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Triumphant : The Gates Of Hell Cannot Have Me
$32.99Add to cartA life-long journey beginning with the author’s ancestral background, tied in with the history of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, which is covered in the book for your enlightenment and education. You will then visit races and cultures that span the globe into some twenty-five countries. The story covers the life of a young man, coming from humble beginnings out of the rural backwoods of Kentucky, and how God reached down and touched his receptive heart some 75 years ago, at the young age of 15. He began his ministry and pursued his education at Bible Training School (Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee). During the first year of BTS God called him to mission work, specifically to the Middle East Bible Lands and Mediterranean Region. Then he met Myrtle, the love of his life. They married and enjoyed the birth of two children. Through a valley-of-despair experience with their son’s illness and near death, God got his attention and here you will learn the meaning of submission to God’s will! Now you’ll travel with a very young family some 6,000 miles away from the comforts of life in America, to journey into another world where the missionary is not welcomed. Here you will learn the experiences they encountered while living during the turbulent wars between Israel, Palestine, Egypt and other Arab countries, at the time of the division of land and Israel became a nation. A resemblance of today where history continues to repeat itself. You will learn of a sin the United Nations will live with forever! As you read your Bible you will sense it unfolding while you travel with the author through the Bible Lands of a span of many years! Discover the challenges of a missionary and gain insight of the meaning of life on the mission field. Can you visualize living in the villages, learning the languages and customs of new cultures? Learn how churches were established, schools were opened, and how lives were touched as needs of people were met! What are people like in other countries when you are the foreigner? Get to know the people. What is the meaning of being open to God’s will for your life? Always with a willing heart, you will discover how God directed the author’s life! The time came for the Hatfields to return to the States, but their hearts have always remained in the Middle East. This book reveals their challenges and victories over the years. Upon retirement, Reverend Hatfield began writing about his life’s journey from notes compiled over 70+ years. This book
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Triumphant : The Gates Of Hell Cannot Have Me
$20.99Add to cartA life-long journey beginning with the author’s ancestral background, tied in with the history of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, which is covered in the book for your enlightenment and education. You will then visit races and cultures that span the globe into some twenty-five countries. The story covers the life of a young man, coming from humble beginnings out of the rural backwoods of Kentucky, and how God reached down and touched his receptive heart some 75 years ago, at the young age of 15. He began his ministry and pursued his education at Bible Training School (Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee). During the first year of BTS God called him to mission work, specifically to the Middle East Bible Lands and Mediterranean Region. Then he met Myrtle, the love of his life. They married and enjoyed the birth of two children. Through a valley-of-despair experience with their son’s illness and near death, God got his attention and here you will learn the meaning of submission to God’s will! Now you’ll travel with a very young family some 6,000 miles away from the comforts of life in America, to journey into another world where the missionary is not welcomed. Here you will learn the experiences they encountered while living during the turbulent wars between Israel, Palestine, Egypt and other Arab countries, at the time of the division of land and Israel became a nation. A resemblance of today where history continues to repeat itself. You will learn of a sin the United Nations will live with forever! As you read your Bible you will sense it unfolding while you travel with the author through the Bible Lands of a span of many years! Discover the challenges of a missionary and gain insight of the meaning of life on the mission field. Can you visualize living in the villages, learning the languages and customs of new cultures? Learn how churches were established, schools were opened, and how lives were touched as needs of people were met! What are people like in other countries when you are the foreigner? Get to know the people. What is the meaning of being open to God’s will for your life? Always with a willing heart, you will discover how God directed the author’s life! The time came for the Hatfields to return to the States, but their hearts have always remained in the Middle East. This book reveals their challenges and victories over the years. Upon retirement, Reverend Hatfield began writing about his life’s journey from notes compiled over 70+ years. This book
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Hidden Triumph In Ethiopia
$13.99Add to cartHidden Triumph in Ethiopia could be a chapter right out of the book of Acts or Hebrews. Against the backdrop of Ethiopia’s tribulation under a cruel Marxist regime, Kay Bascom graphically follows the true adventures of an unlikely hero, ‘crippled’ Negussie, whom terror could not silence . . . . Hidden Triumph is a contemporary addition to the amazing saga of the church in Ethiopia. It should challenge and encourage Christians everywhere.
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Something Beautiful For God
$16.99Add to cartIn celebration of Mother Teresa’s beatification in October of 2003, HarperOne is proud to present a new edition of the classic work that introduced Mother Teresa to the Western world. Something Beautiful for God interprets her life through her conversations with Malcolm Muggeridge, the quintessential worldly skeptic who experienced a remarkable conversion to Christianity because of her exemplary influence. He hails her as a “light which could never be extinguished.”
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Tour Of The Nations
$16.99Add to cartTour of the Nations is a book designed to aid teachers in assisting their students to become more knowledgeable in foreign missions. It takes students on a one-year visit to the seven major continents of the world, introducing them to many cultural and spiritual adventures. It presents lesson material each week for approximately one year, and provides thorough lessons for each session. This book will serve as a great tool for missions training and Christian education for children from preschool through the elementary grades. The work of training children in the local church setting can be a great task, but one that is commanded of us by Christ. Tour of the Nations will help make that task easier, providing lessons and ideas for classroom teachers in introducing their students to foreign mission countries, hopefully igniting the embers that may be placed in young, tender hearts by the gifting power of the Holy Spirit.
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Mission Trip Prep Kit Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$14.99Add to cartYou work hard planning mission trips. Now make mission trips work for you and your group. Headed to inner-city America? Appalachia? A border of Shantytown? Overseas? Wherever your destination, the MISSION TRIP PREP KIT contains all you need to prepare your students for an unforgettable cross-cultural experience _ and tools to debrief them after they9ve returned to their worlds. Use this kit- *To get on-site impact as well as long-term spiritual change in your kids. *Whether you9re a mission-trip novice or a savvy traveler outside your comfort zones. *Whether your group9s is geared toward reaching others with the gospel or to disciple your young missionaries. *In several sessions spread over a month or two _ or in an intensive, two-day training session or retreat. IN THIS LEADER9S GUIDE: You9ll receive not only the rationale, the how, and the logistics of planning and pulling off a missions trip, but _ and this is the genius of the leader9s guide _ 4 PRE-TRIP TEACHING SESSIONS that will help your students _ *Assess their EXPECTATIONS, their fears, their motivations. *Adjust their PERCEPTIONS of the culture they9ll be working in. *Improve their emotional and spiritual STAMINA for living for a week or a month in a very different world from their own. *Practice the skills and ATTITUDES (teamwork, servanthood, Christ-centeredness) they9ll need for a missions trip. And to make sure your trip9s goals are accomplished and the benefits stick around for a long haul, you9ll also receive 2 POST-TRIP SESSIONS that will help you DEBRIEF your students, ease them back into their own worlds, CELEBRATE with them, and make missions and ministry part of their EVERYDAY LIVES WITH JESUS. What9s more, in these pre- and post-trip teaching sessions are a variety of ACTIVITIES processing points creative PRAYER IDEAS take-home applications BIBLE STUDIES relevant to mission tripping TALK OUTLINES that both instruct and inspire and lots of sessions options you can tailor to your own HIGH SCHOOLERS OR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS.
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Missionary Zeal And Institutional Control
$41.50Add to cartIn the historical literature on mission, this book stands out for its detailed examination of the of the organization dynamics that gave shape-and brought enduring success-to the Evangelical Missionary Scoiety at Basel. A first-rate account of the early Basel Mission on the Gold Coast of West Africa (present-day Ghana), this volume takes readers inside the mission itself, revealing its dynamic, though sometimes contradictory, methods of motivation and discipline and how they impacted effective evangelism both at home and abroad. Working from archival records, Jon Miller details the collaboration across class lines that made the mission possible, and he shows how basic pietist beliefs about authority and obedience were the source of both the mission’s strengths and its most serious internal weaknesses. Also included are two dozen photographs, a foreword by Richard V. Pierard, and an afterword by Paul Jenkins.
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By Faith As I Recall
$15.49Add to cartThis book is not intended to be a biography, though some portions of it contain personal information. The emphasis and the intention of the writing is to acquaint the reader with the people and the society where the family ministered in Liberia. It is sincerely hoped that new insight and apprectation of these people will be found in this brief volume.
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1 More Mountain To Climb
$20.99Add to cartThis book takes the reader on an exciting missionary adventure that spans more than 50 years. W. Paul and Dorothy L. Smith share their hopes, fears, frustrations, triumphs, and failures as they struggled to learn a complex tonal language, create an alphabet, and translate the New Testament into a dialect of the Chinantec Indian language of Mexico. Within these pages, you’ll find romance, marriage, family, faith, tribulations, pathos, humor, suspense, murder, triumphs of faith, and lives changed by the Gospel.
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Christians And Missionaries In India
$41.50Add to cart392 pages
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These studies explore the significant, yet often contested, impact of Christian missions around the world. Bringing together monographs by established and emerging scholars, collections of essays on themes in the history of missions, and new editions of seminal primary texts, this sereis provides rich source material for studying the relation between religion and culture. Realizing that many more studies, yielding deeper and wider understandings, of many different Christian communities in India can be written, each chapter here is an attempt to address some particular aspect of cultural cross-contact and communication with special refernece to Christians in India. Subjects address range from histories of Sanskrit grammar and modern scientific knowledge to histories of populist Pentecostalism, Urdu polemis, and Tamil poetry. -
Christians Cultural Interactions And Indias Religious Traditions
$41.50Add to cartChristianity has long been one of India’s religious traditions, but the extent to which the faith has influenced Indian society and culture has never been well documented. This important book is the first to do so.
A group of historians, missiologists, and religion scholars examines the fascinating but little known history of missionary Christianity in India, showing how it has played a significant role in the development of modern India at every level. Chapters deal with the interaction between Christianity and India’s “high culture,” with aspects of conversion among tribal people and outcasts beneath the hierarchy of Hindu society, and with the development of Indian churches and their relation to the wider culture.
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Vanishing Ministry In The 21st Century (Revised)
$18.99Add to cart1. The Mess Of Reality
2. The Devilish Diversion
3. The Company Of The Committed
4. The Road Back
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Tom Brokaw labeled them the “Greatest Generation,” and for decades the vision and commitment of the World War II generation have changed the world. Christian ministries have flourished, and the gospel has circled the globe because of the lifelong service of the faithful believers in that generation. But times – and generations have changed. Today’s inheritors of the Great Commission are not signing up for vocations in Christian service at anywhere near the rate of their immediate predecessors. Given this alarming trend – coupled with aggressive evangelization by other world religions – what’s the future of the worldwide movement of the gospel message? In this updated and revised edition, Dr. Kroll provides a careful overview and able assessment of the condition of Christian ministries. He offers a penetrating look at the current state of vocational Christian ministry and the changes we’re making – and not making – around the world. He gives praise for progress made during the last decade and issues a renewed call for ongoing change. -
UnFreezing Moves : Following Jesus Into The Mission Field
$22.99Add to cartAt the dawn of the third millennium two kinds of churches fill the Western landscape: stuck and unstuck. Most Protestant congregations are stuck in the muck and mire of their institutions with little or no movement toward joining Jesus on the mission field. To these “Controllers,” faithfulness means supporting their church and keeping it open. For churches to be faithful to their God-given mission, they need Dreamers who are freed from their slavery to their institutions, freed to live for others on the mission field, and emancipated to function in a constantly changing world. The same can be said for denominations. This book focuses on how to place disciple – making at the core of a church’s identity. He describes four spheres of congregational culture, and he shows how the Dreams can thaw their congregation by using Nine Unfreezing Moves that will unstick any church.
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Journey To Jesus
$29.99Add to cartIn this book, Robert Webber proposes an alternative: a model of worship that emphasizes the fact that those who come to worship are at very different points in their spiritual lives. Rather than ignore these differences or gear all worship to those already established in the faith, Webber argues that churches should openly recognize the stages of faith through which their members are passing, structure their worship and ministry to celebrate these stages, and openly encourage Christians to move from spiriual infancy to maturity in Christ.
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Encountering Religious Pluralism
$35.99Add to cartThere’s nothing new about religious diversity. What has changed is the way we think about world religions. Netland examines the emerging pluralistic worldview now challenging traditional Christian faith and missions. His incisive analysis of the nature of religious truth gives you criteria for evaluating rival claims—and provides a framework for an evangelical theology of religions.
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Hope For The World
$28.00Add to cartHope for the world represents a new resolve and commitment to the global context for the ministry of the church. Missions, evangelism, and the theological education too often seem ill prepared to face the hopelessness commonly shared by both the northern and southern hemispheres. The older patterns of ministry, still unwittingly triumphalistic, cannot cope with the deeply rooted spiritual crisis that is manifested economically, plitically and militarily in the globalization of wealth.
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English Teaching As Christian Mission
$19.99Add to cart1. A Christian Vocation In Its Own Right
2. A Special Role For Christian English Teachers?
3. Learning As Witness
4. English Teaching As Witness
5. English Teaching As Ministry
6. English Teaching As Christian Service
7. English Teaching Toward Peacemaking And Intercultural Understanding
8. English Teachers As Bridges Between Churches
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What does it mean to teach English in the name of Christ? With thousands of Christians teaching English as a second or foreign language in hundreds of locations around the world, this has become as urgent question.Some Christian English teachers may consider their teaching simply as a means of service (combined with a bit of adventure). Others may see it only as a mean of getting a visa into a closed country for purposes of evangelism. Don Snow’s well-thought out details of how to bear witness, engage in ministry, serve the poor, contribute to peace, and build bridges of understanding between churches clearly show the special role in Christian missions that Christian English teachers have.
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When The Saints Go Marching Out
$29.00Add to cartThis book challenges churches to see all their members as potential missionaries, and so to return full circle to the New Testament church model of ministry. Beals founds his practical advice about how to go about this in Trinitarian theology. Section One describes congregation-based mission; Section Two explains how to mobilize resources for mission creatively. Section Three suggests ways to train and care for volunteers, and Section Four discusses expanding mission once outreach has been established.
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How To Reach Secular People
$23.99Add to cartHOW TO REACH SECULAR PEOPLE
How do you communicate the Christian faith to the growing numbers of “secular” people in the western world? Pastors and Sunday school teachers who teach the faith week by week to professing Christians experience their assignment as increasingly difficult; so how do you communicate Christianity’s meaning to people who do not darken church doors, who have no church background, who possess no traditional Christian vocabulary, who do not know what we are talking about? The question presses us with greater intensity as we realize that the countries and populations of the western world have become “mission fields” once again.
The following pages contain a mere fraction of what we will one day know about effective mission in the western world. But they contain enough insight from communicators, congregations, and converts to help 99 percent of our churches to triple the number of new Christians they help into faith and thereby become contagious movements in their communities.
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Missions : Gods Heart For The World (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartBeginning in Genesis the Bible is the story of God pursuing his people. This brief guide gives us a survey of how God reaches out to the world—through Jesus and through human ambassadors like us. In this guide you will discover your part in God’s plan.
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Mack And Leeanns Guide To Short Term Missions
$25.99Add to cartHow can you and your team prepare for a short-term missions trip? These veteran leaders of trips all over the globe share field-tested advice nobody should go without. You’ll find practical tips, hard-won lessons, and hilarious stories about learning to trust God, your hosts, and yourself; growing a servant spirit; dealing with re-entry; and more.
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Azusa Street
$16.99Add to cart6 Chapters
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The great Azusa Street revival of the early 1900s began in a humble, run-down mission, with its makeshift “pews” that had been fashioned from planks and empty nail kegs. From this simple setting arose a powerful move of God that swept across the country and around the world. Is it possible to experience the same kind of life-changing revival today? Discover through Frank Bartleman’s eyewitness account what brought revival then and what will bring revival now. God is still looking for obedient hearts who long for His presence. Will you be a part of the coming revival? -
To Understand The World To Save The World
$36.95Add to cartChristian missionaries often head out to the field with a single assessment of the human condition: Humans are fallen, sinful creatures in need of salvation. The reality of working in the field, however, challenges this theological assumption. In this provocative book the author offers an overview of the interface between missiology and the social sciences, such as anthropology and sociology. While the relationship between the two disciplines has often been superficial and uncritical, they have much to offer one another. The author’s insightful book explores the possiblities and the limits of the conversation between these two fields.
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Saint Lukes Missiology
$13.99Add to cartThis book touches on the fundamental contributions of Luke’s two-volume work revealing how a small Jewish sect became a worldwide movement in one generation. It recognizes the essential unity of Luke-Acts by showing how Luke prepares for the book of Acts. Luke’s story of how the gospel moves from the particular to the universal gives insights on the missiological dynamics of early Christianity and provides models for the church and missions today.
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Missionary Methods
$24.99Add to cartProfoundly biblical, Allen’s methods are drawn from a scrupulous examination of St. Paul’s own principles for missionary work. The strategy of the apostolic method with its unwavering belief and trust in the Holy Spirit indwelling converts and the churches of which they are members, is as relevant today as it was in the first formative years of the church.
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Out Of The Comfort Zone
$14.99Add to cartRespected missionary and Christian leader George Verwer sums up his life experience with mission work-as a sender, doer, and trainer-and talks straight about what is really needed in missions in the 21st century. After forty-three years as leader of Operation Mobilization, one of the top missions organizations in the world, George Verwer declares the twenty-first century is no time for business as usual. No longer can or should mission agencies “compete” against each other for territories or funds. No longer should they be dogmatic on minor theological differences. To get the job done, mission workers and organizations need a grace-awakened approach. In Out of the Comfort Zone, Verwer identifies the key elements for working together to reach today’s world for Christ.
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Go And Make Disciples
$17.99Add to cart280 Pages
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This book is especially helpful for adult study groups in the church, persons preparing for short term mission experiences, and college level introductory courses in missions. The excellant organization, well selected quotations for missions scholars, coupled with helpful review and discussion questions make this volume ideal for group learning. -
Witnesses To All The World (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartGod has always commissioned his people to be a blessing and witness to others. From Genesis to Revelation his love for the nations is clear. This study guide will enable you to see the world through God’s eyes and will motivate you to get involved in the awesome and joyful task of worldwide outreach. 9 Studies for Individuals or groups included. Harold Shaw Publishers.
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Continuing Conversion Of The Church
$29.99Add to cartAsserting that Western society is now “a very different, very difficult mission field,” Guder charts the church’s historical shift away from evangelism, examines cultural barriers to evangelical ministry, and presents a missional theology for contemporary believers. His practical insights are sure to spark lively discussion among those who take the Great Commission seriously.
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Urban Christian : Effective Ministry In Todays Urban World
$28.99Add to cart1. From The Cowsheds To Chicago
2. The Lord Is Shaking Up The World
3. We Never Did It That Way Before
4. A Theology As Big As The City
5. Building Decision-Making Muscle
6. Into The Community
7. Worship Work And Witness
8. Bringing Up A Family In The City
9. Networking The World
10. Do It YourselfAdditional Info
For over twenty years Bakke and his family have worked with and loved the people of today’s cities, bringing a message of faith and hope. He knows how the city works and how it can be used to the advantage of the gospel. He knows how people hurt too, and he knows how Christianity can heal and make whole. Now he offers us the basic building blocks we need to love this young, rootless, mobile, media-tuned population. Here is practical, time-tested wisdom on what the church can and is doing in worship, work and witness. Bakke’s biblical perspective is enriched by years of study and worldwide travel. He believes the church can and must train people to live with and minister to the hurting rich and the hurting poor of the city. -
Speaking Of Jesus
$26.99Add to cartSpeaking of Jesus – How to Tell Your Friends the Best News They Will Ever Hear – will open your eyes to how ordinary people in commonplace situations can use everyday language to reveal the simple news about Jesus. A practical and helpful books on how to speak about Jesus so people will listen. If you worry about your unbelieving friends, read this book. It could change your life and theirs.
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Inside Out : Worship In An Age Of Mission
$22.00Add to cartApplying theology to worship and to the practice of liturgy, this innovative work reclaims the importance of word and sacrament as the center for the church’s life and witnesses. Drawing connections between liturgy and life, this collection deepens worship-life by helping congregations “to talk with each other about the ways we encounter the living God in worship;” and by strengthening “skills that enhance worship.” Worship in an Age of Mission addresses pastoral liturgical and sacramental issues at work in congregations today and offers a comprehensive vision for congregational life centered around word and sacrament.
