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PRAYzing! will help you understand that we pray to a creative God, from His creative Word, by His creative Spirit-and we can pray in a creative way. Through powerful stories and real-life examples, this book will give you plenty of instruction and inspiration for making prayer a compelling-and creative-experience for every Christian.
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Keeping in Tune with God is an essential resource for clergy and the people who love, work with, and care about them. Based on the tested wisdom of Listening Hearts discernment, the book provides clergy with encouraging words and practices to develop their relationships with God, their families, and friends, to carry the practice of spiritual discernment into the life of their congregations, and to work more effectively with other leaders to nurture...
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This Odd and Wondrous Calling offers something different from most books available on ministry. Two people still pastoring reflect honestly here on both the joys and the challenges of their vocation. / Anecdotal and extremely readable, the book covers a diversity of subjects revealing the incredible variety of a pastor's day. The chapters move from comedy to pathos, story to theology, Scripture to contemporary culture. This Odd and Wondrous Calling...
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Preacher and teacher David Mosser offers practical and spiritual guidance for pastors struggling to manage and respond to changes in the economy, changes in their neighborhoods, changes in their denominations, changes in the congregation, changes in culture, and the life changes present in every parishioner's life. Wise words from authors such as Alyce McKenzie, David Buttrick, Joanna Adams, and Thomas Long all contribute to this most timely and helpful...
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Roy Oswald, who ministers to pastors with great compassion, perceptiveness, and skill, now brings eight more years of field experience to an updated edition of "New Beginnings." Important new material includes: More wisdom about how to take care of yourself in the midst of the stress of transition...how to get clear about your role in your new parish...how to get along with people you don't like (as well as people you DO like)...how to celebrate with...
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Updated and expanded with 32 pages of additional content designed to meet the growing demands of busy ministers, the Christian Minister's Manual is an essential tool for ministers. This essential tool for ministers features Scripture readings, sermons, outlines, and practical tips for • Worship services • Weddings • Funerals • Ordinations • Communion meditations • Baptisms • Dedications • Hospital visitation • Evangelism • and...
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180 days, that's the critical time every pastor, has to establish their role in a new church position. That first six months can make an enormous difference and give them a powerful foundation, to impact the Kingdom of God in a positive way, or it can present them with growing challenges that linger for years to come.
Pastor Charles Stone draws on 40 years of ministry service to present an easy-to-read guide for new and seasoned pastors alike who...
69) Measuring Spiritual Maturity: A Process to Move People from Spiritual Babies to Spiritual Adults
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Jesus commissioned His apostles, and, by extension, the church, to make disciples. Many church leaders have, come to the conclusion that attending worship services and Bible study classes will result in making disciples. A review of statistical reports indicates a majority of church members and attenders do not believe this process will work, or they have, come to the conclusion, they do not want to become, disciples.
The 2010 US Religion Census report...
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Few works of the enemy are so destructive, so wrenching to the body of Christ as division in a church congregation. The reasons are many and include ambition, bitterness, and jealousy. Once a wedge is driven into the heart of a church, the congregation and pastor are usually destroyed by bitterness, gossip, rebellion and even hatred. Until now wounded flocks and broken pastors have had little direction for healing. With candor and insight, Francis...
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There's a growing desire among believers to reach beyond the walls of their churches to impact communities for God. But when the average church size hovers around 150 members and the problems of even midsized cities seem insurmountable, how can we hope to make a difference? A New Kind of Big tells the inspiring story of how Perimeter Church in suburban Atlanta started a partnership called Unite! with other area churches in order to increase its reach...
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The art of mentoring, like all great arts, is a grace to be received, a gift to be given, and a skill that can be learned and practiced. This book explores the practice and grace of that art. The pastors in these pages share their hard-won experience of mentoring and being mentored, their wobbles and successes, insights and wisdom harvested from years in the vineyard.
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The Christian ministry can be so complicated that no pastor is totally prepared for what is about to hit them. There are situations that arise one never anticipates. Pastor Keller believes he has faced them all, and he shares them in his book on Hidden Enemies in the Ministry. Keller has had to lock horns over legalism, face a charismatic invasion that split his church, be fired for doing what he said he would do when he was hired, deal with witchcraft...
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Equipping Grandparents was written by family ministry experts to encourage church leaders to think about a demographic which has been overlooked and underresourced in most churches: grandparents. Imagine the impact on churches and society if 30 million Christian grandparents had a biblical vision for their place and purpose in the family. Grandparents have incredible influence and a biblical mandate to pass on their faith to future generations. This...
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Los desórdenes emocionales están creciendo alarmantemente en el mundo. Hoy más que nunca los consultorios psicológicos y psiquiátricos están repletos de gente que desesperadamente busca ayuda para lidiar con las fuerzas autodestructivas que surgen desde la profundidad de su ser.
El autor aborda en este libro la dolorosa realidad de la soledad, la depresión y el suicidio, a través de tres historias de vida registradas en la Biblia. Propone,...
76) The Responsibilities and Significance of the Congregatio Pro Clericis in the Life and Ministry of th
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Of the many problems which excite general concern in the Catholic Church today are issues regarding the ministerial priesthood. Lack of collegiality with the authority structure of the Church and other circumstances have contributed to the frustration of many priests. Of this unfortunate state of affairs, this study carried out in the light of the apostolic constitution Pastor Bonus of John Paul II aims to address some of those pertinent matters confronting...
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Updated and expanded with 32 pages of additional content designed to meet the growing demands of busy ministers, the Christian Minister's Manual is an essential tool for ministers. This essential tool for ministers features Scripture readings, sermons, outlines, and practical tips for • Worship services • Weddings • Funerals • Ordinations • Communion meditations • Baptisms • Dedications • Hospital visitation • Evangelism • and...
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Robert Hoffman has served as a stewardship consultant for forty years. He has worked with congregations that assume that stewardship ministry is primarily concerned with raising funds for the church. At some point during their work together, he would try to explain to the church leaders he was, working with that stewardship is, concerned about our relationship with our creator, not funding the church. At which point they would typically look at him...
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Cuando la autoridad surge de las personas, el poder habilitador para el ministerio no va más allá de su cabeza.
Cuando la autoridad fluye desde la Cabeza de la Iglesia a través de los oficios que Él ha encargado, conlleva Su poder, todo poder en los cielos y en la tierra, para influir en las necesidades humanas.
La iglesia que funciona consigue sus propios hijos, alcanza a sus vecinos, bendice a su comunidad y da a conocer a Dios a sus generaciones,...
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The goal of Rise Up & Build is to build a desire within every Christian member to be both a cause and a contributor to the growth of the local church. To accomplish this, Neal Pollard provides:
Precise "how to" for time and talent.
Specific tools for building up the kingdom.
Easy-to-read style, yet detailed enough to be a reference book.
Forthright challenges for unhealthy, unbiblical attitudes.
Tangible, concrete, experience-based, biblical suggestions....
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