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 Mark Feldmeir LOOK INSIDE Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million  “...a clarion call for critical thinking and critical acti...

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 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 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 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 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 Nicole Massie Martin BOOK PREVIEW Women were made to lead. Even in church. Jesus affirmed women as leaders—many contend Mary Magdalene was the ...

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 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...

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

By Israel Galindo and Marty C. Canaday BOOK PREVIEW This book was written to help congregational leaders, clergy, staff, and laypersons, plan and...

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 Kathy Black BOOK PREVIEW Culturally-Conscious Worship explores the complexities of multiculturalism in faith communities and addresses the cha...

by Zachary Moon BOOK PREVIEW Coming home from military service is a process of reconnection and reintegration that is best engaged within a compas...

edited by Ronald J. Allen This collection of sermons by noted homileticians illustrates thirty-four distinct styles of contemporary and tradition...

by Donald Capps Read a Preview For most ministers, pastoral counseling is a part of daily ministry, whether it is in an office counseling session...

by John M. Bracke and Karen B. Tye BOOK PREVIEW This interdisciplinary conversation combines educational theory with Bible scholarship to help tea...

by O. Wesley Allen, Jr. Book Preview Now more than ever, it’s time to preach. The election of Donald Trump left countless faith leaders across th...

by Fred B. Craddock BOOK PREVIEW Revised and Expanded Edition! When originally published in 1978, Overhearing the Gospel introduced "narrative pre...

by Linda J. Miller and Chad W. Hall Read a Preview Church and business coaching pioneer Linda Miller and minister and denominational consultant Ch...

by Gary V. Nelson and Peter M. Dickens Leading in Disorienting Times delves into the essence of leadership, portraying it as a practice that illum...

edited by Felicity Kelcourse Read a preview Human Development and Faith delves into the dynamic interplay between human development and the role ...

by Joseph E. Bush Jr. BOOK PREVIEW Named "One of the Top Ten Books for Parish Clergy" by the Academy of Parish Clergy in 2006 Gentle Shepherding ...

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

edited by Jana Childers Exploring the metaphor of preaching as a mother conceiving and giving birth to faith, "Birthing the Sermon" addresses the ...

by Efrain Agosto BOOK PREVIEW Servant Leadership addresses a fundamental concern of the contemporary church by asking pertinent questions of the ...

by Lee H. Butler Jr. In Liberating Our Dignity, Saving Our Souls, Lee H. Butler, Jr., explores the question of African American identity and aims ...