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Building an Outreach Ministry to Your Community: How to Grow Your Church by Ministering to People

Building an Outreach Ministry to Your Community: How to Grow Your Church by Ministering to People

by Tyrone Barnette

The Church Is the Only Hope for Renewing and Redeeming Your CommunityYour church is meant to be a conduit of hope and healing, redemption and renewal for your neighborhood. Is your church equipped and ready for this important work? In Building an Outreach Ministry to Your Community, Pastor Tyrone Barnette uses the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand … Read more…

Surprising Return of the Neighborhood Church: Discover How Your Church Is Primed to Reach Your Neighbors

Surprising Return of the Neighborhood Church: Discover How Your Church Is Primed to Reach Your Neighbors

by Sam Rainer

Opportunity Lies Right Down the Road.There’s hope for your church. Respected church expert Sam Rainer envisions an exciting new wave of revitalized neighborhood churches that are growing and thriving. In the not-so-distant past, churches tended to relocate away from their neighborhoods and build large campuses at major intersections. At the turn of the 21s… Read more…

Money in the Light of Eternity: What the Bible Says about Your Financial Purpose

Money in the Light of Eternity: What the Bible Says about Your Financial Purpose

by Art Rainer

You Are Created for More.Our hearts are filled with all types of longings—yearnings for contentment, satisfaction, and happiness. We all want to be part of something greater than ourselves. Yet our biggest temptation is to try to satisfy those longings by seeking after more money and more stuff. That is junk food for our souls, full of quickly fading pleas… Read more…

How to Launch a New Church Site: Ten Questions Every Leader (and Church Member) Must Answer

How to Launch a New Church Site: Ten Questions Every Leader (and Church Member) Must Answer

by Jess Rainer

Explore the Ten Crucial Questions about Launching a New Church SiteOne of the most powerful and effective ways to reach our world for Jesus is to plant new churches. Establishing a new church site focuses a congregation outward—on the spiritual needs of the people in the surrounding community. That, in turn, energizes church members and fuels healthy churc… Read more…

Parallel Faith: Walking Alongside Others on Their Journey to Christ
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Parallel Faith: Walking Alongside Others on Their Journey to Christ

by Dave Boden

Narrated by Boden, Dave

Are you ready to discover how to walk alongside others on their journey to Christ? Learn how to walk parallel with others with purpose and help them discover Jesus from their starting point, not yours. Everyone takes little steps toward Jesus before they can take big steps with and for him. This is a process that starts long before people ever enter a church… Read more…

Master Teacher: October- December 2023

Master Teacher: October- December 2023

by R H Boyd Publishing Corp

Growing with Jesus (Ages 5 and Younger) is an age-appropriate Christian quarterly lesson guide. Each lesson contains a Bible story to bring the meaning to life for the students. Pictures depicting the lesson’s meaning for each week can be easily colored and carried home by these young disciples. It follows the International Uniform Sunday School Lesson Out… Read more…

Centering Jesus: How the Lamb of God Transforms Our Communities, Ethics, and Spiritual Lives
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Centering Jesus: How the Lamb of God Transforms Our Communities, Ethics, and Spiritual Lives

by Derek Vreeland

Narrated by Vreeland, Derek

What happens when Jesus becomes obscured from our point of view? With all the hostility boiling just under the surface of our world, we need a renewed vision of Jesus as the Lamb of God who can lead us in the peaceable ways of the Kingdom. When we fail to keep Jesus at the center of our lives, we lean into the desires of our hearts more than the desires God … Read more…

Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?
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Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

by Jim Davis, Michael Graham, Ryan P Burge and Margaret Bloy Graham

Narrated by Jim Davis, Michael Graham and Ryan Burge

Read by the authors.We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history.It is greater than the First and Second Great Awakening and every revival in our country combined...but in the opposite direction. Yet precious little rigorous study has been done on the broad phenomenon of dechurching in America. Jim Davis and Michael Gra… Read more…

Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

by Jim Davis, Michael Graham and Ryan P Burge

We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history.It is greater than the First and Second Great Awakening and every revival in our country combined...but in the opposite direction. Yet precious little rigorous study has been done on the broad phenomenon of dechurching in America. Jim Davis and Michael Graham have commissione… Read more…

Just Discipleship: Biblical Justice in an Unjust World

Just Discipleship: Biblical Justice in an Unjust World

by Michael J Rhodes

Many Christians and churches are rediscovering that God cares deeply about justice, but opinions abound as to what an approach to biblical justice might look like in contemporary society. What exactly does the Bible mean by justice, and what does it have to do with poverty, racism, and other issues in our world? More importantly, how do we become the kind o… Read more…

The Christmas Promise Sunday School Lessons: A Three-Session Curriculum With a Family Service Outline

The Christmas Promise Sunday School Lessons: A Three-Session Curriculum With a Family Service Outline

by Carl Laferton and Lizzie Laferton

This three-session Sunday School curriculum is based on the best-selling storybook The Christmas Promise and shows children how God promised, centuries before the first Christmas, a unique forever rescuing king, as well as the joy it is to live under the loving rule of King Jesus. Featuring age-differentiated lesson plans for 3-5… Read more…

The Doctrine of Good Works: Reclaiming a Neglected Protestant Teaching

The Doctrine of Good Works: Reclaiming a Neglected Protestant Teaching

by Thomas H. McCall, Caleb T Friedeman and Matt T Friedeman

In Titus, Paul says Christ redeemed a people "zealous for good works." Despite this declaration and others like it, the doctrine of good works has fallen on hard times in contemporary Protestant theology and practice. At best, it's neglected--as in most systematic theologies and in too much church teaching. At worst, it's viewed with suspicion--as a … Read more…


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