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Book Synopsis The Prodigal Hugging Church by : Tim Wright
Download or read book The Prodigal Hugging Church written by Tim Wright and published by Augsburg Fortress. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethink the mission of your congregation in light of Jesus' commitment to embrace culture. Written for both leaders and members, this book will encourage you to embrace the prodigals in your community through examples, scripture, stories, and practical insights from Pastor Tim and The Community Church of Joy.
Book Synopsis "A" is for Abductive by : Leonard I. Sweet
Download or read book "A" is for Abductive written by Leonard I. Sweet and published by HarperCollins Christian Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playful, witty, but substantive "postmodern ministry for dummies-type" book that fills the huge and getting huger hunger for something in one volume that introduces basic concepts and vernacular of "postmodern ministry."
Download or read book Unfreezing Moves written by Bill Easum and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepares Christian congregations to fulfill their basic function - to make disciples who make disciples for Jesus Christ. This book is about helping "stuck" and "unstuck" churches either become unstuck or constantly improve their ministry of making disciples. This book is designed to help church leaders make profound changes in the way they do ministry or constantly practice methodological innovation/improvement to be effective in creating disciples churches.
Book Synopsis How to Lead a Church to Reach People and Grow by : Robert A. Young
Download or read book How to Lead a Church to Reach People and Grow written by Robert A. Young and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a unique approach to church growth. It is written mainly to help churches that are declining, but will help all churches. The underlying premise is that churches do not grow and reach new people because they do not know how, or because they are so poorly structured and organized that they spend most of their time and efforts in conflict. This disrupts the fellowship and leaves very little time and energy for reaching new people. The subtitle could be, "Fifteen Essential Steps To Growth"- Basic growth and administrative principles. The combining of these areas makes this a unique book. Young has brought together these basic elements, from over 40 years of experience. . The book is a practical guide for a local church to follow to function efficiently and effectively, and reach people for Christ. When the steps are followed, and in the proper order, the church can pretty well be assured of growth and effective ministry. Dr. Robert A. Young is currently President of Samuelite Corp., Church Outreach and Consulting. He served as Associate Pastor/Administration of Walnut Street Baptist Church, Louisville, KY, and Park Cities Baptist Church, Dallas, TX, and President of the National Association of Church Business Administration. He has conducted "Total Church Consultations" and Capital Fund Campaigns for churches of all sizes and denominations. He is now available to serve churches as a consultant in these areas. He is also the author of "The Development of A Church Manual of Administrative Policies".
Book Synopsis The Grace Walk Devotional by : Steve McVey
Download or read book The Grace Walk Devotional written by Steve McVey and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1995, Steve McVey’s Grace Walk (over 250,000 sold) has inspired Christians to leave behind performance- and fear-based Christianity and embrace God in all His generosity and grace. Steve’s devotional draws on Scripture and the Grace Walk message, enabling readers to take in life-changing teaching piece by piece and day by day. As they grasp that God’s grace is immensely more than a doctrine, they will discover why it’s all right to give up on themselves and their efforts new ways to quit “doing” for God so that He can live through them how to view the Bible, salvation, and evangelism from a new perspective This power-packed book will lead believers to understand who they are in Christ, help them relax and delight in Jesus’ love and friendship, and find that He will do more through them and in them than they could ever do for Him or for themselves.
Book Synopsis The Lost Gospel of John by : James Russell
Download or read book The Lost Gospel of John written by James Russell and published by James Russell Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a different, more powerful and entertaining Jesus you never knew existed. Experience strange and unusual parables, incredibly wild miracles, intense wisdom and fabulous sermons that will lift you to heavenly realms. Relive John's eye-witness commentaries never before published until now. Visit the awful bowels of hell and witness Christmas and special festivals Jesus of Galilee commanded his apostles to observe. The Gospel of John in the King James Holy Bible is only 15 pages, but this new Gospel of John is a massive 305 pages! It is packed with intense knowledge every Christian needs to read, especially in this end-time era. The false teachers and religions are exposed. Do you dare learn who they are? As the story goes, this Gospel was found in Jerusalem and it is a great novel guaranteed to keep you fully entertained, turning the pages and yearning for more. The Lost Gospel of John - A New Testament of Jesus of Galilee.
Book Synopsis Listen, Love, Repeat by : Karen Ehman
Download or read book Listen, Love, Repeat written by Karen Ehman and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our culture is self-obsessed – in our schedules, relationships, and especially online. (Can you say selfie?) But in this near-narcissism, people are less content than in decades past. Why? Because we forgot the joy that comes from putting others first. Doing so requires us to live alert, listening for “heart drops,” hints from those in our lives who need a helping hand or a generous dose of encouragement. Living alert lifts our own spirits, showing us that blessing others blesses us even more. Listen, Love, Repeat offers biblical teaching and suggests doable actions that are simple, heart-tugging, sentimental, even sneaky and hilarious. This message: • Presents scriptural examples of those who lived alert, including Jesus, who noticed those who least expected to be seen. • Explains the role of good works for followers of Christ. They aren’t our ticket to heaven but they are our marching orders on earth. • Gives creative ideas for showing love to friends and family, and suggests practical ways to reach out to the lonely, the marginalized, the outcast, and the odd duck. Additionally, it helps you comfort the grieving, showing what you can do when you don’t know what to say. • Provides inspiration for blessing the “necessary people” in your life, those often-overlooked souls who help you get life done every day, and teaches you how to hug a porcupine by genuinely loving the hard-to-love. As we scatter love, we create a safe space where we can openly share the gospel. We get to see lives changed right before our eyes. Most importantly, Listen, Love, Repeat will enable you to live a life that is full of kind deeds, not to selfishly shout, “Hey! Look at me!” but to humbly implore, “Will you look at Him?”
Book Synopsis How to Hug a Smelly Guy by : Jeff Johnson
Download or read book How to Hug a Smelly Guy written by Jeff Johnson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When was the last time you hugged a smelly guy? You know who I mean—you can tell he's coming before he arrives. Maybe the guy's been homeless for a while, living outside, hasn't had a shower in weeks. You smile at him, talk to him politely, ask how he's been, and then he holds up his arms for a hug. What are you going to do? Will you embrace him as a brother, so hard that some of his stink rubs off on you? God is at work through people like you. He is still doing the things that He always did. He hasn't left; He hasn't forgotten. I want to encourage you by showing you some failures, as well as some successes; by telling you some stories about God working in the lives of ordinary people, in an ordinary city, in ordinary churches. Nothing special, nothing amazing from a human perspective, but when God was done, there was something new going on. Something good. Even something very good. This is a book of stories about people just like you who have heard God's call to minister among the least of these. These stories are full of God's grace and hope that our ministry with those in poverty and despair is bringing God joy and saving lives. If you're an urban church planter, a missionary to the poor, someone with a heart for the homeless, or just a person who wants to see our cities strong and alive, open the cover and read.
Book Synopsis Beyond Awkward Side Hugs by : Bronwyn Lea
Download or read book Beyond Awkward Side Hugs written by Bronwyn Lea and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Doesn’t Have to Be This Weird When it comes to relationships between men and women, we have more questions than answers: How do we keep relationships with the opposite sex healthy—and still hug each other after small group? Is it possible for married men and women to be friends with people of the opposite sex? What does it mean to be a woman if you’re not a wife, or a man if you’re not a husband? Jesus’ pattern for church living was one of family—of brothers and sisters living in intimate, life-giving community with each other. With story, sensitivity, and hope, Beyond Awkward Side Hugs invites us to leave behind eroticized, fear-based patterns and move toward gendered, generous relationships between men and women of character as we love one another as Jesus did. “Beyond Awkward Side Hugs is a deep well of biblical wisdom, and Lea has written with nuance and clarity, humor and grace.” —Jen Pollock Michel, author of Surprised by Paradox and Keeping Place “The church desperately needs a bigger vision for how men and women can flourish together in ministry and friendship, and Bronwyn Lea paints a vivid picture for how we’ll get there.” —Steve Wiens, author of Shining Like the Sun, Beginnings, and Whole
Download or read book Plain Faith written by Irene Eash and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of Ora-Jay and Irene Eash, Amish farmers from northwest Montana whose lives changed in an instant when a semi-truck struck the family buggy, killing their two young daughters. After the accident, the couple turned to their Amish community for comfort, but they remained haunted by the thought that they might not see their girls again in heaven. Would their deeds be good enough? Eventually Ora-Jay and Irene learned that grace—not works—was enough to ensure their place in eternity. But with that knowledge came the realization that they could no longer live in an Amish community that didn’t share this precious belief. Could they sever their connection to the Amish family they loved? This is the story of their journey to the hope that is heaven, a hope stronger than the loss of children, family, and a way of life. Fans of Amish fiction will appreciate such a real-life look into the Amish community, co-written by bestselling author Tricia Goyer, and readers of all kinds will resonate with this tale of courage, resilience, and the redemption found in the grace of Jesus.
Book Synopsis The Jesus Enterprise by : Kent R. Hunter
Download or read book The Jesus Enterprise written by Kent R. Hunter and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The churches that will succeed in reaching out to the unchurched in this society are those who have learned how to encounter such people on their own territory. Kent Hunter names such forms of ministry the Jesus Enterprise.
Book Synopsis The Recovery-Minded Church by : Jonathan Benz
Download or read book The Recovery-Minded Church written by Jonathan Benz and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You want to have vibrant relationships with those who struggle with addiction in your church and community. This practical resource for church leaders and congregations answers your pressing questions about addiction and recovery, through real-life stories, the latest insights from medical science and a biblical framework for how to love the addicts in your midst.
Book Synopsis Lost: It Only Ends Once by : Robert Dougherty
Download or read book Lost: It Only Ends Once written by Robert Dougherty and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final season of "Lost" took everyone on one last, cross-dimensional ride towards eternity. We saw how being a candidate can be deadly, found a new way to reunite with the dead, and discovered a new meaning for the phrase "Man in Black." Months later, we're either just starting to reflect on it all, or cursing that we ever looked for answers in the first place. For those who still don't regret the last six years, "Lost: It Only Ends Once" takes one final look at the end, and all that came after. The author of "Lost Episode Guide For Others" and "Lost: The Island's Greatest Hits" helps sum up the final 18 1/2 hours, and updates his list of the 42 greatest episodes, characters and scenes of all time. In the process, he shares his own journey inside the Lost fandom, and helps fellow Losties heed the show's final message "To remember....and to let go."
Download or read book The Prodigal written by Janice Parker and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clint has everything money can buy: expensive cars, beautiful women, and a villa in Cannes. It was the life he had always dreamed of living. Clints life was suddenly thrown into turmoil so he attempts to find solace by traveling to Wales to visit a friend he met during the war. Clint was invited to join his friend and his friends sister, whom he is captivated by, on a mission trip to Africa. It was far from the extravagant life he had lived; it was laborious, the climate stifling, yet the people were warm and comforting. He finally finds the love and peace that he had been searching for. But devastation befalls Clint once more. He is taken captive by rebel forces and held somewhere in the fierce jungle of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Trapped and alone, Clint fears he will never see the woman he loves again. This is a story of one mans journey to find happiness and true meaning of life. Clint is tested and learns the depth of Gods grace and the unconditional love of a Father.
Book Synopsis Hug's Introduction to the New Testament by : Johann Leonhard Hug
Download or read book Hug's Introduction to the New Testament written by Johann Leonhard Hug and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Real Church in a Social Network World by : Leonard Sweet
Download or read book Real Church in a Social Network World written by Leonard Sweet and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We need more than status updates—we need relationships. Learning about God’s Heart from the TGIF (Twitter, Google, iPhone, Facebook) Generation The explosion in social networking is perhaps the most visible expression of the human longing to know others and to be known. Is there a parallel in contemporary Christianity? The church posts a welcome sign outside, but has Christianity lost sight of reaching the current generation with the heart of the gospel? Drawing from years of Leonard Sweet’s paradigm-shifting analyses, Real Church in a Social-Network World delivers ahead-of-the-curve observations and insights into the intersection of the gospel and richer relationships in an ever-changing culture of TGIFers (those who connect using Twitter, Google, the iPhone, and Facebook). · Find out how to recover the gospel’s unique emphasis on real relationship · Experience the promise and reward of relationship and reconciliation in everyday life · Learn how the driving desire for connection, understanding, and belonging give evidence of the deepest longings of the human soul This provocative eBook offers practical guidance to leaders and followers, believers and seekers, and anyone who is ready to explore the human longing for relationship.
Book Synopsis A Lost Girl Named Amber by : Shirley Jones
Download or read book A Lost Girl Named Amber written by Shirley Jones and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amber is like the new Eve. She is a woman who is struggling to find love and purpose in her life. But her true love is in Jesus Christ, and her true purpose is in Jesus Christ. Once she receives him, peace, joy, and everlasting love are hers forever.
