This is the true story of a father's struggle within a close knit, relationship based Christian group whose Assemblies are spread across the USA. The story starts just before the eighty year old fundamental Bible-based group suffers a sudden hostile takeover, as mind control techniques are deployed by a long standing minister who just retired from his mysterious job at a government weapons development center.It is the most disturbing time of Rhett's life as the group fragments and ...

Christmas is coming—break out the eggnog and candy canes! But for church communicators, this isn’t always a season of peace on earth and goodwill toward men. Christmas often means pulling out all the stops—adorable pageants, packed pews, beloved music. Not to mention planning it all on a very limited budget.For many communicators, planning your Christmas services often starts too late and never seems to end. Just when you think you’ve unraveled that last knot of Christmas lights, s...

It took only a week to make Pastor Jeff dangerous. A team of church communication pros descended on his church to share their knowledge, a venture known as Creative Missions. The status quo is now endangered.Is your church ready to be dangerous?This booklet is written by the reinforcements, men and women in the trenches of church communication. They’re Creative Missions alumni and now offer that same insight, wisdom and help to you. This booklet includes 19 essays on church...

Church communicators need heroes. Someone to look up to. Someone to give a jolt of inspiration, a shot of encouragement, a challenge that we can do more than this.While mulling over mobile, sizing up strategy and battling bulletins, church communicators need to know we’re not alone. The tools of the 21st century may be new, but the struggles are familiar. There are heroes who have walked this path before. They were revolutionaries, rebels and reformers. They were also artists, writ...

What would you do, as a pastor or ministry leader, if you had insight, directives, and keys to effectively nurture your membership, despite your church's resources, size, or current challenges? There is no need to wonder, guess, or assume with the unveiling of this timeless, profound, compelling, and transforming book by Dr. E. Dewey Smith, Jr. Maximizing Your Membership is an eye-opening journey on the road to not only church membership, growth, and retention, but also a unique handbook o...

In this brief work, The Speciality, Generality, and Practicality of the Church Life, Witness Lee sets forth three vital items for the maintenance and growth of the church: the speciality—the faith held in common by all believers; the generality—the general attitude practiced by the apostle Paul in Romans 14 regarding practices not common to our experience; and the practicality—the practical way for the church to grow.

The word but was used by Jesus often to clarify to his disciples his teaching was different from the conventional wisdom of the time: "But I say to you..." This was never more true when he was speaking about how the disciples (right up to today) were to act toward one another and toward those outside the group. Louis DeThomasis, a well-respected De La Salle Christian Brother and President Emeritus of St. Mary's University of Minnesota, uses this method of Jesus to look at the Catholic Chur...

Like her two other recent releases—”Faces of the Religious Demon,” and “the Fake Jesus”, Pam Sheppard has birthed yet another spiritual warfare textbook extremely vital for our times. For it contains a wealth of valuable spiritual understanding that is absolutely essential in a time when so many Christians are unprepared for the onslaught of demonic deception that moves well beyond the realm of worldly temptation. For demons and devils have seriously infiltrated the organized c...

How should the church respond to the changing cultural and societal changes going on around it? Should it reject the historical traditions that served the early Christian church or should it turn a blind eye to the changes happening in modern society? Neither, as Cassandra D. Carkuff Williams advocates--it should and it must recover and reclaim our foundations and reinterpret them in light of present-day realities. In Learning the Way: Reclaiming Wisdom from the Earliest Christian Communit...