How long has it been since you read a book written by a missionary? That's probably the reason you should read this one. Missionaries see world missions differently from the way most of us see it, and we need at least to evaluate the situation from their perspective. Jim Weber is not only a veteran of over twenty-five years on the field, but he also has a successful track record that qualifies …
This special edition of "That Everyone May Hear" has been prepared for the consultation The Church in New Frontiers for Missions, part of the Wheaton '83 conference.
The culture of the Eastern Church is alien to our experience. Yet the more we familiarize ourselves with the Eastern Church the more we recognize, for all the differences, the family resemblances. The family has been parted for a very long time. But chances have arisen to meet again and get to know one another. In recent years, Eastern Orthodoxy has emerged vividly on the radar of Western Chris…
This book will be a great aid in making your communication more pointed and effective. The illustrations cover the gamut of life, including such subjects as alcohol, the Bible, brotherly love, capitalism, the Church, cigarettes, conformity, crime, drugs, Holy Spirit, hunger, money, nuclear destruction, pollution, revolution, sex education, space exploration, war, witnessing, worship, and young …
Foundations of Christian Thought is a clear, evenhanded presentation of the interconnection between faith and learning, and the modern worldviews competing for our attention, including naturalism, secular humanism, atheistic existentialism, pantheism, and the New Age movement. Guided by the author's fresh approach, readers on the college campus, in the workforce, and elsewhere will learn to rel…
The most penetrating and, indeed, prophetic book by an outsider taking a critical look at the Church.
In a message that rings as true today as it did fifty years ago, Richard Niebuhr speaks of Christ and culture as the two points of reference for faith and ethics and challenges a new generation of Christians to be true to Christ in a materialistic age. This fiftieth-anniversary edition of his seminal work includes a new foreword by distinguished historian Martin E.Marty. who regards this book a…
To remain connected through the beauty and depth of Christian liturgy. Like the original edition, this pocket edition features prayers for morning, midday, and evening, and commemorates significant dates and heroes in church history, as well as important people and events in the struggle for freedom and justice. This edition also features new compline prayers and provides prayers for those who …
Christopher Hall invites us to accompany the fathers as they enter the sanctuary for worship and the chapel for prayer. He also takes us to the wilderness, where we learn from the early monastics as they draw close to God in their solitary discipline.The focus of this book is not liturgy but more broadly worship in its corporate and individual dimensions. We enter into the patristic understandi…
Saint Augustine wrote Instructing Beginners in Faith as a reflection on the most suitable way of communicating the heart of Christian faith to those applying for membership of the Church. In the course of the past sixteen hundred years. however, the treatise has been frequently and creatively adapted to serve the needs of education in faith in many different contexts, including the education of…