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Recommended Books To Enhance Our Core Values

Recommended Books To Enhance Our Core Values

 §  Holy Scripture: love for the living, authoritative Word of God

  • Between the Testaments . D. S. Russell.  Fortress. 1965.  ISBN 0-8006-1856-4
  • Faith on Trail.  Would the Testimony of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Stand Up in Court? Pamela Binnings Ewen. Broadman and Holman. 1999. ISBN 080542026-6
  • In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture.   Alister McGrath.  Anchor. 2002.  ISBN 0-385-72216-8
  • Knots Untied.   John  Charles Ryle.  2000.  Charles Nolan.  ISBN 0-967760-2-1
  • The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha.. Revised Standard Version.  Oxford UP. 1973.
  • The Threshold of Christianity. Between the Testaments. Lawrence E. Toombs.. Westminster. ISBN 0-644-24900-0

§ Mission Outreach: proclaiming the love of Christ through prayer and a compassionate service to the larger community

  • Christian Mission in the Modern World.  What the Church Should be Doing Now!   John R. W. Stott. InterVarsity Press. 1975.  ISBN 0-87784-485-2
  • History of Christian Missions . Pelican. 1964. ISBN 0-14-022736-9
  • Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours?  Roland Allen. Eerdmans. 1962.  ISBN 0-8028-1001-8
  • Missionary Principles.  Roland Allen. Eerdmans.. 1968
  • The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church.  Roland Allen. Eerdmans. 1962.  ISBN 0-8028-1002-0
  • Transforming Mission. Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission. David J. Bosch. Orbis. 1991. ISBN 0-88344-719-3

§ Christian Formation: making disciples of Christ of all ages through Christian Education

  • Basic Christianity.  John R. W. Stott. Eerdmans.  1999.  ISBN 0-8028-1283-X
  • Celebration of Discipline.  The Path to Spiritual Growth.   Richard J. Foster.  Harper and Row.  1988. ISBN 0-06-062839-1
  • The Christian Mind.  How should a Christian think?   Harry Blamires.  Vine. 1978.  ISBN 1-56955-044-1
  • The Cruelty of Heresy. An Affirmation of Christian Orthodoxy. C. FitzSimmons Allison.  Morehouse. 1994. ISBN 0-8192-1513-9
  • A History of the Church in England.   J. R. H. Moorman.  Morehouse  1980.  ISBN 0-8192-1406-X
  • A History of the Episcopal Church.   Robert Prichard.  Morehouse.  1991.  ISBN 0-8192-1493-0
  • Mere Christianity .  C. S. Lewis.  Macmillan. 1977   ISBN 0-02-086810-3
  • Our Anglican Heritage.  John W. Howe.  Wifp and Stock.  2006.  ISBN 13: 978-1-59752-946-4
  • The Post Christian Mind.  Exposing Its Destructive Agenda.  Harry Blamires. Viine.  1999. ISBN 1-56955-142-1 Questions of Life. A Practical Introduction to the Christian Faith.   Nicky Gumbel. 2000.  Cook.  ISBN 0-7814-5261-9
  • The Rebirth of Orthodoxy.  Signs of New Life in Christianity.   Thomas C. Oden.  Harper. 2003.  ISBN 0-06-009785-X
  • Right from Wrong.  What you need to know to help youth make right choices.  Josh McDowell.  Word.  1994.  ISBN 0-84-99-3604-7
  • Searching Issues.  Tacking Seven Common Objections to the Christian Faith.   Nicky Gumbel. Cook.  1996.  ISBN 0-7814-5259-7
  • Ye Are the Body.  A People’s History of the Church.   Bonnell Spencer.  Holy Cross. 1990.  ISBN unknown

§ Worship: exalting Christ in worship and praise as set forth by The Book of Common Prayer

  • The Book of Common Prayer.  Church Hymnal Corp.1928.
  • The Book of Common Prayer.  Church Hymnal Corp.1979.
  • The First and Second Prayer Books of Edward VI.  Prayer Book Society. 1999. ISBN 0-9535668-0-3
  • The Hymnal 1940. Church Hymnal Corp. 1961.
  • The Hymnal 1982. Church Hymnal Corp. 1982.
  • The Prayer Book Through the Ages. William Sydnor.  Morehouse.1996.  ISBN 0-8192-1509-0
  • Theological Introduction to the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England.  E. J.Bicknell.  Longmans, Green and Co. 1953
  • The Thirty-nine Articles: Buried Alive?  Samuel C. Pascoe. Latimer. 1998. ISBN 1-893051-00-5

§   Fellowship: welcoming others and nurturing one another in the love of Christ

  • Caring Criticism. William J. Diehm.  Stephen Ministries. 1998.  ISBN 0-8066-22113
  • Christian Caregiving.  A Way of Life.   Kenneth C. Haugk.  Augsburg.  1984.  ISBN 0-8066-2123-0
  • Caring for Military Families.  Facing Separation, War and Homecoming .  David A. Paap.  Stephen Ministries.  1991.
  • The God Who Changes Lives.  Remarkable stories of God at work today.   Volume 1.  ed. Mark Elsdon-Dew.  HTB  1997.  ISBN 1-898838-03-8
  • The God Who Changes Lives.  Remarkable stories of God at work today.   Volume 2.  ed. Mark Elsdon-Dew.  HTB  1997.  ISBN 1-898838-81-X
  • I'll Quit Tomorrow.  Vernon E. Johnson.  Harper and Row. 1980. ISBN 0-06-250430-4
  • Keeping Your Family Together When the World is Falling Apart.  Kevin Leman. Focus on the Family. 1993. ISBN 1-56179-180-6
  • Life Together.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Harper. 1954. ISBN 0-06-060852-X

 

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