Abingdon Press: 1502 books
Strategic Thinking
How to Sustain Effective Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Learn to set priorities and have the courage to take reasonable risks.
Church leaders know how to think reactively. They know how to recognize their strengths and weaknesses and identify their opportunities and threats. They react to any number of emerging situations. What they don't do is...
Building People
Social-Emotional Learning for Kids, Families, Schools, and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Building People: Social-Emotional Learning for Kids, Families, Schools and Communities brings together a dozen wide-ranging perspectives on social-emotional learning (SEL) to present a comprehensive picture of the SEL landscape in schools and communities and provide action steps for educators, families,...
The Connected Life
Small Groups That Create Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
How can our church develop or improve our small group ministry? This book is a useful how-to guide, based on the innovative, engaging, and popular approach to small group ministry at Providence United Methodist Church, where Jacob Armstrong is senior pastor.
REdesigning Churches
Creating Spaces for Connection and Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
As campus designer for Ginghamsburg Church, in Tipp City, Ohio, Kim Miller has observed that when a church gets serious about Jesus' call, there is always a design element to be addressed. Kim asserts that physical space transformation is simply a backdrop for authentic people transformation. Change...
What's Your Story? Leader Guide
Seeing Your Life Through God’s Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Envision your life as an adventure co-created by God. This study explores Joseph's story. He accomplished great things in Egypt, but he didn't really understand his story's significance until he recognized what God was doing through him. Sarah Heath helps you explore your own life story in the same...
Defying Gravity Leader Guide
Break Free from the Culture of More
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Our possessions can create unbearable weight and affect our ability to serve and thrive. How do we defy gravity and find freedom? In this 4-week small group study and stewardship campaign, pastor and author Tom Berlin explores what is required to sustain a vibrant life, what we need versus what we...
6 Ways We Encounter God Leader Guide
A Six-Week Small Group Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
This Leader Guide contains everything needed to guide a group through the book and DVD. It includes session plans and discussion questions, as well as format options.
6 Decisions That Will Change Your Life Leader Guide
A Six-Week Small Group Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
This Leader Guide contains everything needed to guide a group through the workbook and DVD. It includes session plans and discussion questions, as well as format options.
Transformation Journal
A Daily Walk in the Word
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Everyone is looking for a spiritual discipline that is both relevant to daily life and easy to stick with. Transformation Journal meets this need and more, offering users daily Bible studies and insightful questions that invite reflection and response. Each week highlights a different biblical topic,...
by David L. Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
New Testament writers offer varied and persuasive pictures of Jesus that seek to draw people into faith.
For David Bartlett, New Testament Christology is “not so much a set of doctrines as a variety of stories, songs and scriptural interpretations that help Christian believers and Christian...
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...
Formation in Faith
The Congregational Ministry of Making Disciples
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
The ministry of congregations is to make disciples of Jesus Christ. Behind that simple and seemingly self-evident statement lies a problematic reality, however. While congregations know that disciple making is at the heart of their identity, they often have trouble understanding how to go about it....
Beautiful Already - Women's Bible Study Participant Book
Reclaiming God's Perspective on Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“I’m so fat.” “I don’t like my nose.” “I wish I was taller.” Our dissatisfaction with what we see in the mirror is what Barb Roose calls our ugly struggle with beauty. It’s a struggle that negatively affects not only our self-image and self-esteem but also our relationships with...
by Bob Farr, Kay Kotan
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Ten Prescriptions for a Healthy Church offers prescriptions for the top ten issues seen during church consultations. Bob Farr and Kay Kotan share their expertise from working with churches across the country, detailing the most common concerns and obstacles, and then go straight to the point: What...