Rediscovering the New Testament Church

Rediscovering the New Testament Church
Author: Anthony Jacomb-Hood
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2014-12-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781978377585

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The vast majority of Western Christians assume that church as we know it is somehow patterned after New Testament norms, with our services, our pastors and priests and our Sunday morning sermons. "Rediscovering The New Testament Church" gently challenges that assumption, meticulously uncovering the New Testament description of what God calls church. Have we perfected what God set in motion or did we "fix" what was never broken in the first place?

Toward Rediscovering the Old Testament

Toward Rediscovering the Old Testament
Author: Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 031037121X

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Understanding the Old Testament is the crucial problem for the Christian. The three parts of this book (the Old Testament and scholarship, the Old Testament and theology, and The Old Testament and life) present issues rarely discussed by Christians, as well as models and solutions for age-old dilemmas.

Rediscovering the Church Fathers

Rediscovering the Church Fathers
Author: Michael A. G. Haykin
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2011-03-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433523574

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While the church today looks quite different than it did two thousand years ago, Christians share the same faith with the church fathers. Although separated by time and culture, we have much to learn from their lives and teaching. This book is an organized and convenient introduction to how to read the church fathers from AD 100 to 500. Michael Haykin surveys the lives and teachings of seven of the Fathers, looking at their role in such issues as baptism, martyrdom, and the relationship between church and state. Ignatius, Cyprian, Basil of Caesarea, and Ambrose and others were foundational in the growth and purity of early Christianity, and their impact continues to shape the church today. Evangelical readers interested in the historical roots of Christianity will find this to be a helpful introductory volume.

Rediscovering New Testament Prayer

Rediscovering New Testament Prayer
Author: John Koenig
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2004-04-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1592446493

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John Koenig presents a rich variety of prayer practices that reflect the real prayer experience of Christ and his followers. Recapturing the earliest believers' extraordinary encounters with the Holy, Koenig offers prayer as instruction for the mind, renewal of the spirit, and help in effecting positive change in one's life.

Rediscover Church

Rediscover Church
Author: Collin Hansen
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2021-07-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433579596

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"A Christian without a church is a Christian in trouble." Since a global pandemic abruptly closed places of worship, many Christians have skipped church life, even neglecting virtual services. But this was a trend even before COVID-19. Polarizing issues, including political and racial strife, convinced some people to pull away from the church and one another. Now it's time to recommit to gathering as brothers and sisters in Christ. In Rediscover Church, Collin Hansen and Jonathan Leeman discuss why church is essential for believers and God's mission. Through biblical references and personal stories, they show readers God's true intention for corporate gathering: to spiritually strengthen members as individuals and the body of Christ. In an age of church-shopping and livestreamed services, rediscover why the future of the church relies on believers gathering regularly as the family of God. Published in partnership with the Gospel Coalition and 9Marks.

Making Sense of the Bible [Leader Guide]

Making Sense of the Bible [Leader Guide]
Author: Adam Hamilton
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1501801325

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In this six week video study, Adam Hamilton explores the key points in his new book, Making Sense of the Bible. With the help of this Leader Guide, groups learn from Hamilton as his video presentations lead groups through the book, focusing on the most important questions we ask about the Bible, its origins and meaning.

Getting Involved with God

Getting Involved with God
Author: Ellen F. Davis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2001
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 1561011975

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"This is a book about getting, and staying, involved with God--what it takes, what it costs, what it looks and feels like, why anyone would want to do it anyway. It is at the same time a book about reading the Old Testament as a source of Good News and guidance for our life with God. The key piece of Good News that the Old Testament communicates over and over again is that God is involved with us, deeply and irrevocably so." --from the Introduction With sound scholarship and her own vivid translations from the Hebrew, Old Testament professor Ellen Davis teaches us a spiritually engaged method of reading scripture. Beginning with the psalms, whose frank prayers can be a model for our own, Davis reflects on the stories of the patriarchs and the pastoral wisdom of the book of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs in helping us cultivate those habits of the heart that lead to a rich relationship with God.

If the Church Were Christian

If the Church Were Christian
Author: Philip Gulley
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-02-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0061968226

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“[Philip Gulley’s] vision of Christianity is grounded, gripping, and filled with uncommon sense. He is building bridges instead of boundaries, and such wisdom is surely needed now.” —Richard Rohr, O.F.M, author of Everything Belongs Quaker minister Philip Gulley, author of If Grace Is True and If God Is Love, returns with If the Church Were Christian: a challenging and thought-provoking examination of the author’s vision for today’s church… if Christians truly followed the core values of Jesus Christ. Fans of Shane Claiborne, Rob Bell, and unChristian will find much to discuss in If the Church Were Christian, as will anyone interested in the future of this institution.

Church Order in the New Testament

Church Order in the New Testament
Author: Eduard Schweizer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2006-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1597528102

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Schweizer listens carefully to the testimony of the various New Testament writers in order to understand the theological problem of how the New Testament church understood itself, and how it expressed that understanding in its order. The purely historical question about the form of the church at different times is seen by Schweizer as necessary, but need only be asked insofar as the actual shaping of the church is always evidence of the concept of its own nature to which it testifies. Thus, Schweizer arranges the New Testament writings primarily by the theological kinship of their idea of the church, providing a comprehensive examination of the church in the New Testament and Apostolic Fathers. He treats both the diversity of views and the unity found in these writings. He also discusses issues relating to church office, ministry, and ordination.

Rediscovering Scripture's Vision for Women

Rediscovering Scripture's Vision for Women
Author: Lucy Peppiatt
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830853960

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Does God call women to serve as equal partners in marriage and as leaders in the church? With careful exegetical work, Lucy Peppiatt considers relevant passages in Ephesians, Colossians, 1 Peter, 1 Timothy, and 1 Corinthians. There she finds a story of God releasing women alongside men into all forms of ministry, leadership, work, and service on the basis of character and gifting, rather than biological sex.