Kevin E. Lawson Alban Institute. 2000 ISBN: 1-56699-227-3 A dead-end job? A sure route to burnout? Congregational staff ministry is neither according to Kevin Lawson. Rather, he presents ample evidence that associate staff ministry is a calling with its own identity,...
Holy Conversations
Holy Conversations: Strategic Planning as a Spiritual Practice for Congregations Gilbert R. Rendle, Alice Mann Alban. 2003 ISBN: 1-56699-286-9 Planning can be challenging in the contemporary congregation, where people share a common faith and values but may have very...
Active Spirituality: A Guide for Seekers and Ministers
Kent Ira Groff Alban. 1993 ISBN: 1-56699-117-X Active Spirituality is a practical guidebook for the inquiring layperson seeking a holistic, intelligent look at the spiritual life, and for the pastor or religious professional seeking a systematic framework and...
Leadership on the Other Side
By William M. Easum, Bill Easum. Abingdon. 2000 ISBN 0687085888, 9780687085880 In an engaging, direct style, the author opens a portal to the "OtherSide," that place beyond the Christendom Era and its mechanistic, by-the-numbers approach to church life. It's a bumpy...
The Witness of Preaching
Thomas G. Long WJK. 2005 ISBN-13: 9780664229436 Thomas G. Long's The Witness of Preaching has become the standard text in preaching classes. In this revision, Long has expanded the key chapter on biblical exegesis, incorporating many additional examples of textual...
The Trinity
The Trinity. Foundations of Christian Faith series Philip W Butin. WJK: PRESBYTERIAN PUB CORP. 10/2000 ISBN-10: 0664501400 ISBN-13: 9780664501402 $14.95 The doctrine of the Trinity is encapsulated in Matthew 28:19, where Jesus instructs the apostles: "Go therefore...
The Teaching Ministry of Congregations
Richard Robert OsmerWestminister John Knox. 07/2005 ISBN-10: 0664225470 ISBN-13: 9780664225476 $29.95 In this important and groundbreaking book, Richard Osmer develops a practical theology of the teaching ministry. He begins by exploring the teaching ministry of the...
The Joy of Ministry
Westminister John Knox. 01/2008 Thomas W. Currie III ISBN-13: 9780664231095 $16.95 Clergy burnout still abounds. Now comes an antidote: a collection of reflections centering on a lost note today, “joy” in ministry. The Joy of Ministry contains eight theological...
Mandate to Difference
Mandate to Difference. An Invitation to the Contemporary Church Walter Brueggemann Westminister John Knox. 01/2006 ISBN-10: 0664231217 $19.95 “If you cringe at the boisterous, cocky new sound of religion in politics, if you worry about the divisiveness of ‘red’ and...
Jesus the Village Psychiatrist
Donald CappsWestminister John Knox. 01/2008 ISBN-13: 9780664232405 $19.95 All of the Gospels and the whole of Christian tradition depict Jesus as a miraculous healer who can cure blindness, leprosy, hemorrhages, and a host of other maladies. But how did Jesus actually...