http://reformeddeacon.com/tags/books/ Recent content in Books on Readings in the Reformed Diaconate Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us http://reformeddeacon.com/helping-without-hurting/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://reformeddeacon.com/helping-without-hurting/ Excerpts Good intentions are not enough. If we misdiagnose the causes of their poverty or treat their symptoms rather than their underlying problems, we can do considerable harm to materially poor people in the very process of trying to help them. We have to get the diagnosis right. If your church does not take the time to develop a philosophy and policy document, your benevolence ministry will lack the compass it needs to keep moving in the right direction. http://reformeddeacon.com/resources-for-deacons/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://reformeddeacon.com/resources-for-deacons/ http://reformeddeacon.com/the-deacon-the-biblical-roots-and-the-ministry-of-mercy-today/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://reformeddeacon.com/the-deacon-the-biblical-roots-and-the-ministry-of-mercy-today/ God’s gift of the office of deacon and the blessings associated with it may not always be fully appreciated, especially in congregations that are financially prosperous and do not have many materially poor in their midst. However, as this book hopes to demonstrate, the importance of the diaconate goes far beyond simply providing for material needs. In order to get a proper understanding of the significance of this office, we must consider it within the context of the entire Bible. http://reformeddeacon.com/the-deacons-handbook-a-manual-of-stewardship/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://reformeddeacon.com/the-deacons-handbook-a-manual-of-stewardship/ http://reformeddeacon.com/the-deaconship-a-treatise/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://reformeddeacon.com/the-deaconship-a-treatise/ Our blessed Lord does not, like some of his professed followers, make light of temporal wants. He feels, that amid all his own difficulties and discouragements, he is not standing alone—that other are alive to his circumstances, and sympathise with him, and are forward to aid him—and that he can have their advice and cooperation in many matters, which are otherwise fitted to distract and to burden. http://reformeddeacon.com/the-new-testament-deacon/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://reformeddeacon.com/the-new-testament-deacon/ Excerpt Christians today must understand the absolute necessity for and vital importance of New Testament deacons to the local church so that the needy, poor, and suffering of our churches are cared for in a thoroughly Christian manner. This is a matter dear to the heart of God.