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The Conspiracy chronicles the monumental struggles of an innocent priest, Monsignor William McCarthy, falsely accused in 2003 of molesting two young sisters more than 23 years earlier. On the eve of his retirement from a stellar career as a priest and pastor, for the next five tortuous years, he was the victim of an anonymous complaint that was accepted as true by his bishop and friend of 40 years. Share his travails and see how ones faith can overcome...
2) I Am Peter
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I Am Peter is the story of Peter, the disciple and apostle, as told by Peter himself. I invite you to walk with Peter or perhaps just listen as he speaks to you about the segment of his life from the time he met Jesus through Pentecost in Jerusalem. Peter talks about learning to know Jesus, being called the "Rock," walking on water, denying Jesus, the resurrection, and Pentecost. He talks about his doubts, fears, frustrations, joy, guilt, observations,...
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An examination of Roman Catholicism in light of scripture and the facts of history.
An easy-to-read, well-documented, and insightful book on the teachings and claims of Catholicism and how they line up with the truth of scripture and the facts of history. Misplaced Faith of Millions: The Legacy of the Roman Catholic Church examines the papacy, infant baptism, sacramental grace, purgatory, indulgences, Mary, the Eucharistic sacrifice of the mass, and...
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Many of us long to experience the fullness of God and his purpose for our lives. Not a whole lot of us ever do. The reason is that we have departed in some significant ways from the biblical view of Christian life and growth. The New Testament highlights the communal, missional, and eschatological aspects of our walk with God. We grow in our faith as individual Christians to the degree that we are (a) deeply rooted relationally in a local church community...
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We resist change less when we associate it with mission and fortify it with hope. So argues longtime congregational consultant Peter Steinke in his fourth book, “A Door Set Open”, as he explores the relationship between the challenges of change and our own responses to new ideas and experiences. Steinke builds on a seldom-explored principle posited by the late Rabbi Edwin Friedman: the 'hostility of the environment' is proportionate to the 'response...
7) But God
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But God is a book about Valerie's personal experiences of how God intervened in her life as she dealt with sexual abuse and personal turmoil during her preteen and teenage years and into adulthood. She shares her personal experiences of God showing up in her life in some of the lowest times in her life and how he has been a continued source of strength and guidance throughout her life.
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Based on detailed analysis of interviews with gay clergymen, and also with retired heterosexual clergymen whose ministries span the period since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, Transcendent Vocation provides specific examples to back up the contention that the approach of the Church of England to homosexuals has increasingly been characterised by hypocrisy. It considers why gay men wish to work within an organisation that treats them with such negativity,...
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We, as church ushers, deal with people from all walks of life. Before we were church ushers, we were those people from all walks of life. Each chapter titled deals with something that can be apart or affect our life. Even as church ushers, we can be troubled in our soul, in despair, have jealousy, envy, and some have issues of a dark past. Some chapters might define how some who usher are; in spite of what will be read, there are many genuine church...
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Un manual práctico que trata de los pasajes importantes de las Escrituras sobre el ayuno. También trata de las normas prácticas envueltas en dicho tema. El ayuno es importante. Es una ventana que abre nuevos horizontes en el mundo invisible. Es una arma espiritual provista por Dios para ayudarnos a "derribar fortalezas."
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This essay addresses a formidable subject, rarely treated today. It is a matter of knowing what "experience" of God can reach a human being, whether he or she seeks God without knowing it or naming God, or that he or she affirms, as a Christian believer, God's historical manifestation in Jesus Christ. Once the symbols, the words, the images, the concepts, the rites, are passed, can we join a je ne sais quoi of the reality of God, and how? In a language...
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Todo esto nos puede llevar a una confusión que nubla la mente, inquieta el alma y nos conduce a tomar decisiones inadecuadas. En medio de tal caos y confusión, anhelamos escuchar la voz de Dios con mayor claridad. Dios quiere traer orden a nuestra existencia. Quiere reorganizar nuestras prioridades. Si le permitimos hacerlo, seremos más felices de lo que jamás imaginábamos que era posible en esta vida, y finalmente entonces conoceremos la paz...
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For: •Individual use• Group training -- Greeters are the welcoming arms that people long to find in a church. This practical guidebook will help you reach out to people who need to experience the warmth of belonging to a church family. Serving as a Church Greeter sheds light on • The Ministry of Church Greeters • The Need for Warmhearted Greeters • Developing a User-Friendly Foyer • A Better Way of Doing Things • The Parking Lot Ministry…Zondervan...
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Un libro que te mostrará el camino para volver a vivir intensamente, sin miedos, tristezas. La vida continúa y usted no puede quedarse parado sin reacción a este precioso regalo que el Señor le concedió.
¨Una vida vale más que el Mundo entero, usted es muy valioso para desistir de vivir¨.
Cuando decidí escribir este libro, le pedí orientación a Dios para tocar los puntos que necesitan mayor atención, un estímulo para una nueva vida...
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When God called Tom Deuschle to Rhodesia in the late 1970's, Tom didn't even know where the country was. Over thirty years later, Pastor Tom and his wife, Bonnie, have pioneered a ministry that is changing the face of the nation, now known as Zimbabwe.. Tom's principles for empowering God's people to reform nations for Christ are not theory, but tested in the fire of a country that has endured bloody civil wars, crippling international sanctions,...
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In the last few decades sixty-five million Americans who once regular attended a local congregation, no longer do. About thirty-five million of those no longer self-identify as Christian, but over thirty-one million still do. This last group has been tagged "The Dones", those who still seek to follow Jesus and find real community but have given up hope that the local congregation is still relevant to their journey. What do we make of this phenomenon?...
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Tales of demise and decline have come to characterize news on the state of religion and congregations in America. In “The Postindustrial Promise”, author Anthony Healy finds that the changes in religious life and among congregations are being misunderstood. Instead of seeing the changes as the result of the presumed aspects of postmodern life-individualism, the collapse of social groups, and the scrapping of tradition-Healy sees what has occurred...
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After congregations have considered their history, added up all the statistics, and tried to be honest about their core values, the question still remains: "Who are we, really?" Author Janet Cawley offers a creative, engaging, and faithful way to answer just that question. Cawley demonstrates how to use a congregation's knowledge of itself to construct a metaphor of the congregation as a person and then draw on theat metaphor to generate options for...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 Prayer is how we discern the next move of God. When two people pray, God can answer their prayers in ways they never imagined.
#2 When you establish a prayer routine, your life will be anything but routine. You will go to places, do things, and meet people you have no business going to, doing, or meeting. You don't need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek...
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