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Drama ensues when the chaos of the world enters the doors of First Nazareth A.M.E. Church.
Tressie faithfully prays every night that God will send her a thug. It isn't long before her prayers are answered and she meets a handsome ex-convict named Payce Boyd. He is a fine roughneck, everything Tressie imagined and more—that is, until Tressie experiences firsthand the reality of being a thug's girl. Seeking solace and comfort in the...
Tressie faithfully prays every night that God will send her a thug. It isn't long before her prayers are answered and she meets a handsome ex-convict named Payce Boyd. He is a fine roughneck, everything Tressie imagined and more—that is, until Tressie experiences firsthand the reality of being a thug's girl. Seeking solace and comfort in the...
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The planting of churches is a phenomenon that is widespread among charismatic ministers. It was a major activity of the early disciples. Successful church planting, however, demands skill and embraces multiple factors. Dag Heward-Mills, the founder of a worldwide charismatic denomination with three thousand churches, leads us in analyzing the different components of church planting in this book. This is a training manual for any minister who wants...
11) The church
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"A social history of Elizabethan England, focusing on the role religion played in the lives of the both the powerful and the ordinary people who lived in England during the famous monarch's reign: 1558-1603"--Provided by publisher.
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"The American Church is changing in fundamental ways. That's not necessarily a bad thing. The United States is in the middle of an unprecedented spiritual, technological, demographic, political and social transformation -- moving from an older, mostly white, mostly Protestant, religion-friendly society to a younger diverse, multiethnic, pluralistic culture, where no one faith group will have the advantage. At the same time, millions of Americans --...
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Tressie prays every night that God will send her the kind of man who'll set her pulse racing—a thug. Handsome ex-convict Payce is just as fine and exciting as she dreamed. But the reality of being a thug's girl is very different from the fantasy, and soon Tressie turns to her church for comfort, wisdom, and the strength to deal with shocking truths about herself and others...
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"In the tradition of Escape and Stolen innocence, the first look behind the curtains of the Westboro Baptist Church, by a young woman cast out from its clutches"--Provided by the publisher.
Lauren Drain's childhood seemed average American, but when her liberal-minded father set out to film a documentary about the audacious and cultish hate group, the Westboro Baptist Church, he found himself seduced. At 14, Lauren was moved with her family to Kansas...
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Best-selling author and ministry leader Thom S. Rainer drew an exceptional response when he posted a 500-word declaration about church membership to his daily blog. "I Am a Church Member" started a conversation about the attitudes and responsibilities of church members — rather than the functional and theological issues — that previous new member primers all but ignored.
Thoughtfully expanded to book form, I Am a Church Member
20) Back to Church
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People are leaving the Church in record numbers, and they are not being silent about their reasons. With terms like "deconstructing" and "exvangelical" they are letting the Church know that they are unhappy with the direction the Church is taking on any number of issues.
What if the problem is less about the issues and more about how we have chosen to handle them?
For those of us left, this creates an opportunity.
Will we rise to the occasion, or...
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