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How does Christ call his people to engage the societies, cultures, and politics of the nations they call home? From prioritizing patriotism over faith to withdrawing from the public sphere entirely, the struggle to navigate the intersection of an earthly and heavenly kingdom remains an ongoing challenge for Christians around the world.
Bridging cultures and time periods, Dr. Surya Harefa brings Abraham's Kuyper's ecclesiology to bear on questions...
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Why pray for a nation?Jesus gave us an assignment to go and make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:18-20)The Bible instructs us to pray for all people (1 Timothy 2:1-4)We are Christ's ambassadors to the people of all nations (2 Corinthians 5:20) When you read this short ebook, you will:Become a prayer ambassador for a nation and let God guide your choice for a specific prayer nationEnlarge your vision of what God is doing in the worldDiscover hands-on...
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Le Frère Zach a défini son rle dans l'œuvre de Dieu et a fonctionné essentiellement en tant que chef d'équipe. Il comprenait l'œuvre de Dieu et le leadership comme le fait de recevoir de Dieu Sa volonté et Ses méthodes pour accomplir Son œuvre, mais s'attendait aussi à Lui pour recevoir les hommes et les femmes qui seraient Ses ouvriers dans cette œuvre. Ces derniers sont devenus ses co-ouvriers. Il était leur chef d'équipe.Certains de...
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A long-awaited culmination of scholarship by a pioneer of missiology and global Christianity
The history of the missions is complex and fraught. Though modern missions began with European colonialism, the outcome was a largely non-Western global Christianity. Highly esteemed scholar Andrew Walls explores every facet of the movement, including its history, theory, and future.
Walls locates the birth of the Protestant missionary movement in the West...
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This book explains who is qualified to plant churches and how to go about the work of church planting.The author highlights that a church planter who is a lover of the world has no message to preach because the love of the Father is not in Him. The man with a corrupt conscience will plant a church laden with people of corrupt conscience. The man who is desperate to know God will produce spiritual children who are desperate to know God. A leader who...
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Il existe les desseins généraux de Dieu et les desseins distincts de Dieu qu'Il confie à des personnes spécifiques, à des groupes de personnes, à des communautés et même à un Mouvement Spirituel. Ces deux appels sont documentés dans les Écritures et servent l'économie des desseins de Dieu.À Zach Fomum et à ceux que Dieu a appelés avec lui, une économie distincte de l'Évangile avait été confiée, laquelle s'est traduite en un but...
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A balanced, accessible, and thorough history of Jingjiao, the first Christian church in China
Many people assume that the first introduction of Christianity to the Chinese was part of nineteenth-century Western imperialism. In fact, Syriac-speaking Christians brought the gospel along the Silk Road into China in the seventh century. Glen L. Thompson introduces readers to the fascinating history of this early Eastern church, referred to as Jingjiao,...
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Penelope Prior, the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries, grew up in an Armenian community in northern Persia. During the Great War, she and her family returned to the US. But as soon as the war ended, a call was issued for volunteers with the languages and experience required to bring life-saving food and medical aid to the vast numbers of war victims and refugees who had fled to the Armenian Caucasus.
Hungry, sick, homeless, and desperate, the...
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The Heart Surgery of the Potential Minister of the Gospel presents a series of lectures by Professor Zacharias Tanee Fomum to Missionaries and would-be missionaries at the School of Knowing and Serving God (SKSG)-The Missionary Training Academy of Christian Missionary Fellowship International, Yaounde, Cameroon.Drawing from his own life experience and spiritual history with God, Professor Fomum, addressing specific co-workers, explained the kind of...
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Que signifie réellement être rempli du Saint-Esprit ? Comment les croyants peuvent-ils expérimenter la puissance transformatrice de l'Esprit dans leurs vies ?Ce livre, Dans la puissance d'un autre est un trésor de sagesse divine et de perspicacité, né de la relation intime de l'auteur avec le Saint-Esprit. Bien que Z.T. Fomum ait souvent reconnu sa fragilité humaine, sa vie et son ministère ont été transformés par la puissance du Saint-Esprit....
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"How can I determine which spiritual gifts I have?" Wrong question! Paul writes about the spiritual gifts in his letters as capacities of communities rather than individuals, and he never makes a definitive, definable list. The gifts are fluid and dynamic, refusing to be pinned down. "How can we start to describe how the Spirit works through us?" is a much more useful question. This book helps you answer that question, and then applies principles...
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Few historians immersed themselves in their topics like bestselling noted author Ernle Bradford. Specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval topics, Bradford was an enthusiastic sailor himself and spent almost thirty years sailing the Mediterranean, where many of his acclaimed books are set. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II, finishing as the first lieutenant of a destroyer, and afterward worked as an editor and correspondent for...
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Ian Tyrrell is Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His books include Transnational Nation and Historians in Public.
Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association...
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¡Bienvenida, mujer! Me complace presentarte mi libro "Mujer, avanza y conquista tu tiempo ya llegó". Soy el Dr. José De La Rosa, y en este libro, te invito a explorar cómo puedes tomar el control de tu tiempo para alcanzar tus metas y vivir una vida plena y satisfactoria.Como médico, he tenido la oportunidad de trabajar con muchas mujeres en diferentes etapas de sus vidas. Una cosa que he notado es que, a menudo, las mujeres sienten que tienen...
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"I'll do anything--I'll even preach!"
As a boy, Dave cut a deal with God to save his life. Decades later, Dave and his friends are on his final street-preaching trip. "Jesus came for all, so we should go to all!" With that attitude, Dave fights spiritual resistance as he and his young family endeavor to leave the life they've known and join a team of missionaries stationed in an increasingly militant Islamic country. "God's calling is clear," Dave's...
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Befriend narrates a personal experience of the author with the formation of a faith-based nonprofit in health services. It combines real-life examples with theories from several disciplines to describe the nature and role of nonprofit in a community. The book argues that faith-based nonprofits create spaces of hospitality and inclusion for diverse humanity. They are poised to teach practices of friendship based on the friendship of Trinity and personal...
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Negarle a una persona el derecho a saber algo que es cierto es inmoral y posiblemente la mayor tragedia de todas. Esto significa que, puesto que Dios, Jesús y la Escritura son verdaderos entonces retener esa información es simplemente erróneo. Rice Broocks trae un libro clave sobre cómo lograr que la necesidad lógica de proclamar el Evangelio, se convierta en nuestra máxima prioridad.Así como el libro, God's Not Dead, establecía el razonamiento...
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In the decades after World War II, Protestant missionaries abroad were a topic of vigorous public debate. From religious periodicals and Sunday sermons to novels and anthropological monographs, public conversations about missionaries followed a powerful yet paradoxical line of reasoning, namely that people abroad needed greater autonomy from U.S. power and that Americans could best tell others how to use their freedom. In The Gospel of Freedom and...
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In this deeply personal account of her first year as a missionary, Elisabeth Elliot shares what it was like to work in the jungles of Ecuador with a small group of women, bringing the Word of God to the indigenous tribe that martyred her husband. With fascinating detail, she captures the stark realities of life among these complex people and reflects upon the "strange ashes" that can result when an act of obedience is passed through the fires of God's...
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'I came from a traditional Buddhist family. When I came to Australia to study in high school in 1971, I was an atheist. One person tried to share with me
the gospel of Jesus Christ. I had so many questions for him, but he couldn't answer them. ... [I came to know the Lord] through the ministry of OCF, especially through Lim Kim Bew and his wife, Judy, who are ex-OCFers. They have been very good in reaching out to overseas students, opening their
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