Pastoral Ministry category: 1680 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Many have heard of the emerging church, but few people feel like they have a handle on what the emerging church believes and represents. Is it a passing fad led by disenfranchised neo-evangelicals? Or is it the future of the church at large?
Now available in trade paper, An Emergent Manifesto of Hope...
Radical Welcome
Embracing God, The Other, and the Spirit of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
An inspirational and practical guide to embracing those who are often marginalized into a welcoming, inclusive Christian community.
For two years, Stephanie Spellers conducted over two hundred interviews with people in urban, suburban, and rural congregations around the United States to find...
Ministerial Ethics
Moral Formation for Church Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Ministerial Ethics provides both new and experienced pastors with tools for sharpening their personal and professional decision-making skills. The authors seek to explain the unique moral role of the minister and the ethical responsibilities of the vocation and to provide "a clear statement of...
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context
Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...
Forming Intentional Disciples
The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
How can we transmit a living, personal Catholic faith to future generations? By coming to know Jesus Christ, and following him as his disciples.
These are times of immense challenge and immense opportunity for the Catholic Church.
Consider these statistics for the United States.
Only...
Healthy Churches, Faithful Pastors
Covenant Expectations for Thriving Together
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Congregations want to support their pastors, but don’t know how. Pastors love their congregations, but they don’t know what to ask of their congregations to garner needed support. Everyone wants to thrive together, but so often we get stuck. This clear and engaging guide helps pastors and congregations...
Jesus on Leadership
Timeless Wisdom on Servant Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Discover the essence of transformative leadership by studying how Jesus led. Gene Wilkes, a popular conference speaker, describes how Jesus led. He identifies seven practical principles for today’s leaders, to assist them with everything from humbling their hearts to building a team for Christ.
by Warren W. Wiersbe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Books on leadership in various aspects of life and work abound. But are the principles upon which these books are grounded biblical? Do they describe the best way for Christians to lead, knowing that they function as ambassadors for Christ as they facilitate meetings, lead people, and manage projects?
On...
Experiencing Leadershift
Letting Go of Leadership Heresies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Fueled by the drive to be bigger and better, today's church has adopted principles and practices created by the corporate world. The result is a toxic mix of the spiritual and the secular, where success is measured in numbers, and pastors are encouraged to become CEO superstars.In short, the world is...
Strategic Vision
Embracing God's Future for Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Vision is both real and definable. Strategic vision combines real and definable factors that, when mixed wisely and effectively, propels a church forward! Strategic Vision provides a clear set of directives and expectations with which an entire church strategy can be framed. The first step in forming...
Growing Kingdom Character
Practical, Intentional Tools for Developing Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
We’ve all seen it before—experienced leaders failing due to some type of transgression. Author Tom Yeakley believes this happens because character flaws that were always present begin to come forward. Based on his 30-plus years of discipleship and coaching experience, Yeakley has developed Growing...
The Healthy Small Church
Diagnosis and Treatment for the Big Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Small churches can be found in every denomination and among every ethnic group but often these churches struggle to survive in the shadow of the larger churches around them. And many of these churches are afflicted with unhealthy issues such as feelings of unimportance, a lack of vision, exclusivity,...
Pastoring Men
What Works, What Doesn't, and Why Men's Discipleship Matters Now More Than Ever
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
What would happen if every pastor in America shared the vision to disciple every man in his church—can you imagine?
No man falls on purpose, yet our culture is suffering from the fallout of the "men problem." Increasingly men are living autonomous and unexamined lives, getting caught...
Disciple-Making Pastor, The
Leading Others on the Journey of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Christ commanded the church to make disciples, to produce people who love and obey God, bear fruit, and live with joy. The crisis at the heart of the church is that we often pay lip service to making disciples, but we seldom put much effort behind doing it. For the pastor who is ready to put words...