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This timely new leadership guide for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is written for church officers who are looking for a deepened relationship with God. Joan Gray challenges elders and deacons to see themselves as spiritual leaders and equips them to lead alongside their pastors.

Gray lays out a variety of leadership styles and helps leaders understand when each is appropriate. She also provides resources for dealing with relationships in the church and identifies ways churches can be supportive of the spiritual leadership of elders and deacons.

Bewilderment often follows when one learns that Mark Twain s best friend of forty years was a minister. That Joseph Hopkins Twichell (1838-1918) was also a New Englander with Puritan roots only entrenches the odd couple image of Twain and Twichell. This biography adds new dimensions to our understanding of the Twichell-Twain relationship; more important, it takes Twichell on his own terms, revealing an elite Everyman--a genial, energetic advocate of social justice in an era of stark contrasts between America s haves and have-nots.

After Twichell s education at Yale and his Civil War...

Finney delves into Scripture to reveal how you can

reach a deeper experience of God's love and power, as

He prepares you for eternity. Through this timeless

wisdom, you will

Strengthen your faith

Be assured of eternal life

Renew your spiritual walk

Escape Satan's entrapment

Fulfill God's purposes for your life

Be a blessing to the Lord

Win others to Christ

God has laid heaven, earth, and hell before you in

order to bring you to a life of peace and joy that is

perfectly united with Him. As you...

John Owen is widely regarded as one of the most influential English Puritans. As a pastor, he longed to see the glory of Christ take root in people's lives. As a writer, he continues to encourage us toward discipline and communion with God. His high view of God and deep theological convictions flowed naturally into practical application and a zeal for personal holiness.

In Owen on the Christian Life, Barrett and Haykin guide us through the seventeenth-century theologian's life and doctrine, giving us a glimpse into the majestic vision that served as the foundation for his...

As the Winter Park (Florida) Presbyterian Church approached its sixtieth anniversary, several events and activities were considered to appropriately mark the occasion. One of them was this "Book of Memories."

It is a compilation of stories contributed by current or former members and friends of the church, as they felt inspired, of their memories of our church since its inception -- an anecdotal view of its history. The cooperation of church members was wonderful Nearly 100 stories were submitted, ranging in length from three lines to three pages. The project was a work of love and...

From its inception the Christian church thought of worship and prayer in trinitarian terms. At the heart of this trinitarian concept lay the doctrine of the priesthood of Christ which, in its liturgical expression, presented Christ not merely as the object of prayer, but also as its mediator - prayers were directed to the Father through Christ.Redding traces the idea of the priesthood of Christ, and its effects on Christian worship and prayer, to its origins with the earliest Christians and through the Arian and Apollinarian debates. He then focuses on the Reformed tradition, and the...