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The question is often asked, "Which is right: Catholic or Protestant?" Catholics argue they have authority, based on their unbroken leadership chain to the Apostles. Protestants say they have authority, based on their unmediated direct access to the Bible. What you're about to read is an informal dialogue I had with Dr. Peter Kreeft on the historic healing happening within Christianity. I think you'll greatly enjoy this short, but powerful transcript,...
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After congregations have considered their history, added up all the statistics, and tried to be honest about their core values, the question still remains: "Who are we, really?" Author Janet Cawley offers a creative, engaging, and faithful way to answer just that question. Cawley demonstrates how to use a congregation's knowledge of itself to construct a metaphor of the congregation as a person and then draw on theat metaphor to generate options for...
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THERE IS A LOT WRONG WITH THE CHURCH. FROM CRUSADES TO HYPOCRISY AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE CHURCH? MAYBE YOUR PROBLEM SHOULD NOT BE WITH THE CHURCH BUT WITH SOME OF THE FLAWED IMPLEMENTATIONS OF THE CHURCH. THE CHURCH IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD BECUASE IT IS GOD'S PLAN AND IT WILL WORK. SO MAYBE WHAT WE NEED IS A REVIVAL? AN O'L CHURCH REVIVAL.
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You could walk into a bookstore, go to the Christian book section, and find several books written about worship-after all, Christianity and worship go together like the church and salvation. You simply can't have one without the other.
This book is, written with the hope of clearing up some confusion and ignorance about how we develop true worship between the saints and the creator of the universe. According to Jesus's words in John chapter 4 in...
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A must-read for anyone who wants to experience the Kingdom of Heaven through daily living. • Twelve profound and sometimes playful reflections on Jesus' appearances after his resurrection that show us how to embrace life by walking in the light of the Resurrection • Through his focus on the Resurrection, Hadjadj brings new appreciation for our relationships with others, service, food, money, Scripture, mercy, faith, love, and more. • An ideal...
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Book that will show the way back to living intensely, without fear, sadness or pain. Life continues and you can't remain still with no response to this precious gift that the Lord bequeathed you. A life is worth more than the whole world, you are too precious to give up on living.
When you can not find any more strength to continue your life, know that there is hope, on reading this book, you can take this gift for yourself, which will put a direction...
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The purpose of this book is to explain the origin and destiny of mankind. God made man in his own image and likeness. Man was in a holy state as God, but he disobeyed God and fell into sin. Only God could deliver man out of his situation.
This book explains how God delivered man and what God expects of man while he is on this earth. Man has to go through three processes. He has to go through justification, sanctification, and glorification. We will...
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The author of this little book has never received formal biblical training. He is only a believer who has been a Christian of more than sixty years and is a regular Bible reader. The views stated which are not identified as Bible verses are only his opinions as he understands the Holy Scriptures. They are offered in an effort to spark the interest of readers to encourage them to seek the truth for themselves.
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I do not understand why God created the world this way. It seems like God is playing games with us. God seems to have hidden holiness and wholeness in a secret place where only the humble will find it.
#2 People who have moved from seeming success to seeming success rarely understand success at all, except a very limited version of it. People who fail to do it right,...
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Whose Idea Were the Denominations in the First Place?
In the perilous times we live in, there has never been a greater need for unity among the followers of Jesus. In this book, Randy Adams explores the scriptural mandate for unity, the breaking up of the oneness found in the Book of Acts church, the origins of denominationalism, and the critical need for the church to come together to be the bride beautifully prepared for the return of the Bridegroom....
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A USA Best Book Award Finalist (Christian Category), 2013. It was written out of a heart for godliness. Everybody is prone to errors especially when we lose guard. In Unguarded Moments, one could act in a way he never thought possible. The scriptures admonishes us to watch and pray that we enter not into temptation. This is the whole essence of the book. It is educative, as it is inspirational. It touches several aspects of life and ministry, citing...
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How do we reconcile the need to create safe places for worship and community with a theology of welcome and inclusion?
Most houses of worship know they need a safety plan, but leadership often resists the tough conversations of restricting access and locking more doors. This seems contrary to proclaiming that church is a welcoming, open place for all. There are books, manuals, guides, and articles advising how to create a safety plan for faith-based...
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Get the Summary of Brian C. Muraresku's The Immortality Key in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The most influential religious historian of the 20th century, Huston Smith, once referred to it as the "best-kept secret" in history. Did the ancient Greeks use drugs to find God? And did the earliest Christians inherit the same secret tradition? A profound knowledge of visionary plants, herbs,...
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In the 30 years since Dr Francis Schaeffer's The Great Evangelical Disaster showed how what was supposed to be 'the Bible-believing evangelical church' was largely becoming ineffectual and abandoned by God as a result of becoming increasingly dominated by a new 'super-spirituality'. Peter C Glover's The Great Evangelical Disaster Revisited not only shows how evangelicals failed entirely to heed Schaeffer's warning but identifies those chiefly responsible...
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How should the church respond to the changing cultural and societal changes going on around it? Should it reject the historical traditions that served the early Christian church, or should it turn a blind eye to the changes happening in modern society? Neither, as Cassandra D. Carkuff Williams advocates, it should, and it must recover and reclaim our foundations and reinterpret them in light of present-day realities. In “Learning the Way: Reclaiming...
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Doug Bixby knows that many of us have had enough of the liberal vs. conservative battles in the church. In “The Honest to God Church”, Bixby demonstrates how these extremes have distracted us from our true calling as conduits for God's grace-both individually and as congregations. Many churches see themselves as "okay," while everyone outside the church is "not okay." These churches embrace an ethic of perfection rather than love. Often, they...
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Includes ·Samples and photos of emerging church worship gatherings ·Recommended resources for the emerging church The seeker-sensitive movement revolutionized the way we did church and introduced countless baby boomers to Jesus. Yet trends show that today's post-Christian generations are not responding like the generations before them. As we enter a new cultural era, what do worship services look like that are connecting with the hearts of emerging...
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What the Spirit is Saying to the Church is an apocalyptic view from the letters to the seven churches in the book of Revelation that begins its message to the church admonishing her to return to her first love, which she has abandoned. The author contends that this first love requirement demands a redirection of priorities for the Twenty-First-Century Church-in-the-Black-Experience. It demonstrates how, for the love of Christ, she must move beyond...
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IS IT FAITH OR RELIGION?Targeting the mature Christian in easy to understand language, the book explores the difference between faith alone in Christ alone, and those elements of church religion that have been hoisted onto the backs of believers. One travesty after another has been committed in the name of the religious church throughout 2000 years of its history. Many of what we think of today as essential parts of the Christian Church are not scriptural...
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Churches have split and denominations have formed over the issue of church government. Yet while many Christians can explain their particular church's form of rule and may staunchly uphold it, few have a truly biblical understanding of it. What model for governing the church does the Bible provide? Is there room for different methods? Or is just one way the right way?In Who Runs the Church? Four predominant approaches to church government are presented...
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