Baker Books imprint: 897 books
Living Faith
A Guide to the Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
How were the books of the Bible chosen? What was the Roman world like during Jesus' life and ministry? And how are Christians to live out their faith in today's world? Living Faith offers thoughtful and engaging answers to questions about the faith, enabling believers of all backgrounds to understand...
What Every Pastor Should Know
101 Indispensable Rules of Thumb for Leading Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Pastors and church leaders are constantly faced with strategic questions. How much staff does the church need? How many workers are needed in the nursery this month? When is the right time to start a second worship service? How many people should we train for evangelism this year? How does seating...
What They Didn't Teach You in Seminary
25 Lessons for Successful Ministry in Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In churches today, there are ever fewer older pastors speaking into the lives of younger leaders, and fewer younger leaders feeling there is much to be learned from the experience of their elders. Street-smart wisdom is gone from training as there are many men and women preparing pastors who have...
When Your Church Feels Stuck
7 Unavoidable Questions Every Leader Must Answer
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Every pastor wants their church to grow, but the reality is that most churches are stagnant or shrinking, leaving most pastors frustrated, weary, and discouraged. They continue to search for answers at conferences, in books, and on websites, but they don't find them. They don't realize that the answers...
A Practical Guide for Life and Ministry
Overcoming 7 Challenges Pastors Face
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Many books focus on how to grow a church and "succeed" as a pastor, but few help clergy cope with the daily pressures they face in juggling the demands of ministry, family, and personal ambitions. David Horner overturns the notion that pastors must accept disobedience in some aspects of...
Simple Small Groups
A User-Friendly Guide for Small Group Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Over the past two decades, small groups have gone from spontaneous gatherings among friends to a major and elaborate phenomenon in the church. Many evangelical churches have some form of small groups ministry in place. But there's just one problem, says Bill Search--what started as a simple get-together...
Rediscovering Holiness
Know the Fullness of Life with God
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
"There was a time," writes renowned theologian J. I. Packer in this classic book on biblical holiness, "when all Christians laid great emphasis on God's call to holiness. But how different it is today! To listen to our sermons and to read the books we write, and then to watch the zany,...
The Imperfect Disciple
Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Too many discipleship books are written for clean, perfect people who know all the right Sunday school answers. The Imperfect Disciple is for the rest of us--people who screw up, people who are weary, people who are wondering if it's safe to say what they're really thinking.
For the believer...
The Nuts and Bolts of Church Planting
A Guide for Starting Any Kind of Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Most books on church planting offer a model for churches to replicate--usually one that is tied to a particular style, generation, or demographic. But what churches really need is a process that is flexible, not bound to a particular time or current fad. In The Nuts and Bolts of Church Planting, trusted...
by Norman L. Geisler
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Understanding the New Testament is a daunting but exciting task. Our world is so different from that of the first century. Yet it is important to understand the context and content of the New Testament if we are to be faithful followers. Now in paper, this survey addresses the who, what, where, when,...
A Force of Will
The Reshaping of Faith in a Year of Grief
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
When Mike Stavlund's four-month-old son suddenly died, a flood of cards, flowers, meals, phone calls, and gifts let his family know that they were loved and cared for. What was less welcome were the books, and particularly the religious ones. Often impossibly upbeat, saccharine sweet, and with all...
Mrs. Oswald Chambers
The Woman behind the World's Bestselling Devotional
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Among Christian devotional works, My Utmost for His Highest stands head and shoulders above the rest, with more than 13 million copies sold. But most readers have no idea that Oswald Chambers's most famous work was not published until ten years after his death. The remarkable person behind its compilation...
A New Kind of Church
Understanding Models of Ministry for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
There is no shortage of books these days on new ways of "doing church." New church models have been both warmly embraced and roundly criticized. What are church leaders and others concerned about the state of the church to make of all this? Does the Bible prescribe a standard model for doing...
Full Service
Moving from Self-Serve Christianity to Total Servanthood
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Although servanthood is often discussed as an important part of leadership, it is also the basic calling of every follower of Jesus Christ. Siang-Yang Tan takes a fresh approach to servanthood, exploring it as loving obedience to God in and of itself, regardless of personal greatness, fulfillment,...