Ritual category: 1070 books
by Baldwin Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The Native Tribes of Central Australia
by Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen
This massive anthropological study of the central Australian tribes is one of the primary sources for information on these cultures. Based on first-hand scholarly study just prior to the twentieth century, Spencer and...
Taking Flight With Creativity
Worship Design Teams That Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Pastors and church leaders in many congregations have attempted to form teams for the purpose of planning, or designing, worship. Getting a group of people together in one room is fairly easy. But whether large or small church, staff or volunteer, most discover that it is difficult to form a team...
Sideline Church
Bridging the Chasm between Churches and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
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Got Empathy?
Tom Bandy reveals the cultural wedges and apathies that separate denominations, congregations, and neighbors from each other and from collective social agency. Bandy describes the church in America as “sidelined”—observing cultural change but not participating in the game....
Redesigning Worship
Creating Powerful God Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Planning a worship service is far more than just choosing songs and seasonal images. Helping people to genuinely worship God requires creating an experience through which people can enter into the presence of the divine. Discover strategic insights for creating and integrating powerful God-experiences...
The Eternal Current
How a Practice-Based Faith Can Save Us from Drowning
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
A call for Christians to move past the shallows of idealized beliefs and into a deeper, more vibrant, beatitude-like faith rooted in sacred practices and intimate experiences with God.
When the limits of his own faith experience left him feeling spiritually empty, Niequist determined God must...
by Nicole Chareyron
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
"Every man who undertakes the journey to the Our Lord's Sepulcher needs three sacks: a sack of patience, a sack of silver, and a sack of faith."—Symon Semeonis, an Irish medieval pilgrim
As medieval pilgrims made their way to the places where Jesus Christ lived and suffered, they...
Rise Up and Sing
Equipping the Female Worship Leader
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
An essential, practical handbook that equips female worshippers to lead worship, work with musicians, pastor a worship team, write songs, and work effectively with their pastor.
For women who are called to lead worship—or think they might be—worship leader Lex Buckley offers this...
Being God's People
The Confirmation and Discipleship Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Each chapter gives material for the members of the group to read in advance. There is a framework or plan for a group meeting, with detailed ideas for activities and discussion. There is also general advice about group processes, including recruiting and running such groups. There is a framework for...
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook
Practices That Transform Us
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
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Sacred Pathways
Discover Your Soul's Path to God
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
This revised and updated edition of Sacred Pathways will encourage you to see strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies in your devotional approach to God. Gary Thomas, bestselling author of Sacred Marriage, shows you how to improve your quiet time and personal worship life so you can strengthen your...
by Grace Communion International
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Some Christians feel that they should keep Old Testament laws such as the seventh-day Sabbath and avoiding "unclean" meats. The articles in this e-book collection address that, starting with the point that yes, Christians should obey God -- but are the Old Testament laws the laws that we...
by Romano Guardini
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
A treasury of spiritual wisdom on how to prepare your mind, body, and heart for Mass from one of the twentieth century's great theologians, Meditations before Mass is Romano Guardini's smart and beautiful guide to spiritual preparation for the source and summit of Christian worship.
Meditations...
How to Be a Christian
Reflections and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
From the revered teacher and bestselling author of such classic Christian works as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters comes a collection that gathers the best of C. S. Lewis’s practical advice on how to embody a Christian life.
The most famous adherent and defender of Christianity...
The Ninety-Five Theses
Disputation on the Power of Indulgences
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Ninety-five Theses" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power of Indulgences are a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 by Martin...