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Move over Boomers, Xers, and Millennials; there's a new generation--making up more than 25 percent of the US population--that represents a seismic cultural shift. Born approximately between 1993 and 2012, Generation Z is the first truly post-Christian generation, and they are poised to challenge every church to rethink its role in light of a rapidly changing culture. From the award-winning author of The Rise of the Nones comes this enlightening introduction...
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This book is a must-read for anyone who has ever tried to energize or grow a ministry. Christian Coon takes us through his own missteps and mistakes as the co-founder of the Urban Village Church--as well as those of others working to do the same--and shows how failure can serve as a springboard to new possibilities and even a closer connection to God and what leadership means. Woven together with honesty, humility, and humor, we learn to look on failure...
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Most books on church planting offer a model for churches to replicate--usually one that is tied to a particular style, generation, or demographic. But what churches really need is a process that is flexible, not bound to a particular time or current fad. In The Nuts and Bolts of Church Planting, trusted author and church-planting expert Aubrey Malphurs shares the basic steps any church planter will need, regardless of his or her generation now or...
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Five arguments to defend your faith.
In an increasingly secular world, Christians face more pressure to justify their beliefs. Confronted by confident atheists, can you be sure your faith in God is reasonable?
In How Do We Know God Exists?, William Lane Craig offers five air-tight arguments for God's existence. Not only are these arguments rational, but they have not been disproven-let alone adequately challenged. You can have confidence that your...
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This newest addition to the IX Marks series presents a clear, straightforward statement of the gospel, the third mark of a healthy church. What is the gospel? It seems like a simple question, yet it has been known to incite some heated responses, even in the church. How are we to formulate a clear, biblical understanding of the gospel? Tradition, reason, and experience all leave us ultimately disappointed. If we want answers, we must turn to the Word...
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Church was not always done the way we do it. There was a time when Christians gathered around tables, included the strangers and the poor, ate together, and talked about Jesus. This form of church occurred mostly during the first three hundred years of Christianity, and was highly effective in bringing lost people to Jesus. While the church of today is very meaningful to Christfollowers, it is failing to help our lost neighbors find their way to the...
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Is the church-as we know it now-ready for the rapture?
The coming of the Lord is upon us. Soon the trumpet will sound, the shout of the Archangel will be heard, and the dead in Christ will arise from their graves. It is time for us to realize that Christ isn't coming after a dead church. He isn't coming after a cold, lukewarm, weak church. He is coming after a virgin whose lamp is filled with oil, with that lamp's wick properly trimmed, and that...
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"Christianity Has the Resources to Address Intellectual and Cultural Issues. Do You? Christians can feel overwhelmed at the sheer number of competing worldviews in today's pluralistic, multicultural society. Thankfully, you don't have to memorize a different argument to answer every new issue. Instead, you can master a single line of defense, grounded in Scripture, that applies to any theory. In Romans, Paul reveals the strategy for defending the...
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To some, the 'New Evangelization' seems to mean warmed-over and outdated apologetics that rarely resonate with people today. But that approach fails to do justice to what evangelization is really all about. In Saint Paul and the New Evangelization, one of today's most respected Scripture scholars offers a far richer, more deeply biblical approach. Ronald D. Witherup, SS, analyzes the techniques of one of the church's best evangelists (Paul of Tarsus)...
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In a world increasingly anti-Christian, how can you communicate in a way that slides under listener's defences and leaves them hungry for more?
Stories are God-designed way to impact hearts.
But many Christians reject stories as just for kids. Christine Dillon has trained thousands of people in storytelling. 10 myths come up over and over again, and they block Christians from using this life-changing ministry tool.
MYTH 1: Adults won't listen to...
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This beginning workbook for Spiritual Formation Groups features guidelines for starting a group, study plans for the first nine sessions, and a questionnaire that helps map the way ahead. Based upon six major dimensions of the spiritual life found in the life of Christ and Christian tradition: The Contemplative Tradition - The Holiness Tradition - The Charismatic Tradition - The Social Justice Tradition - The Evangelical Tradition - and The Incarnational...
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La actitud puede hacer una gran diferencia en sus circunstancias. Cuando suceden cosas en su vida, usted tiene dos opciones para decidir. Usted puede tomar el camino alto o el camino bajo. Un camino conduce a la victoria, y el otro a la derrota. La realidad es que la elección es suya. ¡Hay victoria para nosotros! En Más que Vencedores, aprenda cómo las circunstancias no tienen que controlar y destruir su vida. La verdad es que, somos "MÁS QUE...
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Talking about Jesus' story with others is designed to be a joy-producing experience for his followers, not to mention those hearing his story. Unfortunately, the prospect of talking about Jesus' story strikes fear into the hearts of many believers. Whether they're afraid of saying something wrong about their Lord or fearful of rejection, the anxiety of legions of Christ-followers over mentioning Jesus in conversation leads them to avoid an experience...
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This book is directed at authors who feel called by Almighty God to write...especially books.
As we approach the end of the age of the Gentiles, this ministry has gained a much more important purpose. Our discussion enables us to understand the actual spiritual content to help us determine what the Lord is asking us to produce.
Who knows, your book may help save the last person before the church is taken out. We've developed a system for discerning...
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What is the future of the church in North America? Churches are closing faster than new ones can be planted. Existing churches engaged in effective evangelism beyond the tired tactics of attractional approaches are increasingly rare. One of the major pitfalls of the past few decades is "either/or" thinking-either attractional or missional; traditional or contemporary; old or new. In Deep Roots, Wild Branches, missiologist and church planter Dr. Michael...
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Church planting is hard. Very hard. No, extremely hard. But no one ever told that to Trinity Jordan when he and his wife set out to plant Elevation Church fifteen miles north of Salt Lake City, Utah. What started with three families and a dog named Carson meeting in a house has now grown into multiple house churches and two public gathering locations, with more being developed? But those early days (well, even the current ones, too) would not have...
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In a day of statistical decline in church participation, what if we imagined marriages as little churches and households as living demonstrations of the way that God's love is reoriented around Jesus? In the pages that follow, readers are invited into a kind of radical kinship rooted in family-community love. In his first book, author Gannon Sims shows how our homes can become hubs for mission pointing toward our true home where we-no matter our previous...
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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...
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"And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it. But do this in a gentle and respectful way" (1 Peter 3:15-16, NLT).This book demonstrates again and again that talking about God is simple when we commit ourselves first to loving and listening to our friends. For people who are intimidated or fatigued by the idea of talking about matters of faith, Talking about God offers story after gripping story about faith conversations...
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African-American preaching must always be, relevant to one's social condition and always, available to speak truth to power. It is, the only Word that can, lift us, from the "Underground" to "Higher Ground." Upon this ground, the whole of Preaching, While Bleeding stands.
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