Religious ministry and clergy Books

The Child's Church Service, written by Basil Montagu Pickering and originally published in 1874, is a religious book intended for children. The book contains a collection of prayers, hymns, and readings that are suitable for young readers and designed to...

Hymns For Sunday-School Worship is a book of religious hymns compiled by John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware and published in 1854. The book contains a collection of hymns specifically designed for use in Sunday-school worship services, and includes both...

The purpose of this book is to show, biblically, how God speaks to people through dreams and to make the reader more aware of how God speaks to them in dreams. This is a book to help readers begin to understand more about dreams and the purpose for them...

Preserve your church's future with No Youth, No Church: SOULutions - The Missing Pieces to Build a Thriving Youth Ministry. This comprehensive and practical guide offers actionable strategies that you can implement immediately to transform your...

Join this missionary couple on a journey of forty years of miracles in Brazil and other countries around the world. Read how they learned to hear from Heaven, master the Portuguese language, and adapt to the rich Brazilian food and culture. Discover how...

Too many churches are following ministry models shaped by the culture of yesteryear rather than by the new environments of tomorrow. By exploring ten specific shifts in approaches to ministry, church leaders can not only prepare their church for the...

Thank You, God! is a Christian book for children intended for parents to read to their children or children to read on their own about what God has done. The words rhyme and repeat to make reading fun. The visuals are colorful and bring the words to life...

The Life of an Intercessor was birthed at home in prayer during a very hard season in my life. Facing many trials and tribulations, all I could do was think about what Intercessors have to encounter. Our jobs, duties, and assignments are not easy. I had...

Will God ever use me again?How can I invest my broken life?Does my life matter?Have you ever asked yourself these questions? All too often, churches, organizations, and companies abandon their broken leaders at the very moment the person becomes most...

We live in an urban age. To a degree unprecedented in human history, most of the world's people live in cities. It is thus vital, say Mark Gornik and Maria Liu Wong, for Christians to think constructively about how to live out their faith in an urban...

This Lenten series, based on the parable of the Prodigal Son, provides an inspiring intergenerational Lenten experience. Many resources are provided to make an inclusive, energizing experience for presenters and parishoners/visitors. The...

...we often deceive ourselves. If Plato advised "know thyself"and if his teacher, Socrates, said the "unexamined life is not worth living," many of us are afraid really to examine ourselves too closely, or to come to know who we really are.-- from the...

With a storyteller's imagination, New York Times bestselling novelist Charles Martin illuminates the key moments in Jesus's life and ministry and brings to life the meaning of the gospel in fresh and profound ways that call us to live differently - today.

Dom Germain Morin's classic study of the monastic life shows its foundations in the life of the first generation of Christians as described in the Acts of the Apostles. Drawing from his baptismal consecration, the monk does nothing more than live his...

Pope Shenouda's life stands as an icon and very real example of service, a service we can all aspire to learn from. This book contains a collection of Pope Shenouda's teachings on service which he used to give at St Reuiss Cathedral in Cairo, at a...

Clericalism is everywhere in the Christian life and perhaps not where you might expect. It elevates certain models, vocations, or ways of being Church in such a way as to diminish others. In Priesthood for all Believers, Fr Simon Cuff argues that a...

Relational Children's Ministry introduces a new paradigm for guiding children, and the kid-influencers who walk alongside them, to become mature disciples of Jesus Christ. It equips leaders, as a community, with practical tools for discipleship and...

Tent revivals, gypsy caravans, moonshiners, and snake handlers---all weave their way through Drema Hall Berkheimer's spitfire of a memoir. Running On Red Dog Road tells the unforgettable story of life, faith, and coming of age in WWII-era Appalachia.

Fuller Youth Institute Executive Director Dr. Kara E. Powell and youth expert Chap Clark use research from the Fuller Youth Institute's "College Transition Project" to empower parents with positive and practical ideas to nurture within their kids a...

Nobody can prepare you for all the issues you'll encounter when it comes to teenagers. Whether you work with teens or are trying to parent them, chances are that you've already run into a few things that you felt completely unprepared or ill equipped to...

"Why does God allow suffering?" We all know that there are no easy answers to that question. But as you use these tools to take the book and story of Job piece by piece, you'll be able to guide students toward a better understanding of this God who can...

Creative Bible Lessons in Genesis follows the work previously done with other studies in the series. What makes this volume different is that it is sensitive to the influence of postmodernism on today's culture and values, it complements the widespread...

As part of the best-selling Creative Bible Lessons series, the newest installment of 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus is a call for all teenagers in the body of Christ to go deeper with their faith, to join Paul in his last hours as he prepares his disciples...

This comprehensive, research-informed textbook reviews all aspects of traditional and contemporary theories and experience in youth ministry, but also points to the future by analyzing youth culture and charting innovative paradigms in the art and craft...

Nearly 400 more wild, creative games for guaranteed fun! - Baseball and Kickball Games . . . The national pastime is hereby turned on its ear by more nutty variations than you can shake a Louisville Slugger at. Plus other diamond games, like kickball. -...

Dr. Hale writes about being a missionary surgeon in the same delightful way James Herriot writes about being a Yorkshire veterinarian.

Gemini Elementa Astronomiae est liber auctore Manitius, Karlo, editus anno MDCCCXCVIII. In hoc libro, auctor tractat de fundamentis astronomiae, quae includunt motum planetarum, phasem lunae, et praecessionem aequinoctiorum. Praeterea, auctor explicat...

Church Sketches For English Cottagers is a book published in 1844, written by an anonymous author. The book is a collection of sketches that describe the religious practices and customs of the English countryside during the mid-19th century. The sketches...

""Christian Excellence Illustrated In A Biographical Sketch Of Robert Wye Betts, Late Minister Of Hanover Chapel, Peckham"" is a book written by Thomas Ray and published in 1869. The book is a biographical sketch of Robert Wye Betts, who was a minister...

""Children At Church: Being Six Simple Sermons"" is a collection of sermons written by John Erskine Clarke in 1859. The book is intended to teach children about the importance of attending church and participating in religious activities. The six sermons...

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...

Much ministry to children looks more like mere entertainment than authentic spiritual formation. But what if children's ministries were rooted in a mind set whereby we taught children, with our words and actions, how the story of God, the story of church...

Preaching is a privilege. To dare to proclaim the living word of God is to engage in the mysterious work of incarnation. And so, preaching takes both courage and humility. Nothing trivializes God more than a sloppy sermon or a lazy preacher. Our people...

This anthology provides a wide range of dramatic and worship material for seasonal celebrations. There are numerous Thanksgiving resources, including a children's Sunday school learning event, a children's message, a brief responsive reading, a one-act...

Men's breakfasts, golf outings, and other events still have a place in men's ministry. But Steve Sonderman is finding that the most effective ministry is relational rather than programmatic. Drawing from the successes at his church and others, Sonderman...

In this ground-breaking new book, pastor and author Bill Hull shows why our existing models of evangelism and discipleship fail to actually produce followers of Jesus. He looks at the importance of recovering a robust view of the gospel and taking...