Abingdon Press: 1502 books
The Grace of Giving
The Practice of Extravagant Generosity
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Since the publication of Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations, these five practices have helped hundreds of congregations understand their mission, renew ministries, and stretch toward fruitfulness and excellence for the purpose of Christ. Now, each of the five practices has been broken out into...
Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations
Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Over the past ten years, thousands of church leaders have successfully transformed congregations with the principles from the original *Five Practices: *Radical Hospitality, Passionate Worship, Intentional Faith Development, Risk-Taking Mission and Service, and Extravagant Generosity. However, much...
Growing in Grace
The Practice of Intentional Faith Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Since the publication of Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations, these five practices have helped hundreds of congregations understand their mission, renew ministries, and stretch toward fruitfulness and excellence for the purpose of Christ. Now, each of the five practices has been broken out into...
Cultivating Fruitfulness
Five Weeks of Prayer and Practice for Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Focus on the Five Practices: A Congregation-Wide Initiative
Based on the book, Five Practices of a Fruitful Congregation by Bishop Robert Schnase
Imagine a congregation-wide focus on these practices that includes a five week sermon series, five weeks with every household reading daily...
Just Say Yes! Leader Guide
Unleashing People for Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
In Just Say Yes! Robert Schnase shows church leaders how to unleash people for fruitful ministry. He teaches leaders to spot their own nay-saying, and gives specific instructions for reversing the culture of ‘No’ that has become so prevalent in many churches. Step by step, Schnase shows readers—pastors,...
re:MIX
Transitioning Your Church to Living Color
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
re:MIX: Transitioning Your Church to Living Color is a practical guide for pastors, denominational leaders, and lay leaders who are seeking to transition their monoethnic congregations into healthy multiethnic churches of Christ-centered faith. The book is theologically sound, cross-culturally relevant,...
The Sacred Secular
How God Is Using the World to Shape the Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The Sacred Secular examines cultural spaces where people are experiencing something sacred. These places are not in the church. They’re in yoga studios, neighborhood potlucks, and TED Talks. Dottie Escobedo-Frank and Rob Rynders see lessons for the church in these spaces. They see new ways we can...
New Testament Stories from the Back Side
Bible Stories with a Twist
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Using an approach similar to his other "Back Side" books, J. Ellsworth Kalas opens up new possibilities of insight into selected New Testament stories by entering them through the "back side" -- through a unique starting point, a creative retelling, a new "lens", or the eyes of a minor or unsympathetic character. Includes 12 stories and a study guide.
The Best of J. Ellsworth Kalas
Telling the Greatest Story Ever Told Like It's Never Been Told Before
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Take the best preacher you’ve ever heard; add in the teacher who first opened your eyes to the excitement and meaning of your favorite subject in school; combine these with that member of the family to whom you could always turn for the best advice; stir them all together, and you’ll get a flavor...
by J. Ellsworth Kalas
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
When we think of a detective story, we often think of murder mysteries. But the Bible contains some different kinds of detective stories. How is it, for instance, that some of the key personalities in the Bible story slip into the story almost unnoticed—like Judah, for example, an ancestor of King...
Heroes, Rogues, and the Rest
Lives That Tell the Story of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The Bible is filled with heroes and rogues, and this new edition brings them vividly to life. Each chapter includes a key Scripture passage and an examination of a particular biblical character’s story, including the characteristics that defined that person, and what we can learn from them and their contribution to our faith and our lives as believers.
I Bought a House on Gratitude Street
And Other Insights on the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Popular author J. Ellsworth Kalas has a few things he’d like to share. In I Bought a House on Gratitude Street, Kalas imparts insights gathered over the years through different means - “Some…have come to me by my seeking, some have been shared with me by people of wider experience, and some...
by Moore, James W.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
11 sessions. The way in which we (individually and collectively as a nation) view the world says a lot about our spiritual health. Moore uses eight passages from the book of Mark (along with other passages), to address the need to check our spiritual vision regularly. Are we seeing things clearly, or...
by Jason Byassee
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Dizzying changes have taken place in American religious life in the last half century. Yet in spite of that fact, taking a snapshot of a “typical” Christian church in America would reveal a surprising number of small-to-mid-sized congregations, rooted in a local neighborhood or community, tied...