Los 9 tomos completos de "Testimonies for the Church" [Testimonios para la iglesia] se componen de artículos escritos independientemente unos de otros, y a menudo se refieren a temas que no tienen relación entre sí. Los 3 tomos de "Joyas de los Testimonios" presentan una selección de esos artículos, la cual fue realizada, de manera bien equilibrada y representativa, por comisiones de obreros experimentados bajo la dirección de la Junta de Fideicomisarios...

Feeling caught between the traditional church and the emerging church? Discover a third way: deep church. C. S. Lewis used the phrase "deep church" to describe the body of believers committed to mere Christianity. Unfortunately church in our postmodern era has been marked by a certain shallowness. Emerging authors, fed up with contemporary pragmatism, have offered alternative visions for twenty-first-century Christianity. Traditionalist churches have...

This book is for anyone on the frontlines of the gospel, whether it be at work redeeming neighborhoods, working with the most vulnerable, or leading prayer and evangelism efforts. Prayer must take on a declarative, bold, and authoritative tone. To show up on the frontlines of the gospel without this form of prayer is the equivalent of bringing the proverbial knife to a gunfight. An effective gospel worker needs a trowel of evangelism in one hand and...

You have something important to say. Are you sure your audience is listening? Clocks start ticking in the minds of your listeners the minute you begin your presentation. These clocks measure the amount of time you have to interest them before their attention wanders elsewhere. Could be three minutes. Could be thirty seconds. But make your audience laugh and they forget about their clocks. They are too busy listening. Make them laugh and they will...

Few works of the enemy are so destructive, so wrenching to the body of Christ as division in a church congregation. The reasons are many and include ambition, bitterness, and jealousy. Once a wedge is driven into the heart of a church, the congregation and pastor are usually destroyed by bitterness, gossip, rebellion and even hatred. Until now wounded flocks and broken pastors have had little direction for healing. With candor and insight, Francis...

What is Satan allowed to do? Overcoming life's challenges and emotional wounds is possible for Christians through the redeeming work of Jesus Christ and the benefits He paid for at the cross. This book's core message is that by the Spirit of God any Believer can discern the Truth of God's Word and use the spiritual steps, prayers, and declarations to obtain lasting Freedom through the Power and Authority of Jesus' name. This book contains: Clear...

John Collins, author of the groundbreaking study Diakonia, explores the pastoral implications of a new scholarly understanding of the role of deacons in the Early Church.

The book you hold in your hands, a collection of spiritual object lessons, is a labor of love that spans some thirty-five years of ministry. Sometimes dubbed children's sermons, years of experience have taught me that simplified truth has both universal appeal and application. Modeled roughly, after the teaching parables of Jesus, this two and a half years' worth of messages illustrate essential principles of the Christian faith in simplest terms....

Robert Hoffman has served as a stewardship consultant for forty years. He has worked with congregations that assume that stewardship ministry is primarily concerned with raising funds for the church. At some point during their work together, he would try to explain to the church leaders he was, working with that stewardship is, concerned about our relationship with our creator, not funding the church. At which point they would typically look at him...

How does the church portray the beauty of Christ? The gospel is a theological message. But this message also creates human beauty--beautiful relationships in our churches, making the glory of Christ visible in the world today. In this timely book, Pastor Ray Ortlund makes the case that gospel doctrine creates a gospel culture. In too many of our churches, it is the beauty of a gospel culture that is the missing piece of the puzzle. But when the...