Far too much of our Faith in the West is focused on the individual. Faith, in large part, has become so "personalized" that it has ceased to have meaning for the community of Church. So how do we buck the trends of culture and build emotionally connected and spiritually strong teams? One key component is sharing a common devotional life. This book is a compilation of 52 meditations conceived in the midst of my own suffering and pleasure while building a team. These devotionals take on issues of church, culture, and theology in a way that will engage your team in a full-orbed discussion of...
Far too much of our Faith in the West is focused on the individual. Faith, in large part, has become so "personalized" that it has ceased to have mean...
These are simple illustrations of the law which applies also in human life. We must die to be useful-to be truly a blessing. Our Lord put this truth in a little parable, when he said that the seed must fall into the earth and die that it may bear fruit. Christ's own cross is the highest illustration of this.
These are simple illustrations of the law which applies also in human life. We must die to be useful-to be truly a blessing. Our Lord put this truth i...
Since the 1980s successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling, including official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, award winning author J. R. Miller tackles and explains these institutional responses to Canada's residential school legacy. Analysing archival material and interviews with former...
Since the 1980s successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malig...
Elders Lead a Healthy Family explores the biblical paradigm for shared leadership: elders as the spiritual ""big brothers"" and shepherds to the family of God. This book is a fresh biblical alternative to the standard fare of pragmatic church leadership. Delivered in a winsome and irenic style, the book addresses the key concerns of our day, including pastoral burnout, women as elders, women and the pastoral gift, power in leadership, abuse of power in ministry, ministerial pay, and fostering missional-leadership structures. The answer to so many of the problems facing the church is not more...
Elders Lead a Healthy Family explores the biblical paradigm for shared leadership: elders as the spiritual ""big brothers"" and shepherds to the famil...
Author J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current impasse in which Indigenous peoples are resisting displacement and marginalization.
Author J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current impasse ...
Author J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current impasse in which Indigenous peoples are resisting displacement and marginalization.
Author J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current impasse ...