Pastoral Ministry category: 1680 books
by Matthew Caminer
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
It is common knowledge that many curacies run into difficulties and that this is something people often feel constrained from discussing openly. Curacies and How to Survive Them offers readers the opportunity to listen in on a series of fast-flowing conversations between a psychologist, a theologian...
Developing Disciples of Christ
Understanding the Critical Relationship between Catechesis and Evangelization
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
St. Pope John Paul II reminds us in Catechesi Tradendae that catechesis is a moment—“a very remarkable one—in the whole process of evangelization.” In other words, catechesis is an essential part of evangelization, not something separate from it. Therefore, it is critically important that...
Church Zero
Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A radical call to reform, Church Zero is a punk-rock approach to the pressing issue of gaining ground as rapidly as the early church.
With a fresh perspective forged in the dirty trenches of international post-Christian societies, Peyton Jones pulls no punches as he brings this message to the...
by Juan M. Perez
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
What is the authority of the Pastor? What areas of a Christian’s life does the pastor have a “right” to involve himself into? When can a pastor affect what may seem to be a private matter of a Christian’s life? To what point is a Christian accountable to the pastor? Where is the line that...
Handbook for Chaplains
Comfort My People
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is a concise source of information on eight different faith traditions. For each tradition, there is a brief outline of the principle beliefs, something about birth, the diet regulations, sickness, dying/death, and appropriate prayers that could be said with patients.
The Grace of Pain
Your trials are for a purpose bigger than you alone
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
If you are in pain or trouble and are wondering what purpose God has in allowing you to experience it - this book is for you.
If you are teachable and want good examples of how to handle your situation - this book is for you.
For Grace is not all roses, rays of sunshine and tweeting...
by F. Wayne Mac Leod
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Have you ever looked at your spiritual gifts and talents and wondered if they were of any use to the Lord?
The Parable of the Tiny Seed is a story that will be appreciated by adults and children alike. It recounts the tale of a lonely and discarded apple seed that was greatly used by the Master....
Replant
How a Dying Church Can Grow Again
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Grow Where You’re Replanted
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Today’s spiritual landscape is littered with churches on their last legs, forcing us to reconsider how we keep the Body of Christ alive and strong. The solution, according to visionary pastors Darrin Patrick and Mark DeVine, is to infuse new blood...
Edison Churches
Experiments in Innovation and Breakthrough
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Innovation often brings failure—and that’s okay. Using failure to learn, improve, and continue innovating will help keep the church alive in the twenty-first century. That’s the message of Edison Churches, which shares the stories of ten faith ommunities that embraced innovation, learned from...
Alongside
A Practical Guide for Loving Your Neighbor in their Time of Trial
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Whether it’s Cancer, death of a loved one, long-term illness or another significant challenge, we all know someone facing trial. We wonder, “What can I do to help?” Filled with practical tools, personal experience and insights from those who’ve faced hardship, Sarah Beckman delicately weaves...
Organic Community (ēmersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
Creating a Place Where People Naturally Connect
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Community is a fundamental life search and one of the key aspects people look for in a congregation. But community can't be forced, controlled, or easily created. The problem, says Joseph R. Myers, is that churches are too focused on developing programs instead of concentrating on environments where...
Gods Leading Lady
You Are A Diamond Nothing Can Break You
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Rev. Lucy Natasha delves into the lives of eight Bible women who walked in God’s special fa-vour that ushered them into positions of honour, obtained mercy that made them whole, received wisdom and excelled in leadership roles, experienced joy unspeakable because of God’s promises being fulfilled...
Making a Marriage
7 Essentials for a Strong Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
"It's just not working. Our lives are full, but our marriage is empty."Statements like this are becoming increasingly common among Christian couples today. Studies have shown that the rate of divorce is the same for both Christians and non-Christians, proving that often the Christian life makes little...
by IZU OBIEKWE
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
The corporate existence of PCC is all about the welfare and well-being of the congregation, whereby their thoughts and actions are to be Parochial – “Narrowed-down” on the betterment of the congregation or church. It is not a place of game of number; it does not really matter whether the committee...