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Book Synopsis Tempered Resilience by : Tod Bolsinger
Download or read book Tempered Resilience written by Tod Bolsinger and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What 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.
Book Synopsis Safe Sanctuaries by : Joy Thornburg Melton
Download or read book Safe Sanctuaries written by Joy Thornburg Melton and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Download or read book Love to Stay written by Adam Hamilton and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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
Book Synopsis Fresh Expressions of People Over Property by : Bishop Kenneth H. Carter Jr.
Download or read book Fresh Expressions of People Over Property written by Bishop Kenneth H. Carter Jr. and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our 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.
Book Synopsis Fresh Expressions by : Kenneth H. Carter
Download or read book Fresh Expressions written by Kenneth H. Carter and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New forms of church that gather and network with people who typically have never been to church.
Book Synopsis How to Write a Local Church History by : Frederick E. Maser
Download or read book How to Write a Local Church History written by Frederick E. Maser and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hospitable Planet by : Stephen A. Jurovics
Download or read book Hospitable Planet written by Stephen A. Jurovics and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United 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.
Book Synopsis Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament by : John Wesley
Download or read book Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament written by John Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Who Shall Hear My Voice by : Leonard E. Fairley
Download or read book Who Shall Hear My Voice written by Leonard E. Fairley and published by Wade in the Water Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All 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.
Book Synopsis Speaking of Sin by : Brown Taylor Barbara
Download or read book Speaking of Sin written by Brown Taylor Barbara and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.
Book Synopsis Nevertheless She Preached by : Ashley Boggan Dreff
Download or read book Nevertheless She Preached written by Ashley Boggan Dreff and published by Wesley's Foundery Books. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Suffrage to #MeToo. This book tells the story of American Methodist women's efforts fight for women's rights, beginning with women's fight for suffrage through the Women's Christian Temperance Union and ending with the recent #MeToo movement. Each chapter documents particular Methodist women and provides the reader with a basic historic context of the time or situation at hand, then how Methodist women engaged and fought for women's equality or women's rights in American society and American Methodism. Being Methodist emboldened women to reach beyond the social confines of their time to find political avenues of social justice. This book tells the story of women engaged in mission as they sought to not simply fix social ills but to prevent them from happening again. They sought to address the systemic and hegemonic causes of oppression, stepping out of their place, they made space for others to thrive.
Book Synopsis The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, 1968 by : United Methodist Church (U.S.)
Download or read book The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, 1968 written by United Methodist Church (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis "Pray for Me" by : Kenneth H. Carter
Download or read book "Pray for Me" written by Kenneth H. Carter and published by . This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Carter reached a point when he knew his prayers for others-even as a pastor-were not what they might have been. He decided to explore Christian intercession in depth. Now he shares what he's discovered about the power of intercession, a practice at the heart of Christian living. Praying for others is meant to be part of the fabric of life as a Christian. Find out how to be prepared when someone says to you, "Pray for me." These chapters give you the foundation for deeper, more meaningful prayer: Book jacket.
Book Synopsis What I Have Come to Believe by : Arthur Holt
Download or read book What I Have Come to Believe written by Arthur Holt and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you believe? Are you wavering in some of your theological convictions? Have you given faith the boot from your life, believing it has no place in our modern scientific world? Or are you confused about how to reconcile what you read in Scripture with the "love all" model Jesus Christ offers in his own life? From conservative evangelical to theological liberal, the spiritual journey of retired South Carolina United Methodist pastor the Rev. Arthur H. Holt has evolved over the years. Here, Holt explores his theology, reflecting on everything from abortion, science, sexuality, and the End Times to sin, the spirit, and the Bible.
Download or read book Entangled written by Ashley Dreff and published by New Room Books. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will show how American Methodists discussed, debated, and discerned human sexuality, broadly defined to include birth control, divorce, sex education, abortion, and the rights of persons who identify as gay and lesbian, in the twentieth century.
Download or read book How Cancer Cured Me written by David Gira and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Love is the Way by : Bishop Michael B. Curry
Download or read book Love is the Way written by Bishop Michael B. Curry and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We were created by love, for love, to love and to be loved. And we are at our best when we live in God's love. And I believe deep down, it's what we all want. We don't want hatred. We don't want the abyss. We want Beloved Community. The way of love is how to live it. When Prince Harry married Meghan Markle in 2018, two billion people watched around the world. For one brief moment, love recreated the cosmos, the world came together. And the Bishop Michael Curry preached his revolutionary sermon on the power of love. In this book, Bishop Curry shares his deep faith that characterised that cultural moment: the way of love. It is the underappreciated, all-but-forgotten understanding of agape, the love that uplifts, liberates and changes the world. Though some might believe the world has to be the same, this way has the power to change things for the better. In his warm and accessible style Bishop Curry holds out the hope of love in troubling times.
