Publication Date: 1997

  • Risk Management For Churches

    Risk Management For Churches

    This survey introduces churches to the important concept of risk management and provides an essential first step toward identifying and managing risk within the church.

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  • Attending Parishioners’ Spiritual Growth

    Attending Parishioners’ Spiritual Growth

    In this clarion call to tend to spiritual growth, Williamsen provides a much-needed resource for clergy. Discover how to assist parishioners in their prayer and spiritual lives. Learn how individual spiritual growth can flow back into the congregation’s growth as a community. Explore new ideas and practical approaches to using Christian education, worship, retreats, devotional…

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  • Leading Without Power

    Leading Without Power

    Simple yet profound, Max De Pree’s observations are often quoted by America’s top CEOs, educators, and opinion makers. The best-selling author of Leadership Is an Art and Leadership Jazz, he has done no less than revolutionize leadership thinking and practice. Now, in Leading Without Power, De Pree finds that the most successful organizations of the…

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  • Growing Spiritual Redwoods

    Growing Spiritual Redwoods

    Growing Spiritual Redwoods is an effort to help church leaders answer the kinds of questions that confront congregations and Christians in this era of rapid and uncertain change in the church, questions such as: Are you committed to Jesus Christ, or to a particular doctrine, denomination, or church? Do you speak of faith as an…

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  • The Wilderness Of God

    The Wilderness Of God

    From the Desert Fathers to T. S. Eliot, the desert has occupied a special place in the Christian tradition. The Wilderness of God is a fascinating study of desert spirituality which shows that the desert can be experienced as a place both of real inspiration and of torture and desolation. The Wilderness of God brings…

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  • The Learning Congregation

    The Learning Congregation

    Thomas Hawkins proposes a fresh and highly practical model for congregational leadership, providing practical strategies for understanding the relationship between leadership, learning, and ministry. The Learning Congregation is must reading for all pastors, church leaders, and church members.

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  • Clergy Killers

    Clergy Killers

    Clergy Killers offers remedial strategies for pastors and congregations who want to protect themselves against the abuse of parishioners with personality disorders, mental illnesses, and mean streaks in situations that go well beyond mere church conflict.

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  • An Introduction To The New Testament

    An Introduction To The New Testament

    Every generation needs a comprehensive, reliable introduction to the New Testament that opens the biblical text to the novice. Raymond E. Brown’s An Introduction to the New Testament is the most trustworthy and authoritative guidebook for a generation seeking to understand the Christian Bible. Universally acknowledged as the dean of New Testament scholarship, Father Brown is a…

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  • Make Room For The Boom…Or Bust

    Make Room For The Boom…Or Bust

    Church Growth specialist Gary L. McIntosh explores six different church models designed to reach yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s generations for Christ.

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  • How Then, Shall We Live?

    How Then, Shall We Live?

    We all long to experience a sense of inner wholeness and guidance, but today’s notions of healing and recovery too often keep us focused on our brokenness, on our deficiencies rather than our strengths. Wayne Muller’s luminous new book gently guides us to the place where we are already perfect, already blessed with the wisdom…

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