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In 2001 the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) conducted the U.S. Congregational Life Survey. More than 1.2 million worshipers and 12,000 congregations across three continents were surveyed to provide a portrait of congregational life. The findings were pu...

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A Gathering of Strangers, Revised and Updated Edition
Understanding the Life of Your Church

By Robert C. Worley

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...

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A Passion for the Gospel
Confessing Jesus Christ for the 21st Century

By P. Mark Achtemeier, Andrew Purves

These essays and sermons articulate the basics of the Christian faith and are by some of the best-known evangelical voices in the Presbyterian Church today. The main ideas in these essays are congruent with the basic theology contained in "Union in C...

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A Practical Guide to Community Ministry

By A. David Bos

How does a congregation best serve its own neighborhood? This practical guide for congregations and parishes addresses this question by reviewing the growth of the ecumenically oriented community ministry movement in recent years. David Bos believes ...

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A Practical Handbook for Ministry
From the Writings of Wayne E. Oates

By Wayne E. Oates

For years, the many books of Wayne Oates have served as invaluable field manuals for ministers and seminarians. Here, for the first time in one volume and by a minister who studied with him, are selected chapters from this distinguished author's fund...

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A Stewardship Scrapbook

By WILLIAM R. PHILLIPPE

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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Accompany Them with Singing--The Christian Funeral

By Thomas G. Long

Now available in paperback is Thomas Long's best-selling study on the Christian funeral. Long begins by describing how the Christian funeral developed historically, theologically, and liturgically, and then discusses recent cultural trends in funera...

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Adolescents in Crisis
A Guide for Parents, Teachers, Ministers, and Counselors

By G. Wade Rowatt, Jr.

Drawing upon personal experience, clinical knowledge, social research, and interviews, Wade Rowatt provides the layperson with the necessary tools to assess and provide spiritual help to adolescents in crisis. Rowatt discusses adolescent crises such ...

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Adoptees Come of Age
Living within Two Families

By Ronald J. Nydam

Ronald Nydam acquaints the pastoral counselor with some of the struggles that adopted people confront in their development and in their adult lives. Drawn from the compelling stories of people who have been adopted, this book provides an intelligent ...

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All Our Losses, All Our Griefs
Resources for Pastoral Care

By Herbert Anderson, Kenneth R. Mitchell

Grief as a lifelong human experience is the scope of this absorbing book. Kenneth Mitchell and Herbert Anderson explore the multiple dimensions of the problem, including the origins and dynamics of grief, loss throughout life, caring for those who gr...

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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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And a Little Bit Farther
More Stories of Mission

By Marj Carpenter

Marj Carpenter--storyteller, journalist, and former moderator for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)--has traveled the world seeking out Presbyterians doing mission work. Now she invites everyone to faraway places like Korea, Bolivia, and the Ivory Coa...

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Anger
Discovering Your Spiritual Ally

By Andrew D. Lester

Is it okay to get angry? Andrew Lester thinks it is, and in this accessibly written book he shows the reader how to understand anger so that it will be helpful, not hurtful, to Christian life. Lester, a popular professor and author, challenges miscon...

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The Angry Christian
A Theology for Care and Counseling

By Andrew D. Lester

In this work, respected scholar Andrew Lester discusses and incorporates the newest behavioral research models, contemporary biblical and theological scholarship, constructivist philosophy, and narrative theory into a comprehensive pastoral theology ...

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