Showing titles in Ecclesiology

The Bible teaches that the spirit of antichrist is already active in the world, preparing humanity for the final appearance of the Antichrist before the return of Jesus Christ. The apostle John wrote: “Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists” (1 John 2:18). This spirit is not limited to one individual but represents a spiritual influence that opposes Christ, distorts truth, and attempts to reshape societies in rebellion against God. As history progresses toward its prophetic climax, Scripture indicates ...

Who is Jesus? And why does the church He started matter today? The answers to these questions are practical, profound, and liberating - and also inextricably connected. The closer you get to Jesus, the more you love people; and the more you love people, the more you become like Jesus. Drawing on biblical teaching and over 45 years of ministry experience, Pastor Mel Mullen brings clear, practical understanding to Jesus’ message and the community of Jesus-followers we call the church.

Vincit qui patitur, “aquél que persevera en el sufrimiento, triunfa”; J.I. Packer describe con esta frase el lema de la vida y ministerio puritano. Ninguna otra época en la historia de la Iglesia ha producido pastores y predicadores de la talla de los puritanos, firmes en las Escrituras y ungidos por el Espíritu Santo. Su madurez en la predicación, piedad y sabiduría en el ministerio pastoral fueron una consecuencia de un intelecto consagrado al estudio de las Escrituras, así como perseverancia en medio de los sufrimientos. Este es el propósito de este libro, aprender sobre el ...

¡UNA DE LAS OBRAS MÁS IMPORTANTES DE LA TEOLOGÍA! Publicado por primera vez en 1700, El Servicio Razonable del Cristiano (5 vols.) tuvo veinte ediciones holandesas sólo en el siglo XVIII. El título se deriva de Romanos 12:1. La obra expresa lo que Dios requiere del hombre, y particularmente del cristiano, que le sirva en espíritu y en verdad, de manera inteligente, racional y en armonía y respuesta a la revelación que Dios hace de sí mismo en su Palabra. Con un sabor decididamente puritano, representa el cristianismo experiencial reformado y escolástico en su mejor momento. ...

Centered on faith as trust, this book offers the way of hope for those who struggle to believe in Christian claims. Engaging Scripture and the Christian tradition, it proposes a way of faith without belief.

Beginning with the biblical basics, Jeff Lockyer walks listeners through the underlying theology and practical application of how Southridge Community Church has approached ministry for nearly a quarter century. While providing a fresh approach to ministry, the book stimulates how to think - not what to think. It's written by a local church practitioner for local church practitioners.

Prepare to embark on a transformative journey with one of the most vital works you'll ever encounter. This book unveils profound historical and biblical truths that unleash the power and synergy needed to effectively showcase to the world that Jesus is the Christ. While many Christians fervently pray for unity within the church, this groundbreaking book reveals why unity alone is insufficient. Discover why true maturity in the Body of Christ is essential to fulfill its divine mandate of bringing the whole gospel to the entire world. This is an indispensable read for anyone passionate about ...

'Welcoming the World' courageously addresses potential pitfalls and offensive habits within North American churches while celebrating positive surprises and commendable attitudes. This book stands as a sincere endeavor to foster understanding and elevate the welcoming practices of American churches.

If you’ve ever heard a too-neat story about how immersion “obviously” arrived among English Baptists, this booklet is a welcome corrective. It treats the “Polish Brethren” label with the caution it deserves, traces the plausible relay through the Dutch world (including the Rijnsburg Collegiants), and handles the Kiffin/Jessey–Richard Blunt “Holland mission” tradition without turning it into a fairy tale. Best of all, it puts Hanserd Knollys where the timeline actually places him: significant downstream, not magically upstream. Clear, skeptical, and genuinely useful for ...

The document argues that “advancing the kingdom of God” is a slippery modern phrase: it can be used in a biblically faithful way (meaning the kingdom becomes more visible and confessed through gospel proclamation, church gathering/edification, and Spirit-wrought fruit), or it can become a slogan that quietly makes the kingdom feel like a human-managed project pushed forward by technique, money, and institutional “machinery.” It insists the biblical “grammar” should stay straight: God advances His reign; we witness to it, announce it, and live as its citizens, rather than ...

In this book we will review the changes that may be taking place on planet earth; particularly as we head towards a period the bible calls 'End Times.' This book will not attempt to make wild outlandish prophecies that cannot be backed up with scripture or empirical evidence. However, it will provide a potential forecast about what could happen in the last days of time; leaving people with some form of barometer to prepare them for the future. This book does not intend to be dogmatic about end time events, simply because different commentators have different views about what might happen ...

Danny Steyne takes you through the questions that must be raised, and that most of us have. What truly defines the Church? An encounter with God changes your understanding of what He wants in a moment. All your training, opinions, and plans can be thrown away when you have an encounter that begins to reveal The Church that Jesus initiated and is building, particularly when it’s very different than what you might have been doing and experiencing. Using history and practical leadership experience, Danny lays before you some much needed truth and wisdom about where we go from here. Let the ...

What should change—and what must never change? In an age where churches are pressured to reinvent themselves, redefine convictions, and keep pace with cultural expectations, that question is no longer theoretical. It is urgent. In Principled Progress, veteran pastor and author Marvin McKenzie offers a clear, biblical framework for thinking about change—one that neither idolizes tradition nor baptizes novelty. Drawing from decades of pastoral ministry, church planting, leadership training, and personal experience, McKenzie addresses a tension every faithful believer eventually faces: how...

This short booklet, “BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD?”, is a tightly focused study built around one stubborn text—1 Corinthians 15:29—and it argues that Paul’s line about people being “baptized for the dead” is best handled as a rhetorical weapon in his resurrection defense, not as a permission slip for post-mortem rites. The foreword sets the tone: the church is repeatedly tempted to take an obscure phrase, detach it from the whole counsel of God, and construct a “machine” out of it—something impressive and even emotionally appealing, but ultimately replacing Christ and truth with...

Recupera el mandato apostólico de la Iglesia. ¡Entra en tu autoridad! ¿Estás cansado de un cristianismo impotente que se siente desconectado de la transformación real? ¿Has sentido que tu llamado es más que solo asistir a los servicios religiosos o ir a la iglesia? ¿Y si la Iglesia ha estado funcionando según un modelo erróneo y es hora de volver al diseño original del Cielo? A través de décadas de ministerio apostólico y revelaciones pioneras, el autor superventas Robert Henderson descubre el patrón divino del cielo para hacer avanzar el Reino de Dios en la tierra, a través...

This book is a thesis-driven evaluation of John T. Christian’s A History of the Baptists (especially his baptism material), written to help you use Christian profitably without being hypnotized by his conclusions. It opens by framing Christian’s project as history-as-argument: he wants to show Baptists (defined by a cluster of “Baptist principles”) have existed from Christ onward, even when names change and records are hostile or missing. The evaluation treats that as the book’s animating engine—and warns that the engine can run on “family resemblance = family tree” if the ...

Here is a tight, professor-level summary of the whole document Infrastructure in Doctrines: This work argues that Scripture itself teaches a hierarchy of doctrines. The Bible does not treat truth as a flat list where every point has equal weight; instead, it distinguishes foundation from superstructure, first principles from maturity, and gospel essentials from matters of order and conscience. Paul explicitly speaks of matters “of first importance” (1 Cor. 15), Jesus speaks of “weightier matters” (Matt. 23:23), and Hebrews 5–6 distinguishes foundation doctrines from growth toward ...

The book portrays American tract culture (c. 1790–1900) as a mass-publishing and distribution system—a “Benevolent Empire” infrastructure that tried to scale Protestant influence via short printed literature, agents, and societies. The central claim isn’t merely that tracts existed, but that tract-society machinery functioned like a parallel church-system: boards, officers, constitutions, fundraising, annual reports, and colporteurs doing “religious work” outside local-church authority. A key hinge is the “no-sectarian” rule (especially with the American Tract Society): ...

This book argues that Greek and Roman rhetoric is less a museum piece than the durable “engineering logic” of public persuasion—ethos, logos, and pathos—developed through Greek democratic courts and assemblies, sharpened by the Sophists and critiqued by Plato, systematized by Aristotle, and then pragmatically refined by Rome through Cicero’s canons and Quintilian’s moral program for forming a speaker. It then traces how this rhetorical bloodstream flowed into Christian preaching—most directly in the Latin West through Cicero → Augustine → later homiletics, and in the Greek...

This bookt treats Roger Williams as a case study in an authority crisis: a man who can affirm Christ’s ordinances (especially baptism) yet conclude that, in his age, they cannot be administered with clear, valid authority—pushing him toward Seeker territory and placing him historically near (but not identical to) the Ranter eruption. The foreword frames two overreactions to church corruption: Seekerism: “lay down all” ordinances until God restores them through a fresh sending (“new apostles”)—pious-sounding but liable to become paralysis. Ranter impulse: contempt for outward ...