Church Life

Since the days he shook the pulpits of Victorian London with Christ-centered passion, each succeeding generation seems to discover Charles Spurgeon...

God calls us to be "devoted to one another in love" (Romans 12:10). What does this look like for us today? How can we be the kind of church member ...

The church is not yours or mine. It belongs to Jesus Christ. The church is graciously called into being by him for the glory and honour of God’s na...

Three pastor-scholars explore the meaning for evangelicals today of the Nicene Creed’s affirmation of the church as “one, holy, catholic, and apost...

Recently there has been a growing concern for the health of gospel churches. But very often that concern comes down to the introduction of a few ne...

Cathedrals today face a paradox: on the one hand they represent one of the biggest success stories and mission opportunities of the present-day chu...

Have we replaced the glory of God with our church programs. If so, is there anything we can do to get the glory of God back into our gatherings and...

This book challenges the church to ask whether or not the gospel as we commonly interpret it today really embodies the jubilee vision of the Bible....

This book aims to show how nurturing hospitality in the 'discipleship community' leads to growth. It seeks to re-examine the challenge, biblically ...

Have you ever felt out of place as an introvert in an extroverted church culture? With practical illustrations from church and parachurch contexts,...

Doing Church: Building From the Bottom Up will help you determine or discover vision, values, priorities and practical principles for developing a ...

How would you run the Church? Many of us can point to things that we would like to change to make the Church more effective in its mission. But we ...

‘I find it difficult to know whether to go to church or not. Sometimes I walk in there, and it is quite obviously God’s house. … I feel completely ...

An inspirational account of mess, meals and miracles! When Chris Lane and his friends planted a church on an inner-city estate notorious for crime ...

John Drane believes that the Churches have become stereotyped structures offering uninventive pre-packaged worship to a dwindling minority. But the...

Fresh Expressions of Church are key aspect of mission strategy for many denominations in the UK and beyond. Here, a stellar line-up of writers exp...

This book includes seven chapters on the importance of love among Christians in the church. The subjects addressed include how the church is to edi...

Sam Gordon is well known as an able Bible expositor and this commentary on ‘The Epistle of Jude’ is no exception. With skill and care, he takes us ...

When Sarah and Tom Arthur were appointed to a suburban church after three years in an urban Christian community, they faced a unique challenge: how...

When Rob Smith and Mike Raiter travel to various churches and conferences they often observe two rather disconcerting trends: Christians either rem...

New Testament Church Principles examines the doctrines of the Scriptures on the important subject of the local church and its order.

The church wasn’t our idea—it was His. Jesus established the church as the natural arena for our spiritual growth, and our health depends on it. In...

Five hundred years ago, a Catholic monk nailed a list of grievances on the door of a church in Germany and launched a revolution in the history of ...

"“Who are these guys?” That was the question the teenage Daniel R. Hyde posed to his father when he first encountered “Reformed” believers. With th...

What are the seasons of the ChurchÆs year? Why have they become shaped as they have and what can we do to make them good? TBC on A Good Advent RO...

Is your church suffering, and you’re not sure why? Church planter and professional interim pastor R. D. Stuart encourages church leaders to examine...

Most Christians resist the idea that we are to pursue happiness. We are more comfortable with the idea of finding joy or being blessed. But seeking...

The church has an image problem. It is widely viewed in the world at large as being outdated, boring, irrelevant and filled with backbiting hypocri...

In this book, Robert Knowles seeks to encourage Christians to embrace and model authentic biblical Christianity - or "Relating Faith" - in their di...

What does it mean to be a Church Elder? How do Elders fulfil their role? How does being an Elder fit with the other pressures of life? How should E...

Based on the declaration and affirmation that every elder takes, this invaluable resource provides new and existing elders with a diverse range of ...

In this practical book for those who serve the Lord’s Supper, Howard Griffith provides an understanding of the sacrament and twenty-eight pastoral ...

People leave churches all the time. They may do so gradually or suddenly, they may do so thoughtfully or on a whim, and they may do so with godline...

Terry Johnson’s 2014 Worshipping with Calvin (EP Books) promised a follow-up work that would focus on implementation. Serving with Calvin is that w...

Encouragement, and some basic skills, for anyone starting out as a leader/helper in children's ministry

The church’s practice of gathering for worship both morning and evening on the Lord’s Day reflects a very ancient tradition that was once universal...

In  Who Comes in the Name of the Lord?,  Harold J. Recinos advances the thesis that God has already prepared a future for mainline churches in Chri...

White Soul  examines the social, political, and religious foundations of country music as the soul music of white, working-class Americans. Country...

Great teams live and serve in light of the Divine Team—the Trinity, and to be truly effective they need: a deeply challenging goal, a creatively em...

Most church members would tell you that theirs is a friendly congregation, eager to welcome visitors and new members into their midst. Yet far too ...

Larger churches are different--in expectations, in performance, in staffing, and in use of lay volunteers. Their unique differences require special...

Norma Cook Everist contends that it is meaningful to say that in ministries of administration, outreach, and pastoral care, the church is functioni...

Celtic Christianity–the form of Christian faith that flourished among the people of Ireland during the Middle Ages– has gained a great deal of atte...

In  Starting Small Groups: Building Communities That Matter , Jeffrey Arnold discusses small groups and details step-by-step the method for designi...