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Is authority reserved for those with a specific calling to leadership? Who holds power in the church? Does authority have limits? Are teaching and preaching the most important practices of authority? Our understanding--and misunderstanding--of authority has significant implications for our...

“That posterity may know we have not loosely through silence permitted things to pass away as in a dream…”So opens Richard Hooker’s Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, one of the great landmarks of Protestant theological literature, and indeed of English literature generally. Sadly, however...

Hit the Ground Kneeling takes common statements about leadership–statements that we often take for granted–and questions them in the light of Christian faith and Christian perspectives on leadership.

Accessible Guide from 9Marks Equips Believers to Steward Their God-Given Authority In every position of power—from executives and world leaders to church elders and parents—lies the potential for life-giving leadership or destructive corruption. Driven by sinful pride or opportunism, many...

Too often, what we call "peace" is really just silence, sameness, or surface unity, while below the surface, division is growing. But what if true Christian unity embraces differences instead of erasing them? What if real Christianity means we commit to dethroning the uniformity we often require...

ENTER THE CRUCIBLE OF ABSOLUTE SILENCEFor nearly a millennium, the Carthusian Order has preserved an unyielding secret. Operating under the legendary absolute maxim, Cartusia numquam reformata quia numquam deformata—"The Charterhouse has never been reformed because it has never been deformed"—this ancient lineage of Christian hermits has rejected the noise of human civilization to construct the ultimate earthly laboratory of the human spirit.

Transform your Christian leadership and reclaim genuine spiritual authority from the grip of modern celebrity culture. Whether you need clarifying guidance on a morning commute or a grounding theology for your ministry journey, this audio experience delivers a biblically rooted roadmap. Discover...

The Early Church Fathers come alive in a captivating, story-driven journey that's inspired over 25,000 readers. Step into the drama, courage, and faith of the first centuries of the Church.

How do you know without a shadow of doubt that you are going to heaven? In a world where cultural trends and intuition increasingly shape truth, Kingdom Citizenship serves as a timely guide for 21st-century believers who desire to see and enter the Kingdom of God. This transformative book confronts the crisis of identity and relevance facing today's church, exposing how postmodern thought and misaligned cultural lenses have distorted the original message of Jesus, leading many people to believe they are going to heaven when, in reality, they are not.

Are we missing God's design for Church? There's a quiet but growing hunger among believers for something deeper, something more authentic than the systems many have inherited. Unless God Builds It speaks directly to that longing. In this bold and thought-provoking work, pastor Jacob Hotchkiss draws from years in traditional church settings and his current experience within a network of home churches to challenge conventional models of church life and leadership.

What if the deepest longing of the human soul is not simply to follow God —but to live entirely within His Will? In Living in the Divine Will: Returning to the Purpose of Our Creation, author and speaker David Russell invites listeners on a profound spiritual journey into the very heart of God’s original design for humanity.

What if the problem isn’t that you’re on the outside, but that you were never meant to live in the center? In The Edge of the Inside, Jeremy Jernigan shares the raw, unvarnished story of walking away from a dream job at the center of megachurch life, not because he lost faith, but because he found a better one. After spending decades at the center of American evangelicalism as a pastor, leader, and insider, it all eventually unraveled. What felt like failure became an invitation to see faith differently.

Have you ever considered that much of what we call Christianity isn't actually Christian?

The story of a journey where I knew where I was going, but not what I would find. I discovered that there is a place for everyone, and everyone needs a place. It began with an entirely irregular and wholly uninspired churchgoer who decided to put "church" to the test by attending services at houses of worship of all different sizes, shapes, colors, religions, and denominations–33 in one year. I learned I knew a lot less than I thought: •Like Mark Twain’s death, rumors of the negative are greatly exaggerated •Church is the gardener of fruitful communities—sowing, tending, and reaping.

Faith was never meant to be static—it is meant to flex, evolve, and transform. Yet many of us inherit beliefs that no longer align with who we are becoming. The Congruent Life offers a path through that tension, guiding listeners from dissonance to liberation. Through reflection, rhythm, and radical love, it reveals how congruent practices can transform confusion and fragmentation into peace, freedom, and wholeness. This is not a book about preserving the religion you were handed. It's about cultivating a faith that heals, liberates, and empowers.

For nearly twenty centuries, the Roman Catholic Church withstood all the currents of change and history and maintained a closely guarded orthodoxy which has always served as the basis and center of all Christianity. Yet, it is as if all of that has been just arbitrarily swept away in the few years since Vatican II. Given what the Church has always taught about itself being indefectible, how could this have happened? Did that Council have something to do with that terrible loss of faith? Can the real Catholicism be found today, and if so, where?

The four books of St. Augustin On Christian Doctrine (De Doctrina Christiana, iv libri) are a compend of exegetical theology to guide the reader in the understanding and interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures, according to the analogy of faith. The first three books were written A.D.397; the fourth was added 426. He speaks of it in his Retractations, Bk. ii., chap. 4, as follows: “Finding that the books on Christian Doctrine were not finished, I thought it better to complete them before passing on to the revision of others.

Systematic Theology for Millennials is a high-performance field manual designed to reboot the modern believer's "Operating System." In an era of digital noise and identity fragmentation, this audiobook provides a Tactical Roadmap for building a faith that is intellectually grounded and practically unshakeable. It moves beyond "good vibes" to provide the original Source Code for a life of purpose.

How should we think about church growth in our current cultural moment? The golden era ushered in by the industrial revolution led the Protestant church in America to experience unprecedented growth and prosperity in the twentieth century. This environment has formed our understanding of and...

A compassionate and practical framework to address the wounds of trauma and learn how to develop churches as trauma-informed spaces. Whether you're a pastor, counselor, church leader, or someone who has been hurt by the church, Traumatized Church—written jointly by New Testament scholar Scot...