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Hybrid Church: Rethinking the Church for a Post-Christian Digital Age
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Hybrid Church: Rethinking the Church for a Post-Christian Digital Age

by James Emery White

Narrated by Tom Parks

We live our lives in both physical and digital community.We need to do ministry the same way.Because of COVID-19, nearly every church in the US was forced to adapt to a quarantine and adopt new ministry strategies, including digital technologies they may have avoided before. When services began to be offered in-person once more, many church leaders said they… Read more…

Hybrid Church: Rethinking the Church for a Post-Christian Digital Age

Hybrid Church: Rethinking the Church for a Post-Christian Digital Age

by James Emery White

We live our lives in both physical and digital community.We need to do ministry the same way.Because of COVID-19, nearly every church in the US was forced to adapt to a quarantine and adopt new ministry strategies, including digital technologies they may have avoided before. When services began to be offered in-person once more, many church leaders said they… Read more…

Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World

Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World

by James Emery White

Move over Boomers, Xers, and Millennials; there's a new generation--making up more than 25 percent of the US population--that represents a seismic cultural shift. Born approximately between 1993 and 2012, Generation Z is the first truly post-Christian generation, and they are poised to challenge every church to rethink its role in light of a rapidly chan… Read more…

The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated

The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated

by James Emery White

The single fastest growing religious group of our time is those who check the box next to the word none on national surveys. In America, this is 20 percent of the population. Exactly who are the unaffiliated? What caused this seismic shift in our culture? Are our churches poised to reach these people?James Emery White lends his prophetic voice to one of the … Read more…

The Church in an Age of Crisis: 25 New Realities Facing Christianity

The Church in an Age of Crisis: 25 New Realities Facing Christianity

by James Emery White

Knowing the signs of the times, and how then to live as people of faith, has never been more pressing for the church. Though many of the signs are disturbing, we ignore them at our great peril. Combining the very best attributes of a biblical prophet and a modern-day reporter, James Emery White offers a look at twenty-five realities facing the church--in the… Read more…

What They Didn't Teach You in Seminary: 25 Lessons for Successful Ministry in Your Church

What They Didn't Teach You in Seminary: 25 Lessons for Successful Ministry in Your Church

by James Emery White and Perry Noble

In churches today, there are ever fewer older pastors speaking into the lives of younger leaders, and fewer younger leaders feeling there is much to be learned from the experience of their elders. Street-smart wisdom is gone from training as there are many men and women preparing pastors who have never themselves pastored a church. Intriguingly, even older, … Read more…

A Mind for God

A Mind for God

by James Emery White

To be fully human is to think.The apostle Paul calls us to "take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Cor 10:5). But James Emery White fears that Western Christians are failing in this task. Because we have not developed good intellectual habits, our minds instead have been captured by our culture.A Mind for God is written to help us break… Read more…

Serious Times: Making Your Life Matter
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Serious Times: Making Your Life Matter

by James Emery White

Narrated by White, James Emery

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson lived in serious times. And, because they chose to live serious lives they changed the course of history. Serious times met with serious lives. This is the means by which the kingdom of God is advanced and the life of a Christ follower is measured. // As the modern era transitions into postmodern turbulence, we too find oursel… Read more…

Rethinking the Church: A Challenge to Creative Redesign in an Age of Transition

Rethinking the Church: A Challenge to Creative Redesign in an Age of Transition

by James Emery White and Leighton Ford

Why is it important to rethink the church? Today many leaders focus on how their ministries can be run more efficiently. But the foundational question, according to James Emery White, should be Why do we have this ministry? and then, Why do we do this ministry the way we do? Is it effective? Rethinking the Church helps pastors and lay leaders work through… Read more…

A Search for the Spiritual: Exploring Real Christianity

A Search for the Spiritual: Exploring Real Christianity

by James Emery White

This is the book to put into the hands of seekers. With disarming candor (and no churchspeak), White explores the basics of the Christian faith.… Read more…

Da Vinci Question

Da Vinci Question

by James Emery White

In The Da Vinci Question, James Emery White sifts through conflicting claims about Jesus, Mary Magdalene and early Christianity and covers the essential points of the discussion, including the diety of Jesus, who is the real Mary Magdalene, why gnosticism was rightly labeled heresy in the early church, etc. &… Read more…