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Hidden hurts are often the most serious, most painful, and most lingering problems in our lives. These are very real spiritual scars we try to forget or ignore, damaged emotions we pretend are okay, inner consequences of past sins we try to keep secret or concealed. But, just like a broken bone that causes pain and swelling beneath the sin, or, worse yet, like a hidden, cancerous tumor that grows and metastasizes, hidden hurts can cause deep damage to every part of our lives.The beauty of our God is that He is able to heal all our hidden hurts, not only the ones that we try to conceal, but, miraculously, even the ones that remain hidden to us. Psalm 103:2-4 says this about God's healing:Bles...
Thirty-eight percent of pastors have given serious thought to leaving full-time ministry in the last year. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the unpredictable, never-done work of the ministry, is it any wonder that many pastors have contemplated resigning? Add to this church members’ unrealistic expectations and a knack for criticism, and we see the toll this has taken on pastors and in one area in particular: preaching. Empty preachers are filling pulpits. Is there anything church members can do to help their pastors with burnout and the essential stress of preaching week-in, week-out? After extensive research on the subject, ninety-seven pastors were asked: What can your church members do to help you preach well? Each chapter in this book is a commitment—a clear, concrete action—developed from the study that church members can take to help their pastors preach well. Each chapter also includes a section entitled “A Word to Pastors” that offers encouragement to those in ministry to help reduce their stress and become better preachers.
A pastor-created and field-tested, easily adaptable method for planning a comprehensive preaching ministry.
Church Together is a Christian leadership book designed to give pastors, church leaders, and church members a working plan to overcome the greatest underlying threat to the church today, individualism, through five relationships of surrender which correlate to the five core values of the Church of We. Part One examines the three rotten fruits of individualism within the Church of Me--consumerism, pragmatism, and the extremes of legalism and liberalism--and how to spot each of these problems. Part Two offers a solution on what it will take for churches to make a healthy transition from the Church of Me to the Church of We. Church Together, for this reason, gives churches a manageable plan to defy the individualistic spirit of the age as they become the Church of We in the Age of Me.
Each year one devotional in the MyDailyTM series impacts literally hundreds of thousands of lives. This year, the focus is faithfulness—God’s faithfulness to us and our faithful response to Him. Johnny Hunt has been the general editor for seven MyDailyTM books, which have sold more than 340,000 units. Fifty Southern Baptist pastors have provided six devotions each to make up this 312 day devotional. Through Scripture, a devotional thought, and a prayer, trusted pastors communicate God’s faithfulness all year long. This book will be an encouraging devotional in particular for the parishioners of these congregations as well as others in the Southern Baptist denomination and for anyone who needs a reminder of God’s faithfulness day after day and how we show our love to Him through our faithfulness. The handsome leatherflex design is beautiful for any desk or nightstand.
I'm Called to Preach Now What'this is an excellent step-by-step user guide for preachers that are in the embryonic stage of ministry, the experience veteran, and or the seminary trained preacher who desires to have a scholarly but yet practical methodology for preaching effective messages.
Begin and end each day focused on the presence of God. Whether starting out the day or winding down for the night, staying connected to the presence and work of God is the most important thing a believer can do. The Pathway to Discipleship is a perfect resource for men and women alike for daily devotions and prayer. It is the third book in the bestselling devotional prayer book series. After an introduction by Johnny Hunt (former Southern Baptist Convention president), each of the 51 contributing pastors and evangelists share a week’s worth of devotions and prayers, all centering around discipleship and the way an active and vibrant Christian is to live. Each week includes a prayer journal page with writing/prayer prompts. The handsome leatherflex design is beautiful for any desk or nightstand, keeping the precious time spent with the Savior as close as one’s fingertips.
In Recapturing the Voice of God, veteran preacher Steven W. Smith teaches how to preach genre-sensitive, text-driven sermons—to allow the structure of the text to be the structure of the sermon.
Calvinism raises serious concerns about the growth of a popularized Reformed theology. Through a wide lens of denominational and theological perspectives, this volume carefully examines the theological tradition known today as "Calvinism," particularly its doctrine of salvation. Editors David L. Allen and Steve W. Lemke lead a team of top contributors offering theological, historical, biblical, and practical critiques.
Ministry comes with many weighty responsibilities. Ministry leaders are called to teach, serve, and lead. But in leading those under their care, there comes a moment when they recognize the future leaders under their leadership. With this recognition comes an all too familiar question: What comes next? In Calling Out the Called, Scott Pace and Shane Pruitt answer this question by giving direction, encouragement, and a charge for ministry leaders to recognize the future leaders in their midst and do what needs to be done for the future of ministry: the calling out of the called.