Cambridge Springs Public Library

This book provides Biblical examples and explanations of the process of leadership preparation. It is designed to help those called to leadership, to better understand the transition process that God takes one through, to become the leader He has chosen.

At the heart of why any church exists is to glorify God and to share God as revealed in Jesus Christ; thus worship is at the center of the congregation's life. The church, of course, is more than worship, but without vital worship attendance, it is unlikely that members are growing and new disciples are being brought to faith. Worship attendance is also the one factor where improvement tends to help every other aspect of the church's ministry. There...

Las iglesias de América Latina han experimentado, en las últimas décadas, un rápido y notorio crecimiento numérico en un contexto de mutación religiosa y pérdida de confianza en los líderes y en las constituciones. Por consiguiente, uno de los asuntos clave de la agenda actual de las iglesias está relacionado con la necesidad de formar líderes capaces de responder tanto a los grandes desafíos dentro de las comunidades de fe como a los que...

The Bible's version of leadership is pretty different from-and sometimes alien to-that of the business world. It is also dissimilar from our usual assumptions about what makes a great leader in the church, where we tend to focus on preaching ability, strategic hutzpah, and managerial savvy. But what if the Bible actually points toward a different set of characteristics necessary for leadership? What if our weakness is an essential qualification?...

Every story needs a lead character, a ship needs a captain, and an arrow needs a target. The Christian's lead, captain, and target is Jesus-the Son of God. Two thousand years after His death, Jesus is, known around the globe. In Lead Like the Lord: Lessons in Leadership from Jesus, W. Kirk Brothers shares his own personal journey with Jesus that led him to the conviction that Jesus is the greatest leader to ever, walk the earth. His apostles traversed...

Are you a current or emerging Christian leader who yearns to make a significant long-term difference? Do you sometimes wonder how to distinguish what is imperative from what is important? Are you a board member who wants your church or parachurch leadership team to become more intentional and on-target about doing the right things the right way? The Leader's SEEcret is a parable that explores and applies God's Word to today's world of leadership diversions....

New faith communities are appearing across the U.S. Many of them bear little resemblance-on the surface-to 'church' in its conventional form. But when we look a little deeper we see striking continuity with the most deeply rooted practices of the Christian faith in community. What are those practices? What do these unconventional, alternative faith communities look like? How are they, perhaps, indicators of a hopeful new future for the church? And...

This book by Zacharias Tanee Fomum is the depiction of the beauty and grandeur in the holiness and character of Joseph. Very early on in life, this hardworking and non-idle young man took on the heavy burden of denouncing the sin of his brothers before his father, who loved him so much. This aroused the jealousy of his brothers who sold him into slavery. Having gone down to Egypt as a slave, he worked in Potiphar's house. There again, he fled sin...

Leading is a calling from God, but that doesn't mean it is easy. There are choices to be made about what your congregation believes, how your church organizes for effective ministry, and how your church serves the settings of which you are a part. The good news is that others have gone before you. Author Larry L. McSwain's forty years of experience can help guide you through these choices. Rooted in research, The Calling of Congregational Leadership...

Images of Leadership traces powerful images of biblical leadership through the pages of both Old and New Testament. It examines the counter-cultural impact the images have on our assumptions of leadership and unflinchingly digs into the implications of on our own leadership approaches. It challenges Christian leaders to discern between our cultural assumptions of leadership in the light of the biblical role models embodied in Christ and imperative...