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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian life & practice
Internationally bestselling author and German monk Anselm Grün presents ancient wisdom for leadership today.
Whether you lead a business, a family, a non-profit, or a church group, this book will help you discover the joy of leadership and create a sanctuary where a group of people mobilize their spiritual resources, ask relevant questions, love, trust, and respect one another.
Leadership is not about power, status, and titles. According to the Rule of St. Benedict, true leadership is about awakening creativity in others and building an environment of trust and respect. It’s less about maximizing profits and more about finding meaning.
Radical in its time, this 6th century rule offers an approach to leadership that is clear and refreshing in its simplicity. Benedict is primarily concerned with the characteristics of a leader, and how such a person needs to work on himself in order to be able to lead at all. To Benedict, leading through personality is more important than any methods and strategies.
In this insightful book, Benedictine monk and internationally bestselling author Anselm Grün offers practical wisdom on all aspects of leadership, including:
The Qualities of a Leader
Benedict’s View of Human Nature
Leadership as Service
Awakening Creativity
Management of Material Possessions
Respecting Boundaries
Thinking from the heart
Avoiding workaholism
Benedict’s rule does not moralize or preach. It shows how economic function and economic security for a large number of people can be combined with respecting creation and the human beings around us. Leadership is an art, full of challenges but also deeply satisfying.
It Is Time to Tackle the Things Trying to Overrun Your Life
Do you feel stuck in a mess? Are you wondering how you got to this
place and trying to make sense of it all? Don't give up!
In this companion guide to his book Overcoming When You Feel
Overwhelmed, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Jentezen
Franklin offers five life-giving steps to help you get up, get out and
get free--and walk into the destiny God has prepared for you.
Perfect for going deeper on your own or with a small group, Bible study
or church class, this study guide offers
· group discussion questions
· personal reflection prompts and action points
· section for notes while watching the companion videos
· and more!
If you find that every battle you're fighting has gotten more
difficult, or if you're paralyzed and don't know which way to go,
remember God doesn't call you just a survivor. He calls you an
overcomer.
"It is a rare thing for me to stand with a book, explicitly about
race and equity, that is written by a white person. Why? Because it
is a rare thing to encounter a white person who has followed the
lead of people of color into their own transformation so deeply
that I trust the message coming from their white body. Idelette
McVicker has done the work."--Lisa Sharon Harper (from the
foreword) As a white Afrikaner woman growing up in South Africa
during apartheid, Idelette McVicker was steeped in a community and
a church that reinforced racism and shielded her from seeing her
neighbors' oppression. But a series of circumstances led her to
begin questioning everything she thought was true about her
identity, her country, and her faith. Recovering Racists shares
McVicker's journey over thirty years and across three continents to
shatter the lies of white supremacy embedded deep within her soul.
She helps us realize that grappling with the legacy of white
supremacy and recovering from racism is lifelong work that requires
both inner transformation and societal change. It is for those of
us who have hit rock bottom in the human story of race, says
McVicker. We must acknowledge our internalized racism, repent of
our complicity, and learn new ways of being human. This book
invites us on the long, slow journey of healing the past, making
things right, changing old stories, and becoming human together. As
we work for the liberation of everyone, we also find liberation for
ourselves. Each chapter ends with discussion questions.
What happens after you realize and accept that Jesus has indeed chosen
you? Once we belong to Him, we’re not only given a new identity; we’re
ushered into a new reality – one that is sure, powerful and
life-changing.
Blessed Are the Chosen is an 8-lesson interactive Bible study for
individuals or small groups based on season 2 of the groundbreaking
television show, The Chosen. This study brings both the Old and New
Testaments to life in an approachable and conversational way. It works
in tandem with each episode of the show and includes:
• A deeper look at God’s character, power and promises using the
framework of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.
• Script excerpts, quotes and illustrations from each episode.
• Scripture to provide lesson context.
• Pictures and bios of characters for increased connection.
• Conversational features to invite Bible knowledge.
• Guiding questions for group or individual discussion or reflection.
From beloved spiritual writer and Catholic leader Gregory Floyd
comes a moving meditation on the power of memory and how God is
often more clearly seen when we look back. This is a book about
memory, about what stays in the mind, and why. It is a book about
the presence of God in our lives and the sights, sounds, words, and
experiences that become unforgettable. Beginning with a single word
he heard in the middle of the night-one that changed his life-this
powerful memoir by Gregory Floyd asks the question: without memory,
who are we? It is a meditation on beauty, marriage, family, and
prayer, asking of the memories that each implants: what do they
reveal? Where do they lead? -and witnessing to their potential to
draw us to God.
A coming-of-age travel memoir that probes thorny spiritual
questions while taking the reader on a wild ride from the deep
American South to the Middle East, Europe, and the Far East. Once
the golden girl of her Arkansas town, Natalie finds herself
squeezed under small town shame and rejection after being kicked
out of church for getting a divorce. It's a hard fall off of a
sanctimonious high horse, and religious fundamentalism has left her
feeling broken and stuck. But she can't shake the 'wanderlust woes'
that have plagued her since childhood, so she runs away to the
Middle East. As a mostly-sheltered Southerner, she struggles to
adapt but is determined to be 'at home' in the world. Her journey
is more than a pilgrimage, it's a peregrination: a one-way ticket
to elsewhere in search of the place of her own resurrection. Within
these pages is a suspenseful adventure filled with love, loss,
laughter, tears, and a little bit of scandalous behavior, but at
the heart of it, Natalie walks squarely into the unknown to
confront the secret matters of the soul that we wrestle with at
night.
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