Abingdon Press: 1502 books
Spiritual Entrepreneurs
6 Principles for Risking Renewal (Innovators in Ministry Series)
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Spiritual Entrepreneurs tells the story of an innovative pastor and leadership team who intentionally led their church to take spiritual risks. By using six principles, renewal can come to any church. These six principles are focus on: (1) Jesus Christ, (2) the Bible, (3) new forms of worship, (4)...
Exodus Preaching
Crafting Sermons about Justice and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Exodus Preaching is the first of its kind. It is an exploration of the African American prophetic rhetorical traditions in a manner that makes features of these traditions relevant to a broad audience beyond the African American traditions. It provides readers a composite picture of the nature, meaning,...
Make a Difference
Following Your Passion and Finding Your Place to Serve
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Every day we see that things are not right in our world, and as followers of Jesus Christ, we have an impulse to do something about it. We long to connect our passions and gifts with the world’s great needs, making a unique contribution for the healing of the world.
In Make a Difference,...
by Ralph C. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Literature and Theology is a volume in the Horizons in Theology series. It offers a highly engaging essay on the major concerns and questions regarding literature (fiction and poetry) as it intersects with theology—past and present. Ralph Wood is a senior scholar in this field, one who is able to...
Give Up Something Bad for Lent
A Lenten Study for Adults
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
During Lent each year, Christians give up something as an act of sacrifice and spiritual discipline. Often it is something like chocolate, knowing that after Easter Sunday they can once again enjoy what they have given up. James Moore challenges readers to take it further—to give up something spiritually...
Come On Home
Healing the Homesickness of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Drawing on Scripture and his own stories, Moore explores how to embrace the New Testament theme that happiness is the by-product of being in “right” relationships, of being “at home” with God and with others. More than once, Jesus reminds us that the Great Commandment is to love God and to...
Bishop
The Art of Questioning Authority by an Authority in Question
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
As a church leader, it’s easy to make the wrong move and find yourself in a bad position.
“What to teach; How to teach; What to do,” were the three questions Wesley employed at his first conferences. In sixty previous books Will Willimon has worked the first two. This book is of...
Anchored In
Experience a Power-Full Life in a Problem-Filled World
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Problems can make you feel like God is far away, but they can also be the very things that bring you closer to him.
Anchored In isn’t a book of Christian cliché’s or sweet stories to warm the heart but rather an authentic look at the hard parts of life. It challenges us to stop running...
Inside the Broken Heart
Grief Understanding for Widows and Widowers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
How does the heart understand grief when it is broken by the death of a husband or wife? To survive and live forward, those who grieve must find answers. Inside the Broken Heart is for anyone who has ever grieved the death of a spouse and asked 'why?' The book meets the reader at a spiritual place...
by Margaret Anne Huffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
For Mothers, family is everything, because of this they appreciate spending a moment with God.
Mom is at the center of the busy-ness of her family. She is the constant holding everything together. Give the mothers in your life the simple gift of focus for her personal time with God with these...
by Jack A. Keller
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Pastor, teacher, and mentor James Earl Massey helps us see the encouragement, wisdom, and practical direction the Epistles offer to our generation. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step suggestions for leading a group are provided, as well as questions to facilitate group discussion. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step...
You Only Have to Die
Leading Your Congregation to New Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
A moving testimony to how a church can experience rebirth by discerning it core mission. The key to becoming a Spirit-energized, people-loving, life-giving, community-transforming congregation, says James A. Harnish, is really very simple. All you have to do is be willing to die. This ebook describes...
Beatitudes From the Back Side
A Different Take on What It Means to be Blessed
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Using his method of approaching Bible passages from an unusual angle or a unique starting point, J. Ellsworth Kalas presents new insight into the beatitudes, Jesus’ blessings from the Sermon on the Mount.
The book contains sessions and a study guide for personal use or for use...
Thank God It's Friday
Encountering the Seven Last Words from the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Christ's seven last words from the cross have long been a source of reflection, challenge, and soul-searching. These simple statements contain the full range of human emotions and divine self-revelation: grief, compassion, despair, forgiveness, physical need, the promise of redemption. In many ways...