Pastoral Ministry category: 1680 books
by Jamie D. Aten, David M. Boan
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
When disasters happen, people turn to local churches as centers for response and assistance. When floods or tornadoes devastate an area, or when shootings and violence shock a community, knowing what to do can be the difference between calm and chaos, courage and fear, life and death. But few churches...
Journey Into Wholeness
A Strategy to Partner With God’s Heart to Walk Into Wholeness.
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Journey Into Wholeness is a strategy to partner with God’s heart to walk into wholeness. It describes how a local church demonstrates pastoral care by addressing foundations of practices and principles for taking care of the soul – our inner wellbeing. Ministry to the soul affects physical healing...
El Credo
Un encuentro con la fe de la Iglesia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Winner of a 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers Award: Spanish (Second Place).
Hosffman Ospino, a leading authority on Hispanic ministry in the United States, offers a short, accessible introduction to the Creed. Written in Spanish for Hispanic Catholics in the United States, El Credo explains...
by Christine Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Ministry. There's nothing else quite like it. That's why I love getting face-to-face and knee-to-knee with other ministry wives and peppering them with questions. How do you do this? How do you handle that?
That's also why I frequently write about being a ministry wife: I know I'm not the only...
by Jomon K. John
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Healing of the sick is a prominent theme in the biblical narratives. However, when it comes to caring for the chronically and terminally sick, there are no clear directives in the New Testament describing how the church may minister to them. There are significant differences in the way many churches...
by Glenn H. Asquith, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Concise Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling is a condensed version of the Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling, first published in 1990, with new and updated articles. This book provides classic and key articles that explain current theories, trends, and practices in the field...
Dangerous Calling
Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
After traveling the globe and speaking to thousands of churches worldwide, Paul David Tripp has discovered a serious problem within pastoral culture.
He is not only concerned about the spiritual life of the pastor, but also with the very community of people that trains him, calls him, relates...
So Much Better
How Thousands of Pastors Help Each Other Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Meant to both inspire and inform pastoral leaders, So Much Better examines the impact of peer group participation on pastoral leaders, their families, and ministries.
This book goes beyond numbers and data by breathing life into the statistical bones. At this book's heart are seven peer group...
by Robert J. Hater
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Through pastoral insights, moving stories, theological insights, and practical suggestions, this book offers a vision and road map for parish teams to examine and renew pastoral ministry in today's world.
Truth Shall Make You Odd, The
Speaking with Pastoral Integrity in Awkward Situations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In the life of a pastor, it can be tempting to offer half-truths that make everyone happy and the pastor popular. Speaking difficult truths may anger or alienate church members, but authentic pastoral care sometimes requires it. How can those in ministry speak honestly in the inevitable awkward situations...
Portraits of a Pastor
The 9 Essential Roles of a Church Leader
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
As a pastor, do you feel like you’re wearing too many hats?
If you’re a pastor, you know the tension of balancing (or trying to) the many roles and expectations that come with leading a church. But are you able to distinguish which roles are truly essential? And can you measure how you’re...
Reviving the Congregation
Pastoral Leadership in a Changing Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Pastoral leadership has always been challenging, but clergy and parish leaders today face unprecedented challenges, many of which simply didn’t exist a generation ago. The questions of ministry and leadership in the church today range broadly across the financial and the managerial, the spiritual...
by Donald R. Price
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Pastoral Life, a “how-to” book for pastors, addresses issues in the life of a minister, both the private and public aspects – his family life and church life. This minister’s handbook prepares a young minister as he goes “in view of a call” and as he accepts his first pastorate. It offers...
La Iglesia
Pueblo de Dios llamado a la comunión
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 3, 2018
The refrain of a popular Spanish hymn proclaims, “I am the Church, you are the Church, we are the Church.” With this as a keynote, Hosffman Ospino draws on the deep conviction among Hispanic Catholics that they are called to be the Church—locally, nationally, and globally—and provides a basic...