Bøger af Tom Swartzwelder

God wants us to be process-driven Christians rather than event-driven Christians! Process-driven Christians are those faithful Christians who "keep on doing it" year after year.By contrast, event-driven Christians are those less than faithful Christians who like to be part of the big event but can't maintain any momentum. They are easily discouraged and lack staying power.In this follow-up to God's Greenhouse, veteran Pastor Tom Swartzwelder introduces 15 Spiritual Laws that will help you reach a stage in your Christian life where you continue to minister even after you have seen it all and done it all. Now it's time to keep on doing it.

In a time when churches are faltering, failing and closing their doors, God's Greenhouse takes us back to the basics-- growing believers who then grow the church. Author Tom Swartzwelder draws on over thirty years of pastoral experience as he outlines a plan to lead churches to embrace their calling and their Great Commission mandate to reach the lost. God's Greenhouse provides a framework that any pastor or leader can adapt to get their church grounded on fundamentals and working together to accomplish their God-given charge to carry out the gospel.

Sanctification is not just a stuffy term reserved for seminary professors. It is the practical past, present, and future process God uses to grow us into glorious perfection. In other words, it is how God makes us like Christ.We need God's help! Sanctification is God's solution. Pastor Tom Swartzwelder explains step by step how God works in us from the moment of salvation to bring about our perfection. With extensive scriptural support and illustrating the process with easily relatable examples, this book helps believers discover what God is doing in them and through them, as He grows them "in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ."