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hardcoverStrengthening the Soul of Your Leadership
Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry
Transforming Resources
by Ruth Haley Barton
Afterword by Leighton Ford
Foreword by Gary A. HaugenSpiritual Practices for Burnt Out Leaders
"I'm tired of helping others enjoy God—I just want to enjoy God for myself."
With this painful admission, Ruth Haley Barton invites us to an honest exploration of what happens when spiritual leaders lose track of their souls. Weaving together contemporary illustrations with penetrating insight from the life of Moses, Strengthening ...
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paperbackDiscovering Your Leadership Style
The Power of Chemistry, Strategy and Spirituality
by David T. Olson
God can use your unique gifts, passions and personality to help you become a better leader. While personality inventories can help you understand your temperament, the model designed by leading church planter David Olson is designed to form fruitful Christian leadership. Olson's model reveals how three factors—spirituality, chemistry and strategy—work together. The free online inventory that is ...
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hardcoverPursuing God's Will Together
A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups
Transforming Resources
by Ruth Haley Barton
Logos Book of the Year
Creating Leadership Teams Led by the Spirit
Meetings can sap our energy, rupture community and thoroughly demoralize us. They can go on forever with no resolution. Or they can rush along without consensus just to "get through the agenda." What if there was another way?
Church boards and other Christian leadership teams have ...
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paperbackRelational Leadership
A Biblical Model for Influence and Service
by Walter C. Wright Jr.
Foreword by Richard J. Mouw and Eugene H. PetersonLeadership. What does it mean? How do I do it? Who is a leader and who is not? Relational Leadership will stimulate your thinking about leadership and management, causing you to both ask questions and find answers. Ultimately, this will enable you to invest yourself in people for the sake of the kingdom. Drawing on leadership theory, his own experience and insights from Jude, Philemon ...
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paperbackTransforming Leadership
Jesus' Way of Creating Vision, Shaping Values Empowering Change
by Leighton Ford
A book for leaders, by leaders, about the greatest leader of them all.
In our rapidly changing and ever more complex world, we suffer a crisis of leadership. Leighton Ford sees the growing dearth of bold leaders--in the marketplace, religion and public life. In this powerful book, Ford calls Christians to be transformational leaders.
Many leaders work within situations; transformational ...
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paperbackExcellence in Leadership
Reaching Goals with Prayer, Courage and Determination
by John White
- Short deadlines
- Not enough staff
- Tight budgets
- Personal attacks
- External opposition
- Internal conflicts
- A huge task
Every leader faces these problems. But as Christians, should we solve them by using the secular strategies of best-selling management books? Or is there another way? John White says there is. Nehemiah provides the model ...
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paperbackSteward Leadership in the Nonprofit Organization
by Kent R. Wilson
Most approaches to nonprofit organizational leadership are borrowed from the for-profit sector. But these models are often inadequate to address the issues nonprofit leaders face. We need a new framework for nonprofit management that is rooted in historical precedent and biblical principles yet is also appropriate for the nonprofit context. Nonprofit consultant and researcher Kent Wilson presents ...
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hardcoverWhat Does Your Soul Love?
Eight Questions That Reveal God's Work in You
by Gem Fadling and Alan Fadling
What do you really want? What is your soul clinging to? What is getting in your way?
In these pages Gem and Alan Fadling outline eight key questions that offer deep insight into how we experience soul change. These questions open the door to spiritual transformation. They help us unpack where we are stuck, where we are in pain, where we are afraid, and much more. They also ...
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paperbackPlanting a Church Without Losing Your Soul
Nine Questions for the Spiritually Formed Pastor
by Tim Morey
Foreword by Scott W. SunquistChristianity Today Book Award
What does it take to be a church planter or other ministry entrepreneur? Most leaders start out with passion, a sense of calling, and a focus on building ministry skills. Such things might get some results, but they are not enough to sustain a healthy ministry—or a healthy life. Beyond the vocational capacities every ...
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paperbackOrganizational Leadership
Foundations and Practices for Christians
Edited by Jack Burns, John R. Shoup, and Donald C. Simmons Jr.
Kingdom leadership does not begin and end at the church door. Christians are called to conduct leadership in government, commerce, schools, neighborhoods, families, para-church ministries and a myriad other contexts. God has given us many gifts, and our responsibility is to be stewards of those gifts, and use them to do the King?s work. In that context, this comprehensive text explores key ...
