[PDF] Finding Intentional Community

• Author : James Werning
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release Date : 2017-09-08
• ISBN : 9781532612275

Welcome to the neighborhood of your dreams. Here you'll find great friends. Help and encouragement. Shared meals and resources. Family gatherings. These pages present a parade of homes like you've never imagined . . . neighborhoods, farms, apartments, and houses in which Christians are discovering the key to contentment in community. It's nothing new. Community was God's idea in the garden. Sure, it was twisted by the fall, but the early church's example of healthy community is being re-experienced by many believers today.

• Author : Thomas Bergen
• Publisher : FriesenPress
• Release Date : 2020-08-13
• ISBN : 9781525571336

Emerging adults today feel homeless and alone. How can the church share the good news of a God who offers home and togetherness? Home Together gives a compelling account of a Christian student residence that has shared this good news by engaging emerging adults in a community of discipleship and belonging. For over thirty years, the Menno Simons Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia has supported university students and helped them to grow together in their faith. Using the metaphor of

• Author : Ralph Berry
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release Date : 2022-07-06
• ISBN : 9781684700899

• Author : Tony Payne,Chase Kuhn,Ed Shaw,Graham Beynon,Kristen Birkett,Richard Borgonon,Paul Grimmond,Michael Stead,Phillip Jensen,Rob Smith,Dominic Steele,Elsie Anderson,Karina Brabham,Sam Davidson,Michael Figueira,Steve Gibbins,Dan Gillis,Rachel Huntington
• Publisher : Centre for Christian Living
• Release Date : 2020-03-01
• ISBN : 0987654321XXX

How should we deal with our guilt and shame? How should we think about freedom? What is Spirit-inspired Christian living? How does our understanding of hell affect the way we live the Christian life? The Christian gospel transforms every aspect of our lives. If we don’t understand that, we don’t understand Christianity. The Centre for Christian Living, which operates out of Moore Theological College in Sydney, aims to bring biblical ethics to everyday issues—taking the theology and

• Author : Patrick B. Reyes
• Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
• Release Date : 2021-03-16
• ISBN : 9781646981915

In The Purpose Gap, Patrick Reyes reflects on a family member's death after a long struggle with incarceration and homelessness. As he asks himself why his cousin's life had turned out so differently from his own, he realizes that it was a matter of conditions. While they both grew up in the same marginalized Chicano community in central California, Patrick found himself surrounded by a host of family, friends, and supporters. They created a different narrative for him than the

• Author : Justin Bronson Barringer,Maria Russell Kenney
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release Date : 2022-02-07
• ISBN : 9781498218016

Throughout her academic career, Christine D. Pohl has helped the church rediscover practices that used to be central to its life, like hospitality, community, and friendship. Perhaps best known for her groundbreaking Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition, she has also contributed significantly to discussions on Christian community, feminism and the academy, and the practice of friendship. Yet behind this lies a lifetime of “lived theology” that informs her life and her work, both inside and outside the

• Author : Drew Hill
• Publisher : New Growth Press
• Release Date : 2018-08-20
• ISBN : 9781945270901

Alongside is a much-needed resource for both parents and those in youth ministry. In this transformative book, Drew Hill unpacks the challenges teenagers face and how youth leaders and parents can share the gospel with them at this crucial age. Full of practical insight and biblical knowledge, Alongside is an invitation to love teenagers well with the hope of the gospel. Our teenage friends are full of questions and longings. They’re trying to figure out who they are, where

• Author : Stina Kielsmeier-Cook
• Publisher : InterVarsity Press
• Release Date : 2020-09-08
• ISBN : 9780830853373

When her husband left Christianity several years into their marriage, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left struggling to live the Christian life on her own. In this memoir, she tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage and how she found unexpected community with an order of Catholic nuns, discovering that she was not "spiritually single" after all—and that no one really is.

• Author : Daniel S. Diffey,Ryan A. Brandt,Justin McLendon
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release Date : 2018-04-18
• ISBN : 9781725250659

The Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies (JBTS) is an academic journal focused on the fields of Bible and Theology from an inter-denominational point of view. The journal is comprised of an editorial board of scholars that represent several academic institutions throughout the world. JBTS is concerned with presenting high-level original scholarship in an approachable way. Academic journals are often written by scholars for other scholars. They are technical in nature, assuming a robust knowledge of the field. There are

• Author : Olivia A. Phillips
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release Date : 2021-10-15
• ISBN : 9781666716399

How we minister matters--especially to those who have already been hurt by the church. Instead of ministering out of God's love and compassion, the church has often ministered to the Queer community out of a deep-rooted fear. Why do we administer hatred instead of allowing the balm of the Holy Spirit's tender care to define our actions? The integrity of the gospel message has been hurt by the way many of us have wielded the power we have been given.

• Author : Stephen W. Hiemstra
• Publisher : T2Pneuma Publishers LLC
• Release Date : 2020-04-20
• ISBN : 9781942199731

Our journey in Christian ethics starts with God in whose image we are created. Creation begins with birth and continues as we mature. Our character matures, shaped by the example of Christ under the mentorship of the Holy Spirit through the family and the church. Christian leaders reach full maturity once they able to mentor others—we are blessed to be a blessing. Living in Christ focuses on explaining, not justifying, Christian ethics. At a time and in a place

• Author : Choi, Ki Joo,Moses, Sarah M.,Vincini, SJ, Andrea
• Publisher : Orbis Books
• Release Date : 2020-09-16
• ISBN : 9781608338436

• Author : Steven N. Waller
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release Date : 2015-09-17
• ISBN : 9781499064735

Leisure and Fellowship in the Life of the Black Church explores why leisure and fellowship in congregational life of African American churches matters. The book provides a biblical and theological foundation for the concepts of work, rest, Sabbath, play, leisure and fellowship. Moreover, the book explores how religious tradition and doctrine shape and constrains our attitudes and behaviors about leisure, fellowship and living abundantly. Several churches are lifted as exemplars based on the way that they embrace leisure and fellowship

• Author : T. Dale Johnson Jr.
• Publisher : New Growth Press
• Release Date : 2021-10-04
• ISBN : 9781645071839

We all know people in our world are strugglingeating disorders, addictions, depression, sexual issues, marital problemsthe list goes on and on. Can the church help or is that an outdated concept that no longer fits modern problems? In The Church as a Culture of Care, biblical counselor Dale Johnson explains that the church is still the primary place where those who struggle can receive lasting hope and healing. Pastors and lay leaders in the church often feel inadequate to address

• Author : Nicholas Scott-Blakely
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release Date : 2022-02-22
• ISBN : 9781532674488

Mainstream American evangelicalism is facing an identity crisis. Many wonder whether or not evangelical communities can become safe spaces that better enable people to enjoy, love, and know God and all that God cares about. This book, in honor of Dennis Okholm's decades of leadership in the academy and the church, commends the ways in which he has attempted to help his own communities flourish. His goal of filling the pews with theologically and biblically literate Christians is a much-needed