Pastoral Ministry category: 1680 books
The Self-Aware Leader
Discovering Your Blind Spots to Reach Your Ministry Potential
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
**Effective ministry begins here.**The Self-Aware Leader
The Social Media Gospel
Sharing the Good News in New Ways
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
If you are responsible for managing digital communications in your parish, staying current with trends in the rapidly changing world of social media can seem like an overwhelming task. Which social medium platforms make sense for your church community? How can you make them an effective tool for ministry?
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The Digital Ministry Bible
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A practical, how-to guide for faith communities that want to reach out and build meaningful relationships through social media.
With the advent of the digital age, technology has become a part of everyday life. But while social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube allow people to...
The Church
God's New People
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
The church of Jesus Christ is the locus of God’s plan for creation—a plan to reclaim all things for his glory. In The Church: God’s New People, Savage shows how it is within this corporate body that the larger dimensions of God’s plan for creation receive breathtaking definition.
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by Mel Lawrenz
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Pastors and church leaders can use the normal activities of church life to touch the innermost lives of their flock, fostering spiritual growth and building up the body of Christ.
by Dr. Henrietta C. Mears
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
When Dr. Henrietta Mears began her ministry in Hollywood, California, in the 1930s, she was facing several challenges. Sixty percent of children at the time were not attending a church of any sort. Fewer than fifteen percent of children who attended Sunday School ever made a decision to follow Jesus....
Transformational Groups
Creating a New Scorecard for Groups
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
God declared through the Apostle Paul that the church would be a place of transformation. In 2 Corinthians 5:17 we find, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. Despite this, the church seems increasingly to be a place where...
Advanced Strategic Planning
A 21st-Century Model for Church and Ministry Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
First published in 1999, Advanced Strategic Planning explains why planning is so important to carrying out the church's mission. Now in its third edition, this classic resource offers
•a nine-step strategic thinking and acting model
•useful ideas for developing a ministry strategy
•diagrams...
Becoming a Healthy Church
Ten Traits of a Vital Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
"A wonderful tool that I recommend to every church that is serious about being purpose-driven." -Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Church
Now available in trade paper, Becoming a Healthy Church illustrates the ten most important characteristics of church health. Based on extensive...
You Can Coach
How to Help Leaders Build Healthy Churches through Coaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
We've entitled this book "You Can Coach" because we believe that coaching is more about passing on what you've lived and holding others accountable in the process. Coaching doesn't require a higher degree, special talent, unique personality, or a particular spiritual gift. We believe, in...
Community Is Messy
The Perils and Promise of Small Group Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Heather Zempel oversees the community life at a multisite church in Washington, D.C., a challenging population with one of the highest relocation rates in the United States. And yet under her leadership, National Community Church has become a model for creative, dynamic, deep small group ministry....
Re:Vision
The Key to Transforming Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Pastors around the country continue to look for the program, the book, or the sermon series that will turn their plateaued or declining churches around. But what if the answer to revitalizing the church was closer to home? According to trusted church leadership expert Aubrey Malphurs and veteran pastor...
Preaching
Maybe It Is Rocket Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
“It’s not rocket science.” As a pastor or leader, perhaps there are many areas of ministry to which you have heard this saying applied. However, is preaching God’s Word one of them? Could it be that unfolding the text, developing an outline, and presenting the Bible are much more complex than...
The Tentmaking Pastor
The Joy of Bivocational Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Real-world guide to the challenges, rewards, and advantages of bivocational ministry. Excellent for individuals and churches exploring pastoring options.