Church category: 10276 books
Ministry 3.0
How Today's Church Leaders Are Using Coaching to Transform Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Ministry needs a transformation. Churches are closing, membership is shrinking, and pastors are feeling alone and unsupported. With six out of ten churches doomed to close in the next ten years, it is time for another Reformation. Yet God is ever-faithful and provides a way for His church to flourish....
A Modest Apostle
Thecla and the History of Women in the Early Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Scholars and mainline pastors tell a familiar narrative about the roles of women in the early church-that women held leadership roles and exercised some authority in the church, but, with the establishment of formal institutional roles, they were excluded from active leadership. Evidence of women's...
by Ed Galisewski
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Are you planning to leave your church? Maybe you'd like to, but you feel stuck. You're not alone--millions of people, especially men, are fleeing their churches or mentally checking out. Ed Galisewski offers a witty, hard-hitting view from the pew as only a "Joe Palooka" from Jersey can. Galisewski pulls...
by Robert H. Welch, Paul E. Engle
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
For: ·Individual use ·Group training Includes diagrams, checklists, and resource lists Church ought to be the safest place on earth. Here’s how to fulfill that goal in practical ways, from developing a security structure and team, to assessing interior and exterior building security, training...
by Ado T. Noma
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Church leaders and financial executives are saddled with the responsibility of broad range of decision making which have financial implications. However, many Church leaders and executives are not experts in financial management. Understanding some basic issues and principles surrounding financial...
Dust and Breath
Faith, Health — and Why the Church Should Care about Both
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Inspiration for churches seeking to develop whole-person ministries
Dust and Breath invites the Christian community into an expansive vision of salvation that includes ministries of health and healing. Inspired by the work of a remarkable ministry in Memphis, Tennessee, Kendra Hotz and Matthew...
Look Back, Leap Forward
Building Your Church on the Values of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
The rapid changes all around us in the new millennium may cause one of two errors: wishing to return to an idealized past or refusing to look back at all. Both patterns of thinking lead to ineffective churches and communities. Look Back, Leap Forward challenges Christian leaders to balance the two...
The Myth of the Dying Church
How Christianity Is Actually Thriving in America and the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Stop believing the false narrative that Christianity is declining, and discover the truth about the health of the church in America and around the world.
Much has been made of the so-called "nones" - those who claim no spiritual affiliation. Media has spun the nones into a chicken-little...
The Honest to God Church
A Pathway to God's Grace
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2007
Doug Bixby knows that many of us have had enough of the liberal vs. conservative battles in the church. In The Honest to God Church, Bixby demonstrates how these extremes have distracted us from our true calling as conduits for God's grace--both individually and as congregations. Many churches see...
Believe the Believable
Faith in the Face of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Dr. Virgil Brady claims one of the major reasons for indifference in the church stems from being asked to believe the unbelievable. People leave the church. Members become inactive or indifferent. A growing number of the population simply does not experience the church as a viable channel for expressing...
by Dr. Stephen A. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Many pastors and church planters believe that if they don’t grow their organization to a thousand people they have failed. The truth that no one seems to admit is that 90% of all churches in America are under 500 people.
Maybe instead of trying to reach one thousand or two thousand...
by James Daughtry, II
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
“If we seek the Lord, and trust and obey HIM in our times of trouble, God will exercise HIS authority over the enemy of our spirit, soul and body. When Leaders choose to drop, compromise, and criticize God’s standard(s), they not only discredit God, they exalt themselves as the new gods. When churches...
The Fight for Marriage
Church Conflicts and Courtroom Contests
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
For leaders in governments and in churches, marriage equality is the most contentious civil-rights dispute in the 21st century. During an era where nearly half of all marriages end in divorce, same-gender couples now have the federal civil right to marry, too. At a time when 62 percent of Americans...
Getting Back on Track
Foundations for Biblical Women's Mentoring
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Imagine a church where many of the needs of younger women are being met by trained older women. It would not be a problem-free church, but it would be a healthy church where pastors are free to focus on their biblical responsibilities.Although younger women need the guidance of godly older...