Religious institutions and organizations

The spiritual formation of young people can often focus on encouraging their personal spiritual practices, and perhaps linking them to a local youth group.

God's Focus on the Fatherless is an excellent thematic study guide offering a fresh perspective to leaders of local churches who desire to be in tune with God's heart for the marginalized within our communities.

On the Road to Siangyang tells the story of a Swedish immigrant church in America undertaking, soon after its organization, a mission to central China that would last nearly sixty years, from 1890 to 1949, when Christian missionaries had to leave the Chinese Mainland upon the establishment of the People's Republic.

As preachers who come to the pulpit, before God and before God's people, each and every week, how do we make sense of the text as we live a new moment of its ongoing story?

Right from the beginning of humankind, God has never deprived a people of his grace and revelation.

A young dancer's last hope--a bone marrow transplant--has failed.

Doctors, nurses, teachers, and evangelists, the men and women of the Amoy Mission sowed the seeds of vibrant Christian community in China's Fujian Province.

It is not a changing culture, reduced resources, or a rescinding Christian memory that creates the greatest challenges for the church in the West.

There has been heightened interest and prolific publication by missiologists about contextualization since the term was first coined in 1972.

Between the world of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Christianity there appears to be the widest difference.

God's word begins with the tree of life and the tree of knowledge watered by a river nourishing Eden.

To what extent are the children of Holocaust perpetrators to feel remorseful or responsible for their parents' wrongdoing?

How many ways can your church's worship equip the congregation for its mission?

Jesus, the rabbi of Nazareth, was always on the move.

The religion of Jesus or the religion about Jesus?

Thanks to coded notes taken by the teenager John Pynchon, this volume transports the reader, virtually, back to Sundays in the seventeenth century, when the community gathered to listen to the Rev.

In today's multi-cultural and multi-religious world, evangelism is often viewed as scandalous, not only by those who are opposed to anything religious, but also by many Christians.

Proverbs 22:22 enjoins the reader, "e;Don't take advantage of the poor just because you can.

Like Ripples on Water is, first of all, a book about Russian Baptists and their preaching.

Tim's wife, Anne, died of breast cancer at the age of forty-nine, having battled against the disease for more than six years.

Can a Lutheran be sociopolitically radical?

How is Christianity to express itself in the public forum within Western nations?

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Pastor Blackstone is once again on a spiritual journey to the subcontinent of India.

Can faith be an idol?

Roots Matter recognizes the impact of transgenerational trauma, as a result of chattel slavery, on the African American community.

How do we care justly when selves suffer because of the identities that they inhabit?

Imagine being able to connect everything you do in life with God's dream of shalom.

The Hybrid Tsinoys is a study of hybridity and homogeneity as sociocultural constructs in the development of current ethnic identity/ies of Chinese Filipinos.

The need to train Christian missionaries was an afterthought of the Protestant missionary movement in the early nineteenth century.

Every generation must accept the responsibility of training the next.

The art of mentoring, like all great arts, is a grace to be received, a gift to be given, and a skill that can be learned and practiced.

Navigating the Nonsense will change the way your church approaches conflict and communication.

In March 2012 a small consultation convened on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary, where James E.

ContentsAnnouncement of the 2014 SymposiumAbbreviationsIntroductionKlyne SnodgrassVisions of Horror, Visions of Hope: An Orientation for Urban Ministry from the Book of AmosM.

Missionaries go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, while monks live cloistered in a monastery and focus their lives on prayer and studying Scripture--correct?

Americans are using more medical services every year, but as many as half of those services do nothing to improve their health.

"e;Why does God hate me?

According to the Reformers, preaching is the word of God.

All ministry leaders concern themselves with the intersection of Jesus-centered ministry and contemporary culture.

You are There: Restoring Churches, People, and Places is a pastoral conversation about creation care.

In November 1877, three months after Emperor Meiji's conscript army of commoners defeated forces led by Japan's famous "e;last samurai,"e; the Reverend Tom Alexander and his new wife, Emma, arrived in Japan, a country where Christianity had been punishable by death until 1868.

"e;The world is our parish and all her creatures our congregation.

Ministry with Youth in Crisis is a comprehensive treatment of major adolescent crises related to life themes including self-identity, faith formation, family life, social relationships, sexuality, suicide, substance abuse, and eating disorders.

The 2010 earthquake in Haiti buried Renee Splichal Larson in concrete rubble, killing her husband and leaving her a widow at age 27.

In April 2015, America's last pulpit prince died.

In Defense of the Eschaton is an anthology of William D.

Do Something Else is meant to encourage faith communities and their leaders to reconsider "e;church as usual,"e; reengage Spirit-led entrepreneurialism, and reimagine new models of ministry bubbling up in their midst.

Christians are often tempted to encapsulate God in their own little boxes, as if God could be tied down to our finite way of thinking.

Called to be a Pastor: Why it Matters to Both Congregations and Clergy is a how-to resource with a memoir touch, describing the essential but delicate partnership between clergy and congregation.