Abingdon Press imprint: 1502 books
Hit the Bullseye
How Denominations Can Aim the Congregation at the Mission Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This book is not an attempt to offer hope, help, or even advice on what denominations need to do. However, it is a book about a significant turn-around of a middle-level administration of justice in one Protestant denomination and it does offer hope that other like administrations might be able to...
That'll Preach!
5 Simple Steps to Your Best Sermon Ever
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Experienced preacher, teacher and author, Charley Reeb, gives readers a 5-step plan for writing and delivering a sermon that can transform lives for Christ. He covers preparation, sermon structure, storytelling, and how to ‘preach with presence’. He examines lectionary and topical preaching models,...
Meet the Goodpeople
Wesley's 7 Ways to Share Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Ever felt stuck in ways of doing church that produce less and less fruit each year? John Wesley sure did—until he stumbled on to seven ways to connect with non-churched people that ignited a revival. Discover how those seven methods of early Methodism, recast for the 21st century, can bring fresh...
All I Want For Christmas Leader Guide
Opening the Gifts of God's Grace
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
From the time the Wise Men came to bring gifts, Christmas has been a time of giving gifts to our loved ones, to the less fortunate, to the church, to favorite charities, to family, to friends, and even to our pets. In the best spirit of Christmas we give and receive Christmas gifts, remembering the...
What Are We Fighting For? Leader Guide
Coming Together Around What Matters Most
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
With all the issues facing The United Methodist Church today, there are plenty of theories and opinions about what we should do. Frankly, many of us are weary of the relentless bickering associated with all the rhetoric. What are we fighting for? This question not only points us to the futility of...
Journey 101: Serving God Leader Guide
Steps to the Life God Intends
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Journey 101 Serving God is one component of Journey 101: Knowing, Loving, Serving God. Each of the three separate, interactive six-week courses utilizes a group teaching format with a leader and a video presenter combined with small group table breakouts. This Leader Guide contains six session guides on Serving God, plus leader helps for conducting a successful study.
by Tony Akers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Discovering and embracing one’s identity has proven to be a long, lonely, rough, and at times, dangerous road for today’s teenagers. It’s likely you’ve chosen this study to use with your youth group because you care deeply and want the teenagers within your sphere of influence to find the...
Get Their Name: Participant Workbook
Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The Participant Guide is a workbook to facilitate the layperson’s experience as the church studies Get Their Name. It includes group and individual activities, and personal devotional material.
Church leaders and members should all read the original Get Their Name book during the month of this church-wide experience.
6 Things We Should Know About God Leader Guide
A Six-Week Small Group Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
This Leader Guide contains everything needed to guide a group through the book and DVD. It includes session plans and discussion questions, as well as format options.
Get Their Name: Coordinator's Guide
Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The Coordinator’s Guide is twofold, helping the pastor (or other leader) to implement worship/sermons, and a congregational study experience. It contains worship helps for each week of the series, including sermon plans and instructions for using the video illustrations. It also includes instructions...
Quirky Leadership
Permission Granted
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Pastors and ministry leaders too often play the comparison game, looking to church leadership rockstars and curtailing idiosyncrasies to be like them. But it’s a losing game. Leaders end up trying vainly to lead their churches from a lack of gifts and a place of emptiness. What is the solution?...
Worship Feast: Dramas
15 Sketches for Youth Groups, Worship & More
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
SERVE A NEW MIXED MENU OF WORSHIP
Worship Feast:
A Broad Menu of Extraordinary Worship Dramas
Serve an extraordinary worship experience to your youth. Engage them, and move them.
Make an impact.
Sometimes all you need to complete a meaningful worhip experience is a new skit...
happy? Leader Guide
what it is and how to find it
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
We all dream of being happy. If we could just lose the extra weight, get the job, buy the house, we could truly be happy. But over time, it begins to seem as though lasting happiness is unattainable. Despite our best efforts, true happiness will never be a reality for us. So how do we find lasting...
by Bill Easum, Bill Tenny-Brittian
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In hard times, you can either panic, decline, or grow. Which do you choose to do?
This is not a time to tweak your church budget. It is not a time to slash and burn it indiscriminately across the board. Nor is it the time to hunker down in the bunker and wait things out. Now is the time is...