Pastoral Ministry category: 1680 books
11 Innovations in the Local Church
How Today's Leaders Can Learn, Discern and Move into the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Join three seasoned church-ministry experts on an insider's tour of the most innovative churches today! Discover a dozen types of innovation, each with profiles of congregations that have implemented that innovation. This is more than a show-and-tell tour, however. Each chapter offers a solid take-away...
Risking Grace
Loving Our Gay Family and Friends Like Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
As someone who helped write a book advocating reparative therapy for gay people back in 1987, it was with gut-wrenching love that my wife and I did not let our daughter go when she came out 16 years ago. We first prayed that God would change her, then that he would work out his purpose in her life,...
The Art of Pastoring
Ministry Without All the Answers
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
The Art of Pastoring,From the Inside OutFrom Calling to Living Parable**The Art of Pastoring
by Lee Ann Rubsam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Whether you are new at intercession or have been at it for quite some time, no doubt you have some questions. Perhaps you've mentioned them to your pastor or other prayer warriors, but haven't received the answers you were searching for. Maybe you've been too embarrassed to even ask them, because...
The Time Is Now
Preparing Candidates for Baptism and Confirmation in the United Methodist Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
With this guide on baptism and confirmation in The United Methodist Church, Rev. Dr. Gift Machinga provides an essential resource for the church in Africa. The book is intended to motivate pastors to consider the ministry of education and to guide pastors and lay members in preparing their people for baptism and confirmation.
Missional Church in Perspective, The (The Missional Network)
Mapping Trends and Shaping the Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In this book, two leading ministry experts place the missional church conversation in historical perspective and offer fresh insights for its further development. They begin by providing a helpful review of the genesis of the missional church and offering an insightful critique of the Gospel and Our...
by Will Schmit
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Based on over ten years prison ministry experience at San Quentin, Pelican Bay, and other county correctional institutions: Jesus Inside, offers step by step, practical, and inspired examples for building relationships of eternal consequence with inmates through worship and fellowship.
Have You Faith in Christ?
A Bishop’s Insight into the Historic Questions Asked of Those Seeking Admission into Full Connection in The United Methodist Church.
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
John Wesley taught his followers to ask questions. New Christians were placed in small classes where they were queried weekly about their progress in the Christian journey: how it is with your soul, are you making progress, are you going on to a perfection of love in the walk with Christ? Christian...
Staff Your Church for Growth
Building Team Ministry in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Why, when, and how should a church add to its professional staff? Here is a practical manual dealing with the issues of hiring and utilizing multiple staff positions to encourage church growth.
Follow You, Follow Me
Why Social Networking is Essential to Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Ethical business: Subprime mortgage lenders
A healthy meal: Stadium nachos
Words of wisdom: Twitter
We don’t often associate social networking with good things. The conventional wisdom, as it were, is that Twitter, Facebook and the like are engaging and fun, maybe dangerous, and definitely...
Church Unique
How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Written by church consultant Will Mancini expert on a new kind of visioning process to help churches develop a stunningly unique model of ministry that leads to redemptive movement. He guides churches away from an internal focus to emphasize participation in their community and surrounding culture....
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...
Called to Shepherd
52 Weekly Devotions for Pastors and Ministry Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
LEAD WISELY- One simple, genuine prayer led me to sit before my computer one afternoon and start writing this book. God has spoken to me so clearly through his leaders so often that I hoped he would offer something worthwhile to you through me. I know that you have more to read than you care to even...