - All-age activities and seasonal prayers - Indoor alternatives for rainy days
Purpose Driven Church
The issue¿is church health, not church growth-if¿your church is healthy, growth will occur naturally. So how do we make¿healthy¿churches, driven by¿purpose? In order for any church to thrive, it must be built around the five New Testament purposes...
Purpose Driven Church
The issue is church health, not church growthif your church is healthy, growth will occur naturally. So how do we make healthy churches, driven by purpose?In order for any church to thrive, it must be built around the five New Testament purposes g...
Legal Systems of Scottish Churches
Explains the laws of the Church of Scotland, Scottish Episcopalian Church and the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland Solicitors and counsel in Scotland receive little training in the information systems of the Churches in Scotland. This makes it di...
Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church
In a work based on a meticulous analysis of sources, many of them previously unexplored, Catherine M. Mooney upends the received account of Clare of Assisi's founding of the Order of San Damiano, or Poor Clares. Mooney offers instead a stark count...
Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church
In a work based on a meticulous analysis of sources, many of them previously unexplored, Catherine M. Mooney upends the received account of Clare of Assisi's founding of the Order of San Damiano, or Poor Clares. Mooney offers instead a st...
Ministry of the Missional Church - A Community Led by the Spirit
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 Spirit with a unique nature and identity. Purpose...
Spolia Churches of Rome
The church-builders of the Middle Ages treated the architecture of ancient Rome like a quarry full of prefabricated building materials. This resulted in some very eclectically and ingeniously constructed churches. In The Spolia Churches of Rome we...
How to Break Growth Barriers - Revise Your Role, Release Your People, and Capture Overlooked Opportunities for Your Church
Some churches grow rapidly, only to hit a ceiling. Other churches have experienced declining or static attendance--many of them for decades. Frustrated pastors and church leaders want growth methods that work, but without adding to pastoral fatigu...
The Churches
Developments in church-state relationships in Northern Europe between 1780 and 1920 had a substantial impact on reformist ideas, projects, and movements within the churches. Conversely,the dynamics of religious reform prompted the state to react i...
Breakout Churches
In Thom Rainer's book, he sets out to discover how churches that were once healthy but had stagnated in growth have broken out to become great churches impacting lives and entire communities.
Stave churches
En ny bok om de unike 28 norske stavkirkene. Hver kirke er beskrevet i detalj med tekst og foto. Stavkirkene ble bygget for ca. 1000 år siden med konstruksjonsteknikker utviklet av vikingene. De første stavkirkene ble bygget rundt 1150 og fremstår som arkitektoniske perler fra middelalderen. Treskjæring preger interiør og eksteriør i denne særegne trearkitektur. Dette har også gitt en av kirkene plass på UNESCOs verdensarvliste. En praktisk og vakker bok som inspirerer til å se stavkirkene.
Abandoned Churches
Beautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned religious buildings. Between 2012 and 2019 Francis Meslet photographed several hundred places of worship across Europe. Over time, these places have became enveloped in silence, the only thing heard the...
Twelve Churches
A New Yorker best book of 2025 'brilliantly inventive'. - Tom Holland 'learned, highly informative and readable'. - Literary Review 'thoughtful, humane and open-minded'. - Kirkus Reviews 'A brilliant book'. - Library Journal 'witty writing'. - The Times 'Hugely accomplished and endlessly readable'. - The Spectator *** With his trademark reverence and revelry, The Revd. Fergus Butler-Gallie travels through time and place to get to the heart of the religion he is so passionate about. In this book he takes us from Bethlehem and the birth of Christ some 2000-odd years ago, to the immediate present and future of Christianity. He brings together a Baptist Church in the segregationist American South with a medieval monastery in the heart of the Greek countryside; the Vatican - beautiful, imposing, vainglorious, the seat of Catholicism - with a sparse, tiny private church above the rocky coastline of Southern Japan. Twelve Churches is a quest for a new people's history of Christianity, told
Forgotten Churches
The Sunday Times bestseller Discover England's Most Beautiful and Overlooked Churches with Forgotten Churches: Exploring England's Hidden Treasures¿ For centuries, England's churches have stood as quiet witnesses to history, filled with remarkable...
Planting Churches
A practical guide for all those involved in planting churches. Explores the why, the where, the who, the when, the how, and what of church planting. Stuart Murray has worked as an advisor on church planting for many years. Here he discusses local ...
Twelve Churches
With his trademark reverence and revelry, The Revd. Fergus Butler-Gallie travels through time and place to get to the heart of the religion he is so passionate about.In this book he takes us from Bethlehem and the birth of Christ some 2000-odd years ago, to the immediate present and future of Christianity. He brings together a Baptist Church in the segregationist American South with a medieval monastery in the heart of the Greek countryside; the Vatican - beautiful, imposing, vainglorious, the seat of Catholicism - with a sparse, tiny private church above the rocky coastline of Southern Japan.Twelve Churches is a quest for a new people's history of Christianity, told through the stories of twelve churches scattered across the globe. Through a patchwork of interlinking and varied human stories, Butler-Gallie takes us on a physical and historical journey, exploring the role of hope, faith and beauty in Christianity, but also its fraught relationships with sex, violence and power.The story of Christianity is, he shows, the story of our modern world: it's a story of who we should be, as well who we sometimes are.
Comeback Churches
Research shows that over time, most churches plateau and then eventually decline. Typically, they start strong and experience periods of growth, then stagnate and lose members. Since 1991, the North American population has increased by 15 percent ...
Shout to the Lord
How music makes worship and how worship makes music in Evangelical churches Music is a nearly universal feature of congregational worship in American churches. Congregational singing is so ingrained in the experience of being at church that it is ...
Vital Signs
Everyone knows disciplemaking in churches is important - vital, even. But how do we move from good intentions to real transformation? Drawing on LICC's engagement with thousands of UK churches and his decades of experience as a church leader, Ken ...