Pastoral

Stress is now a huge factor in modern living, with one-third of British workers likely to suffer from it some stage in their careers. Christians ar...

A "strengths"-based guide to inspiring congregations presents a unique plan for building community by encouraging individuals to share their talent...

Throughout history, many marriages have been characterised by confusion, conflict, and pain. Today, the very institution of marriage is often revil...

Using the example of LEGO®, a company that has been transforming the way people play for more than fifty years, Joey Bonifacio shows you how to mak...

Enriching Ministry offers a more detailed and wide-ranging overview of pastoral supervision and its relationship to other disciplines and fields of...

Understanding The Lord's Supper provides an entry-level introduction to the meaning and purpose of The Lord's Supper.  

Once you have discovered who God made you to be you will never want to be anyone else. Every person on the planet was born for significance, create...

The secular world is well aware of the problems of stress. Of recent decades a great deal of attention and research has been devoted to understandi...

Doing justice to the complexity of the preaching task and the questions that underlie it, author Paul Scott Wilson organizes both the preparation a...

In this classic sermon, Charles Spurgeon gently urges those struggling with depression tocast their burdens upon the Lord, who will not forsake his...

When multiethnic worship is done well, the church models reconciliation and prophetic justice, heralding God's good news for the world. Enter into ...

Compassion is the emotion most frequently attributed to Jesus in the Gospels. But compassion is more than an emotion—it is a God-centered, God-insp...

Listening skills, and the perspective gained through careful listening, are more important in congregations than ever. Many factors make attentive ...

Interim clergy and the members they serve need the skill and experience to maintain congregational vitality during transition. This book presents a...

Dear Nicholas... was originally written in 1988 as a letter by the then Bishop of Liverpool Michael Henshall to his newly-ordained son. Revised and...

IVP Readers' Choice AwardLamar Hardwick was thirty-six years old when he found out he was on the autism spectrum. While this revelation helped him ...

Visionary leadership for church growth is a book that is designed to show the decline in church growth due to the lack of leadership in the ministr...

The gospel is a theological message. But this message also creates human beauty―beautiful relationships in our churches, making the glory of Chri...