Zondervan: 3109 books
The Christian Atheist
Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
“The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere.” Former Christian Atheist Craig Groeschel knows his subject all too well. After over a decade of successful ministry, he had to make a painful self admission: although he believed in God, he was leading his church like God didn’t...
by Andy Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A vision. You as a leader may have it, but has your organization caught it? If a leader's vision is all about what could be and what should be, why are you buried under what is? Noted author and pastor Andy Stanley points out that if followers don't get the vision, it's because the leaders haven't...
How to Lead When You're Not in Charge Study Guide
Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
One of the greatest myths of leadership is that you must be in charge in order to lead. Great leaders don’t buy it. Great leaders lead with or without the authority and learn to unleash their influence wherever they are.
With practical wisdom and humor, author and pastor Clay Scroggins will...
Making Room for Life
Trading Chaotic Lifestyles for Connected Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
What if you could get all your work done by 6:00 p.m.? Eat dinner with your family every night? Form deep, satisfying relationships? Naturally blend the world of church with your everyday life? Spend hours a week on your hobbies?
You can! Making Room for Life reveals how to make all of these...
by Merton P. Strommen, Karen Jones, Dave Rahn
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
A first-of-its-kind study of Protestant youth ministers reveals the hopes, frustrations, and effectiveness of today’s youth workers.Of the 7,000 youth workers assembled in 1996 under Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, a sample of 2,130 full-time youth ministers from dozens of Protestant denominations and...
Evangelism Remixed
Empowering Students for Courageous and Contagious Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2009
One of the primary goals of a youth ministry is to help students learn to share their faith with people in their lives. However, evangelism often proves to be one of the toughest parts of student ministry. But evangelism and teenagers don’t have to be mutually exclusive terms. After two years of...
Moving On---Moving Forward
A Guide for Pastors in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
For most pastors and church staff members, gone are the days of serving at the same church for twenty or thirty years. What’s more, the landscape of pastoral hiring has changed, with the advent of more sophisticated search committees, the Internet, and professional search firms. But the fine art...
Spiritual Leadership Today
Having Deep Influence in Every Walk of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
"If you are in a position of positive influence, if you exercise leadership in any way, your faith in God gives you a power—a hidden power—that will allow you to make an enduring difference in the lives of other people and organizations. But how does that power work?"
So says...
Going Deep and Wide
A Companion Guide for Churches and Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Every Sunday people walk onto your church campus and decide if they will return the following week before the preacher even opens his mouth. Many of those people don't know what to make of Jesus. They're hesitant to be in a church. They're not sure they belong. But over and over in the pages of the...
MultiChurch
Exploring the Future of Multisite
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Is it time for your church to go multisite? It seems everybody is doing it these days, so how do you know if it is the right solution for your congregation? MultiChurch brings clarity to the multisite movement and assembles the lessons it has learned over the past fifteen years. It explores the opportunities...
51 Creative Ideas for Marriage Mentors
Connecting Couples to Build Better Marriages
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
51 Creative Ideas for Marriage Mentorsoffers an “idea box” of activities and innovative ways to deepen relationships between mentoring couples. It can beused in any of the three areas of the marriage mentoring triad:• Preparing—mentoring engaged and newlywed couples• Maximizing—mentoring...
Spiritual Rhythm
Being with Jesus Every Season of Your Soul
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
“Abide in me,” Jesus tells us, “and you will bear much fruit.” Yet too often we forget that fruit needs different seasons in order to grow. We measure our spiritual maturity by how much we do rather than how we are responding to our current spiritual season.In Spiritual Rhythm, Mark Buchanan...
Your Church Is Too Safe
Why Following Christ Turns the World Upside-Down
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
“These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.” That was the startled cry, circa 50 AD, from a hastily assembled mob in Thessalonica. These men who have turned the world upside: their description of Paul and Silas. Holy vandals on the loose, anointed marauders running amok,...
Ordinary
Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Radical. Crazy. Transformative and restless. Every word we read these days seems to suggest there’s a “next-best-thing,” if only we would change our comfortable, compromising lives. In fact, the greatest fear most Christians have is boredom—the sense that they are missing out on the radical...