The Fractured Kingdom and the challenging good news

and the challenging good news of Jesus Christ

it examines the history and tradition of the noble office and elevates the altar guild role as a vocation in the life of our church

This volume addresses the difficult and essential area of pastoral preaching as a kind of spiritual leadership in which compassionate healing and courageous confrontation are experienced not as polar opposites

and the down to earth and the holy

The Fractured Kingdom and the challenging good newsBestselling biblical historian Jean Pierre Isbouts weaves the origin stories of Christianity and the Lord's Prayer into a reinvigorating and urgent rallying cry for unity in the modern church. Modern Christianity is in the midst of a veritable schism along the fault lines of society's culture wars. Only if we understand the origins of this split can we find our way to unity. Though few may realize it today, Jesuss ministry unfolded in a crisis very