Format: Hardcover
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Book Of Common Worship, 1993 edition
This ambitious undertaking gathers in one volume all the important elements of the seven Supplemental Liturgical Resources to provide orders of worship and liturgical texts for each Sunday, for every festival and season throughout the year, plus Baptism, the marriage ceremony, daily prayer, funeral and pastoral liturgies, and more.
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The Discipleship Study Bible
The first completely new NRSV study Bible in five years! People today are hungry for the Bible, hoping to find meaning for their own journeys of life and faith. The Discipleship Study Bible is the perfect compass for the journey. This distinctive study Bible helps readers understand the ancient texts on their own terms and…
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Simple Grace
Well-known Episcopal priest and author Malcolm Boyd draws on the many and varied experiences of his 78 years to provide lessons for others who are facing middle age and beyond. The themes of this book – Learning, Remembering, Simplifying, Maturing, Exploring, and Understanding – reflect Boyd’s own life, a life that has taken him from…
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All Through The Night
Nighttime signifies many things. Apart from the rest and refreshment that sleep brings, the night can be a time for gazing at the stars, dreaming, and loving. For some, it might mean keeping vigil when tending to the very young or sick. For others, it might mean working so that others may rest peacefully. For…
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The Presbyterian Hymnal
From the Preface The aim of the [Hymnal Committee] has been to provide a book for congregational singing with the expectation that all who use it may be enriched by hymns from gospel, evangelical, Reformed, racial, and ethnic traditions in the church. May Presbyterians be renewed and revived in singing their faith, that worship may…
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Man And His Symbols
Explores Jung’s psychological concepts regarding the nature, function and importance of man’s symbols as they appear on both the conscious and subconscious level. Illustrated throughout with revealing images, this is the first and only work in which the world-famous Swiss psychologist explains to the layperson his enormously influential theory of symbolism as revealed in dreams.
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An Introduction To The New Testament
Every generation needs a comprehensive, reliable introduction to the New Testament that opens the biblical text to the novice. Raymond E. Brown’s An Introduction to the New Testament is the most trustworthy and authoritative guidebook for a generation seeking to understand the Christian Bible. Universally acknowledged as the dean of New Testament scholarship, Father Brown is a…
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Open Leadership
An essential guide for leaders who want to use social media to be ‘open’ while maintaining control, ‘Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic’ are the current leadership mantras – but companies often push back. Business is premised on the concept of control and yet the new world order demands openness. Leaders do not know how…
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Death Of The Church
The Church has a choice: To die as a result of its resistance to change, or to die in order to live. Change pervades today’s world. Change has always been part of the social landscape: predictable, rhythmic, and generational change. But today another kind of change upsets all our predictions and securities: chaotic and unpredictable…
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The Purpose-Driven Church
This groundbreaking book offers a biblical yet practical strategy that will empower churches to minister in the 21st century. After testing and refining these concepts for fifteen years, Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, shares the five-part growth strategy he developed. It gives a step-by-step process that will cause your church to grow warmer through…
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A Generous Orthodoxy
A confession and manifesto from a senior leader in the emerging church movement, A Generous Orthodoxy calls for a radical, Christ-centered orthodoxy of faith and practice in a missional, generous spirit. Brian McLaren argues for a post-liberal, post-conservative, post-protestant convergence, which will stimulate lively interest and global conversation among thoughtful Christians from all traditions. In a sweeping…
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Christianity For The Rest Of Us
For decades the accepted wisdom has been that America’s mainline Protestant churches are in decline, eclipsed by evangelical mega-churches. Church and religion expert Diana Butler Bass wondered if this was true, and this book is the result of her extensive, three-year study of centrist and progressive churches across the country. Her surprising findings reveal just…