Church Life

The third volume of Shawchuck and Heuser's trilogy, this title will focus on the relationships and processes common to the religious congregation. ...

Traces the development of baptismal theology and practice in Methodism from John Wesley through the 1992 General Conference. Felton explores infant...

The most effective way to influence both individual and institutional behavior is to ask questions. This text provides a conceptual framework for a...

A living religious tradition continually reassesses its practices. In our contemporary situation, the task of reassessment must attend to the prese...

In this thought-provoking new volume, Susanne Johnson counters what she sees as "wrong-thinking" in much contemporary Christian education by offeri...

If church is like a family, it fights like one too! As in any family, conflict in the church family is natural and inevitable. But the way the chur...

"The thing I am most desperate to keep you from finding out about me is . . . I want to belong, but I do not know how." There was a time when bein...

"And gave him [Christ] to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all" (Eph. 1.22, 23). As...

Drawn from Baxter’s famous work, The Reformed Pastor, and arranged topically as a month’s supply of brief daily readings, the maxims and meditation...

In his constant warfare against the church the devil loves nothing better than to sow the seeds of discord and division. The Puritan Thomas Brooks ...

Church at the Edge explores the idea of ‘church’, looking at new ways of meeting and praying with others. The search for places where faith is made...

Multi-voiced Church argues strongly and persuasively for churches in which everyone is important for the well-being and growth of the community. T...

"It's hard to be a Christian in America," writes Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, a leader in the new monasticism movement in America, a growing group of...

Bible reading and prayer are two elements in all evangelical church worship. At certain points in every service someone will read the Scriptures an...

Although much has been written to prepare men for the work of the Christian ministry, there is comparatively little in print that will help prepare...

Dr. James Garretson has drawn together wise, practical, and relevant insights into the call, qualifications, and work of the Christian pastor from ...

Calvin wrote to kings and princes, Reformers and friends, nobility and common people alike. His letters reveal a man of deep pastoral concern, cons...

One of Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s most significant ministries was to the hundreds of preachers who were trained in the Pastor’s College which he fou...

The nature and life of the church is one of the most crucial issues facing Christians in the closing years of the twentieth century. Questions of m...

In the discussion and controversy which followed the publication of Evangelicalism Divided: A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950-2000, the ...

Should the Psalter be the only hymnal of the church? Iain Murray has sympathy with the question. Psalms set to music are a rich heritage and one no...

Glorious’ is probably the last adjective most modern writers would use to describe the Christian Church. Yet R. B. Kuiper chose his title, The Glor...

A classic revisited--revised and expanded. For over twenty-five years, Howard Snyder's Community of the King has set the standard for a penetratin...

Are you looking for fresh ideas to energize your small group? Here are hundreds of activities contributed by small group experts from across the U...

Inspiring and challenging study that rethinks the Bible's teaching on disability The Bible has plenty to say about human disability; most of it is...

How many things does your church do just because that's the way it's always been done? Does your congregation value tradition over passion and stab...

Publisher’s Description: Many churches have an official process to join their membership. Is this really a biblical practice? The authors show that...