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While urban pastors devote time and energy to all the typical demands of ministry, they also grapple with challenges endemic to city life. Achieving a measure of balance amid these competing demands and responsibilities can be daunting. Using his experiences as a pastor in urban settings for nearly three decades, Roger J. Gench offers pastors a close look at the challenges that come from being involved in urban ministry.
Throughout, he integrates...
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"This book is a clarion call for African American preachers to think more deeply about the aims and ends of their preachingnamely to stop putting so much emphasis on celebratory endings to our sermons and focus more on the substantive content in our sermons. Our so-called celebratory preaching, designed to excite the congregation into action through a highly emotional closing of the sermon, has had the opposite effect. Rather than inducing action,...
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In How to Be a Pastor: Wisdom from the Past for Pastors in the Present, Van Neste and Wainscott have revived the neglected yet needed wisdom of a forgotten pastor, Theodore Cuyler. While Cuyler is all but unknown today, he was a leading figure alongside the likes of Spurgeon and Moody in his own day. Moreover, he was looked to as something of an ideal pastor, and his reflections from over four decades of ministry speak to important issues that are...
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Carlosa third-generation U.S. citizen from New Jersey whose family emigrated from Colombia many years before Carlos was bornis often complimented on how articulate he is and asked how long he has been in the United States.
Deborah, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who is up for election as church treasurer, has her qualifications questioned, debated, and scrutinized by...
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You Have a Purpose. God Has a Part for You to Play in Something Big.
You were created by God, called to follow Christ, and commissioned to make disciples. When Jesus gave this commission, it wasn't a last-minute thought before he ascended into heaven. It was a mandate for all his followers to participate in a movement of God already in motion.
What is God's will for my life?
Where does my life fit into God's purpose?
If the idea that you have...
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In the Pastoral Etiquette book every pastor or clergy will learn all the characteristic qualities that every minister of the gospel must possess . This book is fully loaded with right conduct that is expected of every child of God according to the Holy Scriptures . The book contains counselling materials that will help the average preacher or christian leader to live up to expectation , that is to say knowing how to behave properly as a man of God...
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La actitud puede hacer una gran diferencia en sus circunstancias. Cuando suceden cosas en su vida, usted tiene dos opciones para decidir. Usted puede tomar el camino alto o el camino bajo. Un camino conduce a la victoria, y el otro a la derrota. La realidad es que la elección es suya. ¡Hay victoria para nosotros! En Más que Vencedores, aprenda cómo las circunstancias no tienen que controlar y destruir su vida. La verdad es que, somos "MÁS QUE...
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Demons come into people's lives to torment them and make their lives miserable through open doors. In this book, you will discover how to shut the door against the devil and demons. If you are experiencing any form of demonic oppression, you will be set free as you read this book.
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Bread for the Day is a daily, use devotional resource filled with rich treasures. It offers a brief scripture reading (NRSV texts) for each day following the daily lectionary developed by the Consultation on Common Texts and presented in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. It is, dated for January 1, 2019, through December 31, 2019.
Bread for the Day gives readers a prayer and hymn for each day, brief yet, helpful introductions to the seasons, table graces/meal...
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Recovering from Un-Natural Disasters is a must-read handbook for pastors and church leaders of communities who could or perhaps already have experienced an un-natural disaster, such as gun violence, suicides, or sexual abuse.
Unlike natural disasters, un-natural disasters deal with the concept of sin and require a different recovery strategy. In this book, readers will...
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The last 30 years of American church life have played a familiar refrain: "The church is old, out of touch, dying, and it's too late." Why bother? What if the church is not old enough, not out of touch enough, and not dying enough? When survival-rooted panic is supplanted with calm, spirited creativity, that may be exactly the moment your church was made for, that your community was hoping for- and that God is waiting for. First Christian Church of...
12) Building an Outreach Ministry to Your Community: How to Grow Your Church by Ministering to People
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The Church Is the Only Hope for Renewing and Redeeming Your Community
Your church is meant to be a conduit of hope and healing, redemption and renewal for your neighborhood. Is your church equipped and ready for this important work? In “Building an Outreach Ministry to Your Community”, Pastor Tyrone Barnette uses the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand to explore how Jesus himself ministered to people. Then Barnette shows how he applied...
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Does Being "Saved" Have Anything of Substance to Offer in Today's World?
What does it truly mean to be "saved"? In From Alienation to Reconciliation pastor turned attorney, Adam Rodrigues, tackles the difficult questions of what Christianity means, explaining how to effectively live a life of true salvation every day.
Adam shows how an "incarnational faith"-a faith that transforms our bodies as much as our spirits-is key to walking out our salvation....
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Explore the Ten Crucial Questions about Launching a New Church Site
One of the most powerful and effective ways to reach our world for Jesus is to plant new churches. Establishing a new church site focuses a congregation outward-on the spiritual needs of the people in the surrounding community. That, in turn, energizes church members and fuels healthy church growth in both the sending church and the start-up church.
Jess Rainer, an experienced church...
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Everyone needs advice, and everyone gives advice. In a world of dysfunctional families, churches, and societies, professional counseling is in great demand as a solution to our problems. The weak link in this solution is the inability to determine a counselor's qualifications apart from his professional accreditation. Academics can give you knowledge, but no learning or books can give you wisdom. There are no graduate degrees in love or compassion....
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Opportunity Lies Right Down the Road.
There's hope for your church. Respected church expert Sam Rainer envisions an exciting new wave of revitalized neighborhood churches that are growing and thriving. In the not-so-distant past, churches tended to relocate away from their neighborhoods and build large campuses at major intersections. At the turn of the 21st century, a dramatic shift occurred: A new generation began looking to neighborhood churches...
17) Angelology
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WHAT IS AN ANGEL?:There is a commonality in the definition of the name angel by both testaments of the Holy Bible, The Old Testament (Hebrew) and the New Testament (Greek) translate the word angel as ambassador, messenger, deputy, and ministers. The Mickelson's Enhanced Strong's Dictionaries of the Greek and Hebrew Testaments defines the Greek noun, ἄγγελος aggelos (annunciation: an'-ğe-los) as follows;1. A messenger.2. (Especially) an "angel"...
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Liberty to the Captives is a book for any Christians who want to learn how to bring hope and redemption to their communities - for those who are ready to step beyond their comfort zone, leave the status quo behind, and take up Christ's call to minister within a world crying out for the freedom only God can bring. Longtime pastor Raymond Rivera's testimony of a life completely turned around - from gang member to RCA pastor - underscores his powerful...
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In Glimpsing Resurrection, Deanna A. Thompson combines recent trauma research with compelling first-person narrative to provide insight into the traumatic dimensions of living with a serious illness. Her aim is to help those who are ill and those who care for and minister to them deepen their understanding of how best to offer support.
"The tendency for Christians to move almost immediately from death to proclamations of new life risks alienating...
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In this book, Paul Pruyser explores the first step in the helping process: the diagnostic assessment. He develops a set of guidelines for conducting pastoral-diagnostic interviews that acknowledges the pastor's professional uniqueness and meets the parishioner's expectations.
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