This book focuses readers on the essentials of God-honoring worship, combining biblical foundations with practical application in a way that works in the real world. The author, a pastor and noted songwriter, skillfully instructs pastors, musicians, and church leaders so that they can root their congregational worship in unchanging scriptural principles, not divisive cultural trends. Bob Kauflin covers a variety of topics such as the devastating effects of worshiping the wrong things, how to base our worship on God's self-revelation rather than our assumptions, the fuel of worship, the community of worship, and the ways that eternity's worship should affect our earthly worship.Appropriate for Christians from varied backgrounds and for various denominations, this book will bring a vital perspective to what readers think they understand about praising God.

    Discover how God gave him a new assignment---to evangelize the Ukraine! Here's the astounding story of the unlikely pastor of Eastern Europe's largest megachurch. Recounting his struggle against prejudice and persecution, it will inspire you to maximize your impact for Christ. 224 pages, softcover from Charisma.

    Your spirit will be enlightened and your soul strengthened as you face each day's glories and glooms. You are the God who performs miracles; You display your power among the peoples (Psalm 77:14). The best from The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind, Dreaming With God, and When Heaven Invades Earth gives you the power to daily walk out of religious boundaries toward your Christian inheritance of healing, signs and wonders, and infinite possibilities. You can experience A Life of Miracles one beautiful day at a time!

    Craig Barnes contends that the true calling of a pastor is to help others become fully alive in Christ, to be what he calls a "minor poet," or a poet of the soul. As such, pastors are to read the major poets of Scripture and history in light of the dust and grit of daily parish life." The Pastor as Minor Poet eloquently calls pastors to search for a deeper understanding of what they see -- both in the text of Scripture and in the text of their parishioners' lives. A critical part of this poetic vision involves discerning key subtext beneath these texts, which allows pastors to preach the heart of the Word and to understand the hearts of their people.

    One of those is the visitation and care of the sick in our congregations. This book is designed to instruct and motivate pastors, church leaders, and other care-giving Christians through the counsel of the heroes of church history, to recapture the practice of visiting the sick. This is accomplished by considering three specific areas: first, our commitment to the theological as we consider how most effectively to care for their souls; second, our commitment to the pastoral, which instructs us how to proceed with wisdom and discernment in the variety of circumstances we will face; third, our commitment to the practical so that the manner in which we care for the sick will help, not hinder, our effort to communicate biblical truth to them.

    A useful resource for personal study, small groups, Sunday school and new member classes, this study encourages the recovery of worship that is unashamedly God-centered and manifestly Scriptural. Rediscover the beauty of Reformed worship for the 21st Century. Jon Payne deftly guides readers through the various parts of the worship service and explains not simply why these activities constitute Reformed worship. He also carefully delineates why Presbyterians worship the way they do. In so doing, Payne provides a clear, convincing and edifying account of historic Reformed worship. Here Christians will find great assistance for the most significant part of each week. - Dr. Darryl G. Hart; from the forward Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Wilmington, DE

    What he presents will concern you, inspire you, and lead you to make your church more what the Bible intends.

    This spiritual disconnect is the cause of so much of the stress and problems in our lives. Foundations is a fresh, innovative curriculum about the essential truths of the Christian faith and how these truths are to be lived out—in your relationships, your character, and your work. Rather than just teaching doctrinal knowledge, this course shows you how to apply biblical truths and implement them in your everyday life. 1. The Bible 2. God 3. Jesus 4. The Holy Spirit 5. Creation 6. Salvation 7. Sanctification 8. Good and Evil 9. The Afterlife 10. The Church 11. The Second Coming

    

    Dan Moseley shares a different way of viewing the losses in life. This honest reflection reveals a pastor who, after many years of caring for others as they experienced loss, found he was ill prepared when an intense season of death and loss impacted his life. Dr. Moseley's personal discoveries and those of friends who have shared their stories with him are found in this book. From a heart of hope he encourages readers to grieve at their own pace and look for the new life emerging in the space loss creates.

    Written with a light touch, but a passion for the life and work of the UCC - and sprinkled with black-and-white cartoon illustrations - it gives historical, biblical, and theological insights into issues that have challenged the church throughout the ages.

    Its focus is on the timeless principles derived from the teaching of the greatest leader of all time. You'll become a better leader as you rediscover the time-tested, positive principles that will work in any leadership situation-in a major corporation, a small business, a volunteer situation, or a church group...any context in which you are asked to lead.