LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jason byassee

17 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jason byassee

  • Christianity
    Albert Y. S. Chu / Jason Byassee / Ross A. Lockhart
    Is God changing the face of the church in North America today? The secularization thesis makes it appear that churches are inevitably declining in membership and influence. Too often, however, this assumption of decline is based on only watching the denominations that were 'church plants of Western Christendom' in North America. Christianity: An Asian Religion in Vancouver focu...
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  • Christianity
    Albert Y. S. Chu / Jason Byassee / Ross A. Lockhart
    Is God changing the face of the church in North America today? The secularization thesis makes it appear that churches are inevitably declining in membership and influence. Too often, however, this assumption of decline is based on only watching the denominations that were 'church plants of Western Christendom' in North America. Christianity: An Asian Religion in Vancouver focu...
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    27,84 €

  • Better Than Brunch
    Jason Byassee / Ross A. Lockhart / Ross ALockhart
    What could be better than brunch on a Sunday morning? For most people in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, the answer of gathering to worship the Triune God and be sent as witnesses would not be top of mind. And yet, across the Pacific Northwest the authors discovered deeply rooted missional communities worshipping God and serving their neighborhoods, offering evidence of unexp...
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    18,87 €

  • Better Than Brunch
    Jason Byassee / Ross A. Lockhart / Ross ALockhart
    What could be better than brunch on a Sunday morning? For most people in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, the answer of gathering to worship the Triune God and be sent as witnesses would not be top of mind. And yet, across the Pacific Northwest the authors discovered deeply rooted missional communities worshipping God and serving their neighborhoods, offering evidence of unexp...
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    35,96 €

  • Northern Lights
    Jason Byassee
    You may have heard that churches in Europe are vanishing. Yet church growth in London has been steady for decades, fueled by such innovations as Alpha and Fresh Expressions. What about outside the capital? Some, both inside and outside the church, say churches 'cannot grow.' But here they are--growing churches--in the north of England of all places. This is not only a story abo...
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    21,22 €

  • Northern Lights
    Jason Byassee
    You may have heard that churches in Europe are vanishing. Yet church growth in London has been steady for decades, fueled by such innovations as Alpha and Fresh Expressions. What about outside the capital? Some, both inside and outside the church, say churches 'cannot grow.' But here they are--growing churches--in the north of England of all places. This is not only a story abo...
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    39,46 €

  • Surprised by Jesus Again
    Jason Byassee
    A bold, historical, robust approach to reading Scripture and encountering Jesus anewNo one expects to be surprised. Yet biblical interpretation can do exactly that. Christians expect to see Jesus as they read the Bible, but when and how Jesus actually speaks through Scripture can still surprise us!Drawing on the early church’s theological giants—Origen, Augustine, Gregory the G...
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    29,15 €

  • Eight Virtues of Rapidly Growing Churches
    Jason Byassee / Matt Miofsky
    Leaders who are interested in planting or revitalizing congregations often feel discouraged and defeated after leadership conferences, or after reading about the 'heroes' of church planting and church growth. 'They are amazing,' they say. 'I can't be that amazing.'But Jesus' load is easy and his burden is light. When we examine the practices and characteristics ...
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    14,31 €

  • Trinity
    Jason Byassee
    Most people assume they know what they mean when they use the word 'God.' They mean a powerful old guy in the sky ready to obliterate us if we do wrong but basically benevolent, if a little senile. ...
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    11,78 €

  • Discerning the Body
    Jason Byassee
    Where in the world is the church? These articles, essays, opinion pieces, and blog posts gather around that question. If we quit on the question in despair, we are lost. If we answer it too quickly, we are not digging deeply enough. But if we hunt hard with the help of the Holy Spirit, we’ll find Christ’s body alive, active, working, growing, and making things new.In Discerning...
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    27,88 €

  • Discerning the Body
    Jason Byassee
    Where in the world is the church? These articles, essays, opinion pieces, and blog posts gather around that question. If we quit on the question in despair, we are lost. If we answer it too quickly, we are not digging deeply enough. But if we hunt hard with the help of the Holy Spirit, we’ll find Christ’s body alive, active, working, growing, and making things new.In Discerning...
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    42,27 €

  • The Gifts of the Small Church
    Jason Byassee
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    15,20 €

  • Praise Seeking Understanding
    Jason Byassee
    Praise Seeking Understanding sits at the intersection of three important fields in theology: theological exegesis, Augustinian studies, and contemporary church practice. Jason Byassee deftly brings the three together, revealing an important symbiotic relationship between them -- a relationship hitherto largely ignored. Though current exegetical methods have swung away from a Ch...
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    40,28 €

  • An Introduction to the Desert Fathers
    Jason Byassee
    The desert fathers wanted to get away from a church co-opted by empire and a Christian faith grown cold and listless. They retreated to the desert to do battle against demons and against their own worst desires. They had no intention of being famous; yet ironically their Sayings have inspired millions of imitators over the centuries. This guide is meant to accompany a reading o...
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    28,18 €

  • An Introduction to the Desert Fathers
    Jason Byassee
    The desert fathers wanted to get away from a church co-opted by empire and a Christian faith grown cold and listless. They retreated to the desert to do battle against demons and against their own worst desires. They had no intention of being famous; yet ironically their Sayings have inspired millions of imitators over the centuries. This guide is meant to accompany a reading o...
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    16,13 €

  • Reading Augustine
    Jason Byassee
    The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the few Christian classics that is still widely read in the secular academy. Yet, oddly enough, it is not often read in the manner Augustine appears to have intended and in which the church read it for centuries: as a model of conversion, devotion, friendship, and the love of God. This book is a companion for any reader of the Confessi...
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    26,47 €

  • Reading Augustine
    Jason Byassee
    The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the few Christian classics that is still widely read in the secular academy. Yet, oddly enough, it is not often read in the manner Augustine appears to have intended and in which the church read it for centuries: as a model of conversion, devotion, friendship, and the love of God. This book is a companion for any reader of the Confessi...
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    14,29 €