Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Ministry - Missions

Opium addiction in China during the closing decades of the Ch'ing dynasty afflicted all segments of society. From government officials to farmers, the population fell prey to the effects of the drug. Some provinces reported addiction rates as high as eighty percent.

With the birth of Chinese nationalism, reformers -- missionaries who had witnessed the effects of opium on Chinese society, students who had studied abroad and returned to their native land with broader perspectives, families who had lost all through the addiction of a loved one, doctors who had firsthand knowledge that...

Chris Wright's pioneering 2006 book, The Mission of God, revealed that the typical Christian understanding of "missions" encompasses only a small part of God's overarching mission for the world. God is relentlessly reclaiming the entire world for himself. In The Mission of God's People, Wright shows how God's big-picture plan directs the purpose of God's people, the church. Wright emphasizes what the Old Testament teaches Christians about being the people of God. He addresses questions of both ecclesiology and missiology with topics like "called to care for creation,"...

You have a plan for the rest of your life. God has a plan for the rest of your life. Are they the same? Say Yes to God--formerly titled Dangerous Surrender--will help you find the answer. You have expectations for how your life will play out, and you hope those plans will become realities. But what if God's plan for your life is far different from what you had in mind? Can you accept that? Will you surrender your goals for God's? Kay Warren had a plan. Together with her husband, Rick Warren, author of the megaseller The Purpose Driven Life, she planned that after her kids were grown, she'd...

What Difference Do It Make? continues the hard-to-believe story of hope and reconciliation that began with the New York Times bestseller, Same Kind of Different as Me. Ron Hall and Denver Moore, unlikely friends and even unlikelier coauthors--a wealthy fine-art dealer and an illiterate homeless African American--share the hard-to-stop story of how a remarkable woman's love brought them together. Now, in What Difference Do It Make? Ron and Denver along with Lynn Vincent...

Japan closed its doors to foreigners for over two hundred years due to fears of religious and political instability, and the prohibition of Christianity was enforced until 1873. Drawing on an impressive array of English and Japanese sources, Ion investigates a crucial era in the history of Japanese-American relations--the formation of Protestant missions. He reveals that the transmission of values and beliefs was not a simple matter: missionaries and Christian laymen persisted in the face of open hostility and served as important liasons between East and West.

Updated in 2017, Global Revival, Worldwide Outpourings documents forty-three visitations of the Holy Spirit from across the globe. It spans four centuries and features revivals from 30 different countries, from Argentina to Australia, Estonia to Eritrea, Jamaica to Japan and Zimbabwe to Zululand.

The author explores the Divine-human partnership of missions and heaven-sent revivals and awakenings, and discover the thirteen waves of missions within Christendom, how evangelism and revival were integral forces to these movements. He reveals how revivals are birthed and expounds...