A groundbreaking guide for multiplying the impact of church plants Based on a study that was commissioned by the Leadership Network, this book reveals the best practices in church planting and uncovers the common threads among them. A much-needed resource, this book will inform, guide, and even catalyze today's many church planting leaders. The authors clearly show leaders how to plant churches that create a multiplication movement and offer inspiration for them to do so. The book addresses their questions about what to do next in their church planting strategies, in light of research on what's actually working best. Author Ed Stetzer heads up LifeWay Research Provides reliable, credible information about what church planting strategies work best A volume in the Leadership Network Series Offers a definitive guide for church planting and the burgeoning movement it is part of.

Vol. for 1958 includes also the Minutes of the final General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America and the minutes of the final General Assembly of the Presbyteruan Church in the U.S.A.

Proceedings of the Bishops' Workshop on "Reproductive Technologies, Marriage and the Church" held Feb. 1-5, 1988 in Dallas, Tex. Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-308) and index. Two visions of human life and procreation: Christian and secular / Ralph M. McInerny. -- The introduction to the Vatican instruction / Janet E. Smith. -- Development of the embryo and prenatal diagnosis / Patricia L. Monteleone. -- Moral claims of the human embryo / John C. Gallagher. -- A scientific introduction to reproductive technologies / David S. McLaughlin. -- The inseparability of the two meanings of the marriage act / John M. Haas. -- Catholic moral teaching on In vitro fertilization / William E. May. -- Catholic moral teaching and TOT/GIFT / Donald G. McCarthy. -- Pastoral approaches to infertile couples / John G. Quesnell. -- Update on the AIDS epidemic / Richard N. Yezzo. -- Pastoral guidelines for AIDS prevention programs / Philip F. Lawler. -- Family planning today: contraceptive and NFP / Konald A. Prem. -- Winning acceptance for NFP in the face of apathy and dissent / Wayne and Kay Nacey. -- Public policy recommendations / William J. Wagner

The Day God Saw Me as Black is a genre-defying, cultural critique of white supremacy in the Black Pentecostal religious experience through the lenses of race, gender, sexual expression, and class analyses. A narrative that weaves between critique and meditation, decolonization and reconciliation, the theoretical and the deeply personal, The Day God Saw Me as Black is an imagining of what could be if we stopped denying ourselves — and each other — full liberation.