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- A Closer Look
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- All for God’s Honor, Glory and Praise
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- Athanasius Lists the New Testament Writings
- Audio Resources From the 2010 GCI Conference
- Augustine "Father" of the Western Church
- Australia
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- Baptism
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- Celebrate Our Savior
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- Celebrating Jesus’ Ascension
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- Choose Your Future: What Options Are There for a Small Church?
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- Christmas Past and Present in the Church
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- Church: Some Assembly Required
- Church: What’s on the Menu?
- Cocoon or Community?
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- Color Crazy
- Commemorating the Crucifixion
- Commissioning a Ministry Leader
- Communion
- Confessions of a Youth Evangelist
- Confirmation Ceremony
- Conflict at Rome: Romans 14
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- Denominational Support
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- Disciplemaking Ministry: Conclusion
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- Disciplemaking Ministry: Creating an Atmosphere of Love
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- Disciplemaking Ministry: Introduction
- Disciplemaking Ministry: Prayerful Dependence
- Disciplemaking Ministry: The Adoration of Christ
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- Discovering Handel’s Messiah
- Does God Hate Christmas?
- Does It Matter When Jesus Was Born?
- Does the Bible Allow Women to be Pastors?
- Easter in the Church
- Easter Sunday
- Edification or Building Up Through Cell Groups
- Educational Institutions Associated With GCI
- Emphasis on Ministry to Children
- Equipping Children for Ministry
- Equipping Our Youths for Peer Evangelism
- Evangelizing Postmodern Youths
- Fact Sheet: GCI Statement of Beliefs
- Fact Sheet: Grace Communion International
- Fasting and Repentance After the Salem Witch Trials
- Form or Substance?
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- Funeral Service
- GCI Churches and Work in Europe
- GCI Churches and Work in Latin America
- GCI Churches and Work in Northeastern Asia, the Philippines, and the United Arab Emirates
- GCI Churches and Work in Southern Africa
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- GCI Churches and Work in the Caribbean
- GCI Churches and Work in Western, Central, and Eastern Africa
- GCI in Canada
- GCI Membership in Evangelical Organizations
- GCI Position on Annual Days of Christian Worship
- GCI Statement of Financial Stewardship
- GCnext mission
- Getting It Back to Front
- Give Me One Good Reason to Go to Church
- Give Ministry Opportunities to Children
- Giving Honor and Love to Pastors
- God Brought My Heart to San Francisco
- Good Friday and Easter Sunday
- Good Things in Small Packages
- Grandma’s Old Church
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Holidaygreetings.com
- Home Office Mission, Values and Objectives
- Hope for the Left Behind Church – Interview With Ruth Tucker
- How Camps Support Healthy Youth Ministries
- How Often Should We Participate in the Lord’s Supper?
- How Russia Became Christian
- How to Make Your Congregation Youth-Friendly
- In Remembrance of What?
- Infant Baptism
- Installation of a Pastor
- Intergenerational Ministry
- Intern Program
- Involve Children in Your Life
- Irenaeus and the Second Century Church
- Is a Short-Term Mission Worth It?
- Is Birthday Celebration a Sin?
- Is Christmas a Sin?
- Is Eating the Lamb of God Only an Annual Event?
- Is It a Sin to Observe Easter?
- Is the Cross a Pagan Symbol?
- Is There Only One Right Way to Worship God?
- Jeremiah 10 and Christmas Trees
- Jesus Christ of ‘One Substance with the Father’
- Jesus’ Benediction
- Karl Barth: "Prophet" to the Church
- Lay Members’ Role in the Early Church
- Leadership in the Church
- Leading With Love
- Living Today
- Loving God: Foundation for Youth Ministry
- Managing the Postmodern Church
- Mary Jones and the First Major Worldwide Bible Society
- Maundy Thursday and “Holy Week”
- Media from the 2014 Regional Conferences
- Media from the UK 2012 Denominational Conference
- Merry Christmas
- Ministry Coaching
- Ministry Competency
- Ministry Foundations
- Ministry Strategy
- Mission Bound
- Modification, Formation, and Reformation in Youth Ministry
- Moving Mountains in Appalachia
- Mozambique Adventure
- NAE Statement of Faith
- Nurture Children in the Way of Jesus
- Nurturing Believing Children
- Nurturing Young Believers
- Oh Come, All Ye Wasteful
- On Mission in the Bahamas
- Once Pagan, Always Pagan?
- One ‘Mere Christian’ in Church History Clive Staples Lewis
- Ordination of an Elder
- Our Mission and Ministries
- Our Mission and Vision
- Our Story
- Our Upward, Inward and Outward Responsibilities
- Our Values, Emphasis, and Ministries
- Paganism — Where Should Christians Draw the Line?
- Paganism, Pagans and Pagan Customs
- Palm Sunday
- Partaking of the Promises
- Paul’s Policy on Women: Three Key Questions
- Pentecost — For the Church Today
- Pentecost: Power for the Gospel
- Pentecost: The Birth of the Church
- Persecution, Penance and "the Lapsed"
- Principles of Effective Children’s Ministry: BRING the Children
- Printable Pamphlets
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- Purposes of the Church
- Question & Answers About the Lord’s Supper
- Rejoice! Christ Has Risen! a Bible Study
- Relate to Children at Their Level
- Relationship of Worship Days to Vision and Mission
- Renewal of Wedding Vows
- Responding to God With Worship
- Responding to the Church With Teamwork
- Saved by His Life
- School in Thailand Expands
- Seeking a Center for the Church
- Seeking Lost Children
- Send Us Some Children – A Story of Transformation
- Should Believers Be Baptized?
- Should Christians Celebrate Easter?
- Should You Plant a Church?
- Six Functions of the Church
- Small Change Leads to Big Mission
- Small Groups or Cell Groups?
- So How Did it Go?
- Spiritual Gifts and Church Growth
- Standing in the Light
- Standing in the Light
- Teamwork in the Church
- Ted and Me, and Anthony, Too: The Joy of Mentoring
- Teen Ministry: Rethinking Our Paradigm
- The African-American Church
- The Apostles’ Creed
- The Ascension and the Return of Christ
- The Bi-Vocational Pastor
- The Bread of Heaven
- The Church’s Leaky Basement
- The Church’s Worship Calendar
- The Communion of Saints
- The Council of Chalcedon and the "Two Natures" Controversy
- The First Church Christmas
- The GCI Statement of Beliefs
- The Great Awakening
- The Great Disappointment
- The Great Schism of the Church
- The Life and Times of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The Light of Lights
- The Lord’s Supper Reminds Us of God’s Love
- The Meaning of Christmas
- The Name of the Lord’s Supper
- The Need for "Depth Perception" in Church History
- The Nicene Creed
- The Passover-Easter-Quartodeciman Controversy
- The Pastor’s Calling
- The Protestant Church in Hitler’s Germany and the Barmen Declaration
- The Quest for the Ideal Church
- The Road to Nicea, and Beyond
- The Second-Best Christmas Gift
- The Three-Fold Meaning of the Lord’s Supper
- The Tree
- The Weekly Worship Service
- Theater of the Imagination
- Three Historic Christian Creeds
- Three Rs for Easter
- Time for New Methods
- Time for New Trees
- Transformed by Christ: A Brief History of Grace Communion International
- Truce on Earth, Good Will Toward Men
- Turn-Key or Makeover?
- U.S. Church Administration Manuals
- Underlining Life
- Unsubscribe from the GCI Newsletter
- Upward, Inward and Outward in Words and Deeds
- Using Christmas to Teach Children About Jesus
- Vacation or Mission?
- Vatican II and the Future of Church Unity
- Watching God Work in the Philippines
- Waters of Life
- Ways to Give
- We Are Growing in Important Ways
- We Don’t Trust You
- We’re Often Asked
- Wedding Ceremony
- What Does Deuteronomy 12:30-31 Forbid?
- What Does Jesus Have to Do With Easter?
- What Does Jesus Want for Christmas?
- What Events Are Worth Celebrating?
- What Is an Evangelical?
- What Is the Church?
- What Is Youth Ministry?
- What Makes a Church Grow?
- What’s in a Name?
- Whatever Happened to Church Growth?
- When Astronomy Became a Theological Football
- When Was Jesus Born?
- When We Fall Short
- Why Be Concerned About Mission?
- Why Don’t More People Go to Church?
- Why Our Worship Style Is Changing
- Why Remember the Crucifixion? A Bible Study
- Why You Need the Church
- William Seymour and the Rise of Pentecostalism
- William Tyndale and the Birth of the English Bible
- William Wilberforce: Christian Abolitionist, Reformer, Statesman
- Women in Leadership
- Women in Ministry
- Women of Faith: Yesterday, Now and Forever
- Women Who Spoke the Word of God
- Workshop Resources From the 2010 Conference
- Worship Looks Back, Looks Forward
- Worshipping in Spirit and in Truth
- Worth a Million Words
- Your Church Needs You
- Your Part in the Lord’s Table
- Youth Ministry — The Importance of Prayer
- Youth Ministry and the Great Commission
- Youth Ministry Includes Developing Young Leaders
- Youth Ministry Values and Mission
- Youth Ministry: Playing as a Team
- Youth Ministry: The Emphasis Must Be Spiritual
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