In this helpful book, Boyung Lee offers an encouraging vision of the mainline church's future. Lee grapples with some of the greatest challenges facing the mainline church, offering compelling responses to recurring questions: What does faithfulness to the gospel look like in this changing world? What is our distinctive voice in the larger society? How d… Read more…
The sermon is under attack. Many churches are increasingly forsaking formal preaching in favor of substitutes like dialogue, discussion, and sharing. In response to this recent trend, Jason Meyer has written a robust, biblical, and practical theology of preaching where he explores how the concept of preaching develops throughout the Bible… Read more…
Today’s youth struggle with difficult questions of sexual identity. How can a youth worker offer wise care and counsel on such a controversial and confusing subject? Mark Yarhouse, Director of the Institute for the Study of Sexual Identity, writes to equip youth ministers so they can faithfully navigate the topic of sexual identity in a way tha… Read more…
Environmental Missions defines an emerging category in missions, one that takes seriously both the mandate to evangelize the world and the responsibility of caring for God’s good earth. Lowell Bliss was a traditional church planting missionary in India when his best Hindu friend there died of malaria. This was just one of the events that led him to reexami… Read more…
Share Your Faith Effectively in a Cynical and Skeptical AgeTalking about faith with friends and family members can be a daunting prospect. What do you say if they have questions you can't answer or if they're outright hostile toward God? Actually, you don't have to have all the right answers, just the right questions--and a willingness to listen.… Read more…
Attract kids to church, the logic often goes, and you get parents in the pews. All that's left, then, is to get the kids out of the way. Here children's ministers David Csinos and Ivy Beckwith draw on research in human development and spiritual formation to show how children become disciples and churches become centers of lifelong discipleship. For t… Read more…
This foundational book will equip each believer with the basic steps to a life-transforming, deeper intimacy with the Father. Transforming the Inner Man introduces the keys that reach to the depth of the heart with the power of the cross and resurrection to effect lasting change through continual death and rebirth. John and Paula Sandford take a no-nonsense … Read more…
Vision is both real and definable. Strategic vision combines real and definable factors that, when mixed wisely and effectively, propels a church forward! Strategic Vision provides a clear set of directives and expectations with which an entire church strategy can be framed. The first step in forming a strategic vision is for the leader to develop a per… Read more…
Este libro, el Dr. Lucas Leys, trata uno de los temas más calientes con los que en algún momento te vas a tener que confrontar. Está escrito para jóvenes que luchan con este desafío o que tienen amigos que los están enfrentando.
En estas páginas te vas a encontrar con muchos datos investigativos y variadas preguntas que te van a hacer pensar… Read more…
A fresh approach to spiritual formation!In the past, church leaders have turned to small groups or other kinds of discipleship programs to encourage spiritual growth in their churches. Yet, despite good intentions, the deeper experiences of spiritual transformation they had hoped for remained elusive. STIR calls church leaders to reclaim an essential biblic… Read more…
Cinco siglos antes del nacimiento de Jesús, Pitágoras enseñaba que el universo vibraba porque había una realidad más grande de la que nos podíamos imaginar. En el siglo XVI, el director del coro de Lutero inició un movimiento de adoración en el cual usaba por vez primera la armonía en los arreglos musicales … Read more…
In the past, church leaders have turned to small groups or other kinds of discipleship programs to encourage spiritual growth in their churches. Yet despite good intentions, the deeper spiritual life and transformation they had hoped for remained elusive. STIR calls church leaders to reclaim an essential, biblical truth—that the process of spir… Read more…
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