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  • Evaluating Ministry : Principles And Processes For Clergy And Congregations

    $23.00

    Grounding evaluation in the theological and organizational context of mission (everyone a minister), Hudson describes case studies of four successful evaluation models that include the whole church. She suggests how “whole church” reviews might result in stronger pastoral ministry and new directions for mission. An important resource that will help clergy and laity explore mutual ministry, judicatory executives strengthen congregations, and new pastors get through their first congregational evaluation.

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  • Once And Future Church

    $23.00

    Mead takes a broad look at past and present changes in the church, and postulates a future to which those changes are calling us. Denominations, once structured to deliver resources to far-off lands of foreign mission, now encounter the mission field in the layperson’s workplace and the community surrounding the local congregation. Thus, the church is called to reinvention for this new mission frontier. Study guide information follows.

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  • Behavioral Covenants In Congregations (Workbook)

    $26.00

    This down-to-earth workbook gets to the heart of modern congregational life: how to live creatively together despite differences of age, race, culture, opinion, gender, theological or political position. Alban Senior Consultant Gil Rendle explains how to grow by valuing our differences rather than trying to ignore or blend them. He describes a method of establishing behavioral covenants that includes leadership instruction, training tools, resources (visual models, examples of specific covenants), small-group exercises, plans for meetings and retreats.

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  • In Between Church

    $23.00

    Alban Senior Consultant Mann draws on her lengthy experience in helping congregations deal with the hurdles and anxieties of expansion or contraction in size. Often, congregations experiencing size change do not recognize the need to change culture and form as part of the successful adaptation process. Mann details the adjustments in attitude-as well as practice-that are necessary to support successful size change.

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  • Leading Change In The Congregation

    $31.00

    Many books have been written about leadership and change, but until now none has focused on the kind of change that tears at a community’s very fabric. Alban senior consultant Gil Rendle provides a respectful context for understanding change, especially the experiences and resistances that people feel. Rendle pulls together theory, research, and his work with churches facing change to provide leaders with practical diagnostic models and tools. In a time when change is the norm, this book helps to “lead change” in a spiritual and healthy way.

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  • Discerning Your Congregations Future

    $31.00

    Drawing on extensive consulting experience with congregations, the authors provide a step-by-step guide to congregational planning that grounds strategic planning techniques in a process of spiritual discernment. The result: members will own the vision and be eager to participate in the congregation’s calling, life, and ministry. You and your planning committee learn the theory behind the techniques, along with receiving help for addressing specific situations.

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  • Once And Future Pastor

    $25.00

    Hobgood examines new pressures on clergy that are emerging in the “post-Christendom era:” financial stresses; the effects of a conflicted and confrontational culture; the needs of an increasing number of people living broken or dependent lives; dysfunctional behavior on the part of pastors and parishioners; questions regarding clergy respect and job satisfaction. How is ministry being affected by these changes? What skills will clergy need as they enter the new century? An invaluable resource thoroughly grounded in research and full of practical observations for clergy, judicatory executives, seminary professors, and long-range planners.

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  • Embracing Diversity : Leadership In Multicultural Congregations

    $20.00

    Explore a variety of approaches congregations have taken to embrace differences; identify leadership issues diversity creates in congregations; and discover programmatic suggestions drawn from the experience of multicultural congregations to address these issues. This book helps readers to understand their own experience with racial and cultural differences and is a guide for gathering diverse people into the life and mission of the congregation

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  • User Friendly Evaluation

    $23.00

    Each congregation must evaluate itself in light of its own mix of gifts, backgrounds, talents, and opportunities. Presenting the best of evaluation theory past and present, Woods shows clergy and lay leaders how to engage in mutual evaluation-not judgment-of ministry, mission, and community as a shared responsibility. The goal is building up the congregation. A special chapter provides commentary from church evaluation experts Roy Oswald (Alban), Paul Light (ABUSA denominational staff), and Jill Hudson (PCUSA judicatory executive) on dilemmas congregations face in evaluation

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  • New Beginning For Pastors And Congregations

    $29.00

    This wise and practical guide provides clear insight for both pastors and congregations on how to begin a healthy, productive new pastorate or make a fresh start in an ongoing ministry. Author Kennon L. Callahan, today’s most sought-after church consultant, has conferred with thousands of pastors and congregations, helping them discover their strengths and gifts and showing them how to work together in service to their community and mission. Here he offers fresh suggestions on how pastors and congregations can ensure a solid future together, whether they are newly beginning or beginning again.

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  • Leadership In The Wesleyan Spirit

    $20.99

    The purpose of this book is simple— to reclaim a vision for church leadership from the great spiritual awakening known as the Wesleyan movement.

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  • Leading The Team Based Church

    $36.00

    THE BIBLICAL CASE FOR TEAM-BASED MINISTRY: REFLECTING THE GOD WE SERVE.
    Learning The Circle Dance Of God.

    Building On A Receptive Cultural Environment.

    THE DANCE OF LEADERSHIP: BUILDING GRACEFUL MINISTRY TEAMS.

    The Covenanting Team.

    The Visionary Team.

    The Culture-Creating Team.

    The Collaborative Team.

    The Trusting Team.

    The Empowering Team.

    The Learning Team.

    Epilogue: A Word Of Encouragement.

    Resource: Two Examples Of Staff Covenants.

    References.

    Index.

    Additional Info
    In Leading the Team-Based Church, George Cladis issues a clarion call for ministry teams to embrace a fresh leadership model that is not based on hierarchy, but on a process of collaboration that mirrors the relationship of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He reminds us that today’s cultural environment–where authority has basis in trust, innovation reaps rewards, and spirituality takes root in life and work–has matured past the need for the hierarchy of traditional church leadership where the pastor had the final say. Through down-to-earth stories from his own experience and those of clergy in both mainline and evangelical churches, Cladis offers an exciting alternative to the traditional forms of church leadership, enabling pastors, congregational leaders, and staff to breathe new life into their ministries and unleash the full potential of the entire ministry team.

    Cladis, pastor of a fast-growing mainline congregation, demonstrates how cultural changes affecting all our institutions–not just the church–are making it easier to adopt this new model of leadership. Cladis’s practical advice will enable ministry teams to work together in ways that both embody the Christian message and call forth the full creativity and love of the entire team.

    “Just when it seems that all that can be said has been said on the subject of ‘teams’, just when one has tired of the gumming of the label ‘team’ on everything in sight, along comes perhaps the most significant religious book on teams yet published. Cladis juxtaposes the theological and cultural context for team-based ministry in a model presentation of what a conversation between Bible, theology, and culture should look like.”–Leonard Sweet, dean, The Theological School and vice president, Drew University

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  • Nailing Down A Board

    $15.99

    Based on his many years of experience serving on boards of churches, ministries, and charities, noted theologian Charles Ryrie offers practical advice applicable to a wide variety of organizations and ministries. Learn how to secure board members, train others to serve effectively, and make the most of meeting times

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  • Character Of Leadership

    $37.95

    SKU (ISBN): 9780787941208ISBN10: 0787941204Michael Jinkins | Deborah JinkinsBinding: Cloth TextPublished: November 1998Publisher: Jossey-Bass, Inc./Wiley Print On Demand Product

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  • Male Spiritual Leadership (Student/Study Guide)

    $15.99

    17 Chapters

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    Gender Roles in the Church-
    A matter of what woman may do? or What God has called MEN to do?

    In his already-widely-read book, LaGard Smith suggests that our current controversy has been wrongly focused on questions about what women may do in times of gathered worship. The real issue, he says, is whether we believe in the pervasive biblical principle of male spiritual leadership.

    First introduced as Men of Strength for Women of God, and later published under the title, What Most Women Want, this latest imprint is designed as a Special Study Edition. For the first time, this edition includes Discussion Questions suitable for both men’s and women’s classes. There is also a Revised Introduction which brings the dialogue up to date for a church struggling with renewed calls for recognizing women’s unique spiritual gifts.

    Since the book was first released almost a decade ago, the mostly dormant issue of gender roles has now found its way back to the top of the agenda for a changing church. One congregation after another is now opting for greater participation of women in ways once considered unthinkable. Yet, little attention has been paid as to why there was ever and Biblical restriction on how women participated in the assembly. Smith argues that the principle of male spiritual leadership has far more implications for the church, the family, and society at large than we may have previously appreciated.

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  • Pastor As Spiritual Guide

    $18.99

    Discover a fresh approach to pastoring that can help you avoid burnout, approach your leadership responsibilities with more imagination and understanding, and measure ministerial “success” in new ways. Rice presents spiritual guidance as the principal paradigm for ministry, providing a unique treatment of the task of pastor in all aspects of church life.

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  • Upside Down : The Paradox Of Servant Leadership

    $15.99

    If you’re tired of feeling like there is more to leadership than telling others what to do, Upside Down will help you practice true spiritual leadership and follow Jesus’ leadership advice to empower others.

    THE LEADERSHIP STYLE OF JESUS. Most believers are familiar with Jesus’ recipe for leadership success: “Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.” (Mark 10: 43-44) But when it comes to putting that into practice, many leaders are content to leave Jesus’ advice on a dusty road in Galilee and follow society’s leadership trends.

    Servant leadership-the kind of leadership Jesus practiced-is something that sets believers apart. The choice of whether to follow the leadership path to power, authority, and control or the road to humility and putting others first is an important one. Jesus cuts through the superfluous issues surrounding leadership and moves straight to the heart of the matter, addressing our motives and values, writes Dr. Rinehart.

    If you’re ready to take your leadership to a new level by following Jesus’ footsteps, Upside Down will challenge you to equip and liberate others to fulfill God’s purposes for them in the world.

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  • Living With Paradox

    $24.95

    SKU (ISBN): 9780787940577ISBN10: 0787940577H. Newton MalonyBinding: Cloth TextPublished: April 1998Publisher: Jossey-Bass, Inc./Wiley Print On Demand Product

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  • Leaders On Leadership

    $25.00

    How does a Christian lead? By following today’s secular business models, or by simply studying the life of Christ and pursuing a servant-based style? In this insightful, practical book, George Barna has pulled together some of today’s top Christian leaders to talk about the subject of Christian leadership. Articles include: The Tasks of a Leader by Ken Gangel, The Character of a Leader by Jack Hayford, Prayer in Leading People by Peter Wagner, and much more. See what today’s leaders have to say about leadership, and learn what it takes to serve the Church as a Christ-centered change agent.

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  • Partners In Ministry

    $12.99

    In this best-selling book, Dr. Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church, not only challenges both pastor and laity but also provides the tools for creating meaningful ministry teams in the local church. Discussion questions and extensive use of charts and diagrams make this an invaluable teaching resource. This new edition includes updated language and a new introduction from Dr. Garlow.

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  • 44 Questions For Congregational Self Appraisal

    $23.99

    Churches don’t sit still; they are either planning for the future or wishing for the past. Yet, even when setting about to discern the future into which the Spirit is leading, how does a congregation map its way? How does it understand its strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and limitations, gifts and graces? In 44 Questions for Congregational Self-Appraisal, Lyle E. Schaller directs the reader to the crucial questions a church must ask itself if it is to understand its mission and the course it must chart in order to achieve that mission. He helps pastors, congregational leaders, and strategic planning groups understand that the questions we ask and the data we gather tend to set our priorities, and for this reason it is crucial to seek the correct information from the outset. Schaller shows church leaders how not to become trapped by “means to an end” questions (real estate, staffing, money, and schedules) and focus instead on questions related to the congregation’s distinctive mission (identity, purpose, role, and God’s call) and message.

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  • Corporate Person : The Nature Of Volunteer Boards, Their Culture, And Corpo (Lar

    $14.00

    No volunteer board is exactly alike. Everyone has its own corporate personality and collective culture. Yet, each board is formed by people who come together to envision, think, act, and speak with a common mission, and so grow and work together for the good of the community. It is for those people that this book is intended.

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  • Deeply Woven Roots

    $25.00

    Improving the quality of life in your community. Gunderson takes the eight major strengths of congregations and shows how they can be used to fill the gap between what a health care system will pay for and what it won’t in caring for their members. Help your church become a more imaginative, courageous, and effective enabler of healing and well-being in personal and societal life.

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  • Teaming Up

    $29.00

    A comprehensive quide and workbook that involves youth in their own ministry and encourages them to become tomorrow’s church leaders.

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  • Clergy Killers : Guidance For Pastors And Congregation Under Attack

    $30.00

    In a startling survey by Leadership, it was discovered that 23 percent of Protestant clergy have been fired at least once, and, even more significantly, 41 percent of congregations have fired at least two pastors. Rediger offers conflict management tactics for these “abusive” congregations.

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  • Learning Congregation : A New Vision Of Leadership

    $25.00

    Congregations today face an adaptive challenge of immense proportions. Many respond with classic signs of work avoidance: holding to past assumptions and blaming authority. Thomas Hawkins’s new vision of church leadership can provide a way to break through these defensive routines. The Learning Congregation is a must read for all pastors and church leaders.

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  • 12 Keys To An Effective Church (Teacher’s Guide)

    $25.00

    In this indispensable companion volume to Twelve Keys to an Effective Church, Kennon Callahan offers a practical, step-by-step guide for the most productive long-range planning. This guide will help both pastors and church leaders assess the strengths and weaknesses of their churches in 12 areas — ranging from specific mission objectives to solid financial resources — and shows leaders how to determine which methods will work best to advance their church and move their congregations toward action, accomplishment, and success.

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  • Leadership Secrets Of Jesus

    $15.00

    Possibly The Greatest Leadership Book Ever Written-Powerful “Leadership Secrets” That Build True, Lasting Achievement. Included are…5 Power Keys For Effective Delegation / The Secret of Handling Rejection / How To Deal With The Mistakes of Others…Plus Many More.

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  • Making Of A Leader

    $23.99

    History shows us: nations rise and fall according to how effective their leaders are. Frank Damazio tells us: so do churches! In The Making of a Leader, Damazio provides a deep discussion of what it means to be responsible for a group of “followers.” He explains the philosophy, history, qualifications, preparation, and practice of Christian leadership—and equips you to rise above the evil forces competing for lost souls.

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  • Preparing For Christian Ministry (Limited)

    $32.00

    Students preparing for vocational ministry in seminaries and colleges encounter unique challenges and opportunities. Preparing for Christian Ministry assists students by providing seasoned advice from professors on a variety of themes: the call and transition into ministry training, personal and professional developmental issues, the tasks of ministry, and contemporary social and ethical issues.

    This text was written by former and current professors at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary who were commissioned to write articles in their area of expertise that would be appropriate for use in the seminary’s first-year “Formation for Christian Ministry” classes.

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  • Listening And Caring Skills

    $20.99

    Nine specific, teachable techniques to improve communication skills for pastors, counselors, and small-group leaders.

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  • Seeker And Servant

    $35.00

    This collection of original essays expands on visionary Robert K. Greenleaf’s servant-leadership theme. It offers thought-provoking ideas on how religious institutions and individuals can serve in a more caring way by applying the ideas and ideals of Greenleaf’s servant-leadership vision.

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  • Church And Ministry

    $20.99

    This work comes to us from a career of careful research and reflection, is clearly and spritely written, and is, above all, timely. Debates over the nature of pastoral ministry have been endemic through the Lutheran tradition, and perhaps never more so than now. The author wisely enters his discussion not just on the movement from Luther to Walther but also on the Scriptures. Thus, the ordained ministry in Lutheranism is neither populist nor priestly. In addition, Klug leaves his comments on the views of others to the end of the work rather than scattering them throughout the whole.

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  • Bush Was Blazing But Not Consumed

    $19.99

    13 Chapters

    Additional Info
    Best-selling author Eric Law shows how to work with the dynamics of diverse cultures to create a truly inclusive community.
    In his widely acclaimed The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb, Eric H. F. Law explores the dynamics of multicultural misunderstandings and how different cultures perceive and use power. Here he shows how to work with those dynamics to create a truly inclusive community.

    Using Exodus 3 as a theological starting point, Law explains in detail how leaders can:
    – understand and resolve difference in communication styles
    – recognize and avoid the “Golden Calf Syndrome”
    – reconcile high-context and low-content elements in the group
    – use mutual invitation
    – build dialogue through liturgy

    Following Law’s practical guidelines, we can, in the end, build multicultural structures everyone can live and thrive in

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  • Leading Women

    $29.99

    This helpful volume shows women how to communicate and influence decisions in the male-dominated world of church leadership. Becker names gender traps, examines the unique perspective that women bring to leadership in the church, and explores communication strategies for both women and men. This book is part of a new series by Norman Shawchuck, developer of the Marketing/Leading/Managing trilogy. New paradigms for communication and leadership will be presented in order to further the advancement of vocation for women in ministry.

    Key Features: * examines the unique perspective that women bring to leadership in the church * names the gender traps * explores communication strategies for women and men

    Key Benefits: * helps pastors address issues concerning the rapidly growing number of women in positions of church leadership * show how to avoid traps that are set up to limit women in their ministries * shows women how to communicate and influence decisions in a male-dominated world.

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  • Team Ministry : Putting Together A Team That Makes Churches Grow

    $16.99

    Using a step by step approach, Dick Iverson explains the biblical pattern for local chruch admisistration – a plurality of elders led by God’s “set man”. He provides a method for establishing a team ministry within any local chruch that includes 12 principles on how to maintain the leadership team once it is put into place. He concludes the text with information on how to discover and train young leaders within the church.

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  • Stained Glass Ceiling

    $24.00

    As record numbers of women graduate from seminaries,they are increasingly filling positions once held exclusivelyby men. Purvis documents what happened in the lives of two congregations that appointed women senior pastors and the impact these appointments had on all concerned. She carefully assesses the changes and discerns the significance of female leadership as opposed to male leadership in these two settings.

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  • Effective Keys To Successful Leadership

    $14.99

    Learn, from this dynamic model, what it takes to build an effective leadership team and healthy local church. Common ministry temptations and tensions are candidly discussed, emphasizing the need for personal vision and mission in your ministry.

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  • Roundtable Pulpit : Where Leadership And Preaching Meet

    $20.99

    Collaboration is one of the best ways to make a difference when leading a congregation. Now John S. McClure shows how collaborative preaching is the best way to inspire and guide a congregation.

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  • Spiritual Life : The Foundation For Preaching And Teaching

    $26.00

    John Westerhoff offers this resource to help preachers and teachers revitalize their lives and ministries. Noting that the health of our spiritual life is based on our image of God, he asks readers to open their imaginations to new ways of knowing. Recognizing that the spiritual life can be fostered in many ways, he helps readers recognize which types of spiritual formation are most compatible with particular personality types.

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  • Everyday Anytime Guide To Christian Leadership

    $12.00

    The Everyday, Anytime Guide to Christian Leadership is a book for you regardless of when or where you find yoursef leading. It provides a wonderful oppurtunity to learn about the real character of leadership from someone who models what he teaches.

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  • Islam : An Introduction For Christians

    $19.99

    What do Muslims believe? How do Muslims pray and worship? What are the similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam? These and many other questions are answered in this informative introduction to Islam. Christians of all denominations will find reliable and up to date information on Islam and its relationship to Christianity. The first part of the book surveys the faith and life of Islam, exploring the subjects of the Qur’an, Muhammad, beliefs about God, justice and the law, women and family, death and eternal life. Part 2 tells about Islam in North America, both its early history and the current situatuion. Part 3 describes various groups and movements within Islam. Part 4 looks at Islam and Christianity, their encounters in history, the Bible and the Qur’an, and how Jesus is regarded by Muslims. Part 5 presents a Christian evaluation of Islam.

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  • Wolf Shall Dwell With The Lamb

    $19.99

    11 Chapters

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    This groundbreaking work explores how certain cultures consciously and unconsciously dominate in multicultural situations and what can be done about it.

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  • New Handbook Of The Christian Year

    $39.99

    ”A valuable source of services for the Christian seasons. One of the best currently available for all denominations,”—Christianity Today. A Christmas Eve family service, Ash Wednesday liturgy, and John Wesley’s covenant service among others.

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  • Winning Attitude : Your Key To Personal Success

    $17.99

    John Maxwell not only discovered the winning attitude, but he has also experienced the incredible difference it makes. Today he speaks extensively across the United States at business meetings and conferences on the issues of leadership.

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  • Leadership For Women In The Church

    $16.99

    This book is about how Christian women can identify and focus their leadership skills on tasks that need to be undertaken in the church. It is about how Christian men can recognize and use the leadership talents of the women in the church. Finally, it is about how local churches, those with denominational affiliation and those without, can integrate the full range of women’s abilities with the tremendous needs in the kingdom of God.

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  • From Generation To Generation

    $35.00

    Based on years of experience as a pastor and professor of theology, John Leith reflects on the dilemma of the church today as primarily “a crisis of faith.” He states that renewal is found within Scripture and the tradition of a believing, worshiping community–in hearing the word of God, particularly in preaching, in teaching, in the sacraments, and in Christian conversation.

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  • Servant : Simple Story About The True Essence Of Leadership

    $27.00

    1. The Definitions
    2. The Old Paradigm
    3. The Model
    4. The Verb
    5. The Environment
    6. The Choice
    7. The Payoff
    187 Pages

    Additional Info
    In this absorbing tale, you watch the timeless principles of servant leadership unfold through the story of John Daily, a businessman whose outwardly successful life is spiraliing out of control. He is failing miserably in each of his leadership roles as boss, husband, father, and coach. To get his life back on track, he reluctantly attends a weeklong leadership retreat at a remote Benedictine monastery.
    To John’s suprise, the monk leading the seminar is a former business executive and Wall Street legend. Taking John under his wing, the monk guides him to a realization that is simple yet profound: The true foundation of leadership is not power, but authority, which is built upon relationships, love, service, and sacrifice.
    Along with John, you will learn that the principles in this book are neither new nor complex. They don’t demand special talents; they are simply based on strengthening the bonds of respect, responsibility, and caring with the people around you. Perhaps this is why The Servant has touched readers from all walks of life-because its message can be applied by anyone, anywhere-at home or at work.
    If you are tired of books that lecture instead of teach; if you are searching for ways to improve your leadership skills; if you want to understand the timeless virtures that lead to lasting and meaningful success, then this book is one you cannot afford to miss.

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  • Ablaze For God

    $19.99

    What are the spiritual dynamics of leadership? How can you be more a person of God, aflame for God, anointed and empowered by God — truly a Spirit-filled leader? Here are answers that you will read again and again.

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  • Co Creating : A Feminist Vision Of Ministry

    $28.00

    Examining the thought of prominent feminist theologians and the views of practicing clergywomen, Lynn N. Rhodes articulates a vision of ministry that can enrich the whole church. She focuses on the feminist approach to the vital questions of authority, salvation, mission, and vocation

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