Community Strengthening
This workbook will help you understand the role of the church in strengthening community, discover what your church’s reputation is in the neighborhood, and more.
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This workbook will help you understand the role of the church in strengthening community, discover what your church’s reputation is in the neighborhood, and more.
This is a seven-lesson series designed to help participants deepen their biblical understanding of Christian mission and community development.
By way of conversation and illustration, this book offers a deeper understanding of difficult adoptive challenges with attachment as well as practical recommendations for adoptive parenting methods, when more usual parenting approaches don't work.
Editors Collin Hansen and Jeff Robinson have selected the stories of 12 Faithful Men: Portraits of Courageous Endurance in Pastoral Ministry in an effort to dismantle the cool factor that prevails in our view of ministry life.
This 44-page guide from the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, Palliative Care Toolkit, considers how best to support people who are living with serious illness or are nearing life's end.
Looking for free or low cost hymnals for brand new church plant north of Cornwall, Ontario.
To Plant a Walnut Tree by Trevor Waldock, as the subtitle states, is a conversation about “how to create a fruitful legacy by using your experience.” Waldock engages with people in all walks of life who are concerned about how they are living life and wondering if all their busyness and activity really makes a difference.
Paas’ book is a wonderful crossover volume that speaks about church planting but connects deeply with church renewal.
When a child is grieving, we often do not know what to say or do. The best rule of thumb is to spend time with children and see how the grief is impacting them.
Way back in 1973, Calvin Seminary professor Dr. Fred Klooster uncomplicated the Bible when he quoted Hosea 4:6, "...my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge." (NIV) To know God, we need to know His book.
This book contains about 250 prayers. Each prayer is based on a Bible passage.
A Heartbeat of Grace by Kristin Sterk, is a gripping memoir that will take you through her emotional journey of deep loss, grief, forgiveness, healing, and miracles.
In the book Growing the Church in the Power of the Holy Spirit, Brad Long, Paul Stokes, and Cindy Strickler share their experiences and learnings to help lead other people into a meaningful dance with the Holy Spirit.
Published in 1993, this book is powerfully prophetic concerning the direction of the Evangelical church over the past 25 years.
Using his own “off the map” skills honed in a local church and denominational context, Bolsinger helps church leaders find paths to follow. He tells of both his successes and failures in finding these paths.
God's Plan: Eliminate Biblical Ignorance by Ren Vandesteeg traces the redemptive message in the Bible step-by-step, chronologically from Genesis through Revelation. The book helps people see that the Bible is more relevant to their lives than ever.
This new book helps Christians remember that the everyday things of life are important to God and are filled with his presence.
This new fiction novel is a modern Jacob-like story of a young rebellious man who fights God every step of the way.
My new book is 30 days of short readings about the essentials of true leadership communication in the age of social media, turmoil, distrust, and growing conflicts that challenge civil discourse. See the complete post to get a free excerpt!
In Uncomfortable, Brett McCracken analyzes, laments, and offers perspective on the struggle, for as the old saw goes, even if you are fortunate enough to find the perfect church, you will surely ruin it when you join.
Coffee Break is a ministry that is available globally across different cultures. Click for resources and information below.
In their book, Welcoming the Stranger, Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang Yang move beyond rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration.
A biblical vision of worship that puts God on display through relationships that encourage both introverts and extroverts to go deep into their inner worlds while at the same time moving outward in sacrificial love.
This handy reference tool provides practical guidance on how to interpret and apply articles in real-life situations.
In the process of teaching the small people in our lives to worship, our own hearts learn the practice anew. As I perused each day’s lesson, the eight-part pattern began a drumbeat in my thinking about exactly what worship entails.