{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Church history in plain language \/ Bruce L. Shelley ; [foreword by Scott A. Wenig].","author":"Shelley, Bruce L.","isbn":"9781418530051","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Thomas Nelson"},"datePublished":"2008","inLanguage":"English","description":"The age of Jesus and the apostles, 6 BC -- AD 70 -- 1. Away with the King : the Jesus movement -- 2. Wineskins : old and new : the gospel to the Gentiles -- The age of catholic Christianity, 70 -- 312 -- 3. Only worthless people : Catholic Christianity -- 4. If the Tiber floods : the persecution of Christians -- 5. Arguing about the event : the rise of orthodoxy -- 6. The rule of books : the formation of the Bible -- 7. The school for sinners : the power of bishops -- 8. Apostles to intellectuals : the Alexandrians -- The age of the Christian Roman empire, 312 -- 590 -- 9. Laying her sceptre down : the conversion of the empire -- 10. Splitting important hairs : the doctrine of the Trinity -- 11. Emmanuel! : Christ in the creeds -- 12. Exiles from life : the beginnings of monasticism -- 13. The sage of the ages : Augustine -- 14. Peter as 'pontifex maximus' : the beginnings of the papacy -- 15. Somewhere between heaven and earth : Eastern Orthodoxy -- 16. Bending the necks of victors : mission to the barbarians -- The Christian Middle Ages, 590 -- 1517 -- 17. God's consul : Gregory the Great -- 18. The search for unity : Charlemagne and Christendom -- 19. Lifted in a mystic manner : the papacy and the crusader -- 20. The nectar of learning : scholasticism -- 21. A song to Lady Poverty : the apostolic life-style -- 22. Sleeping men and the law of necessity : the decline of the papacy -- 23. Judgment in the process of time : Wyclif and Hus -- The age of Reformation, 1517 -- 1648 -- 24. A wild boar in the vineyard : Martin Luther and Protestantism -- 25. Radical discipleship : The Anabaptists -- 26. Thrust into the game : John Calvin -- 27. The curse upon the crown : the Church of England -- 28. 'Another man' at Manresa : the Catholic Reformation -- 29. Opening the rock : America and Asia -- 30. The rule of the saints : Puritanism -- 31. Unwilling to die for an old idea : denominations -- The age of reason and revival, 1648 -- 1789 -- 32. Aiming at the foundations : the cult of reason -- 33. The heart and its reasons : Pascal and the Pietists -- 34. A brand from the burning : Wesley and Methodism -- 35. A new order of the ages : the Great Awakening -- The age of progress, 1789 -- 1914 -- 36. The restoration of fortresses : Catholicism in the age of progress -- 37. A new social frontier : nineteenth-century England -- 38. To earth's remotest people : Protestant missions -- 39. The destiny of a nation : a Christian America -- 40. A bridge for intelligent moderns : Protestant liberalism -- 41. Nothing to lose but chains : the social crisis -- The age of ideologies, 1914- -- 42. Graffiti on a wall of shame : twentieth-century ideologies -- 43. Rootless immigrants in a sick society : American Evangelicals -- 44. New creeds for breakfast : the ecumenical movement -- 45. The medicine of mercy : Roman Catholicism : Vatican II -- 46. Time for a reverse flow : Christianity in the Third World -- 47. Politics is a noble calling : Christianity in America's me generation -- 48. The global village : Christianity on the world scene -- 49. Winds from afar : Christianity at the birth of the third millenn\n\nPublished in: Nashville, Tenn.\n\nPhysical description: 532P","bookEdition":"3RD EDITN","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Church planting in the African-American community \/ Joe S. Ratliff and Michael J. Cox.","author":"Ratliff, Joe S.; Cox, M.J.","isbn":"0805460713","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Broadman Press"},"datePublished":"1993","inLanguage":"English","description":"Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-111).\n\nPublished in: Nashville, Tenn.\n\nPhysical description: 111 pages ; 21 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Classic sermons on world evangelism \/ compiled by Warren W. Wiersbe.","author":"Wiersbe, W.W.","isbn":"0825440882","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Kregel Publications"},"datePublished":"1999","inLanguage":"English","description":"Kregel classic sermons series\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Mich.\n\nPhysical description: 155 pages ; 22 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Cultivating wholeness : a guide to care and counseling in faith communities \/ Margaret Zipse Kornfeld ; for Blanton-Peale Institute.","author":"Kornfeld, Margaret Zipse","isbn":"0826412327","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"THE CONTINUUM PUB."},"datePublished":"1998","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: In a time of change -- The ground of community -- Caregiver, counselor : yourself as gardener -- A guide to facilitating change -- Preparing for community care, counseling, and referral -- Change supported by the solution-focused method -- Care and counseling at life's many beginnings -- Care and counseling at life's many endings -- Care and counseling in life's daily round -- Tending yourself.\r\nAbstract : Commissioned by the Blanton-Peale Institute, Cultivating Wholeness is a practical, comprehensive, contemporary guide to community care and counseling. Margaret Zipse Kornfeld, a pastoral psychotherapist for almost thirty years, focuses on wholeness, the dynamics change, an inclusive understanding of spirituality, the caregiver\/ counselor, and on community as not merely the context for healing but also the means by which healing happens.\n\nPublished in: New York\n\nPhysical description: xx, 377 pages ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Daughters of Islam : building bridges with Muslim women \/ Miriam Adeney.","author":"Adeney, Miriam","isbn":"083082345X","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"InterVarsity Press"},"datePublished":"2002","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \tPreface -- Why Muslim Women Come to Christ -- Every Woman Is an Exception -- Arab Sisters -- What Is Liberation for Muslim Women? -- Iranian Sisters -- Family : Sex, Singles, Husbands, Children -- Southeast Asian Sisters -- Singing Our Theology -- African Sisters -- Money Matters : Who Pays? -- When You Seek Me with All Your Heart -- Notes.\r\n\r\nAbstract: \tMiriam Adeney introduces you to women such as Ladan, Khadija, Fatma and others from around the world. You'll learn about their lives, questions and hopes. And you'll gain new understanding of why Muslim women come to Christ.--From publisher's description.\n\nPublished in: Downers Grove, Ill.\n\nPhysical description: 224 pages ; 21 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Decision making & the will of God : a Biblical alternative to the traditional view \/ Garry Friesen, with J. Robin Maxson.","author":"Friesen, G.; Maxson, J. R.","isbn":"0880700246","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Multnomah Press"},"datePublished":"1980","inLanguage":"English","description":"Introduction : Is it worth another look? -- Part 1. You have heard it said : the traditional view presented. On marriage and missions -- Hitting the bull's eye -- Reading the road signs -- Letting the umpire rule -- Part 2. The case of the missing \"dot\" : the traditional view critiqued. Does God have three wills? -- Does scripture teach the \"dot\"? -- More doubts about the \"dot\" -- Impressions are impressions -- Part 3. The way of wisdom : the wisdom view explained. Thy Word is truth -- Free to choose -- Competent to choose -- God only wise -- God's sovereign will and decision making -- Guidance : a biblical model -- Guidance is personal -- Making a good thing better -- Part 4. Deciding the big ones : the wisdom view applied. Singleness, marriage, and wisdom -- Marriage and wisdom -- The ministry and wisdom -- Missions and wisdom -- Vocation, education, and wisdom -- Giving and wisdom -- Wisdom when Christians differ -- Weaker brothers, Pharisees, and servants -- Conclusion.\n\nPublished in: Portland, Or.\n\nPhysical description: 452 pages ; 23 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Developing a strategy for missions : a biblical, historical, and cultural introduction \/ John Mark Terry, J.D. Payne.","author":"Terry, John Mark; Payne, Jervis, David","isbn":"9780801039539","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group"},"datePublished":"2013","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \tStrategy defined -- The crafting of mission strategy -- Contemporary objections to missionary strategy -- Strategic planning in biblical perspective -- Missiological principles for strategy development -- The apostle Paul's missionary strategy -- Missions strategy in the early church -- Roman Catholic strategy -- Pioneer Protestant strategies -- Faith missions strategy -- Mission strategies on the American frontier -- The indigenous mission strategy -- The church growth movement -- Frontier strategies -- Contextualization strategies -- Understanding cultural research -- Developing a people-group profile -- Developing a communication strategy -- Discerning receptivity -- Discerning need -- Visioning for the future -- Forming a team -- Assessing the resources -- Setting goals -- Choosing appropriate methods -- Execution -- Evaluation.\r\n\r\nAbstract: \t\"In this addition to the highly acclaimed Encountering Mission series, two leading missionary scholars offer an up-to-date discussion of missionary strategy that is designed for a global audience. The authors focus on the biblical, missiological, historical, cultural, and practical issues that inform and guide the development of an effective missions strategy. The book includes all the features that have made other series volumes useful classroom tools, such as figures, sidebars, and case studies. Students of global or domestic mission work and mission practitioners will value this new resource\"--Publisher description.\r\n\r\nOther Notes \tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-275) and indexes.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Michigan\n\nPhysical description: x, 287 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Dialectics of evangelization : a critical examination of Methodist evangelization of the Mende people in Sierra Leone \/ Sahr John Yambasu.","author":"Yambasu, S. J.","isbn":"9964782861","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Legon Theological Studies Series"},"datePublished":"2002","inLanguage":"English","description":"Other Notes: \tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-283) and index.\n\nPublished in: LEGON, GHANA\n\nPhysical description: xvi, 288 pages ; 21 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Don't waste your life \/ John Piper.","author":"Piper, J.","isbn":"1581344988","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Crossway Books"},"datePublished":"2003","inLanguage":"English","description":"My Search for a Single Passion to Live By -- Breakthrough-the Beauty of Christ, My Joy -- Boasting Only in the Cross, The Blazing Center of the Glory of God -- Magnifying Christ Through Pain and Death -- Risk Is Right-Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It -- The Goal of Life-Gladly Making Others Glad in God -- Living to Prove He Is More Precious Than Life -- Making Much of Christ from 8 to 5 -- The Majesty of Christ in Missions and Mercy-A Plea to This Generation -- My Prayer-Let None Say in the End, \"I've Wasted It.\"\n\nPublished in: Wheaton, Ill.\n\nPhysical description: 190 pages ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Dreams and visions : is God awakening the Muslim world? \/ Tom Doyle, with Greg Webster.","author":"Doyle, Tom; Webster, Greg","isbn":"9780849947209","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Thomas Nelson Publishers"},"datePublished":"2012","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \tPreface: Jesus and Muslims -- Egypt: Hosanna to the King of the Arabs -- Saudi Arabia: The forbidding nation -- Iran: Why Ahmadinejad can't sleep at night -- Jordan: Top honors in honor killings -- Intermission: The great awakening for Muslims -- Syria: Spies in the church -- Iraq: In the beginning, God created Iraq -- Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank: Walls still come down -- Afghanistan: The gates of Hell don't prevail -- America: Loving Muslims to Christ.\r\n\r\nAbstract: \tWhat would you do if Jesus appeared to you and told you to follow Him-- and you're Muslim? Doyle has encountered a staggering number of Muslims who were first introduced to Jesus through a vision or dream so powerful that they eventually turned from their lifelong religion of Islam and embraced Christ as their Savior. Travel to the heart of the Middle East to meet new believers who have truly been touched by Jesus in the most miraculous way, through their nightly dreams.\n\nPublished in: Nashville, Tenn. :\n\nPhysical description: xv, 272 pages ; 22 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}