No mistake was made in heaven when God gave you the gift of leadership or teaching. . . Every gift you have-your instincts to lead and your passion to make a difference- came from the hand of a loving Father who crafted you. In this practical and inspiring book, Willow Creek executive vice president and teaching pastor Nancy Beach speaks to women with God-given gifts of leading and teaching. Sharing from her thirty-year journey in a local church,...

Today's culture is more connected than any time in history, but all of this connectivity comes with a price. We live in a world that's become cluttered, distracted, and disrupted by social media, with the average person receiving as many as 5,000 messages a day in one form or another. If you're a pastor, nonprofit leader, artist, filmmaker, entrepreneur, or creative professional in this hyper-connected, highly distracted world, how do you get your...

Networks are everywhere. From our roads to our relationships, from our food supply to our power grids, networks are an integral part of how we live. Similarly, our churches, denominations, and even the kingdom of God are networks. Knowing how networks function and how to work with rather than against them has enormous implications for how we do ministry. In Thy Kingdom Connected, Dwight J. Friesen brings the complex theories of networking to church...

Your character-who you are-determines the leadership influence you have with others. In 9 Keys to Successful Leadership, James Merritt, a respected voice on leadership, identifies nine essential traits that make leaders less stressed, easier to follow, and more influential. Among the leadership qualities Merritt identifies are •making sure someone sees, hears, or feels love from you each day• letting God's joy shine through your life• being...

Do you want to be a great leader? Do you know what it takes to be a great leader? Someone said if a leader is leading out front and there is no one behind him, then he is just taking a walk. This book is designed to help leaders be the best they can be using biblical principles as a guideline. These guidelines are direct and practical. It also has illustrations that will give the reader a picture in their mind because a picture is worth a thousand...

Teaching Our Story is based on the premise that as congregations become intentional story-forming communities, they can shape the lives of millions of generative, faithful, and civic-minded adults. To do so, a framework that relates narrative work to the full range of congregational life is needed. This book offers such a framework, featuring essays that examine crucial shapers of narrative, outline a course in preaching that addresses crucial questions...

Jesus was uniquely adept in the art of "reading" people. He fit his approach to the precise needs and interests of the person with whom he was dealing, and he spoke the cultural language of that individual. In this book, Robert Perry takes what Jesus and others have done intuitively-niche marketing-and provides a framework for applying those principles in everyday practice. Convinced that congregations can learn from the wisdom of secular disciplines...

By gathering stories about effective churches from small-church pastors, Brandon O'Brien demonstrates that a church's success is not contingent on its size. This is a selection from Brandon O'Brien's book, The Strategically Small Church.

Conozca a Doug Clay, superintendente general de las Asambleas de Dios, tal como su familia y sus amigos lo conocen. Pasos Ordenados ofrece una reveladora trayectoria desde la perpectiva de quienes mejor lo conocen. Además, Doug nos explica con sus propias palabras sus prioridades y lo que despierta su fervor espiritual. Las experiencia de Doug nos recuerda que Dios soberanamente obra en las circunstancias para bendecir nuestra vida y para que ésta...

Effectively leading a church or ministry organization requires many things-a motivating vision, a clear mission statement, an intentional strategy, high capacity staff members. No one questions these things. However, there is another fundamental requirement without which no ministry can thrive or sustain itself for the long haul-and too often it is either ignored or disregarded, especially by those in Christian ministry. According to Andy Stanley,...