The greatest problem facing mainline churches today is not declining numbers, shifting social allegiances, or confused leadership. It is loss of vision. This bold yet constructive book urges pastors to see their congregations as real expressions of "the body of Christ" and suggests ways to revise -- and energize -- their ministries based on this ...
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace at Stanford University was founded by former president and world famous humanitarian Herbert Hoover to furthur the cause of world peace and comity. Its longtime director tells the fascinating story of the Institution and the stellar, ideologically varied cast of scholars and writers who studied and ...
Although he is perhaps better known as a poet, Duncan Campbell Scott's many short stories are worthy of attention for their quiet power and enduring readability. This volume brings together a selection of stories that range across many diverse settings: a typical village of nineteenth-century Quebec, a genteel household in the Ottawa of the 1870s, ...
This book is a new translation of Paul's Treatise to the Ephesians into Professional, Contemporary, American English, written for professionals who finally want a no-nonsense answer to the meaning of the significance of their life. It penetrates the ossified "code language" of the Ecclesiastical, Medieval, British/Latin English that has obscured ...
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