How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel If you're brave enough to take an honest look at the issues facing the culture-controlled church--and the issues in your own life--read on. Do you ever look at how the Christian faith is being lived out in the new millennium and wonder if we're not doing what we're supposed to be doing? That we still haven't quite "gotten it"? That we've missed the point regarding many important issues? It's understandable if we've relied on what we've been told to believe or what's widely accepted by the Christian community. But if we truly turned a...
How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel If you're brave enough to take an honest look at the issues facing the culture-controlled chu...
Named by Christianity Today as one of the most influential preachers of the last fifty years, best-selling author Tony Campolo has spent decades calling on readers and audiences around the world to live their faith through committed activism. In Letters to a Young Evangelical, Campolo enjoins evangelicals young and old to resist the intimidating rhetoric of the Religious Right and think for themselves. With his trademark candor and wit, he offers sage advice to seekers who are trying to live their faith in a modern world that is politically polarized and predominantly secular....
Named by Christianity Today as one of the most influential preachers of the last fifty years, best-selling author Tony Campolo has spent decade...
In an open and inviting style, Bruce Main challenges college students to actively embrace young adulthood's time for identity formation, and intentionally begin to establish habits of discipleship that will create a foundation for a life of radical faithfulness. He raises the question, how might Jesus want young adults to use their college years? and explores answers through a number of relevant themes, including dating relationships, relationships with parents, learning tolerance, and the role of wisdom. This book is ideal for either personal or group study.
In an open and inviting style, Bruce Main challenges college students to actively embrace young adulthood's time for identity formation, and intent...
There is no end to cliches and easy assumptions about congregational health and vitality. It's much easier to start a new church than turn around an old one; nondenominational churches are growing, while denominational churches are dying; small-membership churches are concerned only with survival; suburban churches care only about endless programming and "spiritual entertainment"; downtown churches are doomed to decay.
Whatever kernel of truth such analyses might contain, they miss the actual point. Churches stagnate, decline, and die for a number of reasons, but principally...
There is no end to cliches and easy assumptions about congregational health and vitality. It's much easier to start a new church than turn around a...
Two of the most vocal activists on racial issues in the church seek nothing less than a conversion of American Christianity. They directly challenge the churches to resume leadership in overcoming and redressing America's legacy of racial segregation. Campolo and Battle expose the realities of racial division in the churches and then lift up a vision of a church without racism. To achieve reconciliation within and among the denominations, they argue, both the black and the white church need to acknowledge and overcome substantial problems in their traditions. The authors provide a blueprint...
Two of the most vocal activists on racial issues in the church seek nothing less than a conversion of American Christianity. They directly challenge t...
Fifteen years ago, Tony Campolo's 20 Hot Potatoes That Christians Are Afraid to Touch pushed, pulled, and prodded Christians into serious consideration of controversial but critical issues related to the Christian life. Campolo challenged his more than 150,000 readers to re-think their convictions (and prejudices) and to do something about them
Dubbed by Christianity Today as "the positive prophet" and "a ferocious critic of Christians left and right," Campolo lives up to his reputation in this latest book examining some of today's toughest questions and issues:...
Fifteen years ago, Tony Campolo's 20 Hot Potatoes That Christians Are Afraid to Touch pushed, pulled, and prodded Christians into serious ...
In four hard-hitting, humorous sections, Campolo galvanizes high school and college students to live lives of total commitment to Christ, to move beyond "warm fuzzies" and good intentions, and to set a course for a lifetime of spiritual adventure.
In four hard-hitting, humorous sections, Campolo galvanizes high school and college students to live lives of total commitment to Christ, to move beyo...
AIDS, women preachers, public schools, psychological counseling, homosexuality, and working mothers-these are some of the hot issues that many Christians avoid discussing. With insight and clarity, Tony Campolo confronts today's toughest social and moral questions while raising a few of his own.
AIDS, women preachers, public schools, psychological counseling, homosexuality, and working mothers-these are some of the hot issues that many Christi...
