Download or read book Capturing Faith written by Donald L. Hughes and published by Theatron Books. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian writing has many has many positive aspects. You can inform, persuade and inspire. That is Christian writing at its finest. This book allows you to learn how to do all three by writing the history of your local church or another church in your area. There are nearly 500,000 churches in the U.S. according to the Gallup organization, and virtually all could benefit from having their history documented. This book provides step-by-step details for researching, writing and marketing a local church history. It is ideal for church volunteers or professional writers. "Capturing Faith: How to Research & Write a Local Church History" is ideal for new Christian writers because they can write their first book for love or for money. The author provides details about how Christian writers can get a contract from a local church to write a history, and the steps needed to publish it. Having the history of your local church in print is great as a fundraiser for local churches, and it is wonderful to have to have as a resource to share in your community. The author covers these topics and many more: Why a printed history is important to your local church How to get a contract from a church to write the book if you are a professional writer How to work with a committee if you are writing the book as volunteers How to get the support of your pastor and other church leaders How to do historical research How to conduct oral histories The steps in the writing process How to market your book to raise funds for church projects How to distribute the book in your community to gain visibility for for church How individuals can have an ongoing church history writing ministry Other resources included are: Oral history release form Details about how a book is structured Links to resources that will help you write a better church history. A book that belongs on your book shelf and in every church library

Download or read book How to Write a Local Church History written by Frederick E. Maser and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Writing a History of Your Local Church written by Robert Granville Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Writing Local Church History written by Charles J. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evangelism through the Local Church written by Michael Green and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to practical evangelism: its biblical basis, theological backbone, and current practice Michael Green draws from a lifetime’s experience in this seminal work on the theory and practice of evangelism. Green shows how the good news of Christ is communicated most effectively through the local church. This comprehensive resource includes a primer on Christian apologetics and concrete suggestions for congregations and individuals sharing the gospel. Green challenges the hang-ups which so often accompany the very mention of evangelism. His classic work will continue to inspire new generations of evangelists.

Download or read book God Spare the Girls written by Kelsey McKinney and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Read it for twists on twists, meditations on faith, and a deeply thoughtful treatment of an evangelical community." — Glamour, Beach Reads That Are Like Summer in a Book “A thoughtful and candid meditation on faith, family, and forgiveness . . . fabulous.” —Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had Recommended by Good Housekeeping, Elle, Parade, Real Simple, Glamour,Refinery29,Bustle, Oprah Daily, The Millions, Shondaland, Yahoo!, Literary Hub, and more! A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover an unsettling secret about their father, the head pastor of an evangelical megachurch, that upends their lives and community—a story of family, identity, and the delicate line between faith and deception. Luke Nolan has led the Hope congregation for more than a decade, while his wife and daughters have patiently upheld what it means to live righteously. Made famous by a viral sermon on purity co-written with his eldest daughter, Abigail, Luke is the prototype of a modern preacher: tall, handsome, a spellbinding speaker. But his younger daughter Caroline has begun to notice the cracks in their comfortable life. She is certain that her perfect, pristine sister is about to marry the wrong man—and Caroline has slid into sin with a boy she’s known her entire life, wondering why God would care so much about her virginity anyway. When it comes to light, five weeks before Abigail’s wedding, that Luke has been lying to his family, the entire Nolan clan falls into a tailspin. Caroline seizes the opportunity to be alone with her sister. The two girls flee to the ranch they inherited from their maternal grandmother, far removed from the embarrassing drama of their parents and the prying eyes of the community. But with the date of Abigail’s wedding fast approaching, the sisters will have to make a hard decision about which familial bonds are worth protecting. An intimate coming-of-age story and a modern woman’s read, God Spare the Girls lays bare the rabid love of sisterhood and asks what we owe our communities, our families, and ourselves. “A deeply felt book about love — love for family and community, for people who sustain you and people who disappoint you. And love for God, too, which Kelsey McKinney writes about with humane and incisive frankness.”—Linda Holmes, New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over “The accomplishment of this canny novel is in positing coming of age itself as a loss of faith—not only in the church, but in our parents, our family, and the world as we thought we understood it.” — Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind and Rich and Pretty

Download or read book Doing Church History written by Gordon L. Heath and published by Clements Publishing Group Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text is intended to be helpful to a student with no history background. The book is divided into two parts. The first deals with theoretical issues such as the need for church history, how you write about God as a cause of events, and objectivity in historical research. The second is more pratcical in nature, and deals with the types and use of sources, documentation, and types of historical research. The appendices provide helpful information on terms, how to use church history in a local church, and how to write a local church history. --from publisher description

Download or read book Beyond the Local Church written by Sam Metcalf and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is raising up vibrant missional movements of Christians in a vast array of vocations: disciple-making ministries, missions, social activism and much more. Mission leader Sam Metcalf gives biblical and missiological foundations for these "parachurch" movements as strategic ways to live for the kingdom—in venues beyond the local church.

Download or read book Folding Chairs on the Sand written by Sue Harford Ferdig Allerton and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little did Cliff Henderson know when he launched his idea to develop the ‘Sand Hole,’ Coachella Valley, into the upscale city of Palm Desert the revelations that lay before him. His endeavor led him to ‘discover’ a small group of faithful bible readers on his newly purchased land. Joining them, the group grew to become the church of General Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie. The history of the early church begins with folding chairs on the desert sand under the blue sky to a magnificent church building that seats more than a thousand people. The city of Palm Desert that Cliff developed became everything he had hoped as the ‘smartest address in the desert.’ Movie stars and captains of industry bought property to build their vacation and retirement homes designed by some of the finest architects of desert homes. The Palm Desert shopping district, El Paseo, favorably competed with upscale shopping districts of New York and Hollywood. Soon magnificent resorts with 18-hole golf courses went in along with golfing fundraisers that started with the words, Bob Hope Classics. With the development of Palm Desert, neighboring areas developed as well, all upscale and host to many different sports, such as tennis, swimming, golfing, bicycling, and triathlons.

Download or read book Writing and Selling Poetry Fiction Articles Plays and Local History written by Marcia Muth and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to help both the beginning writer and the published writer who wants additional guidance in the marketing aspects of the trade. All the creative aspects of writing are covered from how to get and develop ideas to the ways and means of researching them. There are sections on copyright, contracts and computers as well as how to solve the "writer's block" and how to handle the writer's horror: rejections. An extensive bibliography serves as a guide for further reading. "Wisconsin Bookwatch" reported: "...a thoroughly 'user friendly' guide written especially for novice writers trying to cope with the necessities of marketing, as well as writer's block, handling the soul-crushing rejections, scrutinizing one's contract, and more. 'Writing and Selling' is recommended as a brief, simply presented instructional reference offering meticulous step-by-step directions, and as an effective starting primer for aspiring writers seeking remunerative publication of their work."

Download or read book Guidelines Church Historian written by General Commission on Archives and History and published by Cokesbury. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have been asked to be your church's historian, or you have just found a box of old records. What do you keep? How do you store the materials? How do you preserve them? What good is all this? As part of celebrating you church's anniversary, you want to write a history of your church. How do you start? Some of your church's leaders are aging. You want to record their memories. How do you prepare to interview them and what do you ask? This Guideline offers some answers and suggested ways to get more help. This is one of the twenty-six Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2017-2020 that cover church leadership areas including Church Council and Small Membership Church; the administrative areas of Finance and Trustees; and ministry areas focused on nurture, outreach, and witness including Worship, Evangelism, Stewardship, Christian Education, age-level ministries, Communications, and more.

Download or read book Loving the Church Blessing the Nations written by George Miley and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscovering the role God designed for the church in mission is a critical issue facing the missions movement today. That role is to glorify God by planting churches among every tongue, tribe, and nation. Planting churches amid unreached peoples is a complex process. It calls forth every ministry gift and the contribution of every believer. Imagine a businessman, a construction worker, a schoolteacher, and an engineer all working together to support the development of a local church amongst an unreached people group in another part of the world. Most Christians will not leave home and go elsewhere to minister. If they are to participate in God's global mission, they must be affirmed, developed and released right where they live, in the context of their local church. This book shows how churches can become centers of mission vision and implementation and so accomplish God's design for the local church.

Download or read book The History of the Church and the Local Churches written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1993 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Baptists in Canada written by Gordon L. Heath and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baptists arrived in what would become Canada in the mid-eighteenth century, and from those early arrivals Baptists from a wide variety of backgrounds planted churches in every region of the vast nation. This book traces that history of Baptists in Canada, and provides historical antecedents and theological rationales for their church polity. Written in a generous spirit, it recognizes what Baptists share with other Christian communities and how they differ among themselves on some matters. It places Baptists in Canada in the larger historical and global context, and concludes with commentary on opportunities and challenges ahead.

Download or read book The Local Church written by Edward Klink and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How God Ministers to His People and the World through the Local Church The church is more than coffee with friends—it's a meaningful gathering of Christians that involves fellowship and growing in biblical truth. Given the rise of the internet and the availability of streaming church services, many ministry leaders and church members are asking questions about the purpose and mission of the local church: What is the church? Why does the church exist? How does the church function? What is the connection between the Christian and the church? Pastor and trusted scholar Edward Klink III addresses these questions and more with a thoughtful assessment of what the Bible has to say about God's intention for the local church body. Klink stresses its importance as God's way of revealing his presence, displaying his power, fulfilling his purposes, and manifesting his activity in the world. In today's hyperindividualized culture, this book not only demonstrates why it's vital for individuals to connect to a local church, but also reveals why it's vital to God's work in the world.

Download or read book Guidelines for Writing a Local Church History written by Lindsay Lachlan Newnham and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revelation written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.