The Pastor's Book
Title | The Pastor's Book PDF eBook |
Author | R. Kent Hughes |
Publisher | Crossway |
Total Pages | 451 |
Release | 2015-10-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 143354590X |
Pastors are tasked with the incredibly demanding job of caring for the spiritual, emotional, and, at times‚ physical needs of their people. While seminary is helpful preparation for many of the challenges pastors face, there’s far more to pastoral ministry than what can be covered in the classroom. Designed as a reference guide for nearly every situation a pastor will face, this comprehensive book by seasoned pastors Kent Hughes and Doug O’Donnell is packed full of biblical wisdom and practical guidance related to the reality of pastoral ministry in the trenches. From officiating weddings to conducting funerals to visiting the sick, this book will equip pastors and church leaders with the knowledge they need to effectively minister to their flocks, both within the walls of the church and beyond.
The Pastor's Guide to Leading and Living
Title | The Pastor's Guide to Leading and Living PDF eBook |
Author | O. S. Hawkins |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson Inc |
Total Pages | 402 |
Release | 2012-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1401675697 |
The Pastor's Guide to Leading and Living includes tips on topics like a pastor s finances, politics and the pulpit, the pastor s family, church and conflict, church administration, pastoral care, and much more"
The Pastor
Title | The Pastor PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon W. Lathrop |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780800638016 |
Renowned liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop has composed a rich, meditative, and explicitly ecumenical spirituality for working pastors ? whatever and wherever they are called: preachers, priests, elders, ministers, seminarians.In Part One Lathrop urges pastors to become lifelong students of the Lord's Prayer, the Apostle's Creed, and the Commandments, continually inhabiting the questions, reversals and paradoxes of Christian life.In Part Two he elaborates on the pastor's chief activities ? presiding at the holy table, preaching, collecting for the poor ? "as the center and focus for pastoral identity and spirituality." Lathrop invites pastors to recenter their busy lives on God and fuel their ministry through prayer.
The Pastor's Family
Title | The Pastor's Family PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Croft |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Total Pages | 177 |
Release | 2013-08-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0310495105 |
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, diagnose the problem, propose a biblical solution, and then guide the pastor and his family to embrace these challenges while shepherding the family through them.
The Pastor's Justification
Title | The Pastor's Justification PDF eBook |
Author | Jared C. Wilson |
Publisher | Crossway |
Total Pages | 194 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1433536641 |
Neither a how-to manual nor an academic treatise on pastoral ministry, this book of biblical exposition, pastoral confession, and gospel exultation directs pastors to their only justification: the finished work of Christ.
The New Guidebook for Pastors
Title | The New Guidebook for Pastors PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Bryant |
Publisher | B&H Publishing Group |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2007-06-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1433670097 |
The New Guidebook for Pastors is written in the tradition of classics like Criswell’s Guidebook for Pastors. But since most pastoral guidebooks available today date back to 1980 or earlier, this new resource by Mac Brunson and James W. Bryant will offer fresh experience-based encouragement to all pastors in their pursuit of excellence and development in their God-called profession. Among the twenty chapters are "The Pastor and His Call," "The Pastor and His Family," "The Pastor and His Staff," "The Pastor and Worship," "The Pastor and Finances," "The Pastor, Wedding, and Funerals," "The Pastor, Politics, and Moral Issues," and "The Pastor and His Denomination."
The Pastor's Soul
Title | The Pastor's Soul PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Croft |
Publisher | EP BOOKS |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2018-07-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781783972388 |
David Murray writes in the Foreword: 'The minister's soul is the soul of his ministry.' I can't remember where I first heard this saying, but I've never been able to forget it. And, having read this book, I never want to forget it. In these pages, Jim Savastio and Brian Croft establish the foundation of all faithful and fruitful ministry"€"the pastor's soul. But, although their main target is the epidemic of ministerial hyper-activity and the accompanying burnout, backsliding, and brokenness, they carefully avoid over-reacting and running to the opposite extremes of monkish withdrawal or lazy self-indulgence. Instead, you have a book that skillfully walks a balanced biblical path in both content and style. It balances self and others. Yes, the pastor is all about serving others, about sacrificing for the sake of others, about spending and being spent for others, and about pouring out themselves to fill others. But, as many pastors have discovered to their cost and pain, servants are finite, sacrifices eventually turn to ashes, non-stop spending leads to bankruptcy, and pouring out without ever filling up ends in drought. This book reminds us that caring for self is not selfish but necessary if we are to sustain a life of caring service to others. It's not a warrant for sloth or selfishness, but rather a call to self-care that will lead to better other-care.