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Download or read book Worship Refocused written by David Miles and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2022-03-19 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the book: Have you ever wondered what Jesus really meant when he told the woman at the well in John chapter 4, that the "Father was seeking people to worship Him in spirit and in truth" ? This statement from Jesus should be very closely examined, because what he is telling us is of supreme importance. We see in this statement, something that the Father is seeking and something He wants to find. Therefore we should understand worship completely, so that we can become those people the Father seeks. For so many years, we have simply assumed that worship is a sound, a particular song, a Church format or an extraordinary event. We will find by examining the scripture with a fresh eye, that this is actually not what the Father seeks. If worship is a type of song, then when the song is over our worship stops. Surely the All Powerful God who spoke the universe into existence, The Father, is not searching for something that frivolous. No, His search is for something far deeper and more profound than a setlist of carefully compiled songs. The rewards of becoming a true worshiper are eternal and life changing. May this book bless you as you seek to become someone the Father is seeking - someone the Father finds.
Book Synopsis The Global Church---The First Eight Centuries by : Donald Fairbairn
Download or read book The Global Church---The First Eight Centuries written by Donald Fairbairn and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Variety and Unity of the Early Church The Christian church of the early centuries spread throughout much of Asia, Africa, and Europe, spoke many languages, was situated within diverse cultural settings, and had varied worship practices; yet it maintained a vital unity on core teachings at the heart of the Christian faith. In The Global Church--The First Eight Centuries: From Pentecost through the Rise of Islam, author Donald Fairbairn helps readers understand both the variety and unity of the church in this pivotal era by: Re-centering the story of the church in its early centuries, paying greater attention to Africa, Turkey, and Syria, where most of the church's intellectual energy was nurtured Highlighting Christian communities outside the Roman Empire, as far afield as Persia and India, alongside those within it Identifying key events by their global, not merely Western, significance and taking into account early Christian interactions with other religions, particularly Islam The Global Church--The First Eight Centuries is an ideal introduction to the patristic era that broadens the narrative often recounted and places it more firmly in its varied cultural contexts. Students of the early church, formal and informal alike, will appreciate the fresh approach and depth of insight this book provides.
Download or read book Offered written by Bill R. Morrison and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offered is must read for all who are seriously seeking a holistic view of worship. The author, Bill Morrison, is someone I have known for nearly three decades and his life experience as a follower of Christ shines through the content of this book. Bill is a deep thinking minister of the gospel who has spent years studying and pondering the real meaning of worship. Offered is biblically based. Every page of the book points the reader to the scriptures and not just to personal opinions. This work is theologically sound. There are no side trails which lead the reader away from the main focus of worshiping God, in spirit and in truth. Offered is a practically oriented book which can be utilized in small group Bible studies, devotionals, and in sermons. The well organized chapters make this a practical guide to better understanding worship. My favorite chapter is the one which describes The Great Commission as our call to worship. Interpreting the Great Commission in this fashion, helps readers see worship as a way of life, not a single action of the Christian. When we understand this truism, we are freed from trying to make a list of priorities which makes worship a separated part of the Christian life. I recommend Offered to you as a reliable guide for you in your quest to better comprehend the full meaning of worship. Like me, I think you will come to know that we are here on this earth to be offered to The Living God for a life of worship. Dr. Rick Lance Executive Director, Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions
Book Synopsis A Linking of Heaven and Earth by : Scott K. Taylor
Download or read book A Linking of Heaven and Earth written by Scott K. Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reformation of the sixteenth century shattered the unity of medieval Christendom, and the resulting fissures spread to the corners of the earth. No scholar of the period has done more than Carlos M.N. Eire, however, to document how much these ruptures implicated otherworldly spheres as well. His deeply innovative publications helped shape new fields of study, intertwining social, intellectual, cultural, and religious history to reveal how, lived beliefs had real and profound implications for social and political life in early modern Europe. Reflecting these themes, the volume celebrates the intellectual legacy of Carlos Eire's scholarship, applying his distinctive combination of cultural and religious history to new areas and topics. In so doing it underlines the extent to which the relationship between the natural and the supernatural in the early modern world was dynamic, contentious, and always urgent. Organized around three sections - 'Connecting the Natural and the Supernatural', 'Bodies in Motion: Mind, Soul, and Death' and 'Living One's Faith' - the essays are bound together by the example of Eire's scholarship, ensuring a coherence of approach that makes the book crucial reading for scholars of the Reformation, Christianity and early modern cultural history.
Book Synopsis The Purpose Driven Church by : Rick Warren
Download or read book The Purpose Driven Church written by Rick Warren and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every church is driven by something. Tradition, finances, programs, personalities, events, seekers, and even buildings can each be the controlling force in a church. But Rick Warren believers that in order for a church to be healthy if must become a purpose driven church by Jesus. Now the founding pastor of Saddleback Church shares a proven five-part strategy that will enable your church to grow. . .- Warmer through fellowship - Deeper through discipleship - Stronger through worship - Broader through ministry - Larger through evangelism. Discover the same practical insights and principles for growing a healthy church that Rick has taught in seminars to over 22,000 pastors and church leaders from sixty denominations and forty-two countries. The Purpose Driven Church® shifts the focus away from church building programs to emphasizing a people-building process. Warren says, "If you will concentrate on building people, God will build the church."
Download or read book ReClaimed Church written by Bill Henard and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's no secret: churches are dying. Tragically, thousands of churches in the United States are shrinking, some closing their doors forever. The key to reversing these trends, argues Bill Henard, is for a local church to recognize where it is in the church life cycle. Unless churches intentionally do something about it, many of them will follow the same pattern: from birth, to plateau, and eventually, to death. But if a church learns to identify its place within the life cycle and embraces the necessary processes, it can return to growth. In a day when church membership has decreased, evangelistic zeal has cooled, and budgets are disappearing, ReClaimed Church is the tool that struggling churches need. Having previously written and taught seminary courses on church revitalization, Bill Henard uses his expertise to provide all the practical insights and instructions needed to reclaim your church.
Download or read book The Worship Maze written by Paul Basden and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 1999-05-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Basden leads bewildered churches through the worship maze, showing how they can find a faithful and fitting style for their own services.
Download or read book Refocus on Christ written by Matthew Muse and published by Matthew Muse. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many believers spend their whole lives unaware that imitating Christ was never intended to be attempted outside of God's divine power. This book exposes some of the ways Christians’ nearsighted nature keeps them from a far more fulfilling walk with God. Many of the guiding principles practiced in the Church today are actually leading people away from Christ. Some of what we may consider the very tenets of our faith are literally killing our spiritual life. Instead of focusing on ourselves, we learn in this work to focus on Christ.
Book Synopsis Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of God by : William R. Herzog
Download or read book Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of God written by William R. Herzog and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By building on his view of Jesus first developed in Parables as Subversive Speech, William Herzog II argues that Jesus is intensely interested in the social, political, and economic well-being of humanity. He examines the conflict stories, exorcisms/healings, and the passion narrative to develop his thesis and, in the final chapter, he interprets the resurrection in light of this viewpoint.
Download or read book ReFocus written by Jim Daly and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Jim Daly, the compassionate leader of Focus on the Family, ReFocus inspires and motivates Christians to transcend political agendas and partisan battles and instead interact with others in a way that will consistently reveal the heart of God to a desperately hurting world. Our culture has become painfully polarized, often hindering relationships with neighbors, colleagues, and the very people who need to discover the love of Jesus Christ. Remembering that we are foremost citizens of heaven serving a loving Father, we who call ourselves followers of Christ can once again be known by our love. But how? In what context and through what means? How can we tear down the walls that divide our culture, our neighborhoods and workplaces and families, in this increasingly contentious world? Drawing on a rich variety of true stories and sources both historical and contemporary--from behind the scenes in today's halls of power, to moving accounts from church history, to powerful breakthrough's in Daly's own life and ministry--Daly challenges us to reclaim our responsibility, and our privilege, as God's sons and daughters. As followers of Jesus with His humility and compassion as our model, ReFocus: Living a Life that Reflects God's Heart demonstrates how Christians can show the world an inexplicable taste of grace with no agenda other than to reveal the heart of God as the loving Abba Father He is.
Download or read book Liquid Church written by Peter Ward and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visionary book for the emergent church.The church must be like water--flexible, fluid, changeable. This book is a vision for how the church can embrace the liquid nature of culture rather than just scrambling to keep afloat while sailing over it. Ward urges us to move away from the traditional notion of church as a gathering of people meeting in one place at one time to the dynamic notion of the emergent church as a series of relationships and communications. In the Liquid Church, membership is determined by participation and involvement. Liquid Church is continually on the move, flowing in response to the Spirit and the gospel of Jesus, the imagination and creativity of its leaders, and the choices and experiences of it worshippers. In this provocative, insightful, and challenging book, Pete Ward presents his vision of a Liquid Church that addresses the needs of the isolated consumer-Christian by providing connection and community, located in common cause and similar desire for God.
Book Synopsis Church is More than Bodies, Bucks, and Bricks by : Jeremy Myers
Download or read book Church is More than Bodies, Bucks, and Bricks written by Jeremy Myers and published by Redeeming Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people think of church as a place and time where people gather, a way for ministry money to be given and spent, and a building in which people regularly meet on Sunday mornings. In this book, Jeremy Myers shows that church is more than bodies, bucks, and bricks. Church is the people of God who follow Jesus into the world, and we can be the church no matter how many people we are with, no matter the size of our church budget, and regardless of whether we have a church building or not. By abandoning our emphasis on more people, bigger budgets, and newer buildings, we may actually liberate the church to better follow Jesus into the world. This book is Volume 4 in the "Close Your Church for Good" series of books. Other volumes include: Preface: Skeleton Church Vol. 1: The Death and Resurrection of the Church Vol. 2: Put Service Back into the Church Service Vol. 3: Dying to Religion and Empire Vol. 4: Church is More than Bodies, Bucks, and Bricks Vol. 5: Cruciform Pastoral Leadership
Book Synopsis Theological Foundations of Worship (Worship Foundations) by : Khalia J. Williams
Download or read book Theological Foundations of Worship (Worship Foundations) written by Khalia J. Williams and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together an ecumenical team of scholars to present key theological concepts related to worship to help readers articulate their own theology of worship. Contributors explore the history of theology's impact on worship practices across the Christian tradition, highlighting themes such as creation, pneumatology, sanctification, and mission. The book includes introductions by N. T. Wright and Nicholas Wolterstorff. A forthcoming volume will address the historical foundations of worship.
Book Synopsis Worship and Power by : Sarah Kathleen Johnson
Download or read book Worship and Power written by Sarah Kathleen Johnson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian worship emerges from and speaks back into human relationships that are necessarily shaped by power and authority. Free Churches structure and negotiate power in relation to worship in ways that reflect the decentralization, local diversity, and personal agency that characterize many aspects of Free Church theology and practice. This volume models how dialogue among scholars and practitioners of Free Church worship, as well as dialogue with the wider church, can be mutually enriching as Christians strive together to worship in ways that are faithful and just.
Book Synopsis The Johannine Discourses and the Teaching of Jesus in the Synoptics by : Philipp F. Bartholomä
Download or read book The Johannine Discourses and the Teaching of Jesus in the Synoptics written by Philipp F. Bartholomä and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reformed identity and conformity in England, 1559–1714 by : Jake Griesel
Download or read book Reformed identity and conformity in England, 1559–1714 written by Jake Griesel and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on how Reformed theology and ecclesiology related to one of the most consequential issues between the Elizabethan Settlement (1559) and the Hanoverian Succession (1714), namely conformity to the Church of England. This volume enriches scholarly understandings of how Reformed identity was understood in the Tudor and Stuart periods, and how it influenced both clerical and lay attitudes towards the English Church’s government, liturgy and doctrine. In a reflection of how established religion pervaded all aspects of civic life in the early modern world and was sharply contested within both ecclesiastical and political spheres, this volume includes chapters that focus variously on the ecclesio-political, liturgical, and doctrinal aspects of conformity.
Book Synopsis Seven Silver Coins by : Mary Leonard
Download or read book Seven Silver Coins written by Mary Leonard and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-09 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a long prophetic word. It is a prophesy to give you a look into the bright and beautiful future God has been planning since before time. He has been talking to Mary about this time we are in, for years. The most recent discussions are exhilarating. Celebrate! We are on the threshold of a major miracle. You were born for a time such as this. How are you seeing your new future in this “New ERA?” Change is here. It is your time to shine. This is a hopeful clearly written book with steps to take to change your life forever. Speak life into your life. Mary gives examples of hearing, seeing, knowing and feeling God, so you can do it also. This book includes the new names of the seven mountains and how they are drastically changing for the good. One recent sentence about the evil in this world, God said, “I am going to turn them on their head, upside down, inside out and DONE!” This is a Passover of His children and a judgement of all the evil around the world. Praise God!
