Abingdon Press: 1502 books
Church Leadership
Vision, Team, Culture, Integrity, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Much has changed since the first edition of Lovett Weems’s seminal work Church Leadership appeared in 1993. In that time a substantial literature about leading the congregation has appeared, written from a broad variety of perspectives. But in some ways, little has changed in that time. The need...
UnLearning Church
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
How many things does your church do just because that's the way it's always been done? Does your congregation value tradition over passion and stability over creativity? If so, it's time to unLearn. Leading congregations into a dynamic and prophetic future requires unLearning what you thought you...
by Thomas G. Bandy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
95 Questions to Shape the Future of Your Church is a comprehensive commentary on systemic change for the church. It combines the spirit of Luther’s 95 Theses with depth of insight akin to Luther’s reformation catechism. This book will be essential for every congregational, denominational, and...
by Thomas G. Bandy
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In See, Know & Serve, Tom Bandy shows how the transition between Christendom and Post-Christendom is unfolding at different speeds and with different twists in diverse regions and places, and that this development makes standardizing ministry practices, or using collections of "best practices,"...
by Terence Corkin, Julia Kuhn Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Recent political events in the USA indicate that ordinary people are weary of traditional politics and ways of doing business in the halls of power. A similar mood is present in churches around the world. Ordinary church members are tired of the fighting and politicking that seem to privilege the...
Sideline Church
Bridging the Chasm between Churches and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
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Got Empathy?
Tom Bandy reveals the cultural wedges and apathies that separate denominations, congregations, and neighbors from each other and from collective social agency. Bandy describes the church in America as “sidelined”—observing cultural change but not participating in the game....
Take the Next Step
Leading Lasting Change in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Learn how to work for genuine and effective change in your church without trying to throw out everything that has gone before.
Pastors and other congregational leaders are eager to institute meaningful and effective change in their congregations. They know that old attitudes and perspectives...
Redesigning Worship
Creating Powerful God Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Planning a worship service is far more than just choosing songs and seasonal images. Helping people to genuinely worship God requires creating an experience through which people can enter into the presence of the divine. Discover strategic insights for creating and integrating powerful God-experiences...
How to Lead in Church Conflict
Healing Ungrieved Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The hurts of people often spill over into the life of the congregation causing conflict.
Your chair of finance is going through a nasty divorce and is mad at God. The mother of one of your Sunday School teachers is chronically ill. A major factory in your community has relocated, taking with...
Change the World
Recovering the Message and Mission of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Clearly, something is not working. Despite the church’s place of prominence in American culture and the ubiquity of the church in every American town, misconceptions about the faith of Jesus Christ run rampant today. Christians are known more for exclusivity than for love, more for pot lucks than...
Love to Stay
Six Keys to a Successful Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
In this book, Adam Hamilton explores how, with God’s help, we can make love last. Drawing upon a survey of thousands of couples and singles, interviews with relationship and marriage therapists, the latest research in the field, and wisdom from the Bible, Hamilton looks at what it takes to create...
I Want My Life Back!
Life Management for Busy Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
We live in a fast-food society and seem to live on the trend mill at warp speed. This book offers help, guidance, and encouragement to the woman on life's journey who wishes her life had more quality. And to be honest, she feels like someone has taken her life, and she wants it back!
“Lorraine...
The E-Giving Guide for Every Church
Using Digital Tools to Grow Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
The purpose of this book is to help churches raise more money for ministry and mission by better using electronic media.
Although philanthropy in the US is growing, churches continue to receive a declining portion of that philanthropy. Part of the challenge is that America is becoming significantly...
The Vile Practices of Church Leadership
Finance and Administration
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Many pastors—just like the rest of the population--lack a basic understanding of financial and administrative matters. Most of us feel unprepared in matters of personal budgeting, health insurance, retirement savings and taxes. Finance and administration are often considered tedious, un-compelling,...