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Copyright 2008 Kindred Productions

Rather than the pastor working solo, a renewal team is trained that gets the entire congregation involved. The team works with the church to look at tis strengths and discover new life. Rather than using a diagnostic model of church renewal, find out what is wrong and fix it, the process uses an affirmative model, find out what is right and builds on it.

Copyright 2008 Herald Press

Beyond Me is written accessibly and practically for all who are working and training to work in youth ministry, whether as youth ministers or as lay leaders. Rich in personal stories and practical examples, Loewen helps youth workers know what postmodern youth ministry looks like, but without simply giving another model to copy without thinking it through.

Copyright 2008 Herald Press

Copyright 2008 Herald Press

This book helps congregations learn how to make decisions in healthy ways-focused on God's purposes, and growing in love and truth. Sally Weaver Glick approaches congregational discernment as a process of hearing and entering God's "song." Discernment is what we do to distinguish between God's music and our own static and noise. Good discernment says Weaver Glick, lets God's song "sing through us and shape us, so that we can join in harmoniously, responding to God's love and mercy."

In Tune with God works best in a congregational study setting. It includes stories of real congregations dealing with real issues; a wealth of practical tips for conducting healthy discernment; a leader's guide; an outline for a one- day retreat; and a creative series of "dialogues for two Fools for Christ" that introduce the themes of each chapter.

Copyright 2004 Faith and Life Resources

Everyone feels awkward and hesitant when talking to a recently bereaved person. We don't want to say the wrong thing, or cause the person to become emotional. A Healing Grief is an antidote to this problem. At the end of each chapter is a list of practical advice and tangible suggestions for action that friends and family can take to comfort and show love to the bereaved.

A Healing Grief is the personal memoir and experience of one journey through grief, but can serve as a point of resonance with which to enter your own situation-whether grieving yourself, or supporting someone who is.

Copyright 2002.

Copyright 2004 Faith and Life Resources.

The young adults in this book invite pastors, parents, and friends into a potentially transformative dialogue about the stories and practices we use to make sense of our world and to form a way of life. The work young adults do is challenging work, often lonely work; but when done in the company of loved and respected others, it is the heart and soul of what makes life good. As we enter into genuine conversation with t he questions and visions of young adults, our faith communities will be transformed.

Copyright 2005 Herald Press

When these forces are ignored, the outlook is grim. But when pastors are energized by a biblical understanding of the church's redemptive participation in Jesus' victory over the cosmic powers, congregations spring to new life.