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Inconforme: El genuino camino al crecimiento

Inconforme: El genuino camino al crecimiento

by Edgar Lira

¿Por qué el domingo? ¿Por qué la corbata? ¿Por qué las más de dos horas de reunión (a veces cuatro)? ¿Por qué el estilo de hablar de Reina Valera si no soy Español? ¿Por qué la música tan irrelevante? ¿Por qué esta manera de hacer iglesia? ¿Por qu… Read more…

batalla de las drogas

batalla de las drogas

by Lucas Leys

Este libro, el Dr. Lucas Leys, trata uno de los temas más calientes con los que en algún momento te vas a tener que confrontar. Está escrito para jóvenes que luchan con este desafío o que tienen amigos que los están enfrentando. En estas páginas te vas a encontrar con muchos datos investigativos y variadas preguntas que te van a hacer pensar… Read more…

Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World

Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World

by Alan Hirsch and Woodward JR

Once upon a time, Moses had had enough.Exhausted by the challenge of leading the Israelites from slavery to the Promised Land, Moses cried out to God, "What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me? . . . If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me" (Exodus 11:11, 15).If that sounds hauntingly f… Read more…

Pull: Making Your Church Magnetic

Pull: Making Your Church Magnetic

by Bob Franquiz

Every church wants to be magnetic in its community, but many churches don't have a plan to accomplish this goal. Bob Franquiz started Calvary Fellowship in Miami with seven people. A few years into it, Bob realized the church was growing but not reaching the lost. No salvations had been recorded in two years. Something had to change.Now Calvary Fellowshi… Read more…

Youth Ministry from the Outside In: How Relationships and Stories Shape Identity

Youth Ministry from the Outside In: How Relationships and Stories Shape Identity

by Chap Clark, Brandon K. McKoy and Kenneth J. Gergen

We tend to organize our youth ministry from the inside out. We give gathered groups of individual youth tools and teaching to form their souls around a Christian identity. So far, so good. But what if our identity is not merely or even primarily rooted and established somewhere inside ourselves? What if our identity is shaped and cultivated in the relationsh… Read more…

The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life and Ministry

The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life and Ministry

by Nelson Searcy and Jennifer Dykes Henson

Break out of the trap of average and pursue God's best for your ministry. The average church in America is declining by 9% every year, is behind on budget, and is unable to move forward with the kingdom plans God has in store. The average pastor is stressed out and struggling to maintain healthy relationships and life balance. But while the cycle of aver… Read more…

Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (3rd Edition)

Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (3rd Edition)

by Mark Dever and David Platt

Now in its third edition and featuring a new foreword by New York Times best-selling author David Platt, pastor Mark Dever’s classic book is not an instruction manual for church growth. Rather, it is a wise pastor’s recommendation for how to assess the health of a church using nine crucial qualities often neglected by many of today’s congregations. Chu… Read more…

Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development

Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development

by Shane Claiborne, John M. Perkins and Wayne Gordon

Already with decades of experience speaking prophetically into the charged racial climate of the American south, John Perkins began to see a need for organized thinking and collaborative imagination about how the church engages urban ministry. And so the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) was born, with Wayne Gordon an immediate and enthusias… Read more…

The Missional Quest: Becoming a Church of the Long Run

The Missional Quest: Becoming a Church of the Long Run

by Ed Stetzer, Lance Ford and Brad Brisco

When Christ calls people, he invites them on a journey—a journey taken together in community. We have reached a point in history, however, when we think of the church as a fixed place where isolated individuals show up, consume a Christian message, drink some coffee, and get on with their lives. The times demand, and the gospel proclaims, that we recover o… Read more…

Influencia Espiritual: El poder secreto detrás del liderazgo

Influencia Espiritual: El poder secreto detrás del liderazgo

by Mel Lawrenz

«La influencia espiritual es provocada por el Espíritu de Dios, cuya obra consiste en transformar al espíritu humano, devolviéndonos la forma original con la cual Dios nos diseñó. Esto sucede cuando el Espíritu logra influir —in–fluir— en nosotros. Y se produce a lo largo de miles de pasos escondidos e imperceptibles.» En este novedoso estudio … Read more…

Pastor's Family: Shepherding Your Family through the Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
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Pastor's Family: Shepherding Your Family through the Challenges of Pastoral Ministry

by Brian Croft, Cara Croft and Holly Watson

Narrated by Holly Watson

Featuring insights from the perspective of both a pastor and his wife—The Pastor’s Family identifies the complicated burdens and expectations ministry brings to the life of a family. Brian and Cara Croft identify the unique challenges that pastors face as husbands and fathers.  They also discuss the difficulties and joys of being a pastor’s wife a… Read more…

Pastor's Family: Shepherding Your Family through the Challenges of Pastoral Ministry

Pastor's Family: Shepherding Your Family through the Challenges of Pastoral Ministry

by Brian Croft and Cara Croft

Pastoral ministry is more challenging than ever with unique, complicated burdens and expectations some have not experienced in previous generations. Because of this, the number of pastors who start with a great zeal for the work, quickly crash and burn and are left with a battered faith and family. This book seeks to identify those unique challenges, diagnos… Read more…


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