Killer Church

Author: Nathan Finochio
Publisher: Per Capita
ISBN: 9781954020290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Are our churches killing us? Killer Church walks readers through a Biblical study of life and death at the altar of God, and attempts to answer the question: are our churches making us sick? The Church has become peripheral to many Christians today, but throughout the New Testament it remains the epicenter of worship. Where have we gone wrong? And how can we recover the spiritual vitality of the Acts Church? Nathan suggests a way forward both theologically and pastorally in the chapters in this book. "Killer Church will inspire weak chuches to be strong robust churches. Nathan articulates biblical truth with a contemporary easy-to-understand style. I highly recommend this writing in today's world." - Dr. Frank Damazio "Nathan Finochio pulls no punches in addressing the challenges God puts before us as we seek to build churches on the right foundations in a fallen culture which does it best to take us in all the wrong directions." - David Campbell "Killer Church reveals how to keep the church anchored to God's purposes rather than our human assumptions and selfish expectations. With brilliant exposition of God's Word and memorable contemporary examples, Nathan Finochio reignites our passion for knowing God in spirit and truth, unleashing His Spirit in all areas of our lives." - Chris Hodges, Senior Pastor, Church of the Highlands, Author of The Daniel Dilemma and Out of the Cave

Jim and Casper Go to Church

Author: Jim Henderson
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414330901
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
What does an atheist think about church? Jim Henderson decided that the best way to find out was to ask! So he recruited an atheist—Matt Casper—to visit twelve leading churches with him and give the “first impression” perspective of a non-believer. Week after week, this spiritual odd couple attended services at churches all over the country and documented their experiences at and reactions to each one. Along the way, they found the real value of their journey in the open and authentic friendship that developed as they talked, questioned, joked, and—most important—listened. Follow along with Jim and Casper on their visits, and eavesdrop as they discuss what they found. Their articulate, sometimes humorous, and always insightful dialogue offers Christians a new view of an environment where we’ve become overly comfortable: the church.

Church Bells at Midnight

Author: Matt Horan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666712698
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 75

Book Description
For fifty-one days in 2017, a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida--Seminole Heights--was terrorized by a serial killer. Benjamin was shot while waiting for a bus, Monica while walking to meet a friend, Anthony while walking home from packing hurricane relief supplies, and Reginald on his way to volunteer at his church to feed the homeless. Police were baffled by his ability to escape, businesses struggled to stay open, residents stopped walking the streets at night, and Seminole Heights United Methodist Church was called upon to serve a neighborhood in fear. Their campus housed efforts to support heroic police officers; their members and friends supported mourning family members; and late, late into the night on day fifty-one, their church bells pierced the darkness to announce when it was once again safe to come outside. For anyone who thinks people don't need churches in their neighborhoods anymore, the story of Seminole Heights invites you to think again.

Soul of a Killer

Author: Abby Collette
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593336216
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
In this mouthwatering cozy mystery series, fraternal twins Keaton and Koby are trying to run their combined soul food café and bookstore, but they find themselves searching for a cold-hearted killer. Keaton and Koby are fraternal twins who were separated as children, but now they’ve found each other and opened Books & Biscuits in the pleasant Pacific Northwest town of Timber Lake. Business is booming, but even so, trouble always seems to find them. Mama Zola, Koby’s devoted foster mom, has taken up residence in Timber Lake. She and Pete, one of the bookstore’s quirky employees, bring a peach cobbler over to her church’s potluck, and then someone who sampled the cobbler is found dead. Mama Zola and Pete find themselves suspects in the murder, but luckily Koby and Keaton are ready to sling out a side of justice.

Clergy Killers

Author: G. Lloyd Rediger
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664257538
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Clergy Killers offers remedial strategies for pastors and congregations who want to protect themselves against the abuse of parishioners with personality disorders, mental illnesses, and mean streaks in situations that go well beyond mere church conflict.

The Psychology of Notorious Church Killers

Author: Megan Hunter
Publisher: Notorious
ISBN: 9781950057337
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
People with high conflict personalities (HCPs)are drawn to leadership to satisfy their maladaptive personality traits and drawn to the church as parishioners and staff because they frequently move from one church or job to another, and the barrier to entry for parishioners is non-existent. HCPs in church leadership eventually damage the church, sometimes beyond repair, as their fear-based personalities are in charge and they are out of alignment with the church mission. Eventually, chaos ensues the church is stuck with a leader with a long-term contract. High conflict leadership is not sustainable long-term. HCPs on church staff are often drawn to the position in the hope of fitting in and being accepted. Usually a different personality type from the HCP leader, the staff person causes chaos and is disappointed by the response of leadership and other staff. HCPs in the congregation can be any personality type and can wreak havoc on the body of Christ through division that results in church splits and attrition and even more damaging impact of affairs, corruption, and other illegal activities. Unfortunately, relying on traditional conflict resolution techniques, church leaders are unaware of the danger of HCPs in leadership positions, nor are they prepared to handle HCP staff or parishioners. Not for lack of trying--but for lack of understanding how to identify HCPs before they are hired or promoted into leadership as pastors and elders, assigned to teach classes, or hired on staff. Getting educated about the five types of high conflict personalities that can distract from the church's purpose and potentially damage or destroy the congregation is vital. Using her expertise as high conflict personalities, Megan Hunter, MBA, co-founder of the High Conflict Institute, helps church leadership identify HCPs before it's too late and how to handle them if they're already in the door.

The Killer Preacher

Author: Danny Curry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781692367527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRUE CRIME STORIES OF MURDER AND MAYHEM IN THE MOST UNLIKELY OF PLACES...YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH EDMUND LOPES Edmund Lopes was as charming as they come. He could befriend any man or woman on the street with his "golden tongue". Known to tell a tall tale or two, he led a normal life until he abandoned his first wife and his children. From there, he would remarry, kill his second wife, try to kill his girlfriend and murder another woman. Eventually tried and convicted, he would be released on parole after only twelve years. Ordered not to leave the state, Lopes defied the authorities and fled to Nebraska to marry his "pen pal" that had been writing him in prison. The two then moved to rural Washington where Lopes reinvented himself as "Pastor Ed". He regaled his parishioners with his own personal story of being the Prodigal Son, the bad man gone astray who came back into the fold of the Lord. Problem was, none of his stories were true. FATHER JOHN FEIT The Catholic Church is known for sweeping everything under the rug and keeping their secrets from coming out. In the 1990s, the public finally found out about the sexual abuse that was predominant in this religious institution. Having in mind that they managed to cover up numerous cases throughout the decades, it shouldn't come as a surprise that they also concealed a murder which shocked a small town of McAllen in 1960.Religious people from this area refused to believe that a priest was capable of such a thing, and the police had almost no evidence. The case went cold, and it collected dust for decades, waiting for someone to start talking. And luckily, one person decided to tell the investigators everything. These stories and more are featured in this True Crime anthology of murder in the church.

A Killer Called Comfort: Danger is Lurking in America's Churches

Author: Pat Spell Blackwell
Publisher: Speaktruth Media Group LLC
ISBN: 9781736452097
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
In "A Killer Called Comfort," Pat Spell Blackwell issues a wake-up call to Christians, revealing that danger deception is lurking in the pews and pulpits of the American church.

Killer's Ink

Author: Malcolm Shuman
Publisher: Overamstel Uitgevers
ISBN: 9049980120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
His career in shambles, a newspaperman looks for a new start in rural Louisiana Pete Brady is in a bar on Magazine Street, halfway through his third Manhattan, when he gets a message from the New Orleans underworld. In response to Pete’s recent investigation into drug trafficking, they have sent him a message: slitting his favorite source’s throat, ear to ear. Even a Pulitzer Prize can’t get that image out of Pete’s head, and so he bolts, moving to desolate Troy, Louisiana, where he buys a failing newspaper and tries to turn it into a force for good. But death is not through with Pete Brady. While tidying the graves in the local churchyard, a group of society ladies discover the body of Frieda Troy MacBride, gossip columnist, whose acid tongue has finally gotten her killed. As he struggles to keep his little paper from going under, Brady must unmask this small-town slayer before every writer on staff meets the same fate.

Hearing God

Author: Nathan Finochio
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0735291713
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Identify and deconstruct the most common myths about how God communicates—and then learn to utilize clear tools to accurately decipher and follow the voice of God in your life. So many people wish that God would audibly weigh in on life's greatest questions of calling, meaning, and purpose. What's crazy is that God is weighing in on those questions. We just haven't learned to listen. Nathan Finochio believes that God is constantly communicating with this world he's created. We simply aren't following the right advice when it comes to hearing what he has to say. Through biblical teaching and true life stories, Hearing God empowers and enables readers to separate fact from fiction, myth from meaning, and truly understand what God is saying to them about big decisions and daily living.