Celebrate Anglicanism is an extremely accessible introduction to Anglicanism -- and in particular to its North American expression. For any who want to understand the basics of Christian Faith and the way that Faith has come to be handed on by those who would describe themselves as Anglican Christians this book covers all the basics. Celebrate Anglicanism is written by a layman for the laity of the Anglican Church. The book is for those who are curious, who want to learn, who need basic knowledge. It is for ordinary Christians and those who are considering claiming their vocations as laymen and women in the world. The book is an invitation to becoming a disciple, and being informed enough to invite others into following Christ as committed and informed Anglicans. Celebrate Anglicanism is divided into seven chapters. It encourages use by groups -- classes -- where together inquirers can discover the treasure that is the Christian Faith in the Anglican Way. There are lots of questions to connect what is being learned to personal reflection or group discussion. The appendices offer everything from the classic creeds to a Church Constitution to contemporary statements from global gatherings. Celebrate Anglicanism is particularly useful in describing the way in which historic and global Anglicanism has been recovered and renewed in the Anglican Church in North America. Indeed, the book helps one understand how the emergence of the Anglican Church in North America is the fruit of a world-wide Reformation of Anglicanism. Among the stories that are told is how the Global Anglican Future Conference of 2008 called for the formation of the Anglican Church of North America as part of the re-centering of world-wide Anglicanism on the Faith once for all delivered to the saints. The second Global Anglican Future Conference has meet in 2013 where the North American Province took its place as part of the great missionary movement, which is 21st century orthodox Anglicanism. As one whose ministry has been concerned to offer the fullness of Anglicanism as a very reliable way to invite, form, disciple, and deploy committed Christians, I commend Celebrate Anglicanism to those who are looking for a new life in Christ and to those who are charged with preparing souls for such a life in the Anglican Way. The Most Reverend Robert Duncan, D.D.

Celebrate Anglicanism: The Faith That Anglicans Have Always Believed, Taught, & Practiced

History

Davis, Bud

World

Anglican House Media Ministries, Inc.

Every week in worship services around the world hundreds of millions of Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox confess their faith by reciting the Nicene Creed. Now comes the first-ever book to teach children about this most widely accepted statement of the Christian faith. It will help parents, grandparents, and teachers engage 5 to 12 year olds in the marvelous light of God’s love for them. The lucid commentary will help children understand whatwe affirm by reciting the Creed, and why each of its affirmations is important to the Christian faith. The artwork will introduce children and adults to an ancient Christian style by evoking, but not imitating, the beautiful visual art of iconography. Added features include “Why Teach the Creed to Children,” and “Keywords For Kids” to help them grasp that even though some of the language may sound grown-up they can understand it and claim it for their own. The author wrote and illustrated this book for his own children and children everywhere.

The Nicene Creed: Illustrated and Instructed for Kids

Children's Books

Fitzgerald, Joey

Biographies

EAS Syndrome: Healing Burnout in Adults Lacking Parental Affirmation By Trevor Walters With Jim Stanley, M.D. _____________________________________________ Why do so many pastors burnout and leave the ministries they’ve diligently shepherded? The phenomenon is epidemic, with record numbers leaving monthly. Writing in professional partnership with a psychiatrist, Trevor Walters shows that midlife burnout is not caused by stress, as we thought, but by an inner conflict strong and persistent enough to ignite burnout in professional men and women. From decades of counseling burned out clergy and other professionals, the author concludes that in most cases the operative inner conflict is affirmation deficiency. When parents fail in their task of affirming a son’s or daughter’s unique personhood, the child embarks on a life long quest of seeking after affirmation elsewhere. This is a pursuit they can maintain only so long before burning out around age 50. No book until now has explained External Affirmation Syndrome (EAS), its consequences, and therapy for healing. This will enrich readers and all therapeutic counselors, Christians especially. In this groundbreaking new book, Bishop Trevor Walters draws on his more than three decades as an Anglican priest and marriage and family counselor to show why high-functioning professionals break down in midlife. Contrary to the popular assumption, Walters explains that the primary cause of burnout isn’t stress. (Some very high-stress professions have low burnout rates.) Rather, burnout results from an internal conflict. Adults lacking affirmation from parents – particularly fathers – during the formative years will go about seeking it from those whom they serve – an inevitable path to burnout. In collaboration from psychiatrist Jim Stanley, M.D., Walters offers hope by demonstrating that recognizing this hidden source of burnout, far from being a dire diagnosis, is the first necessary step to seeking healing available through the Great Physician, Jesus Christ. Walters looks to the example of the Heavenly Father’s relationship with Jesus during his incarnate earthly ministry as a heavenly pattern for relationships. When earthly fathers fall short, real injury is done to their children. Identifying, acknowledging, understanding the nature, and the full extent, of this injury can set the course for genuine healing and forgiveness. The insights this milestone book offers to psychologists, psychiatrists, and religious counselors are very accessible to anyone seeking to understand their own struggles, and to employers and loved ones concerned about a fall-off in the performance or wellbeing of another. This is neither a man’s nor a woman’s book, nor is it a book for any particular age or group. Individual chapters identify and explain the following: · The usual cause of midlife burnout is not stress as we thought, but inner conflict. · Observable symptoms of burnout are catalogued. · The heavenly template: Jesus was affirmed at the Jordon before he had done anything to earn it. He was able to slough-off his temptations and challenges knowing that that his Father affirmed him. · The behaviors Jesus modeled are not beyond our reach today. · EAS people live in subjectivity (internalizing happenings according to their feelings and previous experiences) rather than objectively; hence their addiction to affirmation. · How childhood affects you; e.g., resentment begins at home, caused by lack of affirmation. · Unpacking co-dependencies of the growing-up years. A reprise of the therapy so far and an outline of the next steps to healing. · How misapprehending the Fifth Commandment (Honoring your father and your mother) gets in the way of healing. · Victims of abuse accept responsibility for what happened. Children attribute lack of affirmation to being unworthy of it, with harmful consequences in life. · Cataloging parental failures is a necessary step to assigning blame where it belongs and to true forgiveness. Excusing parental failures in the guise of forgiveness allows wounds to continue festering. · One must know the extent of the damage done before choosing to forgive. · Grieving the loss of what could have been when growing up, and grieving for one’s parents, who also missed out on God’s plan. · An imaginary return to one’s home of origin in order to offload toxic emotions generated there. · Coaching for the imaginary trip to the home of origin. · The preeminence of Christ and what he has in store for those who seek his healing touch. · Seeking out people of godly wisdom. St. Paul’s affirmations in the introductions to his letters. · Living into words of affirmation given by discerning people. · Building healthy peer-to-peer relationships to replace shallow “best friend” relationships. · Persons healed of EAS must parent themselves. Doing it well. · Advice about affirming children.

Eas Syndrome: Healing Burnout in Adults Lacking Parental Affirmation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Walters, Trevor

Mental Health

Nowhere else can be found in one volume this kind of thorough treatment of the ecclesial and sacramental aspects called for in the Great Commission. For John Fenwick, ecclesiology is apostolic from beginning to end and a reminder that the Gospel has not, will not, and cannot change. His is a fresh view of what really is at stake these days. All who share J.I.Packer’s belief that “the Anglican heritage is the richest heritage in Christendom,” will understand how much this work is a pearl of great price. This big, broad-based, erudite 552 page book argues that from the ecclesiological heritage of a small, separate body, the Free Church of England – wherein both Anglo-Catholic and Evangelical dimensions are fully in place and function in harmony – may be found the apostolicity that Anglicans everywhere (and others) should be seeking. Some may wonder how a small, little known church could point the way for orthodoxy. Because the FCE is what it is, it has developed its ecclesiology free of much of the turmoil within Anglicanism in recent years. The Author’s subtitle The Renewing of a Visionpoints to meaningful conclusions wherein the prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ for the unity of his Church (John 17:20-23) can begin to be realized and the Church’s witness to the world made stronger. In an extraordinarily wide-ranging scholarly survey of the current worldwide scene, this work in a very engaging manner renders a tremendous service to Anglicans worldwide in raising questions and scrutinizing the serious issues facing the Church today and their impact on the Body of Christ. It winsomely calls the wider Anglican family to face the present controversies, which happen to be troubling the church, through the lens of the ancient Christian faith, as it was received by the Church of England and bequeathed to her thirty-nine daughter churches throughout the world. (Anglicans are the world’s largest group of Protestants.) Skillfully argued with an eye towards ecumenical dialogue, this engaging book lays out what is truly at stake in many of the divisive issues of the present day. Exploring what different traditions teach about the place of the Bible in the Church, the nature and task of the ministry, and the role of the laity, and with apostolicity as its unifying theme, here is a very enriching, challenging, and even compelling read offering discussion agendas into which both Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox may enter with precision and without compromise. The author does this in a gentle conciliatory manner, with an eye to possible convergences where there has been controversy. Anglican Ecclesiology and the Gospelis invaluable for an age that is gradually ripping historical Christianity apart, and which is in danger of bequeathing to the next generation a Church without the Gospel of Christ. (John Fenwick)

Anglican Ecclesiology and the Gospel

Religion & Spirituality

Fenwick Sir, John

Christian Books & Bibles

This little book was written to help new Christians make the transition to a wholly different life on which they've now embarked. ;The Way Forward stands as a bridge between the non-Christian, or the merely nominal church member, and those who are actively enjoying the warm relationships of fellowship in Christ. Sadly, there is a real shortage of materials that can be used to address the critical need of nurturing a new believer. New believers definitely need some help if they are going to be able to adjust to the fresh world of being in Christ! In The Way Forward, Michael Green gives us exactly what is needed: a refreshingly straightforward path, but a theologically sound one that also leaves room for the Holy Spirit to work. It is aimed at those who have recently come to personal faith in Christ, but is also of value for any Christian . The content has already proved to be fruitful, having been extensively tested in both church and university settings in America and the U.K.

The Way Forward: Nurturing New Believers

GREEN, MICHAEL

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