Pastoral Ministry category: 1680 books
Quirky Leadership
Permission Granted
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Pastors and ministry leaders too often play the comparison game, looking to church leadership rockstars and curtailing idiosyncrasies to be like them. But it’s a losing game. Leaders end up trying vainly to lead their churches from a lack of gifts and a place of emptiness. What is the solution?...
A Church Music Director's Handbook: Volume 1
Theology, Vision and Team Building
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
You are a music director. Maybe you are paid a few days a week; probably you are doing this for the love. Either way, it’s a huge job. And it’s an important job – one which requires you to have your head around both the contentious theology of worship music, and the musical and relational challenges...
Ethics and Spiritual Care
A Guide for Pastors and Spiritual Directors
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Ethics and Spiritual Care responds to three phenomena of increasing importance:
• Although spiritual care is at the heart of ordained ministry, there is no text in professional ethics for clergy that focuses specifically on spiritual care. What ethical guidelines are needed to ensure that...
by Roger Hurding
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Five Pathways to Wholeness examines a variety of approaches to pastoral care: biblical counselling, the healing ministries, pastoral counselling, spiritual direction and social change. Bringing together material from a range of sources, and offering numerous engaging real-life illustrations, the author...
Introducing Practical Theology
Mission, Ministry, and the Life of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This introduction to the field of practical theology reclaims a theological vision for the life and work of the church. Pete Ward dispels the myth that practical theology is a distraction from the "real" tasks of ministry or from serious academic theological work. He argues that practical...
Ethics for Christian Ministry
Moral Formation for Twenty-First-Century Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This one-of-a-kind resource in professional ethics helps today's Christian leaders maintain a high moral character and lifestyle and sharpen their personal and professional decision-making skills. Two experienced teachers and pastors address both current and perennial ethical issues and offer guidance...
Staying in Bounds
Straight Talk on Boundaries for Effective Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Boundaries are healthy and necessary parts of life and ministry. Staying in Bounds provides straight-talk guidance to ministers and other leaders of churches and faith-based organizations on the what, why, and how of relational boundaries. Provides guidance on identifying, implementing, and enforcing...
Empowering Couples
A Narrative Approach to Spiritual Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Couples can make significant progress toward resolving their own problems when they receive appropriate guidance from a caring person. This book outlines five tasks focused on identity, agency, and meaning that spiritual caregivers can use to empower couples for significant change in just three to...
One Love
A Pastoral Guide to The Order of Celebrating Matrimony
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The publication of the second edition of The Order of Celebrating Matrimony provides new liturgical and pastoral opportunities for presiders and parishes. In One Love, Fr. Paul Turner—one of the most reliable experts in Catholic liturgy today—provides sound guidance and instruction on the rite....
by Roderick L. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
God set ministries within the Church; namely, the pastor and the teacher for its continuance. These ministries are important for the equipping and maturing of the saints. In the pages of this study, we will discuss the ministries of the pastor and of the teacher in detail.
The Church Planting Wife
Help and Hope for Her Heart
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Nothing in my life goes untouched by my husband's calling. Christine Hoover's words in the first chapter describe so well the life of a church planter's wife, which is enormously difficult yet extraordinarily rewarding. To be married to a church planter is a calling all its own with richness all...
How To Receive The Holy Spirit Baptism
For Instructors and Seekers
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
W. V. Grant rose to become an early leader in the healing revival launching his independent ministry in 1949. He retired from campaigning in 1956, but he remained a prominent figure in the movement. For six years he was vice-president of the Voice of Healing organization and a prolific writer for...
Cohabiting Couples and Cold Feet
A Practical Marriage-Preparation Guide for Clergy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Clergy today are faced with a profound shift in American attitudes about marriage that affects the role they play with each couple. Our society at large today has strikingly different attitudes from those of just fifty years ago. Couples today are more likely to have cohabited before marriage, more likely...
The Power of Healing Prayer
Overcoming Emotional and Psychological Blocks
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Illness comes in many forms and too often we're told to ignore it, hide it, or simply run away from it.With decades of service in the healing ministry as both a teacher and one called upon to pray for healing, Father Richard McAlear has a different approach that recognizes - even embraces - the complex...