基督徒宗教

Seminary is the perfect training ground for busyness: full course loads, looming deadlines, too-long-to-read assignments, practical internships, community involvement. Trained to be busy, clergy brin …

This book, written by two experienced teachers working with Readers, offers a resource for Readers to consider their specific ministry as well as for those exploring Reader ministry as a possible …

This spiritually-empowered book reveals the importance and power of fasting and prayer backed with faith in God. It is based on the authors spiritual experiences and observations within …

Dudley’s work in Making the Small Church Effective (1978) broke new ground in understanding the dynamics of life in the small congregation. In this revised edition, Dudley revisits the small church, …

The religion of Jesus or the religion about Jesus? The cross as Christ’s atoning sacrifice or as a courageous, prophetic martyrdom? With a pastoral/prophetic voice and insights derived from a …

Dangerous Woman? Ordained by God? Gender matters! What do pastors really do beyond the pulpit? What’s it like to be a woman pastor? It’s complicated. People leave congregations when the pastor …

Talk About More Than the Weather You’ve driven to the hospital and stand outside a patient’s room, ready to knock and ask permission to enter. But then what? How do you make a visit that actually …

Leading with Love: Essentials of Church Leadership is a handbook, the distilled lessons of Terence Elsberry’s thirty-plus years as an ordained minister. It challenges clergy of all denominations to …

This book presents findings of further research into the concept I started in my previous book: the importance of dying to self and its implications for outreach to unchurched children in isolated …

Practical Outreach Ideas and Ministry Tools Never has there been a greater need to share the good news of God’s love with those in our communities. This compact handbook shows how individual Ch …