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This remarkable book represents the very best of William Phillippe's lifelong stewardship files: materials he has used in four decades of training, talks, and sermons about giving to the church. It includes biblical texts, sermons, sermon ideas, insp...

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A Teachable Spirit
Recovering the Teaching Office in the Church

By Richard Robert Osmer

Richard Robert Osmer provides a strong understanding of the teaching office, which is a part of Reformation heritage. He discusses why the teaching office is important in mainline churches. This book in unique because it includes seminaries, represen...

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An Unexpected Journey
Reflections on Pastoral Ministry

By J. Philip Wogaman

J. Philip Wogaman offers candid reflections on his service as Senior Minister at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C. This unexpected journey began for Wogaman at the age of sixty, following a full career as an ethics professor. Wogama...

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As One with Authority
Reflective Leadership in Ministry

By Jackson W. Carroll

This essential work focuses on reclaiming a healthy understanding of authority in the church by reviewing the meaning of clergy authority and examining how this authority has been used and abused. Jackson Carroll asks how a sense of clergy authority ...

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Claiming the Center
Churches and Conflicting Worldviews

By Jack Rogers

Mainline Protestant churches have been seriously impacted by the conflict in belief systems embodied in the opposing worldviews of conservatives and liberals. In this book, Jack Rogers contends that for mainline churches to remain relevant in today's...

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Congregations
Their Power to Form and Transform

By C. Ellis Nelson

C. Ellis Nelson has collaborated with and collected the works of ten leaders experienced in congregational affairs to design and produce a resource that helps ministers and lay leaders understand the dynamics of congregations. The result is an engagi...

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Dying Church, Living God
A Call to Begin Again

By Chuck Meyer

Make a new church. That's the challenge Chuck Meyer lays down for readers. He writes that the institutional church we know so well is dying. In fact, it may already be dead. Its structure and theology make no sense today, and haven't for decades. It ...

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Energizing the Congregation
Images That Shape Your Church's Ministry

By Carl S. Dudley, Sally A. Johnson

According to Carl Dudley and Sally Johnson, the discovery of strong and compelling congregational self-images binds church members together and energizes ministry. They describe five images of churches' relationships to their communities over time--t...

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Faithful Disagreement
Wrestling with Scripture in the Midst of Church Conflict

By Frances Taylor Gench

Conflict is all too common in the church today. But as Frances Taylor Gench reminds us in this book, conflict over scriptural interpretation has been with the church since its earliest days. Gench reflects on those early experiences of conflict, pres...

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First Comes Faith
Proclaiming the Gospel in the Church

By W. Frank Harrington

Drawing from his experience as longtime pastor of Preachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, W. Frank Harrington says that if the church is to flourish in this time, it must return to its primary purpose--the proclamation of the gospel for the salvat...

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From Generation to Generation
The Renewal of the Church according to Its Own Theology and Practice

By John H. Leith

Based on years of experience as a pastor and professor of theology, John Leith reflects on the dilemma of the church today as primarily "a crisis of faith." He states that renewal is found within Scripture and the tradition of a believing, worshiping...

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Giving Birth
Reclaiming the Biblical Metaphor for Pastoral Practice

By Margaret L. Hammer

The birth of a child is important in the lives of women, families, and communities. It can also be a vital force to churches in providing them with a model for strength, endurance, and compassion, says Margaret Hammer. Despite a wealth of fascinating...

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Growing in the Life of Faith, Second Edition
Education and Christian Practices

By Craig Dykstra

In this new edition of his popular book, Craig Dykstra explores the contributions of the traditions, education, worship practices, and disciplines of the Reformed Christian community in helping people grow in faith. In doing so, he makes the case tha...

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The Learning Congregation
A New Vision of Leadership

By Thomas R. Hawkins

Congregations today face an adaptive challenge of immense proportions. Many respond with classic signs of work avoidance: holding to past assumptions and blaming authority. Thomas Hawkins's new vision of church leadership can provide a way to break t...

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Practicing Gospel
Unconventional Thoughts on the Church's Ministry

By Edward Farley

Practicing Gospel is a collection of four new and eight previously published essays on the subjects of practical theology, homiletics and worship, Christian education, and pastoral care. Edward Farley offers a more faithful approach to the tasks of m...

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