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Strategic to the study of popular evangelical movements, this
volume provides a thorough description of the holdings of one of
the major evangelical resource centers in the United States. The
Billy Graham Center, with its focus on efforts by Evangelicals
around the world to spread the Christian Gospel, with a special
emphasis on North America, has developed a superb array of sources
to document this vigorous yet largely uncharted aspect of modern
Christianity. The special strengths of the Graham Center's Library,
Museum, and Archives are documented here. Books, magazines,
photographs, paintings, artifacts, diaries, letters, and files of
Christian organizations are among the types of sources described.
Two appendices, comprising 20 percent of this volume, give detailed
summaries of holdings in 161 other archives and libraries
throughout the United States. Also included are 61 photographs of
artifacts and documents from the Graham Center. This guide includes
three main chapters on the Library, Museum, and Archives of the
Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. Chapters on the collections
of the Library and Museum discuss their thematic strengths,
featured holdings, and services. A lengthy chapter on the Archives
provides an overview, an annotated catalog of its more than 525
collections, and a list of subjects treated in each collection. Two
appendices provide extensive descriptions of other archival and
library collections around the country. A comprehensive index of
subjects and names quickly helps researchers determine what the
Graham Center and other North American research centers offer. The
user can enjoy a general overview or receive direct information on
a specific topic. This volume is designed for the varied interests
of pastor, missionary, scholar, journalist, or interested
layperson.
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To Stake a Claim
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J.Andrew Kirk, Kevin J. Vanhoozer
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"One problem with evangelistic sermons is that they look and sound
like evangelistic sermons." So says Craig Loscalzo, respected
preacher and teacher of preachers. He believes in the gospel and
its unique power, but knows that today's pastors no longer proclaim
the gospel in a more or less "Christian" culture. Our pluralistic
setting means that the evangelistic sermons of yesterday--which
assumed a common premise and deep respect for Christian
authorities--can no longer work so smoothly. So here you will find
invaluable guidance in shaping evangelistic sermons that are fresh
and appealing to today's unbeliever. Evangelistic Preaching that
Connects includes a rationale for evangelistic preaching, sample
sermons and practical direction, making it ideal for working
pastors and seminary students alike.
God is up to something And his plans are far greater than you might
imagine. Christianity is not merely about isolated individuals
going to heaven. It's about God transforming the entire world and
making things right. Sicknesses will be healed, sins will be
forgiven, injustice will be eradicated, and all creation will be
redeemed. But this is not merely a distant future. It's happening
now through what Jesus came to establish--the kingdom of God. Allen
Wakabayashi reawakens you to the world-changing reality of the
kingdom of God. With clear, biblical insight, he unpacks what Jesus
proclaimed about the good news of the kingdom and spells out the
implications for you today. Focusing on the kingdom of God will
revolutionize how you live out your faith, how you think about your
world and how you explain the good news about Jesus. Ultimately,
understanding yourself as a citizen of the kingdom will empower you
to be one of God's change agents in the world. God is at work to
restore everything to be the way he intended it to be, and you can
be a part of what he is doing Get a glimpse of the kingdom coming,
and experience his will being done--on earth as it is in heaven.
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Street Crossers
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Rick Shrout; Foreword by Leonard Sweet
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"Whoever Saves a Life, It Is Considered as If He Saved an Entire
World"
Dr. Rick Hodes arrived in Africa more than two decades ago to
help the victims of a famine, but he never expected to call this
extremely poor continent his home. Twenty-eight years later, he is
still there.
This Is a Soul tells the remarkable story of Rick Hodes's
journey from suburban America to Mother Teresa's clinic in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia. As a boy, Rick was devoted to helping those in
need, and eventually he determined that becoming a doctor would
allow him to do the most good. When he heard about famine in
Africa, that's where he went, and when genocide convulsed Rwanda,
he went into the refugee camps to minister to the victims. When he
was told that Ethiopia was allowing its Jews to emigrate to Israel,
he went to help. While there, he was drawn to Mother Teresa's
mission in Addis Ababa. It was there that Rick found his calling
when he began caring for the sickest children in one of the world's
poorest countries. But he did more than that--he began taking them
into his home and officially adopted five of them.
This Is a Soul is also a book filled with great joy and triumph.
When Rick's kids return from surgery or life-saving treatments, he
is exultant. "Seeing these people after surgery is like going to
heaven," he says.
Marilyn Berger went to Africa to write about Dr. Hodes, but
while there, she became involved with the story. When she came upon
a small, deformed, and malnourished boy begging on the street, she
recognized immediately that he had the exact disease Rick could
cure. She took him to Rick, who eventually arranged for the boy to
have a complicated and risky surgery, which turned out to be
incredibly successful. The boy's story--intertwined with Rick's,
and Marilyn's as well--is unforgettable in its pathos and subtle
humor.
This Is a Soul is not just a story of the savior and the saved,
it is a celebration of love and wisdom, and an exploration of how
charity and devotion can actually change lives in an overcrowded,
unjust, and often harsh world.
Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which
religion and community development are closely intertwined in a
rural part of contemporary Latin America. Using historical,
documentary, and ethnographic data collected over more than a
decade as an aid worker and as a researcher in central Ecuador,
Jill DeTemple examines the forces that have led to this
entanglement of religion and development and the ways in which
rural Ecuadorians, as well as development and religious personnel,
negotiate these complicated relationships. Technical innovations
have been connected to religious change since the time of the Inca
conquest, and Ecuadorians have created defensive strategies for
managing such connections. Although most analyses of development
either tend to ignore the genuinely religious roots of development
or conflate development with religion itself, these strategies are
part of a larger negotiation of progress and its meaning in
twenty-first-century Ecuador. DeTemple focuses on three development
agencies-a liberationist Catholic women's group, a municipal unit
dedicated to agriculture, and evangelical Protestant missionaries
engaged in education and medical work-to demonstrate that in some
instances Ecuadorians encourage a hybridity of religion and
development, while in other cases they break up such hybridities
into their component parts, often to the consternation of those
with whom religious and development discourse originate. This
management of hybrids reveals Ecuadorians as agents who produce and
reform modernities in ways often unrecognized by development
scholars, aid workers, or missionaries, and also reveals that an
appreciation of religious belief is essential to a full
understanding of diverse aspects of daily life.
Who was (and is) Jesus Christ? What is the gospel of Jesus Christ?
Is the Bible trustworthy? How can the gospel of Jesus Christ
benefit you? (Apologetics)What are the central teachings of Islam,
atheism, and secular socialism and why do these fail to measure up
to Biblical Christianity? (Polemics)What are the major
yet-to-be-fulfilled biblical prophecies and how will these affect
you? (Prophecy)The Bible says that God created you in His image,
that God loves you and wants to have a personal relationship with
you How can you know God and have a personal relationship with
Him?How can you grow and mature spiritually? (Spiritual Growth)How
can you share your faith with others? (Witnessing and
Evangelism)How can you help other believers grow and mature
spiritually? (Discipling)Come along with me and consider the
answers to these and other questions that have eternal significance
to you. This will be an exciting journey as you discover God's plan
for an abundant life for you, now and forever, ... if you place
your faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ
Revival Fires and Awakenings spans four centuries and features 36
accounts of revivals and awakenings in eighteen countries on six
continents. Whilst each revival is different the author reveals the
common characteristics and reoccurring experiences which come to
the fore during times of visitations of the Holy Spirit. Read about
the heaven-sent blessings of revival from the Holy Bible and church
history and see the workings of God during times of visitations:
Revived Christians, saved sinners, transformed communities and
nations; healings, physical phenomena, conviction of sin, miracles,
signs and wonders, deliverance from demons, prayer and intercession
and much more.
The book covers: Revivals in Scripture, understanding revivals and
awakenings, the characteristics of revival, why revival is needed,
how to see revival, prayer for revival, opposition and why revivals
cease, visions and prophecies of revival for the United Kingdom and
beyond, our responsibility, repentance, personal holiness and
intercession for the nations.
Revival Fires and Awakenings looks at the twenty-eight revivals
from the Holy Bible and features thirty-six of the most powerful
revivals and awakenings from world history as well as little known
and obscure visitations of the Holy Spirit.
The 36 accounts include: The American and British Great Awakenings
of the eighteen century, the revivals of 1857-1860 in America,
Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England; the 1904 Welsh Revival, Azusa
Street Outpouring; Congo, Korean, Indonesian, Hebridean, Pensacola
and Argentinean Revivals and includes visitations of the Holy
Spirit in Kilsyth, Dundee, Cornwall, East Anglia, North Uist, Ghana
(and other West African countries), China, Japan, Manchuria, New
Zealand and many other places with references to dozens of other
revivals and incredible evangelistic campaign, healing crusades and
television evangelism from the twentieth century and into the
twenty-first.
Throughout the book there is a watermark and undercurrent of the
influences of the British Awakening (1739-1791) and the Welsh
Revival (1904-1905) and how Christians were stirred and encouraged
by past visitations of the Holy Spirit; or encouraged and inspired
by the lives of revivalists, to see the blessing of revival in
their own town or nation. Read about the prayer and intercession of
surrendered vessels which allowed the heavens to be rent and the
floods to be poured forth so that Jesus could be lifted up, drawing
men unto Himself during times of Divine refreshing. Learn from the
past, be challenged for today and be inspired for the future
Mathew Backholer is the co-founder of ByFaith Media
(www.ByFaith.co.uk) and author of a number of books including:
Understanding Revival, Global Revival: Worldwide Outpourings,
Revival Answers and Revival Fire: 150 Years of Revivals. As a
revival historian he collates, documents and records revivals from
around the globe. Mathew also films and presents ByFaith TV which
airs on numerous Christian networks around the world.
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