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PaperbackPocket Dictionary of Church History
The IVP Pocket Reference Series
by Nathan P. Feldmeth
Studying church history is like learning your genealogy, with ample helpings of family recipes, scandalous disputes, inspiring heroes, quirky uncles and scrapbooks of photos thrown in. Someone needs to point out what's important and remind you ofthe facts as you learn to tell the story on your own.
The Pocket Dictionary of Church History is designed to help students identify the people, ...
PaperbackPlanting a Church Without Losing Your Soul
Nine Questions for the Spiritually Formed Pastor
by Tim Morey
Foreword by Scott W. SunquistChristianity Today Book Award
What does it take to be a church planter or other ministry entrepreneur? Most leaders start out with passion, a sense of calling, and a focus on building ministry skills. Such things might get some results, but they are not enough to sustain a healthy ministry—or a healthy life. Beyond the vocational capacities every ...
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Advances in Church-Related Higher Education
The Advances in Church-Related Higher Education series provides resources for collegiate educators committed to those time-consuming processes in ways that discern the opportunities and challenges that define the age in which they find themselves serving.
Each volume is framed by a collaborative and ecumenical appreciation for the riches found in the church’s theological and liturgical practices and, in turn, insights from across the disciplines. These efforts offer frameworks for practice and further research on topics relevant to all educators including, for example, the roles hope, mentors, and public intellectuals play when serving in Christ’s name.
PaperbackThe Church in Exile
Living in Hope After Christendom
by Lee Beach
The people of God throughout history have been a people of exile and diaspora. Whether under the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks or Romans, the people chosen by God have had to learn how to be a holy people in alien lands and under foreign rule. For much of its history, however, the Christian church lived with the sense of being at home in the world, with considerable influence and power. That age ...
PaperbackEverywhere You Look
Discovering the Church Right Where You Are
by Tim Soerens
Foreword by Walter BrueggemannWhat's the point of the church anyway?
The emerging generation is opting out of the church in large numbers. They're embarrassed at how the church is portrayed in the media and dismayed at what appears to be their options for participation. Is church really necessary anymore in our day? Is it even possible?
Tim Soerens sees this unsettled state of affairs as an extraordinary ...
PaperbackMen and Women in the Church
Building Consensus on Christian Leadership
by Sarah Sumner
Foreword by Phillip E. JohnsonEvangelicals stand divided in their view of women in the church.On one side stand complementarians, arguing the full worth of women but assigning them to differing roles. On the other side stand egalitarians, arguing that the full worth of women demands their equal treatment and access to leadership roles. Is there a way to mend the breach and build consensus?Sarah Sumner thinks there is. Avoiding ...
PaperbackRemissioning Church
A Field Guide to Bringing a Congregation Back to Life
by Joshua Ryan Hayden
Outreach Resource of the Year
Englewood Review of Books Readers' Best Award Winner
Rediscover Your Church's Mission!
Many churches are struggling to connect with theircommunities and are facing a decline. But there's hope! God is inviting His church to be reborn from the inside out, transforming into a new missional ...
PaperbackBrown Church
Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
by Robert Chao Romero
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist
Interest in and awareness of the demand for social justice as an outworking of the Christian faith is growing. But it is not new.
For five hundred years, Latina/o culture and identity have been shaped by their challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo, whether in opposition ...
PaperbackReading Scripture with the Church Fathers
by Christopher A. Hall
Many Christians today long to become reacquainted with their ancient ancestors in the faith. They see a deeper worship and devotion in the prayers and hymns of the early church. And they believe that the writings of the early church can shed new light on their understanding of Scripture.
But where and how do we begin? Our first encounter with the writings of the church fathers may seem like ...
PaperbackWinsome Conviction
Disagreeing Without Dividing the Church
by Tim Muehlhoff and Richard Langer
Christianity Today Book of the Year award of Merit
We generally assume that those sitting around us in church share our beliefs. But when our personal convictions are contested by fellow Christians, everything changes. We feel attacked from behind. When other Christians doubt or deny our convictions, we don't experience it as a mere difference of ...
