Abingdon Press: 1502 books
Loving and Serving Others
The Practice of Risk-Taking Mission and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Since the publication of Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations, these five practices have helped hundreds of congregations understand their mission, renew ministries, and stretch toward fruitfulness and excellence for the purpose of Christ. Now, each of the five practices has been broken out into...
Church Conflict
The Hidden Systems Behind the Fights
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
If church is like a family, it fights like one too! As in any family, conflict in the church family is natural and inevitable. But the way the church family handles its fights can make or break ministry. By using stories and examples of real problems at actual churches, Cosgrove and Hatfield have...
by Virginia O. Bassford
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Do we ask too much? No, we’ve asked too little.
Change, chaos, confusion – how can a pastor make sense of it all? The tap root of United Methodism goes deep into fertile soil – firmly planted in Scripture and enriched by the Holy Spirit. Our theology is rich and grounded into the depths...
The Generous Church
A Guide for Pastors
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Our possessions can create unbearable weight and affect our ability to serve and thrive. How do we defy gravity and find freedom? In this 4-week small group study and stewardship campaign, pastor and author Tom Berlin explores what is required to sustain a vibrant life, what we need versus what we...
by Grace Biskie
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Proverbs 21:13 says, “Those who close their ears to the cries of the poor will themselves call out but receive no answer.” What does this mean for the average middle class Westerner who’s actually part of the wealthiest 1% of the world’s population? In Cries of the Poor, you’ll discover...
by Shane Stanford
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
More than any other part of his ministry, Jesus’ prayers inform and engage his intentions for how the gospel would change lives and affect the world. When we take time to review the moments when Jesus prayed with his disciples or went away to pray alone, we engage both a story and a set of lessons....
by Shane Stanford
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In What the Prayers of Jesus Tell Us About the Heart of God, author Shane Stanford introduced five prayer focuses—the five purposes Jesus had for praying to his Father that reveal Christ’s hopes and desires for how we might also commune with God. Now, in this coordinating leader guide, Stanford...
The Cure for the Chronic Life
Overcoming the Hopelessness That Holds You Back
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A life of unanswered questions, broken relationships, and poor decisions disrupts a relationship with God and creates crisis.
Deanna Favre, a breast cancer survivor and wife of NFL legend Brett Favre, and Shane Stanford, an HIV-positive minister, have both lived such a life. Chronic hopelessness...
Reset the Heart
Unlearning Violence, Relearning Hope
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
When the #BlackLivesMatter protest movement burst into dynamic action following the shooting death of young Michael Brown in the fall of 2014 in Ferguson, MO, a good number of clergy and lay leaders in greater St. Louis sprang to action and learned anew what it took to “put some feet to their prayers.”...
by Nolan Harmon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1987
A classic guide to ethics since 1928. Nolan Harmon studied the ethical codes of conduct of five major denominations and secured the opinions of eighty-six leading pastors. Harmon uses this wisdom to show ministers how to conduct themselves ethically in virtually every phase of ministry, including special occasion rituals.
Black and White
Disrupting Racism One Friendship at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Working against racism is part of what it means to call Jesus Lord and Savior.
Most of us don’t need to make speeches. We need to make friends. This is the core message of Black and White: racism can be disrupted by relationships. If you will risk forging friendships with those who do not...
Lead Like Butler
Six Principles for Values-Based Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Brad Stevens is a great coach, admired and respected for developing winning teams year after year. His patience and never-give-up attitude will take him a long way as Coach of the Boston Celtics.
—Larry Bird, Boston Celtics 1978-1992; President, Basketball Operations Indiana Pacers
Coach...
Winning On Purpose
How To Organize Congregations to Succeed in Their Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Do you really want the mission to succeed?
Are you prepared to live within clear boundaries?
Are you ready to align yourself with a greater purpose?
Do you have what it takes?
Winning on Purpose offers leaders a way to organize congregations for success by creating structures that enable church...
Overflow
Increase Worship Attendance & Bear More Fruit
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
At the heart of why any church exists is to glorify God and to share God as revealed in Jesus Christ; thus worship is at the center of the congregation’s life. The church, of course, is more than worship, but without vital worship attendance, it is unlikely that members are growing and new disciples...