It's no secret that teenagers are perpetually connected via social media and mobile devices, but while we've analyzed as a culture how youth are connecting we've done less well at understanding why teenagers are drawn to the glow of t...

Ministry can be brutal. As leaders, we face discouragement, frustration, and exhaustion—and many times we face it alone. Helping us to refocus our gaze on the gospel, pastor Jared Wilson offers here practical insights, real-life ane...

Experiencing God Leader Guide includes printed content for 12 sessions, tips for leading a group, and “How to Use This Study” directions. It also includes instructions for planning and hosting Experiencing God Weekends or ...

Jennie Turrell walked into All Saints' Chapel on Good Friday, when her three-year-old son stopped her in the darkened doorway and quietly whispered, "Uh-oh." At that moment, she realized that changes in the physical space of...

In addition to a book for teens, My Faith, My Life is a curriculum. With this guide, leaders can create short, intermediate, and longer programs, including confirmation sequences of six, nine, or twelve-sessions, a retreat or similar ...

This book provides pregnancy counselors--and those who want to help--with a roadmap for assisting women who are in the midst of a pregnancy crisis. One of the main challenges of pregnancy crisis intervention is finding ways to uphold ...

Congregational Care Ministers serve as lay leaders working alongside pastors to provide quality care for the church family. The Caring Congregation serves as a manual with all the necessary resources to help pastors organize their c...

The Good Shepherd is a visual retelling of the biblical lesson as taken from The Complete Guide to Godly Play and told with revised text and original art. The book recreates the experience of hearing this core and possibly best-loved,...

The Great Family is a visual retelling of the Godly Play lesson from The Complete Guide to Godly Play, told with revised text and original art. The book recreates the experience of hearing this seminal Godly Play story.

If Barbara Brown Taylor and Steven Covey ever wrote a book together, this might be the book! Living Compass is a church-based faith and wellness program designed for individuals and small groups. Readers engage in a 10-week, self-gui...

The Christian life is many things, so it can be hard to know how exactly we should live it. Training is a guide to show new Christians just that―how you should live and grow. Walking through the basic spiritual disciplines, Training...

This short book for new Christians unpacks what the Bible says about evangelism, outlines what it looks like in the local church, and offers practical suggestions for making it a part of their daily Christian life. Part of the Church ...

God's mission needs movement leaders. Jesus pioneered something completely new in human history―a dynamic missionary movement intent on reaching the world. His mission is as clear and as relevant today as in the days of the early c...

A ministry is what you can do with the help of others. A movement is what God can do when you let go of control and multiply disciples and churches. Drawing on the life and ministry of Jesus, and with reflections on past and present m...

Sometimes we get so caught up in the power of Jesus shouting from the cross, "It is finished!" that we forget that Jesus started something. What Jesus started was a movement that began small, with intimate conversations desi...

Ten Who Changed the World is seminary president Daniel Akin's powerful tribute to the transformational work done by some truly inspiring Christian missionaries. With each profile, he journeys into the heart of that gospel servant's mi...

Where does discipleship end and evangelism begin? How does one fit with the other?Joining the two together properly is a challenge. Both are important and both are necessary.Missional Discipleship offers a holistic vision that effecti...

Now more than ever, it's time to preach. The election of Donald Trump left countless faith leaders across the country speechless. Now that he is president, silence must give way to prophetic preaching.Christians have long debated whet...

After World War 2, there was a major revival movement where healing ministry played a huge part with renewed belief and emphasis in divine healing among many Christians. This book shows how the apostolic age has not ended and details ...

A Clear and Personalized Path for DiscipleshipDiscipleship can feel like a meandering journey—we don't know what we want, and none of the programs offered seem to get us anywhere.We need something to orient ourselves, and something ...

Discover the power of shifting your mindset about discipleship and experience the results of multiplied disciples and transformed lives. With The Multiplier's Mindset, you will learn 17 key changes that need to take place in order to ...

As a church leader, you are (probably) targeting the wrong people with your 'evangelism' efforts. You are operating a model that no longer works, because it is too passive, too polite, and focused in the wrong direction. You are not m...

Volunteering can be a rewarding and exciting experience—but to effectively serve you need to understand the why, how, and what of serving others. Based on the principles and training they have utilized at Wooddale Church, pastor Lei...

Take Hold Of The Freedom That Is Yours In Christ!Do you want to become an even more fruitful disciple of Jesus?Are you tired of not fulfilling your full potential as a Christian?No matter how long or short a time you have been a Chris...

With decades of ministry experience, Michelle Anthony and Megan Marshman capture the guiding essentials of life-changing family ministry. These seven essentials for children and student leaders emphasize: 1. Empowering families to tak...

What should we do when we feel stuck in life?You know how it feels. There’s a hurt in your past that is hard to get beyond. There’s a bad habit that’s difficult to break. There’s a setback that is just too tough to overcome.We...

How to meet a critical need: sharing the gospel with MuslimsThere are over three million Muslims living in the United States today. Soon, if not already, you will have Muslim neighbors and coworkers. Does the thought of reaching out t...

Every church leader knows the qualifications for elders and deacons that are spelled out in the Bible, but actually finding other leaders who fulfill the biblical qualifications can be difficult.Thabiti Anyabwile writes from his exper...

Deeds of mercy are bridges to ChristThe Bible tells the story of eternal redemption and how God takes the trauma and brokenness of the redeemed and transforms them into gifts for His use in ministry. Not Just a Soup Kitchen is the sto...

Written as a follow-up to Not Just a Soup Kitchen, David Apple's Neighborology is more than a bookit is a concept that provides a blueprint for how churches and servant leaders of every ministry can be neighborly helpers. This book pr...