Religious ministry and clergy Books

Do you want to learn more from your Sunday morning church services? This gorgeous sermon and Bible class journal will completely organize your church notes. The beautifully modern notebook has generous writing space to continue your Bible study during...

En este innovador libro, Joel Comiskey desafía a pastores y a líderes a ir más allá de simplemente educar niños para formarlos en discípulos que hacen discípulos. Comiskey establece la base bíblica para el ministerio de niños, y luego anima a los...

What do you want to be when you grow up? The answers were our childhood dreams. The reality of adulthood is that what we are and do now is what we became. Finding Livelihood is a book about work for grown-ups. It's about not just the work we thought...

The Relationship Between You and Your Pastor According to God's DesignThe Bible says God gave the gift of the pastor to the Church - and this gift is indeed needed for the Body of Christ! Since this ministry gift is so important, it is vital that you...

""Amen, Lord. So be it!""Dave waited on God and heard him speak. And now he wishes he hadn't. The team is finally unified, ready to declare Jesus. But will they get the chance?When the riots begin, and Jed calls for a lockdown . . . When the mosques...

The book addresses the conflict between the all-sufficiency of the Word of God and the use of psychological principles. It tackles the challenge of why counselling is often ineffective. It provides a practical model for developing good practice in all...

Honor to the Great Head of the ChurchA Transformational Model for Church Leadership, Administration, and ManagementThis Volume One of the Transformational Church Administration Series is support for the organized church to stay on Christ's message of...

O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?Are you prepared to die?That may strike you as a horrible question. Nobody wants to think about dying, even though we all get around to it sooner or later.But Philip J. Gentlesk has some good news for you: There is no reason...

God made so many colors! Look inside to find buzzing yellow bumblebees, bright orange pumpkins, big blue butterflies, and more!Help your toddler explore God's colorful creation! Guide them in learning to identify colors, animals, plants, and much more...

Do you feel stuck in your Christian walk? Are you just going through the motions and longing for something better? Kevin P. Horath talks straight about what it means to live a “double-portion life” and how to truly recognize who you are in...

TEENAGERS CAN BE VERY HARD TO WORK WITH!In the time where teens are transitioning from childhood to adulthood, they can be one of the hardest people to work with. It is my prayer that this book would help youth directors, counselors, parents, or adults...

Have you ever felt…what’s in your pocket is never enoughto make a difference?Pastor Dale Walker writes passionately about moving from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset and how making this change will affect our lives and world...

What if adolescents aren't bored with preaching? What if they have and are interacting with preaching in complex, various ways that have escaped the attention of adult listeners and preachers? What if their own preaching informed the ways adults think...

One day a little boy named Malcolm finds a pink shoe peeking out from under his bed. Finding this little pink shoe leads Malcolm on a magical adventure to discover its meaning. Follow Malcolm on his journey as he discovers the joy of heaven that awaits...

Living Biblically de-situates biblical wisdom from its formally religious-theological underpinnings and offers it as a guide for fulfilled, happy living. Although over 95 percent of Americans have some sense of a meaning-providing transcendent power, 75...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel to a far-off and distant place to share with an unreached people group the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ? The Region Beyond is a journey with two young cousins to the remotest mission station in...

No one can appreciate the size or shape of a forest without flying over top to view the big picture. The Bible is like a forest and individual books are similar to trees. Studying small portions of Scripture is worthwhile and necessary. Nevertheless one...

Jason White tackles a subject few understand… Readers will want to underline and highlight the pages of this book. Jason effectively teaches the balance of protecting the church and reaching the lost that many thought was not possible… We...

The ministry is difficult. So much is asked of you, and expectations are high. It's hard to please everyone, and hurt can fester and grow, especially when matters stay unresolved. In The Learner, young pastor Christopher Ek confronts the challenges of...

The lexicon of the church is confusing to those who are not a part of the culture. Given the great commission and our call to ""make disciples"" (Matt 28), I have thought a lot about how to explain some of the terms long time church attenders are very...

We recognize the challenges churches face in engaging high school teens in deeper faith formation. Made up of 10 4-week studies, Canvas will captivate your students as they experience and explore the theological beliefs and foundational concepts that...

Ed Gross makes quite a claim, “Disciples Obey,” and becomes rude in a Jesus-kind-of-way in his subtitle, “How Christians unknowingly rebel against Jesus.” It is fair to say that the American gospel teaches that one can become...

Being a pastor has its rewards and pleasures. But churches can be unsafe places. They are filled with broken, imperfect people. Many ministers of the gospel walk into a church naive about the potential hazards of their vocation. They are vulnerable to...

A priest, a postie, a parish, a suburb, a city, a diocese, an unusual and deep friendship, a struggle to get a book published... The Postie and the Priest is part biography, part philosophy, part social commentary, part theological reflection.Here is a...

What if the people I know were to be transformed by an encounter with the cosmos? The foreign woman who argues with the doctor, the homeless man on the street corner, the corrupt politician, the fisherman risking his life to make a living. What if I met...

Perhaps without realizing it, we now find ourselves living in a unique time compared to all of human history. No generation has ever had such an abundance of material goods at their fingertips. Food, transportation, communication, and all kinds of...

Face to Face is about personal relationships. Everyone talks as though they want one, but most of us are missing the strategies to live with this intimacy, especially with God. This book is an invitation to explore the "ah-ha" moments of a theologian who...

Exploring and Engaging Spirituality for Today's Children: A Holistic Approach answers questions about the most effective ways to help children, pre-teens, and teens develop spiritually. This collection of research gleaned from presentations during the...

'The Irreducible Minimum' is a careful examination of the eleven essential doctrines, including the doctrine of the Bible, Dispensationalism, Theology Proper and Trinitarianism, Christology, Holy Spirit, Angels, Sin, Salvation, the Church, and the...

Introduction to Chemistry and the Environment is written primarily to satisfy the need for a suitable textbook for a one-semester course in chemistry and the environment for non-science majors. It is also suitable for persons who have no knowledge of...

In The New Age of Soul, the broad appeal of new age spirituality is identified and defined, with special attention to the claim that the "soul" may be understood as both the repository of divine energy and a source of spiritual healing and hope. Through...

Every generation must accept the responsibility of training the next. Yet, are modern Christian pastors and educators using teaching paradigms that impact memory and long-term memory retention? Pedagogical Theory of the Hebrew Bible is a...

""Dad. I've got very, very, very bad news. Peter was killed tonight . . .""With that middle-of-the-night phone call, life for the Mayer family plunged from ""best-ever year"" to months and years of dealing with the oppressive presence of Peter's unending...

John Hall Snow was professor of pastoral theology at the Episcopal Divinity School and considered preacher-in-residence at Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for over eighteen years. In this previously unpublished manuscript, Snow outlines his...

God gives us many gifts, from angels and miracles to the beauty of nature, and so much more. Let's take a colorful journey from A to Z to explore the many wonderful gifts God gives us. Through use of the alphabet, simple Bible verses, and whimsical...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

Many Friends found Brian Drayton’s 2005 edition of On Living with a Concern for Gospel Ministry a valuable resource and source of encouragement. In this revised and expanded edition, Brian adds a decade and a half of new research and insights to...