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THE COURAGE TO TEACH GUIDE FOR REFLECTION & RENEWAL

20^th ANNIVERSARY EDITION

The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection & Renewal is a helpful companion to Parker J. Palmer's classic work on restoring identity and integrity to professional life. A superb resource for those who wish to extend their exploration of the ideas in The Courage to Teach, as individuals or part of a study group, the Guide provides practical ways to create "safe space" for honest reflection and probing conversations and offers chapter-by-chapter questions and exercises to...

Be prepared to embark on a spiritual journey like no other where you are invited to share in the personal and intimate insights of a woman desperately compelled to deepen her relationship with her heavenly Father. "God's Romantic Getaway" is a refreshingly honest account of the process to becoming a child of God and living in this world according to the Divine guidance that can only be experienced via total surrender to the will of God. Through real-life reflective accounts, accented by scripture and prayer, Jemma Regis leads the reader on a reflective encounter of their own, speaking into...

Do you lead a small church?

Big churches get all the love. Articles, books, conferences--they mostly feature leaders of large congregations. Yet big churches are a small part of the ecclesial landscape. In fact, more than 90 percent of churches have fewer than 200 people. That means small churches play a big part in what God is doing in America.

Small Church Essentials is for leaders of these smaller congregations. It encourages them to steward their role well, debunking myths about small churches while offering principles for leading a dynamic,...

Remember your innocent, starry-eyed visions of ministry back in the day? How everything was going to be perfect and all unsaved souls were going to come to the saving knowledge of Christ under your preaching and mentoring? What happened to that vision? Reality, that’s what! There were lots of things you didn’t know before accepting the calling on your life.

After over one hundred interviews with pastors, Leadership Lessons: I Wish They’d Told Me addresses many of those things and aligns them with Scripture to help you cope (and...

EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN THE FIRST CENTURY will give its readers a thrilling account of first-century Christianity. When and how did they come to be called Christians? Who are all obligated to be Christian evangelists? In what way did Jesus set the example for our evangelism? What is the Kingdom of God? What was their worship like and why were they called the Truth and the Way? How did 120 disciples at Pentecost grow to over one million within 70-80-years? What was meant by their witness to the ends of the earth? How did Christianity in its infancy function to accomplish all it did? How was...

The author is convinced that any Spirit-led man of God could use the instructions in this book and start a church in any city in America There are many churches that are closing their doors and we are not replacing them. If God should use this book to encourage someone to go to some city, win souls, and then start a church, all this effort would be worth it. May God bless you as you pray and seek His will for your life.

Will the real church please stand up? We exist in a world of extreme flux and volatility--one that is unpredictable and filled with pain. But why? Could it be that the church who was intended to be a model and beacon of light in the earth has instead become a follower and dispenser of the same ills that malign our landscape? The church, in her pursuit to have church, has somehow lost her way; the church as an institution has exploded (possibly morphing into something not recognized by its author) while the organism has suffered, causing her to forfeit the influence and power and connection...

Historical studies about Christianity in Igboland and elsewhere in Africa have largely concentrated on church activities--especially on the work of expatriate missionary priests and the different denominations of Christianity adopted by the people. But what about the people's personal experience with their religion? How does an Igbo man or woman see the Christian church as relevant to his or life?

Dreams of Heaven: A Modern Response to Christianity in North-Western Igboland, 1970-1990 is the first serious contemporary study of how the Igbo people have responded to Christianity--and...