Love at Its Best When Church Is a Mess is a collection of fifteen meditations, drawn from 1 Corinthians 13, perhaps the most well-known passage about love in Holy Scripture, and certainly one of the most beloved passages found anywhere in the English language.
When the organization and structure of the church in America was altered in the early 1900s to meet modern demands, the role of the pastorate became more specialized to adapt to the burdens of the new, "e;efficient"e; structure.
This short devotional book considers Psalm 23 from a fresh perspective, finding middle ground for those who want more depth of understanding from the biblical text, along with straightforward applicability to the real-life journey of the believer.
We live in a time when many view the church as a relic of ancient traditions and cosmologies, often reactionary, mean-spirited, nationalist, and racist.
Spirituality & Social Action is written for people who identify themselves as spiritual but not religious, turned off by organized religion, yet having an innate sense of a higher power.
The Kingdom Will Come Anyway: A Life in the Day of a Pastor opens a window into the world of a typical minister serving congregations in the midst of soul-stirring delights and heart-rending troubles.
The question of contextual theology and its relevance to Africa in this time of globalization, whereby there are rampant uncontrolled changes in cultures, technologies, economic policies, and even people's religious lives, is very urgent.
Apocalyptic texts are often seen as either frightening or irrelevant, a tool for fearmongering and manipulation or for the lucrative doomsday industry.
The strange Book of Revelation, written in about 95 AD, opens up a world in which Christian people were under threat from the Roman Empire; some were suffering for their faith.
Liberating Inner Eve: From Constraints of Historic Conditioning to Boundless Personal Power--A Christian Woman's Guidebook addresses the most commonly encountered social and historic challenges that constrain women's experience of personal power, against the background of an empowering exploration of the Genesis account of Adam and Eve.
Character for Kids: Devotions and Activities for Kids Ages 3-10 includes easily understandable thoughts on selected character traits including courage, respect, self-control, manners, loyalty and eight others.
For a denomination like Roman Catholicism that is canonically difficult to leave, many American Catholics are migrating beyond the institution's immediate influence.
Using a biblical theology method (explained in SwJT 56:1 [2013] 227-57), this book reflects the content of the text of Isaiah within its Jewish-Christian context.
There are few situations in the life of a church that are more disruptive or destructive than the presence of sin in the life of its membership, especially the leadership.
Readers of this volume--200 Devotionals from the Hebrew Bible--will find nuggets of wisdom in short devotionals written by the author and her students.
A Journey to Bong Mines: Home Is a Place Best Known to You is a thought-provoking, non-fictional, and easy-to-read masterpiece which reveals the undeniable struggles of four brothers who risk their lives and all they had to reach a place to call home, in spite of the atrocities they had to undergo.
