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Author: Tod Bolsinger
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0830841652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat type of leadership is needed in a moment that demands adaptive change? Exploring the qualities of adaptive leadership within churches and nonprofit organizations, Tod Bolsinger deftly examines both the external challenges we face and the internal resistance that holds us back, showing how leaders can become both stronger and more flexible.
Author: Joy Thornburg Melton
Publisher: Upper Room Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780881775433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Only Resource of Its Kind Is Now Two Bestsellers in One! Tragically, churches have not always been safe places for children or youth or vulnerable adults. With this in mind, attorney, pastor, and author Melton outlines a process for developing policies and procedures to recognize and reduce the risk of abuse in the church. Safe Sanctuaries combines and expands information from two of her earlier groundbreaking books, which focused, separately, on children and teens. "Safe Sanctuaries is the most helpful resource I have found dealing with this troubling topic," says one minister. "Straightforward yet non-threatening, the information is helpful for all denominations and congregations of faith." Practical guidance is provided in developing and implementing a substantive, holistic action plan of abuse prevention: recruiting, screening and working with volunteers training models for all who work with children, youth, and vulnerable adults suggestions for congregational response to unthinkable allegations of abuse order of worship celebrating the adoption of "Safe Sanctuaries" policies Melton's transformative, relevant, and foundational resource will train leaders in what they need to know to stay safe and keep the vulnerable in their care safe. This revised edition now features updated and timely information about protecting young people from online predators.
Author: Adam Hamilton
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2013-08-06
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1426779143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Adam Hamilton explores how, with God’s help, we can make love last. Drawing upon a survey of thousands of couples and singles, interviews with relationship and marriage therapists, the latest research in the field, and wisdom from the Bible, Hamilton looks at what it takes to create and sustain healthy, meaningful romantic relationships across the course of a lifetime. Contents include: More Than a Piece of Paper; What She Wants; What He Wants; The Significance of Sexual Intimacy; Habits That Hurt, Habits That Heal; Clothe, Bear With, and Forgive; A Love That Lasts a Lifetime
Author: Bishop Kenneth H. Carter Jr.
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 1791004768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur church buildings, synagogues, and other religious places – which once stood as beacons of hope and reverence for its community – have become a burden for the organizations who seek to keep them standing. In efforts to patch leaky roofs and paint over years of wear, leaders are putting more and more money each year into property instead of people. The practices we have fallen into to keep a building running are not only demoralizing to the pastoral profession and the mission of the church, but they also run the risk of violating property tax laws and incurring more debt. What if our properties didn’t have to be a source of pain but one of purpose and profit? Can we as faith-based organizations begin to think collaboratively about how we might further our missions by creatively and intentionally rethinking how we utilize the space we inhabit? In Fresh Expressions of People Over Property the authors reflect on strategies, scriptures, and stories that help leaders faithfully re-imagine their community spaces so that they reflect that God and God’s people value people over property.
Author: Frederick E. Maser
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen A. Jurovics
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0819232548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnited Methodist Women’s Reading Group Selection “What can I do about the environment? What has God said about the environment?” Most books about climate change only address one of these questions. Those from a religious perspective do not address what individuals can do to help society transition from fossil fuels, other than changing personal behavior. Readers know instinctively that will not suffice, and so are left feeling the situation is hopeless. In contrast, books that primarily address environmental issues fail to reach people motivated more by faith than science, leaving out many who could constitute the tipping point for full American engagement on the issue. Borrowing an approach from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership, which brought together both secular and religious arguments for ending segregation, this book addresses physical evidence of climate change while demonstrating through biblical teachings the religious imperative for preserving our inherited world. The compelling biblical case for creation care is grounded in environmental teachings Jesus knew, primarily in the Hebrew Scriptures. Topics addressed include air pollution, treatment of the land, preserving biological diversity, and treatment of animals, and each is connected to contemporary issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, care of the needy, the extinction of species, and factory farming.
Author: John Wesley
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Published: 1795
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brown Taylor Barbara
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Published: 2015-05-07
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 1848257996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Speaking of Sin, Barbara Brown Taylor brings her fresh perspective to words that often cause us discomfort and have widely fallen into neglect: sin, damnation, repentance, penance, and salvation. In recovering this lost language in our worship and individual lives, she shows how we can take part in the divine work of redemption.
Author: Jimmy Creech
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011-04-04
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 0822348853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe inspiring first-person account of a minister whose ordination credentials were revoked by The United Methodist Church after he performed same-gender commitment ceremonies.
Author: Leonard E. Fairley
Publisher: Wade in the Water Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 9780976745068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll creation has a voice. The key is finding it among all the chatter. "Journey with Leonard Fairley as he discovers God's voice speaking child-like whispers, weaving wondering walks, crafting new creation waters, carrying words penetrating deep into memories awakening listeners to adventures revealing Redeemer's finger prints covered over with wrinkles and currents of time. ..." Leonard E. Fairley, the third of nine children, is a native of Laurinburg, North Carolina. He presently serves as the Rockingham District Superintendent of The North Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Leonard is a graduate of Pfeiffer College (now University) graduating with B.A. degree in Religion and Philosophy; he is also a graduate of Duke University Divinity School with a Master of Divinity degree and an ordained United Methodist minister. Mr. Fairley has been writing since junior high school, and has published "Deadman's Creek" for The Fayetteville Observer's "Readers Write for Readers" in 1985. Leonard and his family currently live in Laurinburg, N.C.
