Leadership

by Dawn Darwin Weaks Read a Sample Small-group study guide included in the book The last 30 years of American church life have played a familiar r...

by Stephen Lewis, Matthew Wesley Williams, and Dori Grinenko Baker  Foreword by Parker J. Palmer Read a Preview Learn to live and lead profound c...

by Lara Blackwood Pickrel BOOK PREVIEW The communion service is the core of worship in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The elders off...

by Eric H.F. Law Book Preview A Congregational Resource Guide "Top 5 Public Ministry Resource"! Called a “must read for Christians paralyzed in su...

By Carolyn B. Helsel Book Preview Book of the Year Award 2019, Academy of Parish Clergy"Helsel is both unflinching about the need for transformati...

by Cathy Peterson BOOK PREVIEW Because they don't know what to say or do, many people feel awkward or shy away from those who are suffering from t...

by Fred B. Craddock BOOK PREVIEW Travel with revered preacher and author Fred Craddock through his early years as he considers what made him take...

by Cameron Trimble Read a Book Preview "A beautiful combination of good theory and sound advice; of dreaming big and working hard." —John C. Dorha...

by Leah D. Schade Read a Preview “We need to green the pulpit if we're going to green the planet.” —Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org How can w...

by Eric H.F. Law and Dave Law Book Preview Dreading another stewardship season? Reanimate the conversation in your congregation with Drawing on Ho...

edited by Phil Snider Book Preview 30 new sermons to empower your prophetic voice for solidarity and justice. As nationalism, patriarchy, and alt-...

by Eric H.F. Law Book Preview Eric Law’s foundational Holy Currencies (2013) demonstrated a new way ministries can think about the resources need...

by Janice Haywood BOOK PREVIEW A congregation’s health can often be evaluated by its preschool and grade-school ministry. Childhood ministry prof...

by Rachael A. Keefe Book Preview "There’s so much silence around suicide in the church that it is quite literally killing us.” —Rachael Keefe Ever...

by Edward H. Hammett BOOK PREVIEW Seasoned church consultant Edward H. Hammett shares his latest insights and suggestions for churches seeking to...

by Joyce Ann Mercer This book develops a theology of childhood both from a theoretical basis in biblical theology (especially the gospel of Mark) ...

edited by Robert C. Dykstra BOOK PREVIEW This book is an edited volume of works that have predominated over the past several decades in contempor...

by Fred B. Craddock edited by Lee Sparks and Kathryn Hayes Sparks No one has had more impact and influence on the craft of preaching in the last ...

by Fred B. Craddock In his landmark “As One Without Authority,” originally published in 1971 and updated by Chalice Press in three decades later,...

edited by Mary Alice Mulligan Book Preview Fifty years of preaching excellence in one volume. The Living Pulpit collects sermons from representati...

edited by Amy Gopp and Brandon Gilvin BOOK PREVIEW Joplin. Newtown. Hurricane Harvey. In times of disaster and tragedy, churches are called to pr...

by Fred B. Craddockedited by Mike Graves and Richard F. Ward BOOK PREVIEW One of the things that makes Fred Craddock's sermons so compelling is hi...