With nearly 40 years of ministry experience, Thom Rainer has spent a lifetime committed to the growth and health of local churches across North America. How The Video Training Course Works Learn at your own pace View all the content at once or as you are able to implement changes in your...
For over 20 years, I have been a big advocate of the need for churches and ministries to get clear about the vision that God is leading them to. I still think that a clear, shared, compelling vision is important and powerful, and yet … I have seen many churches with wonderful vision...
This article locates the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith鈥檚 recent document Dominus Iesus against the background of great ecumenical advance in North America and elsewhere and a series of highly encouraging ecumenical statements published by John Paul II. Its most contentious statement is...
B. A casual study of Paul’s life and work amongst the churches he founded will show us that one of his major problems was the infiltration of Jewish Laws into the Gentile churches. In fact, he blamed the Apostle James for sending in “spies” behind him! Even today, this infiltration ...
Walter Strickland’s sweeping narrative of African American Christianity portrays a big God who is strong to deliver. Review Tending and Keeping the Christian Past in an ‘Ahistoric Age’ Christopher Gehrz Why the work of historical stewardship isn’t just for historians....
For a time, there will be such an inflow of people that even this great net cannot hold them all. Many of the former works and organized churches will be swelled with this overflow. Because of this they will assert that they are both the cause and primary purpose for this revival. This...
Women journeyed there from Manhattan Island to remove their lipstick and brassieres and make statements about gender equality. It established Robin Morgan as the media character actress -- and she was rather Straight. Several weeks later Gloria Steinem suddenly popped up as Women's Lib Media ...
This is the position of Roger Williams and the anabaptists that Rutherford refutes in Free Disputation. The Pope’s statements here are upside down. “He attested by comparison the similarity of the Church to a kingdom,[7] to a house,[8] to a sheepfold,[9] and to a flock.[10] ”...
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One of the best books which can help you understand the what, why, and how of your church’s purpose, mission, values, vision, and strategy isAdvanced Strategic Planningby Aubrey Malphurs. He takes you through why these statements are important, and how to write them up for your church. ...