Religious ministry and clergy Books

Most youth pastors want ideas, inspiration and practical advice to help them with their ministry, yet most don't think of looking beyond their own borders for advice. However, youth pastors in other countries have much they can teach us.  This...

A life of consecration prefigures what Christians hope for by calling into question the value of power, sexuality, and material possessions. Religious life challenges the idea that these things alone bring happiness and shows that we can be more...

Are you a leader, clergy or lay, in a Catholic parish wrestling with how to bridge the multiple ethnic, linguistic, and racial communities that increasingly comprise your parish? With these cultural backgrounds frequently come diverse perspectives on...

You said yes to coordinating the RCIA in your parish. You knew it was going to be a big commitment and require a lot of your time. But it turned out to be much bigger and more complex than you ever imagined. The more you learned about those asking to...

There is a way to experience a better life. Are you ready to become the person God has called you to be?

Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity, this collection further greater understanding of religion as a critical element of modern children's and young people's history. It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the...

The generation known as ‘millennials’ are now emerging into adulthood. They face opportunities and challenges no generation has previously faced. For the church they are the ‘missing generation’. Ruth Perrin’s landmark...

What is genuine church growth? Is it, at heart, the numerical growth of regular congregations or are there other dimensions and, if so, what are they? How can we learn from other contexts in order to properly inform our understanding of what we mean by...

Churches today face unique challenges as they seek to help young people engage with the Christian faith and youth workers, whether employed or volunteer, play a key role in supporting this process. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Christian...

Team Love God has brought to the world a reminder that our health (mind, body, and spirit) is our wealth. God never intended medicine to be complicated or messy. Together, we will blaze a trail for the Creator model of health care powered by the five...

At the moment of spiritual surrender unto God, visibility of physical sight and senses surrenders unto eternal and everlasting spiritual vision for unto that moment the eyes of faith open and the sight of flesh ceases in perception and knowledge and...

It has been a while since the Lord spoke about restoring the tent of meeting. To understand this, we need to understand that before church, there was the Temple, and before the Temple, there was the tent of meeting in the days of Moses. The tabernacle of...

One may wonder why counselling is linked to deliverance. Well, if you consider what counselling is all about, be it professional or pastoral or simply speaking to someone about their problems, the goal is the same - healing and deliverance. Any trauma,...

Tackling TULIP will help Christians understand the errors of Calvinism and why this theological system should be rejected and refuted. This book includes a helpful investigation into the key passages that Calvinists use to defend their beliefs. Romans 9,...

Getting Ordination Right addresses the basic questions: What are the essential elements of ordination? How is ordination practiced in the Bible and in the church throughout its history? How should it be practiced today?

At one time or another, all ministers ask the questions or face the challenges of losing their passion for ministry. This author contends that the major contributor to a loss of passion or interest in ministry in general is burnout. This book consists of...

Since the writing of the Book of Revelation by the apostle John, there have been many books written about the Seven Spirits of God. The majority of them are based on Isaiah 11:2. In his book The Seven Spirits of God: A New and True Revelation, D.W...

Are you aware of the unique joys and challenges that military women face? Do you have an accurate understanding of her context so that you can give wise and compassionate counsel? Whether a woman wears the uniform herself or she sacrificially serves on...

How does the church portray the beauty of Christ?The gospel is a theological message. But this message also creates human beauty―beautiful relationships in our churches, making the glory of Christ visible in the world today.In this timely book, Pastor...

In Christ's Image: A Guide to Youth Ministry is a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the dynamic field of youth ministry. Edited by Dr. Kirk Brothers, President and Professor of Leadership and Ministry at Heritage Christian University,...

An exposé on two trees in the Garden of Eden - the Tree of Life and the Tree of Good and Evil. A journey of self-discovery: From being misplaced to discovering our true identity and pre-ordained path, while learning to remove obstacles in the way...

The Computer Bible Games For Small Basic tutorial consists of over 550 of color self-study notes explaining (in simple, easy-to-follow terms) how to build Small Basic applications. You will learn about program design, text window applications, graphics...

Everybody's talking about church revitalization, but let's face it: God has been in the business of renewal since the Letters to the Seven Churches in Revelation. Of the some 450,000 churches in America, 80 percent are either plateaued or in...

"Tender Soil is a book that should be read and reread by every believer. Robin Richardson has poured his heart into this work and it shows in every chapter!It is one of those books that builds truth upon truth, leading the reader to a deeper...

This study aims to read Jesus's foot washing narrative missionally (John 13:1-38). A missional reading is identical to a missional hermeneutics based on the literary-theological interpretation of the text. John uses sending language and formulae, and the...

Leroy Blankenship is an author, speaker, skilledmusician, and songwriter. This gifted communicatorhas been involved in ministry for over 50 years,traveling extensively throughout the United States,Canada, and overseas. He and his wife have threesons, two...

An unabridged edition with an introduction by the author, to include: William Penn's Text - Robinson Crusoe's Text - James Chalmers' Text - Sydney Carton's Text - Ebenezer Erskine's Text - Doctor Davidson's Text - Henry...

This book brings a critique to the theology of the ordained ministry in contemporary Catholicism, a theology that fosters clericalism. It challenges a theology that views the ordained as ""set apart"" for a particular work over and against the laity...

Te preguntarás: ¿Por qué "En La Intimidad"? Ese fue el título que Dios puso en mi Espíritu y en mi corazón. Porque en la intimidad El Padre se revela a nosotros aun ésta no es individual. (2Pedro 1:20-21).Yo clamé y Él me respondió y me mostró:"Cosas...

As a scuba diver and pastor, author Scott Reynolds had heard the same phrase on dives and in church: "I want to go deeper." Divers always want to push the limits to go a litter deeper, wanting to explore different reefs and wrecks found in the deeper...

Want to get that book out of you? Have you already written one but can't seem to find a publisher who believes in your platform? Whether you are a beginning writer dreaming of published status or an experienced scribe looking to brush up your skills,...

By 2030, almost one-third of North Americans will be over age sixty-five. How will this affect the church? Author Elsie Rempel believes that the swelling ranks of new seniors represent a huge spiritual resource. In Please Pass the Faith she draws from...

The publication of Laudato Si'--a papal encyclical on a defining issue of our times--was a moment of great importance for Catholics and for the world. Now Fr. Joshtrom Kureethadam, one of the church's top experts on the document, provides a...

As a result of reading Winning in the Kingdom, you will have greater victory in all areas of your life. It is about accessing and becoming all God has ordained.It is filled with hope, faith, determination and development strategies to help...

Mike Paschall spent three years transferring the revelation from his heart and mind to paper.  This daily devotional, which is a year long excursion through the book of Proverbs, is the byproduct of several factors: he’s been a son for over 60...

Children's pastors, youth pastors, and volunteers play an essential role in churches and faith-based organizations. However, many people enter paid or volunteer ministry with limited professional training on how to work specifically with challenging...

Building on a string of Haberer family harrowing encounters, Swimming with the Sharks presents a framework for addressing the sharks among us: those on the other side of the divide in American church life. What is characterized as the separation between...

What does your congregation have to do with those invisible people who pick the crops that feed your family? Rev. Dr. Thelma Herrera Flores, the daughter and granddaughter of Campesinos, believes that anyone--clergy or lay--can reach this population with...

Problems of patriarchy and colonialism that have left traces in the history of evangelism and Christian missions have contributed to perpetuating marginalization and discrimination against women in church life in Asia. This book offers a reconstruction...

""So, what do you really want to do?"" Most people spend more time thinking about how to get what they want rather than determining exactly what they should want during their life journey. Modern dictionaries define vocation as a regular occupation or...

What this book argues for in today's twenty-first-century church was a hallmark doctrine of old school Presbyterianism of the nineteenth century: the doctrine of the spirituality of the church. Which eschatological approach one uses will affect one's...

Healing of the Soul Ministry (HOSM) is a groundbreaking opportunity for people to receive emotional, mental, and spiritual healing from soul wounds and trauma. Along with it is Healing of the Soul Ministry for African Americans (HOSM4AA), a racial...

Not Traditional Church!As Cassandra began her calling she realized that the ministry the Lord had called her to was not traditional church. She had to go back to the original pattern God gave to Moses and begin there, in order to understand the ministry...