Pastoral Ministry category: 1680 books
Catechetical Leadership
What It Should Look Like, How It Should Work, and Whom It Should Serve
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The ministry of catechesis is critical to the mission of the Church, and the most critical factor in an effective parish catechetical program is the catechetical leader. But for these leaders to succeed in their role, they must develop specific leadership skills and competencies. This second volume...
The Coming Revolution in Church Economics
Why Tithes and Offerings Are No Longer Enough, and What You Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Local church pastors, church planters, and nonprofit organizational leaders are beginning to recognize that tithes and offerings alone are no longer enough to provide for the needs of their ministries, enable them to pursue opportunities, and sustain long-term impact. Growing financial burdens on...
by Charles Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Author Charles Jackson has served as a pastor for over forty years. He was converted to Christ under the ministry of Dr. A.W. Tozer in Toronto at age twenty. In this series of articles, he seeks to answer some of the following questions: Why is ministry a burden most of the time? Is there a dark and...
by Elijah Oladimeji
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
You probably have read about the successful pastors, and their mega churches: the top ten richest pastors in the world; the top 50 megachurches in America; millionaire pastors and their celebrity lifestyles; top fifty ridiculously wealthy pastors, and so on. What most of these reports don’t include...
Help! I've Been Called By God
Easy Steps to Preparing and Delivering a Message
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Like never before God is calling men and women who will stand and speak a Word for Him. Is He calling you? Are you prepared? Can you deliver? Help! I've Been Called By God: Easy Steps to Preparing and Delivering a Message has been designed to equip you. Whether you are a lay minister just starting out...
Transforming Church in Rural America
Breaking all the Rurals
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
"No matter what size church you are a part of, this book will challenge your traditional thinking, force you to look beyond the status quo, and enable you to grasp a bigger vision of what God has in store for your ministry and your leadership." -Ed Young, Fellowship Church
"Shannon...
by Todd Edmondson, Debra Dean Murphy, Michael Sares
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
All too often, the metaphors and methods that we apply to the work of the church are those of bureaucracy and business—Robert’s Rules and sales pitches for salvation. Yet many who take the church seriously, ordained ministers and laity alike, yearn for something more. They seek to carve out in...
by J. Cameron Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
“A Personal Appreciation of D. A. Macfarlane bears warm testimony to a ministry which touched many hearts and lives ..... (and) brings the Christian public again into contact with a ministry which, in memorable ways, communicated the tenderness, the mystery and the power of the grace of God.”...
Discovering Your Leadership Style
The Power of Chemistry, Strategy and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
God can use your unique gifts, passions and personality to become a better leader. While personality inventories can help you understand your temperament, the model designed by leading church planter David Olson is designed to form fruitful Christian leadership. Olson's model reveals how three factors—spirituality,...
The Places You Go
Caring for Your Congregation Monday through Saturday
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
To be effective, pastors must minister in a variety of settings. Each setting--whether hospital room, jail, nursing home, funeral home, or even in the pastor's study--is different. Each setting brings its own unique dilemmas and rules. The pastor's authority will vary according to the setting as will...
by Sr. Virginia Kampwerth PHJC
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
With Loving Care is a book that describes the history of the American Province of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ from the time of its founding by five sisters who came from Germany to Hessen Cassel, Indiana, to serve the German-speaking people of Northwestern Indiana until the present day. The...
Seeds for Sermons, Talks, and Addresses
Theme-Based Papers Written and Compiled by Mary Hampton Battle
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Seeds for Sermons, Talks, and Addresses offers wise and biblically sound guidance to people seasoned or new to the Christian ministry who seek inspiration for their service and witness. Mary L. Hampton Battle, a Bible teacher and devoted Christian, brings years of study and teaching to this collection...
by Donna Lea Dyck
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Confessions of an Unlikely Pastor’s Wife is an honest, insightful, and often funny series of confessions from a woman who never expected that she would one day be married to a pastor. Ministering in downtown Toronto, she has had a front-row seat to the wonders and miracles of a God who is alive...
Coming Home
Ministry That Matters with Veterans and Military Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Coming home from military service is a process of reconnection and reintegration that is best engaged within a compassionate community.
There are almost 20 million veterans and service members living in the United States, including more than one million Americans deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan...