Pastoral Ministry category: 1680 books
by Toler, Stan
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
It's an honor and privilege to be asked to marry a couple, but there's more to performing a wedding than leading the vows and giving the sermon. The minister is also responsible for preparing the couple for marriage and guiding them in creating a ceremony that brings honor to Christ and affirms their...
by John A. Broadus
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
John Albert Broadus (1827–1895) was a professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Charles Spurgeon called him the “greatest of living preachers.”
"The great appointed means of spreading the good tidings of salvation through Christ is preaching — words spoken whether to...
Reimagining the Ignatian Examen
Fresh Ways to Pray from Your Day
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Following the example of St. Ignatius, we believe that praying the Examen will lead to a better life. The 500-year-old daily practice of honest self-assessment and reflection is a founding principle of Ignatian spirituality. What we don’t know is if St. Ignatius ever felt like changing it up a bit....
Teaching Biblical Faith
Leading Small Group Bible Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Biblical faith is a lens for viewing life, and Jack Seymour refreshingly illustrates how the reading of scripture is a resource for ongoing theological reflection connecting experience, vocation, daily life, and faith. Teaching has concrete consequences affecting the very ways people of faith view...
Introducción a las disciplinas espirituales AETH
Introduction to the Spiritual Disciplines Spanish AETH
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Introducción a las disciplinas espirituales, escrito por el Dr. Roberto Amparo Rivera, presenta con estilo sencillo y a la vez profunfo aspectos de la vida cristiana que el autor nos reta a ver como disciplinas espirituales. Estas disciplinas no solamente incluyen las distintas prácticas, sino también...
A Formula for Parish Practice
Using the Formula of Concord in Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This book combines a rich description of the (Lutheran) Formula of Concord (1577) with experiences in today's Lutheran parishes to demonstrate how confessional texts may still come to life in modern Christian congregations. Timothy Wengert takes the Formula of Concord, traditionally used as ammunition...
Preaching as Reminding
Stirring Memory in an Age of Forgetfulness
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
We know of the preacher’s roles as both teacher and proclaimer, but Jeffrey Arthurs adds another assignment: the Lord’s remembrancer. With decades of preaching experience, he explains how to stir the memory of Christ-followers, fanning the flames of faith through vivid language, story, delivery,...
Evangelism in Everyday Life
Sharing and Shaping Your Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Witnessing takes place when it is least expected: in the yard, at the grocery store or on the phone. Those relationships provide the opportunities to live and share Christ.Although, relationship evangelism is an ancient concept, it is the open door to friends, acquaintances, and coworkers. The thought...
Preaching
The Art of Narrative Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Because they are speaking to a younger society more attuned to lively dialogue and visual images, pastors need a fresh wineskin for a timeless message of redemption. Calvin Miller, who has preached and equipped preachers for decades, offers a volume of helpful insights for pastors to deliver the heart...
by Bryan Chapell
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2001
If the apostle Paul had not punctuated his words with images of the armor of God or the racecourse, would we so easily remember his instruction? The march on Washington might have become nothing more than a ragged hike across a majestic mall if Martin Luther King, Jr. had not led us through a "dream"...
Church Planting Is for Wimps
How God Uses Messed-up People to Plant Ordinary Churches That Do Extraordinary Things
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This latest addition to the IXMarks series tells the story of the revitalization of Guilford Baptist Church in northern Virginia. Weaving together scripture and biblical principles with humor and personal anecdotes, author Michael McKinley asserts that a pastor's faithful exposition of God's Word,...
Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
A Psychiatrist Explores the Role of Faith in Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a relentless condition, the primary symptom being the occurrence of terrifying ideas, images, and urges that jump into a person's mind and return again and again, despite the individual's attempt to remove them.
Christians who suffer from OCD may grapple...
Integrative Preaching
A Comprehensive Model for Transformational Proclamation
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Integrative Preaching offers a compelling conceptual model of biblical preaching that helps preachers better understand what they are doing when they step into the pulpit. Kenton Anderson, an experienced preacher and professor, explicates the integrative preaching model he has been honing for a lifetime....
Redeeming Fear
A Constructive Theology for Living into Hope
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Fear is hardwired into our brains and is a common biblical theme. To be afraid and to act on that fear is to remember that something in life is worth living for. Whitehead helps readers find the roots of hope in the soil of our fears so that we can form lives and communities of hope in the midst of fear.