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The House Church Book Kindle Edition is Available

The House Church Book : Non Emerging New Testament Prototype (Kindle Edition) is now available as an electronic book download for Amazon's Kindle, and any other devices that supports the free Kindle Reading Application. It is available in...

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The House Church Book Reviewed

The summer 2010 issue of Upward, a magazine for alumni of Columbia International University (formerly Columbia Bible College) featured a book review of The House Church Book. Author Del Birkey graduated from this school in the class of 1957....

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The End of Book Publishing

Michael Hyatt is the President of Thomas Nelson Books, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. He is an astute thinker, blogger and follower of what is happening in the book publishing world, and writes a significant blog on the topic at...

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The Fall of Patriarchy Now Available

The House Church Book website is pleased to announce that it has just added The Fall of Patriarchy by Del Birkey as another eBook that can be purchased and downloaded online. This book published in print form in 2005, is now available in both...

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The House Church Book Now Available

The House Church Book: Non Emerging New Testament Prototype by author Del Birkey has been completed posthumously after Del Birkey passed away unexpectedly on May 13, 2009 and is now available online for purchase and download as a digital eBook...

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Author Del Birkey Dies at 76

Del Birkey, the author of The House Church Book passed away unexpectedly on May 13, 2009 at the age of 76, after suffering an intracerebral hemorrhage. The visitation and funeral service took place on Monday, May 18, 2009 at Hultgren Funeral...

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The Meaning of ICHTHUS

The Meaning of ICHTHUS/ichthus as an adopted Christian symbol. In ancient Greco-Roman times, ICHTHUS was the Greek word for "fish." In the early church sometime near the end of the first century, the word was made into an acronym or a word...

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The House Church: A Missiological Model

Cover of Missiology Review The following article was adapted from The House Church: A Model for Renewing the Church, and published by the American Society of Missiology in its quarterly, Missiology: An International Review, Vol. XIX. No. 1,...

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The House Church Book–Contents of Revised Edition

Part 1— The House Church & Renewal 1. Good Theology Provokes Authentic Renewal 2. The Renewed People of God in their Social Context 3. The New Testament House Churches in Their Historical Trajectory Part 2—Ministry & Worship in Christ's...

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