Back from the Dead can draw upon a lifetime

can draw upon a lifetime of such conversations as Countryman grapples with the reality of evil and loss

for diaconate programs

What does Isaiah's and the Israelites’ homesickness have to do with today's homeless and lost people

who was unafraid to nudge God into action

and find little satisfaction or peacefulness in either

Back from the Dead can draw upon a lifetimeAlmost everywhere throughout the greater church are unsustainable trends endowments are being depleted, building maintenance deferred, congregations are aging and dwindling, and budgets are too far out of whack. And although there is much literature on what to do to grow congregations, little has been said about how to get those things done. In highly accessible, anecdotal prose, church management expert Gerald Keucher focuses in very practical terms