Ministry Leadership

In Health-Care and the Church: A Shared Focus, Phyllis C. Riles draws upon her extensive experience and specialized background in both arenas to reveal the complimentary parallels between the operation and goals of the Church and healthcare to promote health and wellness for spirit, soul, and body. God’s covenant promises of health to Abraham and his provision of healing through redemption by Jesus Christ are activated by a collaboration of belief and action. God and man working together has always been the divine intent.

In Improv Leadership, Stan L. Endicott and David A. Miller share five leadership competencies: story mining, precision praising, metaphor cementing, lobbing forward, and going north. IMPROV leaders apply these five competencies to initiate powerful conversations, create memorable moments, and craft personal coaching strategies that help people grow. Improv Leadership cultivates teams of people who love their work (and each other), who perform at a high level, and who stop the disruptive carousel of staff turnover.

Christian women can excel in their careers in spite of the unique obstacles they face, and they can do this without compromising their faith. David Goetsch uses his decades of experience and counseling to show you how. The most enduring success principles for the workplace have roots in scripture. In a world that increasingly endorses moral relativism, secular humanism, political correctness, and anti-Christian bias, employers still cry out for personnel who are honest, dependable, selfless, and diligent -

We must change our priorities in the Body of Christ. The pursuit of success, prosperity and breakthroughs should not drive us to betray one another just to achieve our goals. It is time for radical heart searching. We cannot continue to divide the body of Christ with doctrines and attitudes that are aimed at making us happy and fulfilled at the expense of everybody else.

If you don’t know your purpose in life you will never fulfill the call God has for you. It often takes a person years or even a lifetime to realize their purpose, if they do at all. To live in the purpose God created you is the most satisfying and rewarding thing in life. Every part of your life, your influence, your planning, and your pursuit is affected by your purpose.

The Outreaching Church seeks to solve two problems: 1. Many people don't know how to use their skills to impact lives for the Kingdom of God. 2. Churches are struggling to grow, and most have a very difficult time establishing thriving outreach ministries. This book is a guide to solving both dilemmas: helping you fulfill God’s plan for your life resulting in thriving churches!

Escribimos este libro porque participamos de la idea de que, cada ser humano se beneficia de tener un buen coach, incluyendo los autores del libro. Todas las personas exitosas en alguna área de sus vidas tienen coaches, asesores y mentores.

Everyone in a position of responsibility knows the tension of leadership. It may be between tasks or people, money or mission, the present or the future. One often neglected tension is between our inner spiritual longings and the outward needs of the group we lead. But we need not feel forced to choose between the two. Leadership has more in common with an ellipse with two focal points than a bull's-eye with a single target.

Home Cell Group Explosion (2023 version) is the most well-researched and practical audiobook ever written on cell group evangelism! Joel Comiskey traversed the globe to find out why particular churches and small groups are so successful in reaching the lost. He shares the answers freely within this volume.

Are you longing for a perspective on leadership that is developed from the rich story of the Scriptures? Jensen and Martel take their listeners on a journey through the biblical narrative, drawing out rich and poignant ways that the scriptures help us to understand the world - and enable us to live and lead more authentically.

Bill Robinson presents convincing arguments that when leaders emulate these qualities, they will inspire and empower the people they have been called to lead. Reflection and discussion questions and assessment questions make this ideal for group use. Conversational in tone and seasoned with real-life stories from his own successes and failures as a leader, Robinson helps Christian leaders wrestle with four questions that emerge from John's introduction of Jesus, "and the word became flesh and dwelt among us…."

As you face daily choices that require yes or no decisions, there are times when you feel paralyzed - either from fear of making the wrong choice or because of too many seemingly equal options. Social entrepeneur Jeff Shinabarger helps you break through these moments of tension and transition with proven ways to move toward good choices.

Dangerous churches should be norm. Church leaders and church people alike shrink back from danger because we want safety. Jesus said that he's overcome the world and its troubles. Dangerous churches put everything on the line for the one thing that matters most: reaching lost people.It's dangerous not to be a dangerous church. The book is less about methods or even the message of God, but about a church that risks everything it has to reach lost people.

So much more than a question, “Who Told You That?” delivers a profound, yet practical opportunity to stimulate and exterminate the covert operation of status quo thought. It’s calculated provocation carefully positioned in the audio encourages both intentional honesty and uninhibited transparency, while providing inspiration, information, and transformation.

After a dramatic election amid a raging pandemic, racial violence, economic collapse, and historic national divisions that have threatened our democracy, Joe Biden succeeds Donald Trump as the 46th president of the United States. For Catholics, this is a momentous occasion in US public life, as he is the second Catholic to be elected to the nation’s highest office, joining John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

It started as a rivalry between two brothers. Promised twins destined to be a nation with the older serving the younger. Esau, the elder of the two men whose loins produced the country of Edom, would often have conflicts with Jacob, whose group of sons formed Israel. Due to internal problems and strife, these two tribes, bonded by blood, would become a fester of pain and struggle towards each other in a land full of hostile empires and nations. During an exile of Israel, a message was sent by the prophet Obadiah to the people who lived on Mount Seir, known as the Edomites.

Every leader wants to finish well, but sometimes the challenges and discouragements in life become too much to handle. Overwhelmed, we settle for less than God's best. Whether you are just beginning your ministry journey or you are a seasoned veteran who is feeling tired, ineffective, or ready to quit...maybe it's time for a Leadership Awakening! Your life can be marked by God's goodness all the way to the finish line. Don't allow yourself to become a casualty on the battlefield of Christian leadership.

Many of us spend our entire leadership life lost in performance and striving for success. In effect, we work to earn what God wants to give us for free - grace. Like many of you, Jan Greenwood's journey has included pain and failures, but it has also included healing and triumphs. By God's grace, she discovered some life-transforming leadership principles that help her lead and mentor effectively. If you grasp these 10 secrets, you can take your limited experience, resources, or influence and find greater wholeness, health, and leadership success.

Find Faith in your Work. Step out of the world's negativity and become a positive Christian business person in the world as you increase your faith with greater joy at work, so you love God and others more.

Throughout Billy Graham’s evangelical ministry, his roles as an evangelist and as “America’s pastor” have been well documented. However, the story that remains untold is the story of his leadership - both publicly and in private - as a minister and as a CEO. For more than fifty years, Graham was CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) and oversaw its worldwide gatherings and diverse media divisions.