Small Church

Retired travel photographer Clara Whitcombe came to Charleston for the azaleas and the architecture. She expected to spend her days capturing the city's legendary beauty through her lens while her loyal companion Atlas—a German Shepherd–Great Pyrenees mix with instincts sharper than any human's—padded contentedly at her side. But when Clara joins a historic walking tour through the French Quarter, her camera catches something she was never meant to see: a shadow moving in the window of an abandoned carriage house. Hours later, a real estate heir is found dead inside that same building...

Small Church Essentials is for leaders of smaller congregations. It encourages them to steward their role well, debunking myths about small churches while offering principles for leading a dynamic, healthy small church. Based on the popular six-hour lecture that Karl Vaters delivers to church leaders across the country, Small Church Essentials will affirm small church leaders and show them how to identify what they do well and how to do it even better.

When a church lady falls in love, she falls hard. Sometimes she lands on her knees. Miss Budge does as she moves quietly and powerfully through her daily life in Old Cloverdale, where F. Scott Fitzgerald once courted Zelda, and two miles away Nat King Cole was born. Fitzgerald wrote about love. Nat Cole sang about love, and Mildred Budge knows those words. She can sing along with Nat and has. But Miss Budge lives love too—is always in love. The world wants a certain kind of love. Miss Budge offers a different kind—one that is so rare, so foreign as to be misunderstood…. But make no ...

In thirty focused chapters, Pastor Bredenhof explores small moments of ministry that God uses for great impact. Celebrate small acts of faithfulness and be reminded of ways to make a difference...

Three bays. Eighteen books. Endless stories of faith and love. Step into Everlee’s Bay Romance Mega Box Set—a captivating collection that combines the complete Chalet on Barco Bay, Queensboro Bay, and Vineyard at East Bay series. Each story is set against the stunning backdrops of Michigan’s most picturesque bays, blending faith, romance, and community into one unforgettable reading experience. • At Barco Bay, a coastal volunteer community proves that serving others leads to healing, friendship, and love. • At Queensboro Bay, a family struggles to restore a crumbling inn into a ...

Caleb Crenshaw came home to Myrtle Creek with a ruined reputation, a failed marriage, and laboratory proof that fatherhood was probably never going to happen for him. His grandmother has other information. According to Gram Ivy, a child is coming to Myrtle Creek before the lead float in the Christmas parade makes the turn onto Main Street. She has billboards. And a committee. Caleb has questions. Unfortunately, he also has a pregnant ex-wife who won’t quite go away, a secretary who can allegedly read minds, a suspiciously handsome Catholic priest for a neighbor, a little girl who haunts ...

Jesus Hasn't Given Up on Small, Exploited, and Overlooked Places—and Neither Should We Many young people entering ministry and starting careers believe success requires them to leave their communities. After all, the fastest-growing congregations, the highest-profile ministries, and the best...

In this compact disc edition of the totally revised underground bestseller -- The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a...

From bestselling author Seraphina Nova Glass comes fan-favorite ON A QUIET STREET, an addictive, twist-filled psychological thriller about three women unraveling the deadly secrets of a picture-perfect neighborhood. Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Lucy Foley, and Ruth Ware! Listen now to...

Real-Life Discipleship explains what should happen in the life of every Christian and in every small group so that the church becomes an army of believers dedicated to seeing the world saved. With the overriding goal to train disciples who know how to make more disciples, this book offers proven...

It doesn’t matter how old we are or what kind of work we do, we’ve all wondered at times, “Does my life really matter?” Do the everyday events and messy moments make any kind of difference? Is it okay to be fulfilled by the simple acts of raising kids, working in an office, and cooking...

Your small church is not a failed big church. You love your church. You also can't quite shake the feeling that it isn't enough. Not enough people, not enough programs, not enough of whatever the conference speaker said real ministry was supposed to look like. You've sat in the third row, looked at the same familiar faces, and quietly wondered when the growth would come, as if the church you're in is a waiting room for the church you're supposed to become. It isn't.

This is a brief account of the History of Oneness Pentecostalism. This book will focus on the life of 4 trailblazers of the faith namely Frank Ewart, G. T. Haywood, Franklin Small and Andrew Urshan. These for great men and their contemporaries have helped to shape the Modern Apostolic Oneness Pentecostal Church. Through focusing on restoring the church as outlined in the book of Acts. If you would like to learn more about the history of Oneness Pentecostalism and the practice of baptism in "Jesus." This book is for you as we explore the growth and development of the Apostolic Church. This ...

A mother vanishes from a church parking lot. The people who took her knew exactly whom she trusted. Rachel Dawson leaves her young son inside Mercy Hill Community Church and steps into the parking lot to meet a Safe Harbor contact. She never comes back. Her car is left unlocked. Her belongings are untouched. The only clue is a Safe Harbor card marked with a transport code that should not exist. Still haunted by the fire that nearly destroyed Safe Harbor, security chief Seth Calloway takes charge of the search. Someone has studied the organization’s confidential procedures closely enough ...

No one ever taught like Jesus. When we learn from Him we truly are learning from the Master Teacher. Josh Hunt is uniquely qualified to help us teach like Jesus because these are the practices he has personally used for years! Anyone who wants to become a better teacher must have this book! Allan Taylor Author, Sunday School in HD I have had the pleasure of hearing Josh teach this material in person and I can assure you that it always has an impact on the audience. It is both entertaining and informative. It will challenge you to communicate more effectively. It is biblically based and ...

The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Leading Life-Changing Small Groups: Audio Lectures includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover...

An unexpected inheritance. A smiling preacher with a dark past. And a love like a tornado that threatens to consume them all. CASH I didn’t come back to Sagebrush for a warm welcome. I came back to bury the father who disowned me and take over the ranch that was my birthright. Then the tornado hit. It ripped through the valley, and leveled my inheiritance to splinters. Now I’m a cowboy with nowhere to go, too stubborn to ask for help and too broke to refuse it. Enter Pastor Mike. He’s new, he’s trying to hold a broken town together, and he just offered me the spare room in the ...

In the shadows of Salem Village in 1692, one young girl must navigate the complexities of a divided society. Often cold and hungry, eight-year-old Verity Manton, an orphaned ragpicker, clings to the scraps of love and kindness in her harsh world. Things get tangled as the village Puritans' strange behavior grows more alarming. Verity is caught between the safety of her life and the promise of a better future with a Quaker family who reaches out to her. Yet, she has been warned her whole life that Quakers are evil. Will Verity have the courage to trust her heart and choose a path that defies...

In a town of 300 people, the most dangerous suspect is the neighbour everyone trusts. Based entirely on documented historical events, court transcripts, and declassified police records, Monsters of the True North strips away the polite myth of Atlantic Canada to expose a chilling history of violence, isolation, and institutional betrayal. The postcard version of Canada’s eastern coast is famous for its lighthouses, fishing villages, and unlocked doors. But there is another Atlantic Canada—one shaped by brutal North Atlantic winters and a generational code of silence that has protected ...

Revised edition. My thanks to the readers who took the time to point out the inconsistencies in the original — this edition has been thoroughly re-edited to put them right. The mystery, the Vale, and the team remain exactly as they were. Christmas Eve in the Blackmore Vale. Church bells should be ringing across the frosted countryside, calling the faithful to midnight mass. But at St. Mary's Brambledene, the bells are silent. When Detective Chief Inspector Rhys Morgan and his young partner DC Ben Carter discover blackmailer Oliver Heathcote suspended in the bell ropes, the case seems ...