Church Age

Have you ever wondered how and perhaps why God, our Heavenly Father can love us even when we know we still make mistakes and don't always trust as much as we would like to? This book gives some insights, encouragement and comfort into this and more! This book can be used for the reader to receive powerful help from God, it also can be used as a resource to help others. In its pages you will find special assistance in dealing with forgiveness, accepting others, accepting yourself and allowing the God who really cares for you to come to your aid. The teachings in this book come from years of ...

Pride Horizon church has been my family's place of worship for as long as I can remember. I've never visited Pastor James privately in his office, but today he's insisted I stay behind after church. Pastor has new teaching for me now that I'm eighteen--a rite of passage that will show my devotion to my leaders, to the church, and to the Lord. A rite of passage all the men of Pride Horizon have gone through before me. Pastor leads the way, by taking off both sets of his shirts and hanging them on the rack behind his desk. Now all that's left is for me to prove I have what it takes to be his ...

We are rapidly approaching the end of this age. How will it end? This age is going to end in a great apostasy. When the name of Jesus Christ was honored, and the church was His temple, the forces of evil were restrained. But in our day, that has changed. The name of Jesus is no longer honored by nations, and the church has compromised the faith. The forces of evil are therefore reestablishing themselves in this world, and in the church. God will never fail to have His witness through His people. Thus, despite the great spiritual shaking that is going to take place in these last days, and ...

Released the day India landed on the moon, August 23, 2023 The Armenians of India: Merchants of Empires from the Age of Vishnu and Home Again, Second Edition, tells the story of the 2300 year relationship between India and its Armenians. The diaspora of Armenian merchants in India were at the center of a global trading network and at the center of their lives were their churches which remain as monuments to the diaspora in India. The Second Edition contains updated information on freemason Sir Catchick Paul Chater not just the greatest Armenian philantrphist and business leader of India and...

Gordon Smith is passionate about the need for capable, mature leaders to navigate and respond to a changing society. In this book, he draws on his extensive experience as a university president, pastor, and international speaker to open a multidisciplinary conversation about the competencies and capacities essential for today's leaders.

In the long, hot summer of 1995, 22-year-old Alice Lang rents a caravan on a holiday park on the outskirts of the lively holiday resort of Severn Sands. She befriends Marnie, a shy, damaged little girl whose father is the park's caretaker and whose mother died a few months earlier. Will, whose mother runs the bar, falls in love with Alice and is unbearably jealous of anyone else she sees. Tensions rise until one evening Alice disappears from her caravan. She's never seen again, and only her scarlet dress is found washed up on the shore.

Cool secrets exist throughout God's wondrous world as Christian kids read about: 1. Tricky Tadpoles 2. Wise Cracks 3. Wolf Wonders 4. Tornadoes 5. Open Your Eyes 6. Life and Bubble Gum 7. Word Birds 8. All Puffed Up 9. River Of Miracles 10. All People 11. Underground Fire 12. New Again 13. Perfect Vision 14. A Light In The Dark 15. All About Alligators 16. Goose Bumps 17. Wonderful Water 18. All In God’s Time 19. Under Attack 20. Patience Pays 21. Underwater Singers 22. The Unlovely Lobster 23. The Sea That’s A Lake 24. The Human Body—A Living Miracle 25. Off The Bench and Into The Game

Churches and their leaders have innovation fever. Innovation seems exciting—a way to enliven tired institutions, embrace creativity, and be proactive—and is a superstar of the business world. But this focus on innovation may be caused by an obsession with contemporary relevance, creativity, and entrepreneurship that inflates the self, lacks theological depth, and promises burnout. In this follow-up to Churches and the Crisis of Decline, leading practical theologian Andrew Root delves into the problems of innovation.

Have you ever struggled when someone challenges your faith in God? Maybe you don't know what to say, or you don't understand their objections--or maybe you just aren't as prepared as you want to be. This book is designed just for you! Using his own personal studies with others, as well as sharing expert testimony from others, Mark Tabata wants to help you become a great defender of the truth that God exists! Brought to you by your friends at Cobb Publishing

Loveday Cardew prefers books to people, and her job in a York bookshop is her refuge. If you look carefully, you might see the first lines of the novels she loves the most tattooed on her skin, but there are secrets Loveday will never share. Into the bookshop come a poet, a lover, a friend and three mysterious deliveries, each of which stirs unsettling memories she wants to forget. Turning the pages of her past will be the hardest thing Loveday has ever done. Can she trust those around her?

In this groundbreaking, inspiring book, Robin R. Meyers, the senior minister of Oklahoma City’s Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ, shows how listeners can move from a theology of obedience to one of consequence. He argues that we need to stop seeing our actions as a means for pleasing a distant God and rediscover how God has empowered us to care for ourselves and the world. Drawing on stories from his decades of active ministry, Meyers captures how the struggles of ordinary people hint at how we can approach faith as a radical act of trust in a God who is all around us.

Reverend Smith is responsible for leading Pride Horizon Church in communion. Every Sunday he leads the congregation in the ritual of taking the body and the blood of Christ. My next step to Holy Ordinance at Pride Horizon is getting a lesson from the Reverend in what it really means to take the body, to come closer to your church leaders, and thereby closer to Christ. Reverend Smith takes me to the communion room where the wine is kept. He pulls it out, takes a sip, and commands me to take it from his mouth and into mine. Then I notice something in his pants, also begging me to take it in ...

He’s big city, she’s small town. He’s a fast-paced businessman, she’s a slowed-down artist. He loves the night life, she loves the quiet life. He’s wealthy, she... well, isn’t. Can such opposites make love work? Successful Austin CEO Isaiah Williams rarely gives himself the luxury of time off. He thrives on the buzz of making deals and signing multi-million dollar contracts. But spending the holidays in a small Oregon town with his former business partner will let him finalize the purchase of his friend’s share of their business. Plus, even better, he'll get to spend more time...

The true queen of Weirandale has returned. Cerulia has done the impossible and regained the throne. However, she's inherited a council of traitors, a realm in chaos, and a war with Oromondo. Now a master of her Gift, to return order to her kingdom she will use all she has learned - humility, leadership, compassion, selflessness, and the necessity of ruthlessness.

'Have Yourself An Eschatological Christmas' is a short book on a big topic. The advent of Christ was, quite literally, a history changing moment when the Triune God decided to act. The Word becoming flesh changed everything, and it certainly changes the rest of history as we move towards the glorious promise of resurrection life. In this book, Dr. Jason Garwood explores the contours and themes of eschatology and how the coming of Christ plays a role in God's great purpose for the world. Warning: This books contains hope...hope for the world, hope for the nations, and hope for God's people ...

Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has always believed in using her tongue as her weapon—even when it gets her into trouble. After cursing at a classmate, her father forces her to volunteer at their church with Pastor Johnson. But Pastor Johnson isn’t the holy man everyone thinks he is. The same voice Amina uses to fight falls quiet the night she is sexually assaulted by Pastor Johnson. After that, her life starts to unravel: her father is frustrated that her grades are slipping, and her best friend and boyfriend don’t understand why the once loud and proud girl is now quiet and distant.

Time can heal all wounds, but not all wounds are visible. Barely surviving her ordeal in Oromondo and scarred by its Fire Spirit, Cerulia is taken to a recovery house in Wyeland to heal from the trauma. In a ward with others who are all bound to serve each other, she discovers that not all scars are visible, and dying can be done with grace and acceptance.

One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy’s life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim’s brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, looks back.

Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed as worrying exclusively about the erosion of their freedom to assemble and to follow their convictions, while not seeming as concerned about publicly defending the rights of Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and atheists to do the same. Andrew T. Walker, an emerging Southern Baptist public theologian, argues for a robust Christian ethic of religious liberty that helps the church defend religious freedom for everyone in a pluralistic society.

When 11-year-old Tino isn't sitting quietly in school, he's either visiting his dying mother in the hospital or making sure his UFO-obsessed father eats dinner. A loner among his peers, Tino is surprised when Omar, the strongest boy in school, befriends him out of the blue. Will Tino's intrigue outweigh his self-imposed isolation?