by rbirkey on August 7, 2010
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 English in both the US and UK Kindle Stores for $9.95 US.
by rbirkey on May 18, 2010
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. While attending school and living in Columbia, South Carolina, Del pastored a local church starting at [...]
by rbirkey on December 12, 2009
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 MichaelHyatt.com. We encourage our readers to visit and read a post entitled: The End of Book [...]
by rbirkey on December 12, 2009
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 print form and as a digital download in PDF file format. [...]
by rbirkey on September 2, 2009
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 in PDF format. Those interested in this critically important topic may have recently become aware [...]
by rbirkey on May 13, 2009
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 Home in Wheaton, Illinois. A burial service was held on Tuesday, May 19, 2009, [...]
by dbirkey on January 6, 2009
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 formed from the first letter of several words. As such, ichthus compiles to [...]
by dbirkey on December 10, 2008
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, January 1991. Del Birkey Del Birkey has ministered in evangelism and pastoral teaching since age nineteen. He has worked within the [...]
by dbirkey on December 10, 2008
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 Body 4. Servant Leadership & the Partnership Ministry of Women 5. Functioning by Personal Giftedness 6. [...]