As a D.Min. Director whose academic field is Christian Education, this is a most needed and welcomed volume. Having taught Introduction to Christian Education, Human Growth and Development and Adult Development, it is nice to have a textbook quality offering that can be used for...
Amid the many books published in recent years on the relevance and application of monasticism to contemporary Christian life, this book is noteworthy on two accounts....
In Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry, Melissa M. Kelley draws from current social science research on attachment theory, constructive meaning-making, narrative therapeutic perspectives, practical theologies, and pastoral methods to offers fresh and innovative perspectives on current theories of practices for coping with...
Watson begins his book by taking stock of the current situation facing the church in the contemporary United States....
Norman Geisler, a well-known author of apologetics among conservative Christians, and his son David Geisler team up to write this book....
Although organized topically, with each chapter titled after a specific practice of ministry, Go Grow Your Church! is written as a narrative, covering the experience of Rev. James F. Miller from the time he began his pastorate at DuPage African Methodist Episcopal Church in DuPage...
If your parishioners think about their faith, they will appreciate you taking the time to read God is Good, God is Great....
Lost and Found is a research-based volume to speak to the status of the younger unchurched and to give ideas and thoughts about how the church can provide ways to reach and transform them....
What a title and how appropriate, Mad Church Disease - a title I wish I had thought of. Who can forget the Mad Cow disease epidemic of a few years ago when pictures of cattle carcasses were stacked in a heap for all to see...
A 'wild Jesus?' Exactly, say these two native Australians whose earlier writings have helped to shape the ongoing theological conversation about 'missional church' in recent years (The Forgotten Ways, Exiles, The Shaping of Things to Come, Seeing God in the Ordinary)....