BOOKS OF THE CHAPLAINCY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
EMOTIONALLY HEALTHY SPIRITUALITY by PETER SCAZZERO
What Are You Missing?
Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can’t be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Even though he was pastor of a growing church, he did what most people do:
• Avoid conflict in the name of Christianity
• Ignore his anger, sadness, and fear
• Use God to run from God
• Live without boundaries
Eventually God awakened him to a biblical integration of emotional health, a relationship with Jesus, and the classic practices of contemplative spirituality. It created nothing short of a spiritual revolution, utterly transforming him and his church.
In this book Scazzero outlines his journey and the signs of emotionally unhealthy spirituality. Then he provides seven biblical, reality-tested ways to break through to the revolutionary life Christ meant for you.
“The combination of emotional health and contemplative spirituality,” he says, “unleashes the Holy Spirit inside us so that we might experientially know the power of an authentic life in Christ.”
REPOSITION YOURSELF by T.D. JAKES
T.D. Jakes offers readers of the New York Times bestseller Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits a collection of scripture and quotes that provides the spiritual underpinnings of his message about applying Christian principles to adjust to the many changes that life brings.
Reposition Yourself, the narrative book, uses wisdom collected from more than thirty years of Jakes’s experience counseling and working with high-profile and everyday people on financial, relational, and spiritual creativity on the path to an enriched life filled with contentment at every stage.
Reposition Yourself Reflections collects the words that ground Reposition Yourself solidly in biblical teachings. Reflections is an essential keepsake, to carry with you in moments when inspiration and encouragement are needed.
THE 3 COLORS OF MINISTRY by CHRISTIAN A. SCHWARZ
Would you like to use your spiritual gifts to their full potential? The 3 Colors of Ministry presents a holistic approach to identifying and developing your spiritual gifts. It is based on the three dimensions of God’s nature, for which the author has chosen the colors of green, red and blue. In addition to emphasizing the critical importance of using your gifts in an authentically trinitarian way, this book shows you where you most need to focus your energies in order to bring this kind of balance to your Christian service. The natural result will be increased effectiveness. A gift test is included with this resource.
AXIOM by BILL HYBELS
The best leaders not only lead well but also reflect on their leadership long enough and thoughtfully enough to articulate the philosophies that cause them to do so. Whether serving in the marketplace or in ministry, as executives or rank-and-file employees, as salaried staff or volunteer servants, good leaders can pinpoint the rationale for their actions and decisions with the ease of reciting their home address. In Axiom: The Language of Leadership, author Bill Hybels divulges the God-given convictions that have dictated his leadership strategy for more than three decades as senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church. Oriented toward four key leadership categories … 1. Vision and strategy (‘Promote Shameless Profitability,’ ‘Take a Flyer’) 2. Teamwork and communication (‘Obi-Wan Kenobi Isn’t for Hire,’ ‘Disagree without Drawing Blood’) 3. Activity and assessment (‘Develop a Mole System,’ ‘Sweat the Small Stuff’) 4. Personal integrity (‘Admit Mistakes, and Your Stock Goes Up,’ ‘Fight for Your Family’) …Axiom brokers accessible wisdom from one leader’s journey, as well as emboldens you to nail down the reasons why you lead like you lead.
LEAD LIKE JESUS by KEN BLANCHARD and PHIL HODGES
Ken Blanchard has found that all successful leadership characteristics are modeled after the leadership style of Jesus. In Lead Like Jesus, Blanchard and Hodges focus on four key areas and how they can direct you toward becoming the incredible leader you aim to be. The four areas include:
• Heart – What is your motivation as a leader, whether as head of a family, church, or a large corporation?
• Head – What are your beliefs and viewpoints about leadership?
• Hands – Do you set clear goals and measure performance, consistently following up with those you lead?
• Habits – How do you refresh and renew yourself as a leader?
Your leadership transformation means adopting a God’s eye view of your life and leadership. You will learn how to align your leadership motivation, viewpoints, behaviors, and habits with those of Jesus to effectively lead others.
LECTURES IN SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY by HENRY C. THIESSEN
Originally published in 1949 and then revised in 1979, this comprehensive introduction to systematic theology has well served countless students and pastors for more than half a century. In this paperback edition it will continue to instruct serious students of the Bible and theology.
Following two introductory chapters delineating the nature, necessity, possibility, and divisions of theology, Henry Clarence Thiessen systematically address a wide range of subjects in eight major sections — Theism, Bibliology, Theology, Anthropology, Soteriology, Ecclesiology, Angelology, and Eschatology. Also included are two specialized indexes for further study — an Index of Subjects and an Index of Scriptural References that includes over 4,000 entries.
TEACHING YOUTH WITH CONFIDENCE by HARLEY ATKINSON
It is imperative that young people know and understand the foundational truths of Scripture. How shall teenagers know right from wrong if they do not understand biblical precepts? How can their lives be transformed if they do not learn to interact with the Word? Unfortunately, it appears that contemporary churched youth are ambivalent and confused about truth as they grow up in a climate where the possibility of knowing absolute truth is denied. It is the responsibility of the teacher to help his or her students respond to these urgent life-related issues in a biblical way.
MORAL DILEMMAS by J. KERBY ANDERSON
J. Kerby Anderson presents a penetrating volume of solid, practical answers to some of the most perplexing issues facing our society today-issues such as abortion, euthanasia, cloning, capital punishment, genetic engineering, and the environment.
HANDBOOK ON COUNSELING YOUTH by JOSH MCDOWELL
Thoroughly researched, this easy-to-use handbook is designed to help parents, teachers, pastors and youth workers guide today’s young people through the minefields of adolescence. From simple challenges to major crises, this book will equip adults to help youth cope with situations involving emotional issues, abuse, addictions, family issues, disorders, sexual issues and much more.
BRAINWASHED … CHALLENGING THE MYTH OF BLACK INFERIORITY by TOM BURRELL
“Black people are not dark-skinned white people,” says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly making a way out of “No way!” At this pivotal point in history, the idea of black inferiority should have had a “Going-Out-of-Business Sale.” After all, Barack Obama has reached America’s Promised Land.
Yet, as Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority testifies, too many in black America are still wandering in the wilderness. In this powerful examination of “the greatest propaganda campaign of all time”—the masterful marketing of black inferiority, aka the BI Complex—Burrell poses ten disturbing questions that will make black people look in the mirror and ask why, nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, so many blacks still think and act like slaves. Burrell’s acute awareness of the power of words and images to shift, shape, and change the collective consciousness has led him to connect the contemporary and historical dots that have brought us to this crossroads.
Brainwashed is not a reprimand—it is a call to action. It demands that we question our self-defeating attitudes and behaviors. Racism is not the issue; how we respond to media distortions and programmed self-hatred is the issue. It’s time to reverse the BI campaign with a globally based initiative that harnesses the power of new media and the wisdom of intergenerational coalitions. Provocative and powerful, Brainwashed dares to expose the wounds so that we, at last, can heal.
THE PORTABLE SEMINARY by DAVID HORTON
The Breadth of a Master’s Degree in Biblical Studies–Complete in One Volume
Take your theological education to the next level without the time, expense, and formality of seminary. Discover all the major topics in a typical seminary master’s program authoritatively taught by respected professors, authors, and leaders. This introduction to a biblical studies degree is ideal for the layperson or anyone in vocational ministry who lacks the time or finances to attend classes, who lives where formal training is unavailable, or whose previous education is primarily secular. Study what you want, when you want. Also useful as a handy one-volume reference.
In The Portable Seminary you’ll study
surveys of the Old and New Testaments
systematic theology
biblical languages
church history
missions
ethics
Christian education…and more
STRENGTH FOR THE JOURNEY by DR. JAMES P POROWSKI and DR. PAUL B. CARLISLE
Depression continues to be the number one health problem in America.
Strength for the Journey helps pastors, counselors, and individuals gain insight into the symptoms and possible treatments for depression. This practical, trustworthy study explores five causes of depression: loss, anger, stress, medical problems, and personal sin. Includes leader helps for facilitating small-group discussion.
FATHERHOOD RISING TO THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE by ETAN THOMAS and NICK CHILES
In Fatherhood, beloved NBA player, poet, children’s advocate, and devoted dad Etan Thomas speaks from his heart on what matters most in his life: being there for his children. As a leading participant in President Obama’s Fatherhood Initiative, Etan has reached out to young men (often young fathers) in the juvenile detention system and in local communities. He knows firsthand the difference having a father in your life every day can make.
Now he brings together a chorus of voices to weigh in on the importance of being a father in our nation today and to share what they’ve learned from being a father, having a father, or in some cases not having a father around.
THE NEW JIM CROW, MASS INCARATION IN AGE OF COLORBLINDNESS by MICHELLE ALEXANDER
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as “brave and bold,” this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control—relegating millions to a permanent second-class status—even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a “call to action.”
Called “stunning” by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Levering Lewis, “invaluable” by the Daily Kos, “explosive” by Kirkus, and “profoundly necessary” by the Miami Herald, this updated and revised paperback edition of The New Jim Crow, now with a foreword by Cornel West, is a must-read for all people of conscience.
SERMON PREPARATION by BILL HYBEL, TIM KELLER, and JEFFREY ARTHURS
Imagine writing a sermon that must be original, insightful, useful, challenging, comforting . . . once a week. That’s exactly what most preachers are called upon to do while seeing to all of the other responsibilities that comprise their vocation.
Book four in “The Preacher’s Toolbox” series tackles the art and craft of sitting down to face a blank computer screen and coming up with a message that feeds and even entertains the listener. Expert preachers, speakers and teachers share the results of years of doing just that.
Articles include
– “Writing a Good Message in a Bad Week,” Scott Wenig
– “Five Hammer Strokes for Creating Expository Sermon Outlines,” Jeffrey Arthurs
– “How Prayer Transforms Prep,” Michael Lawrence
– “Simply Profound,” Duane Litfin
– “If You Dislike Sermon Prep,” Bill Hybels – “Getting Out of Preaching Ruts,” Matt Woodley
– “Planning Sermon Series,” David Daniels
– “Preparing Your Soul to Preach,” Pete Scazzerro
– “The Preacher’s Study,” Kent Hughes
– “Facebook Sermon Prep,” Bill White
ON BEING A SERVANT OF GOD by WARREN W. WIERSBE
Sometimes people lose sight of the core of their ministry. They feel overwhelmed by the needs that surround them on a daily basis. Wise and beloved pastor Warren Wiersbe invites ministry leaders to listen in on thirty short “armchair chats” to encourage and strengthen them for service. He shares what he wishes he had known about ministering to others when he began his own Christian pilgrimage. “Ministry,” he says, “takes place when divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of God. ” With this new edition of a classic book, which includes a foreword by Jim Cymbala, the next generation of ministry leaders can take advantage of Wiersbe’s years of wisdom.
THE POWER OF CALL by HENRY T. BLACKABY and HENRY BRANDT
Whether you find yourself on the verge of burnout or simply need someone to fan the flames of your faith, take time to experience afresh The Power of the Call. This practical and uplifting guide takes a biblically sound and realistic look at how God provides fully for every need a pastor, or anyone called into the ministry, will face. And it reminds us that success in a church is not what we think it is; it’s what God thinks it is.
PREACHING THE CROSS by MARK DEVER, J. LIGON DUNCAN III, and R. ALBERT MOHLER
Proclaiming the gospel is without a doubt the most important task of pastoral ministry, yet often other, seemingly more urgent activities obscure it. From time to time all pastors and preachers need to be reminded of the primacy of the gospel.
Preaching the Cross does just this. It 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.
Authors Mark Dever, J. Ligon Ducan III, R. Albert Mohler Jr., and C. J. Mahaney are joined by colleagues John MacArthur, John Piper, and R. C. Sproul in calling pastors to pursue gospel-saturated, preaching-centered ministries.
DEVELOPING THE LEADER WITHIN YOU by JOHN C. MAXWELL
Developing the Leader Within You is Dr. Maxwell’s first and most enduring leadership book, having sold more than one million copies. In this Christian Leaders Series edition of this Maxwell classic, you will discover the biblical foundation for leadership that John Maxwell has used as a pastor and business leader for more than forty years. These same principles and practices are available for everyday leaders in every walk of life. It is a lofty calling to lead a group—a family, a church, a nonprofit t, a business—and the timeless principles in this book will bring positive change in your life and in the lives of those around you.
You will learn:
The True Definition of Leader. “Leadership is influence. That’s it. Nothing more; nothing less.”
The Traits of Leadership. “Leadership is not an exclusive club for those who were ‘born with it.’ The traits that are the raw materials of leadership can be acquired. Link them up with desire, and nothing can keep you from becoming a leader.”
The Difference Between Management and Leadership. “Making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of a manager. Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.”
God has called every believer to influence others, to be salt and light. Developing the Leader Within You will equip you to improve your leadership and inspire others.