Church Life

Book three of the Apprentice Series, a course in spiritual formation. THE GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITY focuses on helping us learn how to live as...

Dave Walker, cartoonist, cyclist, web editor and former church and youth worker, is the UK's most shrewd observer of the quirks of church life. His...

Barbara Baumgarten demystifies the making of vestments - from designing and fitting patterns, to fabric and colour selection, to putting on the fin...

Best-selling author of Simple Church and the runaway hit I am a Church Member, Thom Rainer uses his twenty-five years of experience helping churche...

A 100-Day Plan That's Practical, Realistic, and Actually WorksYou see the problems in your church, and you truly believe it could be better. Not pe...

Richard Bewes was born in a missionary family on the slope of Mount Kenya, attained a degree from Ridley Hall Theological College, Cambridge, and w...

In trying to understand the relationship of the British people to religion - specifically Christianity - we tend to say that people: believe - ...

500 years after Martin Luther's objections, the Church is threatened with division. With fundamentalists and liberals pulling at either end of the ...

What do you think about your pastor? Do you chew over his sermons and wonder if they are clear and helpful? Do you feel he spends enough time with ...

Many of us are serving, and feel like we're sinking. We feel joyless, weary and burdened.John Hindley shows how Jesus was telling the truth when he...

Jesus had a lot to say about money: the widow's mites, a camel through the eye of the needle, the parable of the lost coin, the parable of talents,...

Church Actually is the theme of Spring Harvest 2012. Church attendance in the west has declined in recent years, but decline has been accompanied b...

Stories of people who live a generous and happy life (and why you'll want to live that way too.) Journalist Douglas LeBlanc travels the nation to t...

When we pray "Your Kingdom Come", what do we mean? Local neighbourhoods everywhere are affected by global changes, including the death of a single ...

Our culture is changing, and the church seems to be under increasing pressure.But these dangers are not new—and God's word shows us how to meet the...

Messy Church Theology is the first title to encapsulate the academic theology of Messy Church. Through essays by contributors from a variety of chu...

Enter fruitfully into the seasons of the Christian year in the company of the church's most senior pastors and teachers. What are the seasons of th...

The bestselling writer Paula Gooder continues her exploration of the Christian year, with its different seasons and moods, and the varying messages...

Author Frank Viola presents a compelling case for a new kind of church based on the model for fellowship found in Acts. Redefine expectations and r...

There is much talk today of 'new ways of being church' and 'new monastic spirituality'. As Simon Reed explored the Celtic roots of the Christian fa...

The simple revolution is here. From the iPod design to Google's uncluttered homepage, simple ideas are changing the world. Now available in paperba...

Why on earth does anyone need a guide on how to listen to sermons? Don't we simply need to 'be there' and stay awake? Yet Jesus said: 'Consider car...