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The Thread Leader Guide is designed to help small-group leaders guide participants through a thirteen-week formation journey focused on virtue, faith, and fraternity. Each session includes discussion prompts, teaching notes, and leadership guidance to help foster meaningful conversation and spiritual growth.

Time is a precious and finite commodity. Are you stewarding it well? As a pastor, your work moves fluidly between study and solitude, counseling and crisis care, administration and leadership, plus a series of daily interruptions, not to mention your family and home life. How do you manage time...

Have you ever felt stuck in your prayers? Like you’re praying the same thing over and over? Not sure if God is hearing your prayers? Join the author as he journeys verse by verse through the book of James, sharing pastoral insight into three bold prayers from the writings of James. Using James 1:2-5 as the baseline, discover three fresh, bold prayers that will transform your prayer life and grow your faith.

In Winning Ways to Witness, David Hartman offers practical guidance on reaching others for Christ by using one of seven witnessing styles: prayer, friendship, service, testimony, invitation, conversation, and proclamation. Each style is explored in depth, encouraging listeners to choose the approach that best fits their temperament. Hartman also emphasizes adapting one’s witness to the unique faith journeys of others, making evangelism a more personalized and respectful experience for everyone involved.

Counselor Brad Hambrick outlines a 9-step process for finding hope and relief amid the struggles associated with depression and anxiety. The persistent presence of depression or anxiety can make us want to give up. We begin to wonder, “What’s the use?” The slow fade of hope and heavy...

You were born to lead. Now it's time to become a leader. Leaders may be found in boardrooms, but they may also be found in families, schools, and organizations of all kinds—anywhere people interact, nurture, create, or build. Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not meant for an elite group of people who, by fate or accident, become leaders while everyone else is consigned to being a lifelong follower. After personally training thousands of leaders from around the world, best-selling author Dr.

Leadership expert and New York Times–bestselling author John Maxwell offers powerful principles for connecting with others so you can lead them well. This practical guide to fostering relationships in all areas of life equips you to tap into the most precious resource of all: people.

Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the division between a sceptic and a believer may seem unbridgeable.

For the first time ever, hear the bestselling leadership book of all time, read in its entirety by John Maxwell himself! HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell’s New York Times bestselling book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, with the...

At a time in which some within the African American community are questioning the place of the Christian faith in the struggle for justice, New Testament scholar McCaulley argues that reading Scripture from the perspective of Black church tradition is invaluable for connecting with a rich faith history and addressing the urgent issues of our times. 

Your small church is not a failed big church. You love your church. You also can't quite shake the feeling that it isn't enough. Not enough people, not enough programs, not enough of whatever the conference speaker said real ministry was supposed to look like. You've sat in the third row, looked at the same familiar faces, and quietly wondered when the growth would come, as if the church you're in is a waiting room for the church you're supposed to become. It isn't.

Winner of the ECPA Book of the Year Award for Ministry Resources The church is experiencing a leadership crisis. What can we do to prevent pastors from leaving the ministry? For every celebrity pastor exiting the ministry in the spotlight, there are many more lesser-known pastors leaving in the...

Karl Marx and D. L. Moody. The contrast between these men could not be greater. They made similar promises—promises of freedom and a better world. Yet the lessons they left behind are as divergent as night and day. One sought to liberate people but ultimately enslaved them. The other preached forgiveness from sin and set people free.

From the bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy – an intimate account of why Vice President JD Vance strayed from the Christianity of his youth and what led him back to faith. Communion is a spiritual exploration of what it means to be a Christian in all the seasons of life JD Vance has...

Bloomsbury presents Crusaders, written and read by Dan Jones. From the bestselling author of The Templars. 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best' SUNDAY TIMES. 'A powerful story brilliantly told. Dan Jones writes...

The growth of Christianity in the early centuries of the Common Era is one of the most extraordinary stories in world history. What began with a preaching day laborer and his dozen or so disciples soon grew to be the largest religion in the world, eventually taking over the entire Roman Empire. How did that happen? How was such a movement possible?

"In the name of the Father, the Son, and ... the Holy Spirit." We pray in the name of all three, but how often do we live with an awareness of only the first two? As Jesus ascended into heaven, He promised to send the Holy Spirit—the Helper—so that we could be true and living witnesses for Christ.

“The Puritans, as a body, have done more to elevate the national character than any class of Englishmen that ever lived. Ardent lovers of civil liberty, and ready to die in its defense—mighty at the council board, and no less mighty in the battlefield—feared abroad throughout Europe, and...

A dazzling and uplifting biography of the great Saint Francis of Assisi who gained the world by giving up worldly goods to be be independent of all. Less is more at the highest level. Told in a remarkably astute, nuanced, optimistic, uplifting biography by G. K. Chesterton, known as the Prince of Paradox.

Scripture commands Christians to be a remembering people. Contemplating how God's church has prevailed throughout war, heresy, political upheaval, and more, we will begin to grasp the bigger story of his work in the world and gain bold faith for our lives today.