Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Theology - Ecclesiology

The book deals with the declining church membership that is apparent in western society by describing how God's body of believers can become one assembly. The author attempts to combat the perception that the church hypocritical, self-righteous, intolerant, and divisive. He addresses the fact that many Americans see evangelical church leaders as driven by power and material gain. The book explains how the church can become one through three gifts of eternal life, the truth, and His glory. Knowing, understanding, and experiencing these three gifts is how believers become one. There should...

Pope Francis has made no secret of the fact that he seeks to reform the Catholic Church, especially the institutional components by which it is guided and governed. Standing in his way are institutional inertia, simplistic ideologies, scandals, and the resistance of some who will not readily relinquish power. Can he pull it off?

In this smart and thoughtful book, priest-sociologist Rocco D'Ambrosio carefully considers the personality, convictions, and gifts the pope brings to the task. He explores the hurdles Francis faces, the tools at his disposal, and his prospects for success....

Brother Bakht Singh Chabra, a Sikh convert, was one of the foremost evangelists and Bible teachers in India. Bakht Singh was well known as a pioneer in gospel contextualization and a proponent of indigenous Indian churches. The movement and assemblies he established were often viewed as splinter groups from mainstream churches and many considered his teachings and theology as negatively syncretic. In this publication, Dr Bharathi Nuthalapati establishes that Bakht Singh's theology was rooted in the Indian spirituality of experience through personal relationship and devotion to God or...

From the national bestselling author of The Naked Communist, The Naked Capitalist, and The 5000 Year Leap comes Prophecy and Modern Times, the decisive guide to understanding God’s messages and finding hope in the modern era.

“Prophecy is not poetry. It is history in reverse.”—W. Cleon Skousen

Have you ever wondered what the ancient prophets had to say about the modern world? How to apply the messages of the scriptures to your own life? What the true purpose of prophecy is? Find these answers and more...

Malachi prophesied that in the last days, “...The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves. You shall trample the wicked, For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet On the day that I do this, Says the LORD of hosts” (Malachi 4:2-3). Malachi’s prophecy exactly parallels Paul’s prophesy to the Romans, “And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly” (Romans 16:20). The church has been waiting and longing for Paul’s “shortly” to come to pass...

B. B. Warfield, Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, learned and lucid as ever, presents the reformed understanding of the inspiration and authority of scripture. This edition contains an Introduction by Cornelius Van Til and appendices.

Lay persons in the church might be forgiven for imagining that the book of Revelation cannot be understood. There are many different interpretive schemes proposed, and hundreds of variations within those schemes.

But the reader who is willing to spend the time will find real treasures in the study of this book, and Paul Himes has provided an excellent guide to some of the most important passages, as he looks at the messages to the seven churches, and even more importantly at the One who is sending those messages, based on the vision in the first chapter and the ways in which the...