In this book, Robin Greenwood argues that in the Local Ministry movement every Christian person has a gift to offer. Everyone in their particular charism, and integrated with everyone else, is set …
The Brethren of the Common Life was a religious organization in the Netherlands founded by Gerhard Groot in the last quarter of the fourteenth century. Groot was a lay preacher who spoke out agains…
This book is a series of letters from a seasoned pastor to "Lee" in his first year as pastor of a congregation. There is some excellent advice in these letters, but not for every context, for examp…
Richard Robert Osmer provides a strong understanding of the teaching office, which is a part of Reformation heritage. He discusses why the teaching office is important in mainline churches. This bo…
This book offers Malcolm Warford's well-reasoned, articulate reflections on what meeting this challenge means. For Warford, renewal is not a matter of restoring what already has been, but being com…
You teach to make a difference. Now, revitalize your classroom by learning and mastering these seven time-tested principles being taught around the world! Written for teachers, including Sunday sch…
Each Christian age has answered these questions differntly. Here for the first time the total sweep of the Christian ministry - its members and character, meaning and development - is brilliantly i…
The lambs are the young of the flock. So, then, we ought to look specially and carefully after those who are young in grace. They may be old in years, and yet they may be mere babes in grace as to …
Rengstorf says in the preface to the first edition "The only purpose of the discussions in this booklet is to make a modest contribution toward the creation of a new and healthy consciousness of of…
This major study of the Latin American theology of liberation explains and evaluates its general approach to the use of Scripture, and discusses the agonising question insistently raised by Christi…