Religious ministry and clergy Books

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The Conduct of Brief Devotional Meetings is a book written by Paul Micou in 1917. The book provides guidance on how to conduct short devotional meetings, which are typically held in religious communities. The author offers practical advice on how to...

The Bird's Nest, And Other Sermons: For Children Of All Ages (1888) is a collection of sermons written by Samuel Cox. The book is specifically designed to be read by children of all ages and contains a variety of stories and parables that are meant to...

Talks on High Themes: For Young Christians is a book written by Charles Edward Jefferson and published in 1909. The book is a collection of sermons and speeches aimed at young Christians, covering a wide range of topics related to faith, spirituality,...

Sermons For Children By Mrs. Markham is a collection of sermons specifically written for children. The book was authored by Mrs. Markham and was first published in 1837. The sermons are designed to be read aloud to children and are meant to instill moral...

Strategic thinking about ministry and mission has tended to focus on the challenges of communication and presentation. Less attention has been paid to the effects that this thinking has on ministry. There is an unacknowledged dilemma for churches insofar...

Too often, women hold each other back, bad mouthing and making unflattering comparisons. Social media give extra opportunities for negative comment.Are we trapped in our own battles, or entertained by the wars of other women, to the detriment of our own...

'After many years as a hands-on Christian minister, Alan Bartlett writes of what he knows well and loves wisely.' PROFESSOR WALTER MOBERLY'Magisterial' CHURCH TIMESThe Church has long been talking about the oncoming challenges of providing ordained...

Prophetess Dr. Kemba Jarena Lucas (PK), founder and chief visionary officer of Daughters of Destiny International (DOD), celebrates the organization's silver anniversary by assisting her tribe and any Christian woman impacted by margins to evict fear...

God cares for us. Without a Care in the World conveys this simple yet profound truth. Every need the daughter has, the dad meets. She comes to learn that her dad has a heavenly Father who takes care of him. This story is a reminder that God promises to...

The book celebrates Rev. Dr. Pierre and Judy Allard's fifty years of reconciliation ministry by weaving their life experiences within broader initiatives started within Canada and overseas. Three quality moments of time, referred to as kairotic events...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

We are facing a time of great change and Quakers are called to respond to the impending crisis. But we are unable to act with strength because our worshipping community is fractured along generational lines. This lecture looks to the Quaker tradition of...

Can you dance like a butterfly in the daisy field?Butterfly gets to not only dance but to share joy with everyone she meets.As she meets different people who are sad she is able to make them glad.Soon everyone is happily dancing in the daisy field. Do...

The Catholic Church has a very strong pro-life message "from conception to natural death," but focuses on abortion and euthanasia. DONUM DIGNITATIS: The Catholic's Guide to Miscarriage answers a real need in the Church. It provides a resource for...

The call of Christ to be and make disciples is straightforward and clear. A People of Grace explores the amazing grace of God and defines the purpose of God's grace in our lives. Sam Barber introduces a new and effective method for discipleship...

Conceptos cortos, prácticos, cuotas, y la información en este libro pertenecen al trabajo de la iglesia con estudiantes adolecentes.

Escrito pensando en los líderes, cualquiera que sea su posición de influencia, el libro La Influencia Espiritual, de Mel Lawrenz, nos proporciona un punto de partida para el liderazgo cristiano en el siglo veintiuno que tiene sus raíces en textos clave...

The Way of the Rabbi: Stories of Discipleship from the Gospel of Mark is a distinctive exploration of what it means to follow Jesus, set apart by its narrative approach and thought-provoking questions. Rather than presenting a rigid framework for...

This book enables worship leaders to skillfully guide spiritual novices, skeptics, and Christian veterans to the grace embedded in the timeless liturgy. Offering winsome worship hospitality, these pages provide seasoned wisdom, often in the form of pithy...

Sacred Playgrounds explores the wisdom of camping ministry for Christian education and faith formation, examining its rich history and fundamental characteristics with compelling stories, groundbreaking research, and theological grounding. Christian...

The Society of Children's Spirituality: Christian Perspectives launched in 2003 with its first conference held at Concordia University Chicago, in River Forest, Illinois. An earlier edition of this book, composed of chapters based on presentations from...

About the Author and his Blessings The sky was so beautiful with its background of pale blues and white clouds. It was so quiet that it seemed as if time had stood still. It just did not seem possible that only a few miles away in the jungle, the...

Motherhood is far from a picturesque day in the park with every child in line. In reality, childhood resembles the moment after the picture is taken, when everyone breaks a still perfection.Yet, behind a mother's lens is a person that carries more than...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Help Teens Study and Share The Screwtape Letters!For over 70 years, teenagers have loved reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis but have struggled to completely understand and share what they read. Today, The Screwtape Letters Study Guide for Teens...

What can you do with the fire of the Holy Spirit living inside of you? This book majors on the foundation of all gifts mentioned in the Bible. The 9 Gifts of the Holy Spirit, The Service Gifts and the Ascension Gifts (5-Fold Callings). It is unique in...

When Detective Inspector Adam Michaels' daughter disappears without a trace, he is desperate to find her. Her troubled sister who reappears at the same time, together with a shroud of secrecy surrounding their shared history, further hampers his...

James M. Houston and Michael Parker believe now is the time for the church to offer ministry to its increasing numbers of seniors and to benefit from ministry they can offer. They issue an urgent call to reconceive the place and part of the elderly in...

Church planter Christine Dillon has discovered that Bible storying is far more effective than most other forms of apologetics or evangelistic presentations. Her book explains how to shape a good story, how to do evangelism through storying and lead Bible...

In this upbeat book Robbie Castleman shows parents how to guide their toddlers and teenagers to participate more fully in the worship of the church. This significantly revised and updated edition includes a new preface and new appendices with ideas for...

What is hip hop? It's a cultural movement with a traceable theological center. Daniel White Hodge follows the tracks of hip-hop theology and offers a path from its center to the cross, where Jesus speaks truth.

Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this brief, simple and engaging introduction to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Following the "leave, weave and cleave" imagery of the Bible, they help couples learn how to...

Andrew Root reviews the history of relational/incarnational youth ministry in American evangelicalism and recasts the practice as one of "place-sharing"--not so much "earning the right to be heard" as honoring the human dignity of youth and locating God...

Mike King proposes a youth ministry centered in the presence of God. Here, young people encounter Christ not in the flash and pop of arena ministry, but in the sacred shadow of his presence. This book gives shape to such ministry through the classic...

One of the big problems in youth ministry is the constant turnover of youth ministers. Mark DeVries addresses the problem with a systematic answer: churches need to take corporate responsibility for establishing a vision and structure for effective...

Mark DeVries offers an approach that brings teens into one-to-one relationship with older Christians; involves the whole church family from singles to seniors; and frees pastors and leaders from worrying about attendance, budget and competition with...

Contextually relevant and foundationally timeless, Efrem Smith's book provides a model for holistic ministry that addresses all the needs of youth today--body, soul and spirit.

Does it matter how Christians in other times and places thought? For many contemporary Christians, questions about the role and value of church history can be difficult to tackle. Veteran teacher Bob Rea addresses these barriers, skillfully explaining...

Is business just a way to make money? Or can the marketplace be a venue for service to others? Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong seek to explore this and other critical business issues from a uniquely Christian perspective, offering up a vision for work...

With the decline of traditional Sunday school and education programs in recent years, many Christians have not learned the fundamental doctrinal content of the faith. In this text Gary Parrett and Steve Kang set forth a thoroughly biblical vision for...

This revised and expanded resource, edited by Cindy Bunch, offers hundreds of field-tested activities to help leaders develop healthy and vibrant small group life that includes community, worship and prayer, study and nurture, outreach, and fun.