Baker: 5223 books
Effective Staffing for Vital Churches
The Essential Guide to Finding and Keeping the Right People
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Well-staffed churches grow. But how do churches staff for growth in these rapidly changing times when budgets are tight, mission opportunities abound, and there is a growing shortage of qualified pastors, staff members, and church leaders? Two veteran pastors and church growth consultants offer workable...
Jubilee
A Season of Spiritual Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The Jubilee theme is the Old Testament concept of declaring a special season for attaining spiritual renewal. In Jubilee, Mel Lawrenz skillfully takes readers through a season of renewal, pausing to examine the following themes and inviting readers to consider their own lives and their response to...
Leading Cross-Culturally
Covenant Relationships for Effective Christian Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
As the US becomes more diverse, cross-cultural ministry is increasingly important for nearly all pastors and church leaders. Of particular concern is the issue of leadership--a difficult task made even more challenging in multicultural settings. Sherwood Lingenfelter helps the reader understand his...
What Does the Lord Require?
A Guide for Preaching and Teaching Biblical Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
How applicable is the Bible's moral standard to the complex issues we face today--like stem cell research, euthanasia, gambling, and environmental care? How does a person use Scripture to make ethical decisions? And how do we teach people to think biblically about ethics?
Experienced Bible...
Forgiven and Set Free
A Post-Abortion Bible Study for Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Disheartening numbers of women have undergone an abortion--and they need help to heal emotionally and spiritually. This study was developed out of Linda Cochrane's own experience of being freed from the bondage of guilt and grief that followed her abortion. Forgiven and Set Free guides suffering and...
Healing a Father's Heart
A Post-Abortion Bible Study for Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996
Practical information to help hurting men work through the stages of post-abortion syndrome and find comfort in the reassurance of God's love and acceptance.
The God-Shaped Heart
How Correctly Understanding God's Love Transforms Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The key to spiritual and emotional health is to grasp the truth of God's transforming love for us and then let that reality influence our own hearts and relationships. It seems simple, but we are experts at complicating simple things. Instead of living lives characterized by love we find ourselves...
Redeeming the Time
A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
Very few works attempt to analyze and apply the biblical principles that relate to work and leisure. Leland Ryken hopes to change that, reframing labor and leisure around God's purposes for a holistic lifestyle.
Ryken finds the answers in Scripture and in the rich heritage of theological thinking,...
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...
On Pills and Needles
The Relentless Fight to Save My Son from Opioid Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
When Rick Van Warner found himself searching abandoned buildings and dangerous streets looking for his missing son, he had no idea that the synthetic, pill-form heroin that had snared his teen was already killing so many. In the years of pain and heartache that followed as he tried to save his son...
Remarkable!
Maximizing Results through Value Creation
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
When it comes to qualities such as passion, enthusiasm, energy, and creativity, the majority of the American workforce could be described as "severely lacking." Too many people just go through the motions, viewing work as something they have to do rather than something they love to do. This...
by Bruce Baker
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2011
This is a collection of short stories, poems, musings and jokes.Discover the man who liked to sit in dark rooms with strangers and stare at the wall.The Infinite Library has up-to-the-second books of everyone.Learn to fly in a Lesson from an Angel.Go to the Federal Supermax...
Colors of Hope, The
Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The Christian life, says Richard Dahlstrom, should be guided by the intentional goal of blessing the lives of the friends, loved ones, and strangers in our midst. We are called to impact a culture that, for all the rhetoric about hope, is overwhelmingly preoccupied with personal peace, prosperity,...
The Mirage of Peace
Understand The Never-Ending Conflict in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Morning headlines announce renewed violence and fresh calls for peace negotiations, while pundits on talk radio and cable TV shout conflicting opinions at anyone who will listen. Between perplexing contradictions and inflammatory rhetoric, it is often difficult to find out what's really going on in...