How You and Your Church Can Make a Difference

This guide outlines fifty ways in which you, your congregation, and your local community can help fight global warming and enjoy participation in a vital part of Christian discipleship. 50 Ways to Help Save the Earth makes a clear connection, in a pr...

Understanding the Life of Your Church

In this edition of his widely used book, Robert C. Worley takes into account recent biblical and sociological studies and employs inclusive language to help clergy and laity see the church as it is, in relation to its members and to the larger commun...

Using case studies of authentic congregations--diverse Presbyterian congregations that are responding creatively and effectively in their social contexts--William Hopper draws insights for all congregations desiring more vital worship, service, and w...

To John Buchanan, mainline churches have an obligation to be in the world, and their effectiveness requires that they not abandon their traditions. Churches need to steer a course that allows them to maintain a singular way in the world and to creati...

Staying in Church in the 21st Century

Despite the fact that mainline churches have been on a membership decline for the last generation, there are still active and healthy congregations where bright, able, thinking people have decided to stay and serve. In this book, Gary Charles studies...

Short-Term Teen Studies

Burst: Green Church deals with care for creation and environmental stewardship. It teaches youth that caring for the environment--reducing waste, using less water and energy, making responsible use of resources, and so on--is an act of faith. Burst: ...

William V. Arnold and Margaret Anne Fohl describe Christian caring as a unique form of helping that finds special expression in the church. Daily, Christians have opportunities to extend care, whether it is to a bereaved colleague or a sick friend. I...

A Believing Fellowship

The Church: A Believing Fellowship is a classic examination of what it means to become a member of the church. Designed for junior high communicant classes, it is also an excellent resource for church officer training and new member classes. The book...

Churches and Conflicting Worldviews

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...

Six Steps to a Generous Life

Committed to Christ: Six Steps to a Generous Life is a six-week stewardship program that presents giving as a lifelong journey in Christian discipleship.After an introductory Sunday stressing the importance of commitment to Christ, the next six weeks...

Six Steps to a Generous Life

Committed to Christ: Six Steps to a Generous Life is a six-week stewardship program that presents giving as a lifelong journey in Christian discipleship.This DVD is designed for the worship experience and contains seven pre-worship gathering time loo...

Six Steps to a Generous Life

Committed to Christ: Six Steps to a Generous Life is a six-week stewardship program that presents giving as a lifelong journey in Christian discipleship.This Program Guide lays out the basic plans for the campaign, including schedules, team roles, se...

Their Power to Form and Transform

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...

Why is it that people who read the same Bible and talk about the same Christ, even when they belong to the same church, have trouble getting along with each other and committing themselves to a common witness in the world? In this highly original boo...

Creating & Sustaining Green Congregations

Do you want to put your concern about global warming, pollution, and environmental destruction into church and community action?This book is a user-friendly guide for pastors, church leaders, congregations, and individuals to facilitate understanding...