Author: Carol M. Noren
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664252274
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Carol Noren helps lay people evaluate what they do Sunday morning and suggests positive steps for making worship better. She shows lay people how to work with their pastors and demonstrates how to make worship the work of the people. Separate chapters provide an overview of worship and explore the role of laity, the physical setting, the music, the sermon, and the liturgy. Each chapter also includes a series of questions that help individuals evaluate and respond to the practice in their church.
What Happens Sunday Morning
Author: Carol M. Noren
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664252274
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Carol Noren helps lay people evaluate what they do Sunday morning and suggests positive steps for making worship better. She shows lay people how to work with their pastors and demonstrates how to make worship the work of the people. Separate chapters provide an overview of worship and explore the role of laity, the physical setting, the music, the sermon, and the liturgy. Each chapter also includes a series of questions that help individuals evaluate and respond to the practice in their church.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664252274
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Carol Noren helps lay people evaluate what they do Sunday morning and suggests positive steps for making worship better. She shows lay people how to work with their pastors and demonstrates how to make worship the work of the people. Separate chapters provide an overview of worship and explore the role of laity, the physical setting, the music, the sermon, and the liturgy. Each chapter also includes a series of questions that help individuals evaluate and respond to the practice in their church.
Early Sunday Morning
Author: Denene Millner
Publisher: Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534476539
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
In this heartwarming story of love and family, a community comes together to help a young girl find the courage to lift her mighty voice. Sundays are June’s favorite days because she gets to spend it with Mommy, Daddy, and her brother, Troy. Next Sunday is more special than most, because she will be leading the youth choir in front of her entire church. June loves to sing. She sings loud, silly songs with Daddy, she sings to herself in front of the bedroom mirror, but performing in front of the entire congregation is another thing altogether. As her special moment approaches, June leans on the support of her whole community to conquer her fear of singing in front of the congregation.
Publisher: Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534476539
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
In this heartwarming story of love and family, a community comes together to help a young girl find the courage to lift her mighty voice. Sundays are June’s favorite days because she gets to spend it with Mommy, Daddy, and her brother, Troy. Next Sunday is more special than most, because she will be leading the youth choir in front of her entire church. June loves to sing. She sings loud, silly songs with Daddy, she sings to herself in front of the bedroom mirror, but performing in front of the entire congregation is another thing altogether. As her special moment approaches, June leans on the support of her whole community to conquer her fear of singing in front of the congregation.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Author: Alan Sillitoe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783150090381
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783150090381
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Everyday Church
Author: Tim Chester
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433542641
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
HOW DOES THE CHURCH REACH THE UNCHURCHED? We live in an increasingly post-Christian culture. More and more we find ourselves on the margins as less and less people have any intention of ever attending church. What used to work doesn’t work anymore and we need to adapt. Helping us to see the way forward, this book offers practical ideas and personal stories for engaging with Western society. Find out how to effectively reach people in the context of everyday life and take hold of the opportunity to develop missional communities focused on Jesus.
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433542641
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
HOW DOES THE CHURCH REACH THE UNCHURCHED? We live in an increasingly post-Christian culture. More and more we find ourselves on the margins as less and less people have any intention of ever attending church. What used to work doesn’t work anymore and we need to adapt. Helping us to see the way forward, this book offers practical ideas and personal stories for engaging with Western society. Find out how to effectively reach people in the context of everyday life and take hold of the opportunity to develop missional communities focused on Jesus.
The Christian Century
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Beating the Boundaries
Author: John Spicer
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0819232947
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Using the image of the traditional practice of “beating the bounds” of the parish, this book contrasts the desire to mark boundaries with God’s call to explore boundaries in order to open them. Building on visits to nine Episcopal and Church of England congregations, Spicer explores how they are opening the boundaries between inherited expressions of church and the unique contexts in which they find themselves. He argues that to beat the boundaries around their current expressions of church, congregations should (1) name a missional identity common to both their past expressions of congregational life and the church they hear God calling them to become; (2) identify whom they’re seeking to reach in the community and how they intend to do so; (3) identify what sort of new church expression God is calling them to create; (4) empower a missional leader and plan for governance issues their work may raise; and (5) collaboratively identify how to define success and how to understand what might be seen as failure in terms of common church metrics.
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0819232947
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Using the image of the traditional practice of “beating the bounds” of the parish, this book contrasts the desire to mark boundaries with God’s call to explore boundaries in order to open them. Building on visits to nine Episcopal and Church of England congregations, Spicer explores how they are opening the boundaries between inherited expressions of church and the unique contexts in which they find themselves. He argues that to beat the boundaries around their current expressions of church, congregations should (1) name a missional identity common to both their past expressions of congregational life and the church they hear God calling them to become; (2) identify whom they’re seeking to reach in the community and how they intend to do so; (3) identify what sort of new church expression God is calling them to create; (4) empower a missional leader and plan for governance issues their work may raise; and (5) collaboratively identify how to define success and how to understand what might be seen as failure in terms of common church metrics.
Live Sent
Author: Jason C. Dukes
Publisher: New Hope Publishers
ISBN: 1596697695
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Our everyday lives are more than just a story being written. God created each one of us to receive and send a message—intentionally — into the lives of the people we do life with daily. That’s how love is demonstrated, how relationships happen, and how people find the abundant life as they are intended to find it. Pastor and speaker Jason C. Dukes helps readers see how giving yourself away in the daily means being to other people the letter of God’s love that has been written on our hearts. Our community needs us, and our world needs us . . . to live sent.
Publisher: New Hope Publishers
ISBN: 1596697695
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Our everyday lives are more than just a story being written. God created each one of us to receive and send a message—intentionally — into the lives of the people we do life with daily. That’s how love is demonstrated, how relationships happen, and how people find the abundant life as they are intended to find it. Pastor and speaker Jason C. Dukes helps readers see how giving yourself away in the daily means being to other people the letter of God’s love that has been written on our hearts. Our community needs us, and our world needs us . . . to live sent.
Finding Our Balance
Author: Ronald P. Byars
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498200257
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Mainstream American Protestantism is suffering from an identity crisis. We are not fundamentalists, but it is easy to define ourselves in reaction to them. Paralyzed by the shock of a cultural turn toward skepticism, we are tempted to make allies of the skeptics, partly to distance ourselves from the religious right and partly to lay claim to credibility in a milieu in which it is okay to be spiritual but not to be religious. A consequence is that we find ourselves playing in the shallow end of the pool. The historic Protestant principle serves as an enabler when it privileges questioning over affirmation, causing us to lose the necessary balance between the two. American-style generic Protestantism as it has evolved does not have strong enough foundations to withstand cultural pressures. Discovering an identity worth being taken seriously will require revisiting the broad catholic and reforming tradition in order to find an authoritative rather than merely reactive voice. The challenge is theological, but not to academic theology. The challenge rather is to the theology that sustains the local congregation through teaching, certainly, but most pressingly through preaching and worship. The times call for thoughtful and strategic repositioning.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498200257
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Mainstream American Protestantism is suffering from an identity crisis. We are not fundamentalists, but it is easy to define ourselves in reaction to them. Paralyzed by the shock of a cultural turn toward skepticism, we are tempted to make allies of the skeptics, partly to distance ourselves from the religious right and partly to lay claim to credibility in a milieu in which it is okay to be spiritual but not to be religious. A consequence is that we find ourselves playing in the shallow end of the pool. The historic Protestant principle serves as an enabler when it privileges questioning over affirmation, causing us to lose the necessary balance between the two. American-style generic Protestantism as it has evolved does not have strong enough foundations to withstand cultural pressures. Discovering an identity worth being taken seriously will require revisiting the broad catholic and reforming tradition in order to find an authoritative rather than merely reactive voice. The challenge is theological, but not to academic theology. The challenge rather is to the theology that sustains the local congregation through teaching, certainly, but most pressingly through preaching and worship. The times call for thoughtful and strategic repositioning.
Christian Education
Author: Lawrence O. Richards
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 9780310520818
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This is a book that relentlessly pursues defining the goals of Christian education and then offers a plan in keeping with those goals. So many books in the field assume the goals and simply describe the methods. Not so Larry Richards. His biblical and theological analysis conveys an excitement that makes Christian education a mission, not just a responsibility. And still his approach is eminently practical, insightful, and motivational.
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 9780310520818
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This is a book that relentlessly pursues defining the goals of Christian education and then offers a plan in keeping with those goals. So many books in the field assume the goals and simply describe the methods. Not so Larry Richards. His biblical and theological analysis conveys an excitement that makes Christian education a mission, not just a responsibility. And still his approach is eminently practical, insightful, and motivational.