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1) All of Grace
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon is one of the world's most famous preachers. Born in Essex, England in 1834, he converted from the Anglican Church to the Baptist faith at the age of 15 and began teaching Sunday school the following year. While he never attended theology school, by the age of 22 he was most the famous preacher in all of London and went on to preach at the New Park Street Chapel, later the Metropolitan Tabernacle, for 38 years. Spurgeon was...
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While the Hindu population is growing rapidly in the United States, most American Christians don't know enough about Hinduism to effectively present Christ to this group. The author, an Indian now living and teaching in a Bible college in the United States, helps readers understand the types of Hinduism they're likely to encounter, tips and methods to reach out to Hindu friends, and suggests answers to Hindu concerns about Christianity. The book also...
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Este volumen prosigue la edición pública de 38 Cartas largas que san Josemaría escribió a los miembros del Opus Dei, para transmitirles el mensaje de santidad en la vida ordinaria. Junto a las Instrucciones, estas Cartas son documentos en los que el autor explica la naturaleza y los apostolados del Opus Dei, al mismo tiempo que muestra de manera práctica cómo seguir a Jesucristo en el mundo de hoy y difundir el Evangelio donde cada uno se encuentra....
4) Everyday Evangelism for Catholics: A Practical Guide to Spreading the Faith in a Contemporary World
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Everyday Evangelism for Catholics answers that all-important question for Catholics with little experience in evangelism: how do I get started? In Everyday Evangelism for Catholics, Cathy Duffy shares from her wealth of experience a natural and easy process that anyone can use to evangelize friends and family, including:
Why all Catholics should be involved in evangelism-it isn't just for Protestants.
How to guide a conversation toward opportunities...
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There is currently a shift in the cultural: digital communication has reshaped the way people interact with one another, form and maintain relationships, and gain knowledge and understanding. How might people go about communicating the Good News of Jesus Christ in the midst of these changes to an emerging culture shaped by digital media? This question addresses the whole church, from the baptized faithful to pastoral ministers and the institutional...
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YOU HOLD IN YOUR HAND an analysis of two central truths. First, the betrayal of theological education in America leaving the vast majority of clergy bereft of the supernatural element in the Bible and in life. Upon entering active ministry in the local church, too many clergy are ill-prepared to meet the challenges of modern ministry, lacking very little power or confidence in the authority of the Bible to meet basic human needs.
Secondly, having...
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The depth and complexity of interconnected global issues facing church and mission leadership today cannot be ignored. Leaders within global church and mission movements are challenged to respond to effects of globalization and other factors upon the mission of God. Rather than modifying existing models of leadership, there is critical need to understand an emerging global missional leadership paradigm against the backdrop of a world full of discontinuous...
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Life's greatest growth spurts seldom come without pressure, molding and shaping. Guided by His perfect plan for our lives, God is the master potter crafting a beautiful masterpiece from the experiences of our lives. Both our highlights and lowlights offer a canvas for Him to produce His greatest work. On the Wheel is a peek into God's predestined process of purpose on the wheel of life. God will use life experiences, failures, grace, mercy, and His...
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"A partir del Concilio Vaticano II, y aun antes, se puede reconocer en la Iglesia el desarrollo de un nuevo momento asociativo de los fieles: junto al asociacionismo tradicional han nacido los nuevos movimientos eclesiales.
No se pueden ignorar los muchos y variados antecedentes de esta dimensión en el monaquismo, las órdenes mendicantes, las cofradías y terceras órdenes, las fraternidades y pías uniones, las congregaciones e institutos seculares,...
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En estos tiempos, cuando lo valioso es lo inmediato, instantáneo, fulminante, puntual, el autor nos demuestra que, por lo contrario, la conversión es un proceso.
¿Qué es la conversión? ¿Cómo es su dinámica en la persona? ¿Por qué hablar de proceso?
A través de Las Confesiones, donde Agustín describe de qué se convierte, en qué situación se encuentra, qué es esa realidad del pecado de la que pretende salir y cuál es la acción de Dios...
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Discover your Language of Evangelization and bring people to Jesus Christ in a language they understand. Your language profile will explain your primary language of evangelization, what it means, and how you can use it to connect others to God. Join more and more of the baptized who are realizing that they speak the Faith by emphasizing Truth, Goodness or Beauty. Your quiz awaits!
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The twenty-first century is marked by mass migration. Massive population movements of the last century have radically challenged our study and practice of mission. Where the church once rallied to go out into "the regions beyond," Christian mission is currently required to respond and adapt to "missions around." As a result, leaders in this field have been developing diaspora missiology to provide a missiological framework for understanding and participating...
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Now a modern classic, Michael Green's Evangelism in the Early Church provides a comprehensive look at the ways the first Christians -- from the New Testament period up until the middle of the third century -- worked to spread the good news to the rest of the world.
In describing life in the early church, Green explores crucial aspects of the evangelistic task that have direct relevance for similar work today, including methods, motives, and strategies....
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In Longing to See Your Face, he makes his insights and experience accessible to a much wider audience. Scirghi begins with a discussion of the purpose of preaching and offers a theological sounding on proclamation, taking up several descriptions of the role of the preacher in relation to the congregation. He also addresses current theological issues for the contemporary preacher. The second part of the book discusses the practical matter of preparing...
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Este recurso es el fruto del trabajo misional del autor en iglesias de América Latina y EE. UU. Las clases están diseñadas para proveer enseñanza tanto a personas nuevas en la fe, como a quienes tienen más conocimiento o madurez y desean profundizar su estudio de las Escrituras a través de los lentes de la herencia, la teología y las doctrinas básicas de la fe wesleyanas-herramientas fundamentales para nutrir el discipulado cristiano en la...
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Pope Francis's vision of the ministry of preaching offers a renewed emphasis on what it means to preach the Word of God in such a way that it transforms lives and communities, and inspires hope. In To All the World, Michael Connors, CSC, draws together contributions from a variety of expert voices to reflect on the importance of liturgical preaching today. To All the World combines contemporary scholarship with pastoral practicality in one volume...
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Since the early days of his pontificate, Pope Francis has challenged us to reclaim the "good news" of the Gospel and to allow that good news to heal shattered lives. He is an evangelist of hope who models true servant leadership and whose witness to joy has changed the Church and the world. This small volume brings together the reflections of five leaders in the deacon community in the United States on the joy-filled witness of Pope Francis and what...
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An important and respected voice for liberal American Christianity for the past twenty years, Bishop John Shelby Spong integrates his often controversial stands on the Bible, Jesus, theism, and morality into an intelligible creed that speaks to today's thinking Christian. In this compelling and heartfelt book, he sounds a rousing call for a Christianity based on critical thought rather than blind faith, on love rather than judgment, and that focuses...
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Crucial themes and issues explored by a premier missiologist
Johan Herman Bavinck (1895-1964) was a prominent twentieth-century Dutch Calvinist missiologist who wrestled with the tension between religious absolutism and relativism, as many Christians do in today's pluralistic context.
The J. H. Bavinck Reader gathers together a choice selection of Bavinck's significant writings that are essential for understanding his theology of missions, his approach...
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This book is a historical and theological look into the deliverance and exorcism ministry of John Wesley. It examines how Wesley understood the phenomenon of deliverance and his own practice of it in terms of ordinary and extraordinary gifts. The text looks at how Wesley understood deliverance in general in relation to salvation, and how he understood an aspect of deliverance that involved expulsion of demons. Further, the book assesses how contemporary...
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