Baker Books imprint: 897 books
Everyday Strength
A Cancer Patient's Guide to Spiritual Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
As a cancer survivor, Randy Becton knows firsthand the onslaught this disease brings on the human spirit. His experience creates a special bond with fellow cancer patients, making his encouragement even more powerful. In Everyday Strength he offers hope and comfort through poetic prayers, Scripture,...
If
Trading Your If Only Regrets for God's What If Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Transform Your If Only Regrets into What If Possibilities
I**f is a powerful little word. Some people are stuck in "if only," trudging through lives marked with regret. But God wants us to live lives marked with possibilities, with the "what if" attitude that looks forward...
by Ralph Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2003
All Christians seek a better prayer life--ideally one where they connect with and have a closer relationship with God. Too many of us, however, have nagging feelings of guilt when it comes to asking God for what we want. Ralph Moore reminds us that it is absolutely okay to pray for God to meet our...
Play the Man Participant's Guide
Becoming the Man God Created You to Be
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Somewhere along the way, our culture lost its definition of manhood, leaving generations of men and men-to-be confused about their roles, responsibilities, relationships, and the reason God made them men. It's into this "no man's land" that New York Times bestselling author Mark Batterson...
Unstoppable Gospel
Living Out the World-Changing Vision of Jesus's First Followers
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The path of least resistance is seldom the path of greatest impact. This is a truth that the apostles knew intrinsically, but from which we, the modern church, seem to shy away. They boldly proclaimed the Gospel, in season and out of season. We want to avoid risk, avoid stepping on toes, avoid any...
Church Is a Team Sport
A Championship Strategy for Doing Ministry Together
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Now available in trade paper, Church Is a Team Sport shows proven ways to push believers, new and mature, toward growth as both Christians--and leaders. Through this powerful, thought-provoking volume, ministers both in the congregation and on staff will discover how to expand the church one soul...
Betrayal of Trust
Confronting and Preventing Clergy Sexual Misconduct
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Sexual misconduct by clergy is a devastating issue that reaches across all denominations, damaging the credibility of the church in its wake. The media regularly reports on the moral failure of leaders and abuse at the hands of those who are supposed to be trustworthy.
Betrayal of Trust focuses...
Staff Your Church for Growth
Building Team Ministry in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Why, when, and how should a church add to its professional staff? Here is a practical manual dealing with the issues of hiring and utilizing multiple staff positions to encourage church growth.
Reading People
How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
If the viral Buzzfeed-style personality quizzes are any indication, we are collectively obsessed with the idea of defining and knowing ourselves and our unique place in the world. But what we're finding is this: knowing which Harry Potter character you are is easy, but actually knowing yourself isn't...
Church Marketing 101
Preparing Your Church for Greater Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Over 90 percent of all Christian churches in the United States have fewer than 200 members. While they vary in shape, size, ethnicity, and denomination, they have one thing in common: the desire to grow. So why is it that some churches fail to grow for years, while other congregations in the same...
Mastering the Management Buckets
20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Non-Profit
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2011
In the most practical, humorous, and fast-moving chapters you've ever read on business and nonprofit leadership and management, this in-the-trenches management expert presents his 20 Management Buckets System for understanding and organizing your important mission. "When you don't know what you...
Activate
An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Church leaders want to know how to make their small groups work. Drawing from the startling success of small groups at The Journey Church, Nelson Searcy and Kerrick Thomas debunk the myths, set the record straight, and show how church leaders can implement a healthy small group ministry that gets...
Fusion
Turning First-Time Guests into Fully Engaged Members of Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Fusion offers a step-by-step, biblically grounded, tested, and proven plan for establishing a relationship with newcomers that ultimately prompts them to become fully developing members of our churches. This innovative, practical guide is full of how-to information, testimonials, examples, and self-assessment...
Taking Your Church to the Next Level
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
All local churches experience a predictable life cycle of growth and decline. But if a church is on a downward trend, how can it turn around? Taking Your Church to the Next Level explains the impact of age and size on churches and outlines the improvements that must be made at each point for a church...