Religious mission and Religious Conversion Books

"Think Christianly, in a compelling and accessible way, equips Christians young and old to engage the culture winsomely, intelligently, and confidently." - Chuck ColsonJonathan Morrow believes that only when Christians learn to present a compassionate,...

Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of ReligionThe Emerging Church Movement (ECM) is a creative, entrepreneurial religious movement that strives to achieve social legitimacy and spiritual vitality by actively...

""Eastern Africa As A Field For Missionary Labor"" is a collection of four letters written by Bartle Frere to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1874. In these letters, Frere, a British colonial administrator, makes a case for the importance of missionary...

East End Pictures is a book written by Thomas Charles Garland and originally published in 1885. The book is a memoir of Garland's twenty-five years of Christian work in the East End of London, particularly among sailors and other seafaring men. The book...

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Decapolis Or The Individual Obligation Of Christians To Save Souls From Death: An Essay is a religious work written by David Everard Ford and published in 1841. The book explores the concept of individual responsibility for the salvation of souls,...

""Forget Thine Own People"" is a book written by Charles John Vaughan in 1874. This book is an appeal to the home church for foreign missions and consists of three lectures. The author argues that Christians have a duty to share the Gospel with people...

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Endowed Territorial Work: Its Supreme Importance To The Church And Country is a book written by William Smith and published in 1875. The book discusses the importance of endowed territorial work to both the church and the country. Smith argues that the...

Over recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in early modern Catholic missions in Asia as laboratories of cultural contact. This book builds on recent ground-breaking research on early modern Catholic missions, which has shown that...

What does Christian witness look like in an increasingly multifaith society? While it is more important than ever to preach the Word of God, as Scripture exhorts us, it is also important that we dialogue with people from diverse perspectives...

Stuart Murray lays some theological foundations for church planting and invites church planters to think seriously about missiology and ecclesiology. 292 pages.

John Driver explores 12 biblical images for understanding the church including pilgimage, God's new order, peoplehood, and transformation. 244 pages.

What is your church like today? Maybe your congregation is experiencing wonderful energy and growth. Or perhaps, like many, it was established some time ago and is now experiencing a loss of activity and vitality. In this book E. Stanley Ott outlines...

The deflation of the Enlightenment worldview and rise of the post-modern mood over the last decades has altered the relation of Christian faith to culture. How, in this new situation, should the church confess Christ? "Above All Earthly Powers"...

Selo! is a Fijian exclamation used in the outer islands of the Lau group. It is made by the person who first sights a sail or a ship approaching the island. That person announces the sighting by shouting "Selo!" as they run to the village. The village...

In The Problem of Jesus Study Guide, author and pastor Mark Clark looks beyond the superficial understandings of Jesus. He confronts you with the real Jesus of history, asking you to wrestle with the teachings, claims, and actions of the man who has...

Promises. Promises. Everyone makes promises. At weddings, baptisms, political rallies, in court, between nations. And how many keep them? God made a promise, in religious terms, a covenant. Can our broken world ever be fixed? Yes.Trusting in God's...

'My clinic now has a new Dani name, the house of needles. Quite appropriate don't you think?'  Jessie wrote to her hundreds of supporters back home.Jessie Williamson was a courageous missionary nurse who devoted 35 years of her life to...

Giants of the Missionary Trail is a condensed yet highly informative survey of the lives of eight heroes of the Christian faith that will stir your heart for the cause of church planting world- wide. The examples of selfless devotion to the cause of...

A life of signs, wonders, and miracles awaits!When Christians hear the word "evangelism," they are immediately uncomfortable. The call to "share your faith" puts many on edge because, while common evangelism "formulas" feel awkward and impersonal,...

Barbara Melosh’s story was a common one. A second-career seminarian, she arrived at her first pastorate brimming with enthusiasm and high hopes. The blue-collar congregation to which she’d been called had a glorious past but an uncertain...

This book is about releasing the Kingdom of God into the Marketplace. It explains how to transform our communities and cities through individual businesses and seeing business as ministry, and ministry as business.  If you are a Christian in...

Why do individuals and groups hold distinctive theological views? Why do these beliefs change? In what ways do theological interpretations influence concepts of spiritual and political justice? How and why do these concepts of justice affect policy...

This book reflects on three broad themes of Confucian-Christian relations to assist in the appreciation of the church's theology of mission. While the themes of this volume are theological in orientation, the dialogue is engaged in from an...

Twenty Years Among The Mexicans: A Narrative Of Missionary Labor (1875) is a book written by Melinda Rankin, an American missionary who spent two decades living and working among the Mexican people. The book is a detailed account of her experiences,...

Tracts On The Teaching Of The Bible: Respecting The Way Of Obtaining Eternal Life (1881) is a religious book written by John Venn. The book is a collection of tracts that focus on the teachings of the Bible regarding obtaining eternal life. Venn explores...

The Threefold Gift of God: Or Christ Jesus, The Object of Faith, Hope, and Love is a book written by William Haslam and first published in 1876. The book focuses on the three virtues of faith, hope, and love, and how they are intertwined with the central...

The Modern Missionary: As Exemplified In A Narrative Of The Life And Labors Of Edward Cook, In Great Namacqualand, Etc., South Africa (1849) is a book written by Edward Cook. The book provides a detailed account of Cook's life and work as a missionary in...

People can feel confused and bewildered when trying to make sense of all the different religions and philosophies in the world. Many choose the easy option of simply believing that religions are all the same. Christ Above All helps the reader to...

This book is a culturally relevant presentation of the truth of the Trinity to the Muslim mindset. Originally it was issued through a Turkish secular publishing house and had a countrywide repercussion, even in Islamic circles. It is a useful...

As Christianity's center of gravity has shifted to the Majority World in the twenty-first century, many younger churches in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are now coming of age. With this maturing comes the ability to theologize for themselves, not...

What happens to those who did not hear the gospel before death, or who heard an incorrect version? What about those who were too young or who were otherwise unable to respond? Examining the biblical evidence and assessing the theological implications,...

Have you ever wondered about God? Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Buddha, Brahma. Aren't these all just central figures in different religions that humankind has manipulated and twisted over the centuries to control people and serve their own agenda?God or no...

Taking the notion of embodiment as a starting point, this volume maps the interconnecting relationships between religion, gender and sexuality. The chapters highlight how the body - its location, the narratives that surround it, its movement and...

The missionaries have often been accused of having destroyed African cultures, be it deliberately or because they did not understand. The author draws a very different picture in his study of a number of German missionaries in various parts of Tanzania,...

Francinah Baloyi was sixteen when the ancestors demanded that she continue the family tradition and be trained as a sangoma, one through whom the spirits would speak. She was twenty-three when Christ appeared to her in vision and cast out those spirits,...

This book is the result of two historic events that took place in Quito, Ecuador duringOctober 2016. The first was the Gospel and the Future of Cities Summit at which acontingent of Kingdom focused urban leaders gathered to explore what the gospel has...

Does evangelism and witnessing make you uncomfortable? If so, you’re about to be set free … or maybe you’ll become even more uncomfortable.   Using irony, satire, and humor, Jeremy Myers writes Adventures in Fishing for Men...

Jesus's words in John 17 represent one of the church's highest values quot;May they all be one as you and I Father are one.quot; Yet divisions occur from the highest levels of the church to street level projects often neutralizing effectiveness and...

The Broken Leaf invites you to explore the beauty and gospel images found in Japanese art and culture. Through ten short meditations, discover for yourself just how God might be revealing his story in the everyday objects of your life whenever and...

Accelerating MovementsAs record numbers of people around the world respond to Christ, a need for community, structure, and leadership is emerging. Disciple-making and church planting must extend to the most remote areas of every people group and nation...

Baba’s Love is a story about a family’s journey of adoption. Baba is referred to as father in some parts of Africa. By surrendering to the will of God, they learned of a father’s love. Walking by faith through the emotional process,...

Say to These Mountains tells the true story of Wallace Turnbull, one of Haiti’s pioneers in development and missions. Over the course of 70 years, his work changed countless lives and influenced national policy in both Haiti and the United...