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Christian Social Innovation
Renewing Wesleyan Witness
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Everybody seems interested in innovation and entrepreneurship these days. Start-ups are generating new jobs, creating wealth and providing solutions to longstanding problems. People are also aware that old-line social institutions need innovative approaches that provide renewal, re-establish trust...
Back to Zero
The Search to Rediscover the Methodist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The lifeblood of the United Methodist is passion rather than organizational neatness, entrepreneurial freedom rather than denominational restraint, and agility rather than staid institutional dependence. But if United Methodists want to change and be the church we say we want to be, what must we risk...
Hollow Faith
How Andy Griffith, Facebook, and the American Dream Diluted the Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This book for youth leaders, pastors, and parents looks deep into the mirror of pop and church culture and asks the difficult, and often maddening, question, “Are those things we produce and consume defining us?” Author Stephen Ingram explores these themes of moralism, deism, meism, consumerism,...
by Dick, Dan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Current approaches to congregational leadership are dominated by a kind of group think. Certain assumptions, ideas, and even phrases appear so often in the literature about church ministry and mission that they have achieved the status of conventional wisdom. For example, how many times in recent years...
by Stanley Hauerwas, William H. Willimon
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Do you realize what baptism really means? Through the Holy Spirit we become part of the Body of Christ! The work of the Spirit is often thought of as “inspirational,” but it’s more than a personal experience and this book challenges some of those individualistic and subjectivist accounts. You’ll...
Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers
Ministry Anytime, Anywhere, By Anyone
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This book shows how an atmosphere of permission-giving, which signals the end of leaders as enablers, can help church leaders transcend bureaucracy and enhance spiritual gifts rather than assign them. The 'sacred cows' of control and regulation can be devoured, as leaders and people are converted to a new style of ministry.
by Jacob Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Loving Large is a four week series that seeks to move people to action in their Christian faith. In a world that seems to run on money, greed, oil, power, etc., what would our world look like if it ran on the love of God? How can we infuse this world-changing love into our community and world? The...
Bearing Fruit
Ministry with Real Results
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Thousands of congregations are in serious trouble. Children are not being taught the faith. Disciples are not being made. Lives are not being transformed. The poor are not being blessed. Communities are not being redeemed. These congregations know something is terribly wrong. And in most cases,...
Rich Church, Poor Church
Keys to Effective Financial Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Does your church have the necessary funds to do ministry?
In Dr. Clif Christopher's nearly forty years in ministry as a pastor and President of Horizons Stewardship Company, he has witnessed the financial stewardship practices of thousands of churches. A few have exceptional records in acquiring...
Go BIG
Lead Your Church to Explosive Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Bill Easum and Bil Cornelius are two strikingly different, yet surprisingly similar pastors. One undertook to revitalize a moribund mainline church; the other, to plant a new nondenominational congregation. Coming from different generations, their ministries took place under dissimilar circumstances....
Fish or Cut Bait
How Winning Churches Make Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Through extensive research, Dr. John Kaiser shares the best practices of ten successful congregations. Focusing explicitly on decision-making rather than planning, structure, relationships, or any other host of factors, Fish or Cut Bait outlines how these congregations’ boards/leaders provide both...
by Lyle E. Schaller
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Are you still suffering over the sight of empty pews? Have your efforts been more than exhaustive in expanding your congregation? Have you maximized your brainstorming potential for bringing in new members? If you have reached what appears to be your limit, then no longer fret, 44 Ways To Increase...
The Andrew Paradigm
How to Be a Lead Follower of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The current trend in church leadership involves looking for a highly gifted leader who will take over, direct the future, cast a vision, and attract the faithful to a new mission or purpose. This desire for a leader to come to the rescue is eerily reminiscenet of the desire of the Israelites for a...
Remember the Future
Praying for the Church and Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Explore together how congregations can change to become more fruitful for the purposes of Christ. Remember the Future: Praying for the Church and Change prepares leaders of congregations and conferences for courageous new conversations with readings that draw us toward renewed vision, cultivate...