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Preventing Ministry Failure (James Durham and James Guthrie)
$9.99Preventing Ministry Failure is an updated version of James Guthrie’s A Humble Acknowledgement of the Sins of the Ministry (1651) combined with extracts from James Durham’s Commentary on Revelation. Beyond updating the language, the editors have added references verses and application questions to stimulate meditation, reflection, discussion. Pastors will enjoy help, encouragement, and counsel as they strive to fulfill their ministries above reproach.
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Acts 20: Fierce Wolves are Coming – Guard the Flock (Alexander Strauch)
$16.50A new study of Paul’s final charge to the Ephesian elders.
“Any church elder who does not know the content of Paul’s message to the Ephesian elders is ill-equipped to lead and protect God’s people.” — Alexander Strauch, author of this book on Acts 20
God has given us a special gift in Paul’s farewell message to the Ephesian elders (Acts 20:17-38). There is really nothing else in the New Testament comparable to this passage. In Acts 20: Fierce Wolves are Coming; Guard the Flock Alexander Strauch provides an in-depth yet practical exposition of this extraordinary portion of Scripture.
History amply demonstrates that the truths of Paul’s message cannot be overstated or repeated too often. The appalling, centuries-long failure to stop false teachers from invading churches can be traced directly back to ignorance of or disobedience to Paul’s prophetic warnings to the Ephesian elders. Paul’s instructions and pleas to the Ephesian elders are just as critically needed today as they were that day on the shores of Miletus.
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The Preacher’s Catechism (Lewis Allen)
$18.50Your work as a pastor can make it easy to overlook the deep needs of your own soul. These 43 questions and answers, written to reflect the format of historic catechisms, seek to provide nourishment for weary pastors in the thick of ministry. Each chapter features content designed to care for your spiritual health, feeding your mind and heart with life-giving truth aimed at helping you press on in ministry with endurance, contentment, and joy.
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Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence for Every Believer (J. Oswald Sanders)
$12.99The biblical call to leadership must not be taken lightly. And with more than 750,000 sold, Spiritual Leadership has proven itself a timeless classic in teaching the key principles of leadership. J. Oswald Sanders presents and illustrates several magnifying principles through the lives of some prolific men – such as Moses, Nehemiah, Paul, David Livingstone, and Charles Spurgeon.
Spiritual Leadership will encourage you to place your talents and powers at God’s disposal so you can become a leader used for his glory. An updated, modern flavor and a growth-empowering study guide allow Spiritual Leadership to forge ahead, forming the next generation of leaders.
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Encouragement for Today’s Pastors: Help from the Puritans (Joel R. Beeke)
$13.75The Scriptures advise us to learn from examples of faithful ministers (Heb. 13:7). The Puritans were a group of such ministers whose teaching and living can be particularly encouraging to troubled and discouraged pastors today. They were steadfast in adhering to Scripture as the Word of God, in confessing the great truths of the Reformed faith, and in applying sound doctrine to the problems of life in an age and culture nearly as challenging as our own.
In Encouragement for Today’s Pastors, Joel R. Beeke and Terry D. Slachter examine the writings of these pastors of a bygone era consider how they can help struggling pastors today. Here pastors will find a helping hand, reminding them of the importance of cultivating personal piety, resting in God’s sovereignty recovering clarity in their calling, discovering means of support God provided, recognizing the dignity of their office, and taking comfort in grace and glory to come.
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Preaching the Cross (Mark Dever, J. Ligon Duncan, R. C. Sproul…)
$9.99Preaching the Cross is a call to expository, gospel-centered preaching as the center of pastoral ministry. This volume showcases an unprecedented combination of pastors representing a variety of evangelical traditions. Though they differ on some secondary points of church practice, they all enthusiastically celebrate the centrality of the cross of Christ-keeping the main thing the main thing. That message every reader can take away from this book and adopt in his pastoral ministry.
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The Reformed Pastor (Richard Baxter) (#14)
$8.75Perhaps the best and most famous Puritan work on the pastoral ministry, by a man who was a powerful instrument in the hand of God to transform his city of Kidderminster for the cause of Christ.
The Reformed Pastor is the result of a lecture Baxter was to deliver to a group of pastors. As it turn out, his health prevented him from attending, but he sent his manuscript to be read to the men. The biblical basis for his call of reform is Acts 20:28. “Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.”
Baxter easily divides his work into two parts, taking heed to ourselves and taking heed of the flock. For pastors, Baxter first calls on us to make sure we have the faith that we preach to others! And that we live that faith. For the flock, Baxter calls for a return to biblical church discipline and the careful, personal instruction of people in their homes from the catechism. As stated earlier, Baxter modeled this pattern. He preached two one-hour sermons each week and spent two whole days each week going from home to home catechizing his members. He argues that it is in this personal, home teaching that one can really find out what his parishioners know, if they are truly in the faith, and instruct them more fully in the core doctrines of the faith.
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The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift That Changes Everything
$11.50A book that Mark Dever calls “the best book I’ve read on the nature of church ministry.” Helps the reader think through, both biblically and practically, the dangers of being busy as a full-time pastor and how it can rob you of focus on what ought to be the priorities in your time. Digging more deeply into the New Testament’s view of Christian ministry, the authors argue that a major mind-shift is necessary for many churches and pastors if we are to fulfill the Great Commission and see disciples grow in grace.
There is vine work: the prayerful preaching and teaching of the word of God to see people converted and grow to maturity as disciples of Christ. Vine work is the Great Commission.
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A Pastor’s Sketches: Conversations with Anxious Souls Concerning the Way of Salvation (Ichabod Spencer)
$31.50A Pastor’s Sketches is one of the finest and most unique books ever written on the subject of evangelistic and pastoral ministry. It should rightly take its place on the desk of every pastor, but is immensely useful to anyone helping others to know God.
Drawing on his meticulous note-taking from evangelistic and counseling efforts, Ichabod Spencer accurately retells a helpful sampling of these encounters, including many of the excuses, spiritual strongholds, and lies that keep souls away from Christ.
Each chapter or sketch includes a narrative of Spencer’s efforts to apply the Scriptures under the guiding counsel of the Holy Spirit in order to help people overcome their personal obstacles to faith and repentance. He then shares with readers the primary lessons which can be learned from each interaction.
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The Log College (Archibald Alexander)
$17.50The Log College is biographical writing at is best. William Tennent’s efforts to train young men (including his four sons) for Presbyterian ministry, which eventuated in building a simple log building in 1735 that became known as the Log College, makes for a fascinating read.
Having been written by Archibald Alexander, first professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and founder of the Princeton Theology, only enhances the historical value and pietistic flavor of this long-treasured work. Like no other, this book presents us with the authentic roots and birth pangs of the Great Awakening.
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The 15 Descriptions of Love, Applied to All Christian Leaders & Teachers (Alexander Strauch)
$7.50The 15 Descriptions of Love is an exposition of 1 Corinthians 13:1-7, examining the Apostle Paul’s list of fifteen descriptions of love. In this 80-page book, Strauch applies these descriptions to Christians in any kind of a leadership role.
If you lead or teach people — as a Sunday school teacher, youth worker, women’s or men’s ministry leader, Bible study leader, administrator, music director, elder, deacon, pastor, evangelist, or missionary — The 15 Descriptions of Love will help you become more skilled in dealing with people and a more loving leader and teacher.
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Biblical Eldership: An Urgent Call to Restore Biblical Church Leadership (Alexander Strauch)
$24.50The most comprehensive current study in print of the role and function of elders in the New Testament church. Convincingly emphasizes the blessings and advantages of shared leadership and explains in detail the leading, feeding, caring and protecting labors of elders in ways that will instruct both those in training for, seeking the office, or who have been serving at it for many years.
Covers qualifications, relationships with each other, and most importantly, provides a thorough study of each relevant Biblical passage.
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A Journey in Authority (Richard Belcher)
$8.95The continuing story of pastor Ira Pointer, facing another theological pursuit: this one, Biblical church government. Having always assumed that church decisions should be made in a congregational manner, a jolting experience leads him to consider the possibility that the New Testament teaches elder rule. He has to study the Scriptures to determine:
- What is an elder?
- What authority does an elder have?
- And what are a church’s obligations to their elders, and his obligations to the church?
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The New Pastor’s Handbook (Jason Helopoulos)
$12.50Most seminary graduates will begin their ministries with plenty of important head knowledge to share–but with a deficit of some of the most practical aspects of doing ministry, such as – which ministry role most suits them – how to start out strong at a
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The Pastor’s Book (Kent Hughes)
$37.50A Comprehensive and Practical Guide to Pastoral Ministry
Pastors are tasked with the incredibly demanding job of caring for the spiritual, emotional, and, at times‚ physical needs of their people. While seminary is helpful preparation for many of the challenges pastors face, there’s far more to pastoral ministry than what can be covered in the classroom.
Designed as a reference guide for nearly every situation a pastor will face, this comprehensive book by seasoned pastors Kent Hughes and Doug O’Donnell is packed full of biblical wisdom and practical guidance related to the reality of pastoral ministry in the trenches.
From officiating weddings to conducting funerals to visiting the sick, this book will equip pastors and church leaders with the knowledge they need to effectively minister to their flocks, both within the walls of the church and beyond.
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