Three-dimensional faith -- The church as community -- Jesus values children -- Dwelling in the mysteries -- The power of story -- Obedience and faith -- Worship -- Creating a child-friendly culture -- Appendix: Traveling with Paul : bringing the first missionary journey to life
Guidelines for recognizing and valuing differences -- Understanding power and difference : race as a primary example -- The role of feelings in individual and community transformation -- The role of imagination in transformation -- Relational theory as a way of valuing differences -- Transforming the way women and men work together -- The rhythms of transformation
Shares the Writer's life long experience in the ministry of prayer; serving as a source of personal life transformation, anointing with the power of God, environment for supernatural visitations, the manifestation of God's glory, miracles, signs and wonders, Christian fruit bearing, spiritual revival and holy living.
Addressing such questions as "Are You Saved, or Are You Presbyterian?" and "Is the Bible the Literal Word of God or Just a Long, Boring Book?" this is an easy-to-understand, slightly irreverent appraoch to theology and the kind of theological musings that many youth and others have today.
Includes index.Bibliography: p. [151]-155.
This book tells the story of the Presbyterian church in the United States, beginning with its British foundations and extending to its present-day expression in multiple American Presbyterian denominations. It emphasizes the role of the evangelical movement in shaping various Presbyterian bodies in America, especially in the twentieth century amid increasing departures from traditional Calvinis…
Series Guidance for Christian leadership in today's world
This new printing of Louis Berkhof's Systematic Theology offers a bit of a surprise and, we hope, a significant service to the readers of this eminent volume. For most of its history under the title Systematic Theology, Professor Berkhof's work has appeared as a theological system without introduction or prolegomenon. In this new edition of Berkhof's work, we have returned his prolegomenon to i…
Contents: Part One: Money and the church previous to the American period -- I. The early church to Constantine -- Voluntary offerings -- First fruits -- Tithing -- Endowments -- II. Constantine to Gregory the Great -- Endowments and legacies -- Oblations -- First fruits -- Tithing -- Decrees of councils on the tithe -- III. The Middle Ages (Methods) -- Gifts -- Vacancies -- Papal taxations -- C…
Other Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176).
Contents: Nature and necessity of ministry -- Theology and ministry -- Ministry as the necessity of the church -- What is ministry -- Requirements for ministry -- The three processes of initiation into ministry -- Relevance of the Adamic ministry to the contemporary ministry the focus and target of ministry -- The Apostle -- The prophet -- The evangelist -- The Pastor -- The teacher -- The 'bo…