Healthy Christian Growth

Healthy Christian Growth
Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780851517360

Biblical guidelines for growing to Christian maturity. It explains the pattern of God's work in the lives of his people and concludes with a brief spiritual check-up. Relevant to all stages of spiritual development, it provides a guide book that will be specially helpful to new Christians.

Healthy Christian Growth

Healthy Christian Growth
Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780851516103

Biblical guidelines for growing to Christian maturity.

Truth Plus Love

Truth Plus Love
Author: Matt Brown
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019-04-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310355257

Imagine what our world might look like if Christians became known for remarkable love, as well as life-giving truth. The stakes are high and the need is great for Christians to represent Jesus to a watching world. And today, we have more influence than ever before--for better and for worse. We are among the first generations to have access to a global megaphone through social media. But it's not enough to speak truth louder to a noisy culture. To counter the reputation Christians have earned, our love must be just as loud. Ask evangelist Matt Brown, and he will tell you Christians today are facing a crisis of influence. In our rush to speak truth to today's tensions, cultural issues, and trending controversies, it becomes all too easy to focus on proving our points rather than extending God's grace. Conversely, when we seek only to love yet never proclaim a better way, we short-circuit God's plan. Truth Plus Love invites you to rediscover the biblical framework for engaging culture as ambassadors of Christ. Through biblical insight, cultural analysis, and practical principles, Matt Brown outlines how to champion truth without compromise, how to love unconditionally, and ultimately, how to step into this great adventure of representing God to the world. It's hard, it's messy, and it's the unfinished project of a lifetime, yet here we find our great adventure: representing God to a watching world.

Changing your Mind

Changing your Mind
Author: Victor Copan
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2016-12-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0718845358

This book takes you on a journey that unpacks and demystifies what spiritual growth is and how it unfolds. The aim is to set you on your own path toward genuine, personal spiritual transformation. The book provides all the tools you need - biblical, scientific, and practical - so that you can develop your own pathway for spiritual growth. What is unique about Victor Copan's approach to spiritual growth is that he explores recent findings of brain research as well as scientific research on habitformation and brings them into conversation with the process of spiritual formation. Research on the brain and on habit formation has uncovered significant insights about the process and dynamics of human transformation that can be fruitfully incorporated into our own pursuit of spiritual transformation. Tapping into this research allows us to work in concert with how God designed humans to function - body, soul, and spirit.

The Banner of Truth Magazine

The Banner of Truth Magazine
Author: Banner of Truth Trust
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2005-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780851519197

The 1950s saw a change of direction for numbers within evangelicalism in England. It was a return to a more doctrinal Christianity, prompted in part by a rediscovery of the Reformers and Puritans and by the contemporary witness of such men as D.M. Lloyd-Jones and J.I. Packer. Amid this change, a little magazine, first published in Oxford in 1955, worked as a catalyst and became by 1958 as publishing house reaching some forty nations. Blemishes and weaknesses the magazine certainly had, but the call for God-centred Christianity, and for a gospel certain that all is of grace, was widely received.

What Is a Healthy Church Member?

What Is a Healthy Church Member?
Author: Thabiti M. Anyabwile
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2008-06-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433522039

Biblically and practically instructs church members in ways they can labor for the health of their church. What Is a Healthy Church Member? takes its cue from Mark Dever's book What Is a Healthy Church?, which offered one definition of what a healthy church looks like biblically and historically. In this new work, pastor Thabiti Anyabwile attempts to answer the natural next question: "What does a healthy church member look like in the light of Scripture?" God intends for us to play an active and vital part in the body of Christ, the local church. He wants us to experience the local church as a home more profoundly wonderful and meaningful than any other place on earth. He intends for his churches to be healthy places and for the members of those churches to be healthy as well. This book explains how membership in the local church can produce spiritual growth in its members and how each member can contribute to the growth and health of the whole.

Growing A Healthy Church

Growing A Healthy Church
Author: Dann Spader
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 243
Release: 1993-10-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802477933

"Sheep swapping", "shuffling of the saints"- Whatever you call it, many churches are growing only because Christians transfer from one church to another. What's more, many churches aren't growing at all. The problem, according to authors, Dann Spader and Gary Mayes, is that too many church calendars are filled with outdated, mediocre programs that have become more of a burden than a blessing. That, coupled with the fact that these programs minister almost exclusively to Christians, leaves little for the non-Christian "seeker" to get excited about. Growing a Healthy Church is not a list of trendy new programs for your church agenda. It is a journey of rediscovery. Spader and Mayes look closely at the four stages of spiritual growth in relation to outreach. Using the innovative "M-level" system, these gifted men show how a church can minister to all individuals regardless of their levels of maturity in potential service. This helps eliminate the mistakes of forcing new Christians into service that may overwhelm them or may leave the mature Christian unchallenged. Proven successful through SonLife and churches who have used this system, this resource will help you focus on the simplicity of Christ's ministry, enabling you to build an effective discipling strategy for your church.

The Five Signs of a Healthy Christian

The Five Signs of a Healthy Christian
Author: Ronald Ovitt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2018-06-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781981080946

Burned out? Depressed? Anxious? Personal health is on everyone's mind--our emotional health, physical health, and relational health. It is all with good reason. When things are unhealthy, bad things start to happen. But what about the health of our Christian experience? Can it really make a difference? The goal of this book is to lead the reader to investigate their own spiritual health and make adjustments where necessary.What five signs? As far as indicators of spiritual health, there are many that we could have chosen. We chose five that we feel are general indicators that we are spiritually alive. If you keep focused on these five signs of a Healthy Christian, praying over each of them and taking baby steps toward improving where needed, you will find yourself living a healthy Christian life. A Healthy Christian loves Jesus, loves God's Word, is emotionally resilient, is led by the Spirit, and is outwardly focused (on mission with Jesus). This book will help motivate and encourage you in maintaining a deep and meaningful spirituality. Order today and maintain a healthy Christian lifestyle.The author, Ron Ovitt, is a pastor, pastoral counselor, recovery coach and President of Empower Ministry, working with churches to help them build healthy and vibrant congregations. He is the author and creator of: Emotional Relearning(tm): Living with the Fruit of the SpiritWired for Ministry: Activate Passions, Experience, and AbilitiesMoment in the Word: Daily Moments that Feed Your SoulGifted: Understanding My Spiritual GiftsPower Up: Emotional Relearning(tm) Through Bible Verse Affirmations