Unshakable Standing Strong When Things Go Wrong

Nelson Searcy

Jennifer Dykes Henson

The Journey Church

This powerful, practical guide will help you discover how to face life's scariest storms unscathed. You'll uncover timeless truths on how to prepare for, withstand, and rebuild after: Family Problems, Illness, Lack of Purpose, Temptation, Financial Stress, Career Challenges, Death of a Loved One, And More!

Church Leader Insights

What if your church had more volunteers than you knew what to do with? Sound far-fetched? It doesn't have to be. Now consultant, pastor, and author Nelson Searcy unveils his secret to doubling your volunteer base in as little as one day. Yes, you read that right. This step-by-step guide shows church leaders how to create a culture that attracts, keeps, and grows volunteers. Taking a comprehensive approach to the often frustrating issue of finding and retaining volunteers, Connect gives leaders the practical insight and tools they need to effectively involve people in serving the local church. It details how to help people see the importance of serving, how to continually raise up new volunteers, how to really delegate, and even how to "fire" a volunteer. Every church leader who has struggled with getting and keeping people active in the church (and that's all of them) will love the practical, workable strategies found here.

Connect: How to Double Your Number of Volunteers

Religion & Spirituality

Dykes Henson, Jennifer

Christian Books & Bibles

Baker Books

This user-friendly guide shows church leaders how to reach the unchurched in their communities and break through the growth barriers that are holding them back.

Ignite: How to Spark Immediate Growth in Your Church

Starting a church from scratch? Start here! Launch offers specific strategies for beginning a church with no members, no money, and no staff. Readers get clear, practical how-to strategies for quickly raising funds, creating a team, planning services, effective evangelism, and rapidly developing a growing membership. Specific advice is included for reaching that often difficult-to-target demographic, the 20- to 40-year-old. Now thoroughly revised and expanded to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of church planting.

Launch: Starting a New Church from Scratch

Thomas, Kerrick

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 tools. Engaging, informative, and immediately applicable, here is help for setting newcomers on the path toward true life transformation and spiritual maturity.

Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully Engaged Members of Your Church

Over the course of our years as church leaders, too many of us have sacrificed our health and well-being on the alter of ministry. We have lost the vibrancy - and the waistlines - we once had, opting instead for the poor, counterfeit version of health that has become acceptable - and average - in our culture. As men and women who have committed our lives to serving God, we seem to be neglecting our physical well-being at an astounding rate. Join best-selling authors Nelson Searcy, Steve Reynolds and Jennifer Dykes Henson, experienced pastors and ministry leaders, to say NO to average and reclaim the vitality of your health and wellness. The next move is yours. Includes success stories from other healthy renegade pastors; practical steps in the areas of diet, exercise, energy management, and whole health; and access to additional free resources. Are you ready to go renegade?

The Healthy Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Health and Wellness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Steve Reynolds

Diets & Weight Loss

ChurchGrowth.org

Use Your Life to Make a Difference If you're like most people, there's something about sharing your faith that makes you clam up. When you think about talking to the unbelievers in your life about God, you worry that you may say the wrong thing or that they may think negatively of you. But those thoughts are whispers and lies from an enemy hoping to keep you trapped in a life of little impact. God has uniquely positioned you to influence those around you for him. He wants to partner with you in changing people's lives both now and for eternity. This practical guide will show you how you can begin using your everyday life to make a difference in the lives of those who don't know Jesus. Are you ready to be a Difference Maker?

The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact

Church Leader Insights with Nelson Searcy

Never waste another minute! Time is your most important God-given resource no matter how hard you work, you can't make a day last longer than twenty-four hours. As a pastor, you may grapple with overlapping activities, growing calendar demands and the challenges of balancing your ministry, family and personal health without shortchanging any of these areas. Add to this the expectation to always be available thanks to today's technology, and you are left feeling overwhelmed, unfocused and frustrated. There is a better way. By mastering a set of proven time-management principles, you can regain control of your life. It is possible to manage your time so that you can stay on top of the never-ending demands of being a pastor, nurture your congregation, spend quality time with your family, and take care of your physical and emotional needs. Become the pastor God has called you to be. The next move is yours. Are you ready to go renegade?

The Renegade Pastor's Guide to Time Management

Richard Jarman

Stop stress from derailing your ministry and family life! Ministry is stressful and many pastors are on the edge of total burnout. From counseling members to weekly sermon prep to meeting budget needs to facing criticism and more you face a constant list of stressful demands. But if left unchecked, stress can impede your life and ministry and derail your health, relationships and emotional well-being. So the question is not, Will there be stress in ministry? The question is: How are you going to respond to it? Pastors Nelson Searcy and Richard Jarman share their secrets to effective stress management with practical steps and insights that you can start implementing immediately! Each chapter is easy-to-read and provides clear strategies for discussion. After reading and applying the strategies in this book, you and your team CAN maintain a healthy ministry and a balanced family life. You will notice significant changes in your life: <ul>
<li>A more fruitful pastoral ministry</li> </ul>
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<li>Improved family time </li> </ul>
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<li>Greater level of health</li> </ul>
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<li>More time for friends and hobbies </li> </ul>
God wants you to be a fruitful, faithful minister of the gospel. He wants you, as a Renegade Pastor, to rise above average as you pursue God's best for you, your family, and your ministry. The next move is yours. Are you ready to go renegade? BONUS RESOURCES: With your book purchase you will also have access to over $999.95 in FREE resources including the complete audio seminar that complements this book!

The Renegade Pastor's Guide to Managing the Stress of Ministry

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Books by Nelson Searcy

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Unshakable Standing Strong When Things Go Wrong

Unshakable Standing Strong When Things Go Wrong

Connect: How to Double Your Number of Volunteers

Ignite: How to Spark Immediate Growth in Your Church

Launch: Starting a New Church from Scratch

Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully Engaged Members of Your Church

The Healthy Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Health and Wellness

The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact

The Renegade Pastor's Guide to Time Management

The Renegade Pastor's Guide to Managing the Stress of Ministry