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Dare Mighty Things: Mapping the Challenges of Leadership for Christian Women

Packed with helpful advice and strategies for success, poise, it will challenge you to claim your God-given potential and lead with confidence, and grace. In dare mighty things, tackling the top challenges for Christian women, Halee unpacks the results of her research, including: * What prevents us from seeing ourselves as leaders.

How to discern what we are really, truly meant to do. How to navigate between our roles as women and leaders. How the myth that only 'exceptional' Christian women can lead hurts all Christian women. Dare mighty things is a guidebook for women navigating the difficult waters of leadership. Are you living up to all your potential? For the last seven years, Halee has been studying the lives of female Christian leaders to determine what keeps them from fully flourishing as people of influence.

. It's not that christian women cannot or do not want to lead; it's that their way is fraught with roadblocks.

Santa Biblia: The Bible Through Hispanic Eyes

Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! Condition: New. Tracking provided on most orders. Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Gonzalez explores how a hispanic perspective illuminates the biblical text in ways that will be valuable not only for Latino readers but also for the church at large.

. Introducing five "paradigms" for Latino biblical interpretation, Gonzalez discusses theory and provides concrete examples of biblical texts that gain new meaning when read from a different perspective. Isbn13: 9780687014521.

Thriving through Ministry Conflict: A Parable on How Resistance Can Be Your Ally

Condition: New. Here are the knowledge and tools that can help pastors and church leaders trade self-defeating responses to conflict for an empowering, constructive approach; gain a working command of key conflict survival principles; and cultivate the skills needed to effectively navigate the conflicts every ministry leader faces.

Far from fearing conflict, leaders can turn it into a catalyst for positive change and a stronger, more united church. By working through a series of response activities and discussion questions, the reader will gain powerful insights into the emotional dynamics of conflict. Isbn13: 9780687014521. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold!

Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Church conflict doesn't have to be an enemy that tears a congregation apart. Through the fictional story of a typical pastor embroiled in conflict, Thriving through Ministry Conflict shows how to handle and resolve conflict in a healthy way. By learning how to handle it wisely, pastors and church leaders can make resistance one of their most valuable allies.

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The End of Leadership

Asking whether leadership can truly be taught, Kellerman forces us to think critically and expansively about how to thrive as leaders in a global information age. Isbn13: 9780687014521. HarperBusiness. Tracking provided on most orders. Condition: New. Building off of the strengths and insights of her work as a scholar and a teacher, Kellerman critically reexamines our most strongly-held assumptions about the role of leadership in driving success.

. Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! From one of the pioneers in the field of leadership studies comes a provocative reassessment of how people lead in the digital age: in The End of Leadership, Barbara Kellerman reveals a new way of thinking about leadership—and followership—in the twenty-first century.

Revealing which of our beliefs have become dangerously out-of-date thanks to advances in social media culture, she also calls into question the value of the so-called “leadership industry” itself.

Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible

Based on the understanding that no man is born a leader, and perils, the book explores the principles, of becoming one. Isbn13: 9780687014521. Tracking provided on most orders. Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. In this companion volume to his celebrated series Covenant & Conversation, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks mines the weekly Torah portions for insights into the nature of power, authority, and leadership.

Profound, eloquent, lessons in Leadership reveals the biblical secrets of influence, and deeply inspiring, as relevant now as they were three thousand years ago. Maggid. HarperBusiness. Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! .

Reading the Bible After Christendom

Without disparaging these sources, the author suggests that the church in a postmodern, post-Christian society needs to look at Scripture with a different focus. Lloyd pietersen argues that for too long the Old Testament has been the primary source for Christian ethics and the letters of Paul for Christian discipleship.

This book seeks to examine what reading the Bible might look like in the current period when the church is no longer central and the Christian story is not well known. HarperBusiness. Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Maggid. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! Pietersen argues that, after Christendom, Jesus should be central to any Christian biblical interpretation.

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Called to Lead: Paul's Letters to Timothy for a New Day

The book covers many vexing issues faced by church leaders then and now -- such issues as the use of money, pastoral authority, leadership succession, and the role of Scripture. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! Through it all, called to lead shows how timothy remains a text of great value for the church today Isbn13: 9780687014521.

Tracking provided on most orders. HarperBusiness. Following up on their previous volume, called to Be Church: The Book of Acts for a New Day, biblical scholar Robert Wall and pastoral leader Anthony Robinson here join forces again. Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Condition: New. Maggid.

Featuring both exegetical study and dynamic contemporary exposition, each chapter of Called to Lead first interprets the text of 1 and 2 Timothy as Scripture and then engages 1 and 2 Timothy for today's church leaders.

Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

One company—the jesuits—pioneered a unique formula for molding leaders and in the process built one of history’s most successful companies. In this groundbreaking book, chris lowney reveals the leadership principles that have guided the Jesuits for more than 450 years: self-awareness, love, ingenuity, and heroism.

Leadership principles for lasting Success Leadership makes great companies, but few of us truly understand how to turn ourselves and others into great leaders. Tracking provided on most orders. HarperBusiness. Condition: New. Lowney shows how these same principles can make each of us a dynamic leader in the twenty-first century.

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Churches, Cultures and Leadership: A Practical Theology of Congregations and Ethnicities

The multicultural team of juan martinez and Mark Branson has written this book to equip such leaders to create environments that make God's reconciling initiatives apparent in church life and in our missional engagement with neighborhoods and cities. Case studies, bible studies and exercises for personal reflection and classroom use connect the real life and everyday challenges that inevitably arise in multi-ethnic contexts.

Martinez and branson offer not static model but a praxis of "paying attention, interpersonal, " reflection and study that can lead to a genuine reconciliation and shared life empowered by the gospel that is personal, cultural and structural. Maggid. As the church continues to hear and heed Christ's call to reflect the multiethnic character of his people, pastors and lay leaders need to gain skills and competencies to serve in those contexts.

The result is a rich blend of astute analysis with guidance for practical implementation of a deeper intercultural life for the church. Generated by courses they teach at fuller Theological Seminary, Branson and Martinez take an interdisciplinary approach that integrates biblical and theological study with the disciplines of sociology, cultural anthropology and communications.

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The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World

Tracking provided on most orders. HarperBusiness. Maggid. Isbn13: 9780687014521. In the missional leader, consultants alan roxburgh and fred Romanuk give church and denominational leaders, pastors, and clergy a clear model for leading the change necessary to create and foster a missional church focused outward to spread the message of the Gospel into the surrounding community.

Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. The missional leader emphasizes principles rather than institutional forms, ” and demonstrates what capacities, shows readers how to move away from “church as usual, environments, and mindsets are required to lead a missional church.

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