Download or read book If I Were Starting The Ministry Again written by John M. Drescher and published by Editora Esperança . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book arose from the search and need of the author, John M. Drescher, to discern the real importance and what he would emphasize if he were starting the ministry again. His reflection considers what he would have liked someone to have shared with him when he started. It is a pious return to the most basic principles of the Gospel. With simple questions like: What was the impetus that motivated your Christian calling? What is the goal that currently guides your ministerial formation? Drescher writes about cultivating one's spiritual life, reading the Scriptures, empowering by the Holy Spirit, prayer, forming leaders, visiting, planting churches, among other important topics. The contents of this book, once practiced, transform the lives of those who take the ministry seriously. So, serving Christ as his partner becomes a great privilege. José Carlos Pezini - Pastor, writer, professor and church planting consultant (Brazil / USA)
Download or read book If I Were Starting My Ministry Again written by John M. Drescher and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless truths to revitalize ministry. Small, inspirational gift-book size. Embark upon an introspective journey through more than fourteen timeless truths which will help you revitalize your ministry. John M. Dresher offers spiritual disciplines that will help your ministry be more Christ-centered and more enabled by the Holy Spirit. The author identifies mistakes made in the past, and then shows how to renew a more effective ministry. In offering these pearls of wisdom, the author addresses all pastors who examine daily pressures to reflect on their relationship to their church and the people of God.
Download or read book Let the Nations be Glad written by John Piper and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mission is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exist because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate.' John Piper's contemporary classic draws on key biblical texts to demonstrate that worship is the ultimate goal of the church and that proper worship fuels missionary outreach. Piper offers a biblical defence of God's supremacy in all things, providing a sound theological foundation for missions. He examines whether Jesus is the only way to salvation and issues a passionate plea for God-centredness in the missionary enterprise, seeking to define the scope of the task and the means for reaching 'all nations'. Let the Nations Be Glad! is a trusted resource for missionaries, pastors, church leaders, youth workers, seminary students, and all who want to connect their labours to God's global purposes. This third edition has been revised and expanded throughout and includes new material on the 'prosperity gospel'.
Download or read book When your Child is 6 to 12 written by John Drescher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've been over-run with child-rearing manuals for infants. We've been swamped with advice for relating to teens. But little has been offered to parents whose children are in middle childhood! John. M. Drescher, a wise voice in the field of parenting literature (whose books have sold more than 400,000 copies), addresses particular delights and difficulties of this stage in a child's life.
Download or read book The Death of Porn written by Ray Ortlund and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist Your Battle against Porn Isn't about Porn. It's about Hope. Pornography may seem inescapable, but God can free us from its destructive power. The gospel replaces the dehumanizing lies of pornography with this surprising truth: God created us as royalty. How then can we reclaim our God-given identity to take a stand against—and ultimately starve—the predatory porn industry? In The Death of Porn, Ray Ortlund writes six personal letters, as from a father to his son. Ideal for individuals and small groups, it will give hope to men who have been misled by porn into devaluing themselves and others. Through Scripture and personal stories, Ortlund assures readers that God loves them the most tenderly in their moments of deepest shame. The Death of Porn inspires men to come together in new ways to fight the injustice of porn and build a world of nobility for every man and woman—for the sake of future generations.
Download or read book Servant Leadership for Church Renewal written by David S. Young and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David S. Young shows a biblical style of servant leadership and how it can be applied in concrete situations. He sees the spiritual dimension as key to renewal in the church. Servant leaders are attuned to God's movement and listen for God's direction to help a congregation find a plan for using the strengths of their church. Servant leaders formulate a renewal plan and implement it through prayer, teamwork, and resources. They learn to handle hardship. They are involved in faith formation. They serve by the transforming springs of God and call others to renewal and service.
Download or read book Church Unique written by Will Mancini and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by church consultant Will Mancini expert on a new kind of visioning process to help churches develop a stunningly unique model of ministry that leads to redemptive movement. He guides churches away from an internal focus to emphasize participation in their community and surrounding culture. In this important book, Mancini offers an approach for rethinking what it means to lead with clarity as a visionary. Mancini explains that each church has a culture that reflects its particular values, thoughts, attitudes, and actions and shows how church leaders can unlock their church's individual DNA and unleash their congregation's one-of-a-kind potential.
Download or read book The Christian Frame of Mind written by Thomas F. Torrance and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian Frame of Mind: Reason, Order, and Openness in Theology and Natural Science is an exhilarating exploration by one of this century's premier theologians of the relationship between science and theology. This collection of essays, which focuses on themes central to Thomas F. Torrance's lifelong work of integrating Judea-Christian theology and natural science, illuminates the distinctive contribution of the Christian frame of mind to human life and thought particularly in the rise of modern science. Arguing to close the gap between theological and natural science erroneously opened by "the narrow-minded rationalism of the Enlightenment," Dr. Torrance builds upon the work of scientists such as James Clerk Maxwell, Albert Einstein, and Michael Polanyi in promoting dialogue between the two disciplines. The resultant conversation is a brilliant and stirring analysis of common ground in scientific and theological inquiry. Torrance discards a dualist separation for a unitary understanding of reality, in which the invisible guides the interpretation of the visible as scientist and theologian alike adopt self critical openness and the auditive mode of inquiry in response to the pressing questions of their task. Dr. Torrance urges this unitary understanding of the intelligibility of the universe as a shared goal of science and theology. His vision of a foundational convergence between them, where the "boundary points" of contingent reality find their reference in the transcendent, uncreated reality of the Word of God is breathtaking in beauty and scope. The introduction by Dr. W Jim Neidhardt, physics professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, provides a lucid summary of key themes in Torrance's lifelong integrative work.
Download or read book Generation to Generation written by Wayne Rice and published by Standard Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this practical book, author, parent, and youth ministry expert Rice challenges parents to enjoy their roles as the primary spiritual caregivers for their children, and provides fun, effective, and easy-to-use ideas to help strengthen faith and knowledge through family life.
Download or read book Early Annals of Newington written by Roger Welles and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book A Pastor s Mistake Second Edition written by Marcus L. Boston and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Pastor's Mistake" will drop your jaw again and again with multiple twists, turns, and numerous shocking events including the heartfelt yet surprising ending. You will experience the pastoral abuse as if you were actually there in the same church. Shared with detailed transparency, you will feel intimately the emotional turmoil Marcus experienced within. Written for everyone hurt and devastated by pastors, this books sole purpose is to initiate the healing process of the spiritual wounds inflicted by pastors. You will see the Hand of God move time and time again to Marcus' rescue and God will do the same for you.
Download or read book When God Talks Back written by T.M. Luhrmann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 A bold approach to understanding the American evangelical experience from an anthropological and psychological perspective by one of the country's most prominent anthropologists. Through a series of intimate, illuminating interviews with various members of the Vineyard, an evangelical church with hundreds of congregations across the country, Tanya Luhrmann leaps into the heart of evangelical faith. Combined with scientific research that studies the effect that intensely practiced prayer can have on the mind, When God Talks Back examines how normal, sensible people—from college students to accountants to housewives, all functioning perfectly well within our society—can attest to having the signs and wonders of the supernatural become as quotidian and as ordinary as laundry. Astute, sensitive, and extraordinarily measured in its approach to the interface between science and religion, Luhrmann's book is sure to generate as much conversation as it will praise.
Download or read book The Department of State Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.
Download or read book At Your Best written by Carey Nieuwhof and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A perceptive and practical book about why our calendars so rarely reflect our priorities and what we can do to regain control.”—ADAM GRANT “Carey’s book will help you reorganize your life. And then you can share a copy with someone you care about.”—SETH GODIN You deserve to stop living at an unsustainable pace. An influential podcaster and thought leader shows you how. Overwhelmed. Overcommitted. Overworked. That’s the false script an inordinate number of people adopt to be successful. Does this sound familiar: ● Slammed is normal. ● Distractions are everywhere. ● Life gets reduced to going through the motions. Tired of living that way? At Your Best gives you the strategies you need to win at work and at home by living in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow. Influential podcast host and thought leader Carey Nieuwhof understands the challenges of constant pressure. After a season of burnout almost took him out, he discovered how to get time, energy, and priorities working in his favor. This approach freed up more than one thousand productive hours a year for him and can do the same for you. At Your Best will help you ● replace chronic exhaustion with deep productivity ● break the pattern of overpromising and never accomplishing enough ● clarify what matters most by restructuring your day ● master the art of saying no, without losing friends or influence ● discover why vacations and sabbaticals don’t really solve your problems ● develop a personalized plan to recapture each day so you can break free from the trap of endless to-dos Start thriving at work and at home as you discover how to be at your best.
Download or read book Ofendra written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl T. Roske. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short story collection containing the following stories: Ghostmaker Ex-sheriff Filmore has found a gun left by angels he watched fighting in the sky. He learns through experience that the gun makes his enemies into ghosts. Literally. But, when another angel sits down at his campfire, he learns the truth of what he’s done. A Better Mousetrap Chunky is one of Casey’s few friends. His sudden invitation to an art exhibit by Casey reveals a nightmarish surprise. The nightmare expands as he learns Casey has built a net that catches things from a parallel universe. When Casey reveals a giant net, his friend fears what Casey might catch. Defiant by Nature Young Fletcher is avoiding the outpost and the school bullies when a memory not his own, floods his mind. The memory leads him to a creek where he finds and saves a Novjarian butterfly larva. He cares for the larvae in secret. When the larva transitions into a butterfly, Fletcher realizes he has to do more. And he can’t do it alone. Last One Out Sheriff Josiah is deconstructing the town, driving the revenants to the church. Everything is going as planned until the outlaw Clayton Hodges wanders into town. Now sheriff Josiah’s energy is being wasted on saving the outlaw. And sundown is fast approaching. Glitch in Eternity A childhood incident caused Trudee to question the truth of Eternity Her persistence is seen as a threat to the community. Now, her lack of faith is being blamed for the Glitch. When Trudee learns what's really happening, she can either let Eternity fail, revealing the truth, or fix it and protect the lie the community relies on.
Download or read book Spirit Soul and Body written by Andrew Wommack and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever asked yourself what changed when you were "born again?" You look in the mirror and see the same reflection - your body hasn't changed. You find yourself acting the same and yielding to those same old temptations - that didn't seem to change either. So you wonder, Has anything really changed? The correct answer to that question is foundational for receiving from God. If you lack this basic understanding, you'll forever ask yourself doubt-filled questions like: "How could God love somebody like me?" and "How can I possibly expect to receive anything from the Lord? I don't deserve it, I'm not good enough!" Spirit, Soul, and Body will help you eliminate those and other doubt-filled questions that destroy your faith. If you have trouble receiving from God, this is a must-read!
Download or read book If I Were to Do It Again written by Joseph K Dube and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comes from a man who has walked with God in pastoral ministry for over five decades. In it Pastor Joseph Khohlisa Dube reflects on ministry and wishes if he were to begin over. Who doesn't feel that way when looking at things we have done in the past? Every profession is dynamic and begs the need for retooling. Truth be told many times we are haunted by the feeling of missed opportunities. While the stories and examples are taken from an African context, the principles apply cross-culturally. After you finish reading this book, you will certainly express the fact that you have listened to a sage pouring out his wisdom of many years. Much of what Pastor J. K. Dube articulates in this book does not come from the classroom but from religion in overalls where he encountered people from all walks of life. Zebron Ncube, DMin.Retired pastor, university professor, and church administrator.
