Download or read book Who Moved My Pulpit written by Thom S. Rainer and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Moved My Pulpit? may not be the exact question you’re asking. But you’re certainly asking questions about change in the church—where it’s coming from, why it’s happening, and how you’re supposed to hang on and follow God through it—even get out ahead of it so your church is faithfully meeting its timeless calling and serving the new opportunities of this age. Based on conversations with thousands of pastors, combined with on-the-ground research from more than 50,000 churches, best-selling author Thom S. Rainer shares an eight-stage roadmap to leading change in your church. Not by changing doctrine. Not by changing biblical foundations. But by changing methodologies and approaches for reaching a rapidly changing culture. You are the pastor. You are the church staff person. You are an elder. You are a deacon. You are a key lay leader in the church. This is the book that will equip you to celebrate and lead change no matter the cost. The time is now.
Download or read book Who Moved My Pulpit Who Moved My Pew written by Victoria Burse and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spiritual yet practical guide is for pastors, leaders, and congregants. It is written for and to The Body of Christ. It includes discussions on technology and livestreaming as well as other tools and methods for Ministry and Outreach. It is a reminder that the Small Group Ministry settings we have read about in the Book of Acts as well as other modern-day models are perfect options for us now. We should be having "House Church" and experiencing the presence of the Lord in amazing ways in our homes and with our families.
Download or read book A Pew Sitter s Search for God written by Houston M. Burnside and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston Burnside’s journey of faith began in his childhood – not unlike most children. This book helps the reader understand how people who touch us influence the images of God we take with us all our lives. This author was a seeker from the beginning. He shares in beautiful, and sometimes painful stories, how his concept of God changed through his life experiences. Every opportunity that came his way to test his faith was connected to people he learned to include in his circle of faith. He searched for God in family hardships and relationships...in a grandmother who raised him during the first decade of his life...with a loving mother who cared for him in the growing years...and as an underage Marines in China where he met and loved missionaries who helped him on his journey. Coming home, he married and had a family of his own bringing high points of joy and challenges. Houston tells his incredible story of seeking and winning a higher education which prepared him for pastoral ministry. He was ordained but still seeking. At 30 years old, he sought God among the books and writings of giant theologians and philosophers as he studied for his Ph D. He found God there, too, in the most unexpected places. Houston Burnside weaves his remarkable stories across the stepping-stones of change, bringing him through his 27-year career as a professor at San Diego State University. A Pew-sitter’s Search for God will help you recognize the people in your life who impact your thinking and decision-making. As the author says, “The quest never ends.” The book offers quiet satisfaction and hope that all of life is good as long as the seeker never gives up.
Download or read book From the Pew to the Pulpit written by John Elias Williams and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God the Guardian of the Poor and the Bank of Faith written by William Huntington and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bishop s Secret written by Alton Nielsen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pastor Jonathan Larsen and his wife, Kim, find their faith and marriage tested by anonymous threats, stressful careers, and a laborious adoption process, they cry, pray and fight their way to a deeper level of trust and commitment. When he's elected bishop, a thirteen-year-old secret eats a hole in his soul. His passion for transparency contends with an equal desire not to hurt his family and admirers by admitting the long-ago deception. Struggling to apply forgiveness to himself in the same way he proclaims it to others, he is thwarted by his father's admonitions and the high expectations placed on church leaders. A seductive sister-in-law, a jealous colleague, and two clergy charged with sexual misconduct distract the bishop from his commitment to confess to Kim and church authorities. When the troubled bishop makes his decision, even he is surprised at the revelations that emerge. As you accompany these characters, you will travel to violence-ridden Liberia, rain soaked heights above Waimea Canyon on Kauai, and through the maze of freeways in Southern California. Together with them, religious or not, you will experience the challenge of living with integrity, compassion, and joy in a diverse and demanding twenty-first century culture.
Download or read book Where Time Stood Still written by The Reverend Watkins Leigh Ribble D.D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s and early 1930s, the people of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia were living, thinking, and working as their forefathers had done for centuries. Their resistance to change extended to most areas of their lives, including their archaic way of speaking, the low position of women in the mountain home and society, and their outdated farming methods that drained the land of its productiveness each succeeding year. Their invariable response to suggestions for change was hostile: "This is the way my pa did it, and it was the way his pa did it. We ain't never done no different." Since those days--especially after the establishment of the Shenandoah National Park in 1935--vast changes have swept this primitive civilization away, and the picturesque mountaineer of story and legend has become a fading memory. Early in his ministry, Dr. Ribble worked as a missionary among these hardy but culturally-isolated Blue Ridge Mountain people. In his book Where Time Stood Still, he recounts delightful stories about the Blue Ridge Mountain folk, painting a vivid portrait of these mountaineers. A few of these stories involve the stereotypical hillbilly, such as shotgun weddings and illegal moonshining. On the whole, however, his stories paint a much more complete and sympathetic picture of these mountain people, whom he came to know well and for whom he came to feel great respect and affection.
Download or read book Loving Oliver written by Debra Erfert and published by Stone Horse Press, LLC. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pretend courtship that’s not so fake A British Lord escaping from an unwanted betrothal. An on-the-shelf American young lady obsessed with her art. A chance friendship turned to love. Lord Oliver Easton, fourth son of the British Duke of Northcott, escaped the clutches of a desperate debutante trying to entrap him into marriage when he escorted his sister’s champion horse to the Wild West of Nevada. In America, Oliver could finally breathe and enjoy his new surroundings as a gentleman of leisure, until he literally ran into an innocent young woman coming into the general store. She fell on the ground, breaking a precious sculpture that crashed beside her. For the past six years, Rose Newman managed to avoid the bevy of men her parents wanted her to marry. Suddenly being thrust into the company of the soft-spoken well-mannered Oliver Easton had her heart stirring. Together, they devise a way to spend time together without causing a scandal. They pretend to court each other. What seemed like a logical way to gain a friendship turned into misery when their hearts forgot to remind them the courtship was a secret charade.
Download or read book Dark Gold written by David Angsten and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His summer after college graduation was never supposed to turn out this way. But when Jack Duran's older, vagabond brother Dan goes missing in Mexico, Jack heads to Puerta Vallarta to find him. With two friends in tow, Jack follows Dan's trail of shady dealings, which leads him to a Bahamian yachtsman and his bikini-clad crew. Sailing down the jungle-covered coast, they soon discover that Dan had been searching for a shipwreck. But some treasures are meant to stay buried... When they finally locate the sunken ruins, they begin their furious search for the booty until, one by one, the divers begin to disappear. Could they be the victims of el Diablo Blanco, a deadly local legend come to life? Blinded by the prospect of untold riches, Jack travels toward the very brink of the abyss as he pursues his harrowing quest for... DARK GOLD
Download or read book Lutheran Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hands within the Battle written by Minnie P. Stewart and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hands within the Battle: My Mississippi History By: Minnie P. Stewart After experiencing and observing many years of visible and invisible racism, Minnie P. Stewart knew she needed to speak the truth. She and her family, like so many others, had been privately holding onto their family history. This memoir is her retelling and reflection on her and her family as they faced racism and oppression and the help they received from others as they themselves strived to serve. Stewart wrote Hands within the Battle to preserve her family history. It will draw readers in as they learn the secrets of the smiles and the songs on the lips of Black Americans as they battle life’s stumbling blocks. It is a moving witness to the power of love and service to sustain a family through hardship.
Download or read book I Told the Mountain to Move written by Patricia Raybon and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A troubled marriage, clashes with her strong-willed daughters, and a shameful personal secret had humbled the faith of award-winning writer Raybon. Raised in a churchgoing family, she knew that only God could surmount these obstacles. Here's her inspiring account of her heart-transforming journey toward intimacy with God--an odyssey abounding with lessons on prayer.
Download or read book All Your Tomorrows written by J. Nathan and published by J. Nathan. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nora was getting along just fine as a college student and part-time medium when Kyler walks into her life. He's stuck between two worlds and doesn't know why. He needs Nora's help to uncover the truth but what they discover is far more complicated. His past holds secrets and conceals lies—ones he's better off not remembering. The more time they spend together, the more their connection grows, and it becomes clear they've come into each other's lives for a reason. Nora no longer wants Kyler to cross over, but she knows she's there to help him move on—not fall for him. A relationship between the two of them could never work anyway. He's going to disappear from this world forever, and she's going to be left to pick up the pieces of a broken heart. But, for the first time in her life, Nora no longer views her ability as a gift. She views it as a curse with a quickly approaching end date.
Download or read book Chicago Kid written by Hughie Levoy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dominie Dean written by Ellis Parker Butler and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominie Dean by Ellis Parker Butler is about the story of new pastor David Dean and his most recent experiences in the town of Riverbank, fending off women's advances and learning how to make his living. Excerpt: "'Thusia, running the streets, was in danger of becoming too daring. She knew the town talked about her and she laughed at its gossip. In such a contest the rebel usually loses; in conspiring against smugness she ends by falling into the ranks of immorality. In Riverbank before the Civil War, the danger to reputation was even greater than it is now; morality was marked by stricter conventions. 'Thusia, despite her new dress and hat, did not linger downtown after meeting with David."
Download or read book You re Not Gonna Believe This written by Charles E. Kaczorowski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would you like to join me on an unbelievable ride? Let us take a ride on a mystical wooden kiddie roller coaster as we travel thru my dash (you know, that line that separates, the date you were born and the date that says you, died) to, re-live my experiences, when I went knocking on Heavens door, starting at the early age of five years old, having to survive my first automobile accident. At sixteen, I drowned but was miraculously saved. Four years later I was in Vietnam, then had two major automobile accidents one before I was there in the WTC on the 93 bombing, then another before I was there on 9/11. After ten months at Ground Zero, I ended up with nineteen health ailments, one being bladder cancer. This will probably have you feel like youve been pushed back into that seat youre in and have you look to see if youre safely secured, as we go about feeling the remainder of those climbs, drops, curves and hoops with me. While were still on this journey, I will tell you about some of these most amazing surprising coincidences that had occurred to me (ones that I could never imagine, happening) and all because of this sudden change in me, that came about, hours later on September 11, 2001. Why, and more than, anything why me?
