Free to be Bound


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Free to Be Bound chronicles Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove's experience as he crosses color lines that fragment the church.




Growing a Healing Ministry


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This book is based directly on the experience and wisdom of those who have established energy-touch healing ministries in congregational settings.




Deep Discipleship


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Everyone is being discipled. The question is: what is discipling us? The majority of Christians today are being discipled by popular media, flashy events, and folk theology because churches have neglected their responsibility to make disciples. But the church is not a secondary platform in the mission of God; it is the primary platform God uses to grow people into the image of Jesus. Therefore, as church leaders, it is our primary responsibility to establish environments and relationships where people can be trained, grow, and be sent as disciples. There are three indispensable elements of discipleship: Learning to participate in the biblical story (the Bible) Growing in our confession of who God is and who we are (theology) Regularly participating in private and corporate intentional action (spiritual disciplines) Deep Discipleship equips churches to reclaim the responsibility of discipling people at any point on their journey.




Ministry


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Joseph T. Lienhard, SJ, earned a Dr. theol. habil. at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, with two dissertations--on Paulinus of Nola and on Marcellus of Ancyra. He taught at Marquette University from 1975 to 1990. Since 1990, he has been at Fordham University. His works include Paulinus of Nola and Early Western Monasticism, Contra Marcellum: Marcellus Ancyra and Fourth-Century Theology, and a translation of Karl Suso Frank's history of religious orders titled With Greater Liberty: A Short History of Christian Monasticism and Religious Orders. In 2010, a feshschrift, Tradition and the Rule of Faith, was published in his honor.




E. M. Bounds on Prayer


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Methodist minister and Civil War chaplain Edward McKendree Bounds (1835-1913) considered conversation with God as fundamentally vital to the Christian's life as physical breath. He devoted the last 17 years of his life to intense intercession and to penning some of the most perennially popular works about prayer. This attractive volume features the very best of his beloved writings. "God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed in death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world." --from E.M. Bounds on Prayer Every Christian library needs the classics--the timeless books that have spoken powerfully to generations of believers. Hendrickson Christian Classics allow readers to build an essential classics library in affordable modern editions. Each volume is freshly retypeset for reading comfort, while thoughtful new introductions place each in historical and spiritual context. Attractive, classically bound covers look great together on the shelf. Best of all, value pricing makes this series easy to own. Planned to span the spectrum of Christian wisdom through the ages, Hendrickson Christian Classics set a new standard for quality and value.




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Theological Foundations for Ministry


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This is a collection of essential passages on the ministry of the church. By selecting significant sources which share a common assumption concerning the nature of theology and its methodology, the editor presents a single consistent theology of ministry. The book is carefully organised to allow a thorough exploration of the different aspects of ministry. Contributors include Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hans Küng, Helmut Thielicke and Thomas F. Torrance.




The Flourishing Pastor


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With the risk of burnout at an all-time high, pastors need a new framework for ministry that will help them move from survival to flourishing. Drawing on the image of the shepherd leader, Tom Nelson offers pastors wisdom and timely vision for leadership that integrates in-depth biblical teaching and whole-life discipleship, providing a roadmap for ministry resilience and longevity.




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