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There is a missing link in our ministry efforts Somewhere along the line, we have erroneously made pastoral care the sole responsibility of the pastor. We assumed the clergy are the ones that do min……続きを見る

If you would like to worship as the apostles did, this book is for you. Their worship was dynamic in its simplicity. Do you take for granted that the founders of major Christian denominations would ……続きを見る

This is the second collection of essays, compiled from opinion columns written during the period 2012-2020, when George Matsoukas served as executive director of Orthodox Christian Laity (OCL). The ……続きを見る

Your Church Security Handbook Crimes against churches and ministers are rising at an alarming rate. Almost on a weekly basis, we read or hear about a shooting or act of violence in or on a church pr……続きを見る

“My greatest discovery in forty years of leading: Leadership can be developed.” ~ Inc. Magazine’s No. 1 Leadership Expert, John C. Maxwell Twenty-five years ago, John Maxwell published the book that……続きを見る

Der rasante Medienwandel stellt die katholische Kirche und ihren Kommunikationsauftrag vor enorme Herausforderungen. Wie kann sich Kirche in einer durch Medien bestimmten Gesellschaft noch Gehör ver……続きを見る

In a 2011 State of the City Address, the mayor of pastor and author Mark Hearn's city said there were fifty-seven languages spoken at the local high school. Hearn left asking himself, How should our……続きを見る

No study of the Restoration of New Testament Christianity is complete without knowing about some of the men who sacrificed and suffered as a result of their dedication to "do Bible things in Bible w……続きを見る

The word pastor is derived from a Latin word meaning shepherd. The word shepherd means to move something from one place to another. The shepherd guides the sheep with love and attention. The pastor ……続きを見る

What if everything you need is already there? Many Christian churches and related institutions in the United States are struggling or, in some cases, facing imminent crisis, especially in the wake o……続きを見る

"I wish someone had told me that earlier...."After hearing this phrase over and over from Senior Pastor/Lead Pastors as he works with their churches in the Pastor Smart Succession Process, Dave Trav……続きを見る

Witness to Integrity is a first-person account of the historic dispute between the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters (IHM) and James Francis McIntyre, the Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles. Former M……続きを見る

Churches are not immune to violence, as we have seen from shootings at houses of worship across the nation. The challenge for faith communities is how to respond to potential violence. Whom Shall I ……続きを見る

There are two types of conflict in congregations: conflict that kills and conflict that cultivates growth. So argues David E. Woolverton in Mission Rift: Leading through Church Conflict. Conflict th……続きを見る

This book presents the theological contributions of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC), a transnational body comprising fifteen Asian Catholic bishops' conferences as full members a……続きを見る

In Managing Congregations in a Virtual Age, John W. Wimberly Jr. draws on the experience of the business community, and on a diverse group of skilled pastors and rabbis, as he lays out the opportuni……続きを見る

看似忙碌的牧者，其實不是委身的象徵，而是背叛的徵兆；它不代表忠心，而是變節。 ★亞馬遜網站讀者4.7顆星好評推薦 ◆我總是不時重溫這本書，讓自己感到挫敗時能喚回在神面前的呼召。 ◆畢徳生深知牧者的困境及掙扎……続きを見る

教宗方濟各對身處疫情中的全球民眾 最雄辯又溫暖的邀請 我們是世界的共同創造者 這究竟是COVID-19引起的亂象， 還是COVID-19終於讓我們看見亂象？ 這是否正是病毒的提問： 「我們面對的經濟、社會與生態挑戰， 其……続きを見る

'Een doorbraak in de tijd' van Gerben Heitink is een hoopgevend en prikkelend boek over de invloed van de jaren zestig op de kerk. In deze periode van de geschiedenis hebben zich grote veranderingen……続きを見る

Hoe zit het met vrouwen in de kerk, mogen ze spreken of niet? In sommige kerken mag het wel, maar Paulus zegt toch duidelijk in zijn brieven dat vrouwen moeten zwijgen? Kunnen we dat zomaar negeren?……続きを見る

What about women in church, are they allowed to preach or not? In some churches they are allowed to, yet Paul clearly states in his letters that women must remain silent, doesn’t he? Can we just ign……続きを見る

Online church is the new front door to visitors. Is your church connecting effectively with people behind the screen?When the pandemic forced congregations to set up online services in record time, ……続きを見る

Change is inevitable. Make it transformational. Discomfort with change blocks transformation in churches and individual Christians every day. Yet the current landscape of church in the US is one of ……続きを見る

Kaum eine andere arbeitsrechtliche Thematik ist in den vergangenen Jahren so viel diskutiert worden, wie die der Bezugnahmeklauseln. Dies gilt insbesondere für das säkulare Arbeitsrecht. Aber auch i……続きを見る

This useful handbook has been prepared for those who presently take part in the significant responsibility of parish governance by serving as a member of a parish council; and, equally and important……続きを見る

Nel vivace dibattito suscitato dall’Amoris laetitia, i più severi critici «conservatori» di papa Francesco finiscono per trovarsi d’accordo con i suoi più entusiasti sostenitori «progressisti»: entr……続きを見る

La «sinodalità» – antica e profetica parola che riguarda l’intero popolo di Dio e contrassegna il pontificato di Francesco – viene esaminata in questo libro dal punto di osservazione della sua giust……続きを見る

Dove va, la Chiesa? Per tentare una risposta, questo libro parte da sessant’anni fa, da quella svolta decisiva che fu per il cattolicesimo il concilio Vaticano II. Sessant’anni da quando l’autore, g……続きを見る

L’esperienza della pandemia tra crisi e opportunità. Tre pastori e teologi – un vescovo, un professore e un monaco – rileggono il tempo sospeso della recente crisi mondiale attraverso la lente del m……続きを見る

L’aggettivo «postsecolare» circoscrive un panorama storico e culturale che negli ultimi anni sembra aver sconfessato le diverse teorie della secolarizzazione. Il ritorno del religioso si profila e s……続きを見る