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The Gospel in a Handshake
This book focuses on the grace embedded in the timeless liturgy and enables readers to create their own frames that alert worshipers to the character and purpose of various service elements.
Why We Listen to Sermons
This book on preaching provides insight into not only what a sermon is but what it should be and how those who listen to sermons can evaluate what they are hearing.
Acting Liturgically: Philosophical Reflections on Religious Practice
Participation in religious liturgies and rituals is a pervasive and remarkably complex form of human activity. This book opens with a discussion of the nature of liturgical activity and then explores various dimensions of such activity.
Congregations, Neighborhoods, Places
This book offers a brief overview to stimulate congregational thinking about community engagement that includes insights regarding social science and local context.
Letters to Growing Pastors: Reflections on Ministry for Coffee-Cup Conversation
All those who enter the pastoral ministry desire to succeed. Yet they all find, surprisingly, that a number of key issues come up for consideration. Most pastors find that most of these issues appear during the first ten years of pastoring. During those years the pattern is determined, which will point to the success or to the development of habits that will reduce effectiveness and produce stumbling.
Remembrance, Communion, and Hope: Rediscovering the Gospel at the Lord's Table
In this book Billings shows how a renewed theology and practice of the Lord’s Supper can lead Christians to rediscover the full richness and depth of the gospel.
하나님의 식탁 / At God's Table
At God's Table is a Korean-English children's book that explores the richly symbolic practice of the Lord's Supper in Christian worshiping communities.
Caring Worship: Helping Worship Leaders Provide Pastoral Care through the Liturgy
This book takes a new and fresh look at the worship liturgy.
En la mesa de Dios / At God's Table
En la mesa de Dios / At God's Table is a Spanish-English children's book that explores the richly symbolic practice of the Lord's Supper in Christian worshiping communities.
Leaning on the Word: Worship with Argentine Baptists in the Mid-Twentieth Century
In this latest volume in the Church at Worship series, Lester Ruth and Eric L. Mathis draw from a rich selection of primary sources to immerse readers in the worship life of Conservative Baptists in northwest Argentina from 1948 to 1964.
The Embrace of Buildings
In a culture long enamored of the suburban ideal, Lee Hardy invites readers to reconsider the many advantages of living and working in walkable city neighborhoods.
The Theater of God's Glory: Calvin, Creation, and the Liturgical Arts
A theological framework for the liturgical arts rooted in John Calvin, arguing that Calvin’s Trinitarian theology provides a promising resource for understanding the material aspects of corporate worship and for promoting the proper flourishing of the liturgical arts.
The Gospel in a Handshake
This book focuses on the grace embedded in the timeless liturgy and enables readers to create their own frames that alert worshipers to the character and purpose of various service elements.
Why We Listen to Sermons
This book on preaching provides insight into not only what a sermon is but what it should be and how those who listen to sermons can evaluate what they are hearing.
Acting Liturgically: Philosophical Reflections on Religious Practice
Participation in religious liturgies and rituals is a pervasive and remarkably complex form of human activity. This book opens with a discussion of the nature of liturgical activity and then explores various dimensions of such activity.
Congregations, Neighborhoods, Places
This book offers a brief overview to stimulate congregational thinking about community engagement that includes insights regarding social science and local context.
Letters to Growing Pastors: Reflections on Ministry for Coffee-Cup Conversation
All those who enter the pastoral ministry desire to succeed. Yet they all find, surprisingly, that a number of key issues come up for consideration. Most pastors find that most of these issues appear during the first ten years of pastoring. During those years the pattern is determined, which will point to the success or to the development of habits that will reduce effectiveness and produce stumbling.
Remembrance, Communion, and Hope: Rediscovering the Gospel at the Lord's Table
In this book Billings shows how a renewed theology and practice of the Lord’s Supper can lead Christians to rediscover the full richness and depth of the gospel.
하나님의 식탁 / At God's Table
At God's Table is a Korean-English children's book that explores the richly symbolic practice of the Lord's Supper in Christian worshiping communities.
Caring Worship: Helping Worship Leaders Provide Pastoral Care through the Liturgy
This book takes a new and fresh look at the worship liturgy.
En la mesa de Dios / At God's Table
En la mesa de Dios / At God's Table is a Spanish-English children's book that explores the richly symbolic practice of the Lord's Supper in Christian worshiping communities.
Leaning on the Word: Worship with Argentine Baptists in the Mid-Twentieth Century
In this latest volume in the Church at Worship series, Lester Ruth and Eric L. Mathis draw from a rich selection of primary sources to immerse readers in the worship life of Conservative Baptists in northwest Argentina from 1948 to 1964.
The Embrace of Buildings
In a culture long enamored of the suburban ideal, Lee Hardy invites readers to reconsider the many advantages of living and working in walkable city neighborhoods.
The Theater of God's Glory: Calvin, Creation, and the Liturgical Arts
A theological framework for the liturgical arts rooted in John Calvin, arguing that Calvin’s Trinitarian theology provides a promising resource for understanding the material aspects of corporate worship and for promoting the proper flourishing of the liturgical arts.
