So You Want To Appoint Elders is a handbook for selecting and appointing elders of the church. It includes evaluation forms that encourage members to concentrate on elder qualifications instead of personal likes and dislikes. A typical appointment ceremony is also included. Don't let your efforts to appoint qualified elders become a popularity contest. Follow a tried and tested plan for selecting and appointing elders.

Understanding the heart of a Pastor. Their struggles. Their hurts. Their triumphs

A better life, a better ministry, a better church starts with self-examination. The examination may be to determine the origin of the symptoms that are indicating to you that there's more that can be done in your life. That examination may be in looking at the missteps or what we in education call, doing a miscue analysis, to see whether the processes that we have in place in the name of serving people the Gospel of Jesus Christ are really producing the outcomes that the scriptures promise. We may need to examine and revisit our definition of the church, because in order to do it better we must be resolved to the belief that we have been doing either all wrong or not as right as we could. Regardless, as with any problem, circumstance or situation that is producing some level of growing pains the best place to start is at the root, below the surface or under the hood. These pastoral power points are an attempt to offer Pastors, Worship Leaders and Ministry Leaders nuggets of truth, to agitate their current comfort levels and to cause a catalyst effect that makes them more self-aware leaders, and better able to maintain healthy and healthful souls. The contemporary church like the civil and human rights activist community is struggling with the debate over what is needed to make the church relevant. It is a relevancy that is faltering in a society and a culture that finds much of what the church teaches and stands on in a traditional sense to be culturally aberrant in the extreme, and culturally close-minded in the subtle.

What is a king? If you have ever pondered the idea of kingdom, then you no doubt have asked that question a time or two. In this book, we explore the concepts and idea of what a king is, how they operate, and what is the significance of what we are to do in the earth, as kings. There is so much power and authority that God wants activated in the earth, and it begins with us grasping this concept. When we dive into the mind of God's idea for mankind, and what we are to do here in earth, we will suddenly discover the principles of His authority, and how to implement the government that He has entrusted us with. We are here to expand His glory here on earth, so let's get busy

The challenge of leadership has been with man since the days of Adam and Eve. Much has been written on and said about the subject of leadership yet many institutions continue to suffer under a leadership that is ineffective and more often than not self-seeking. Rediscovering Leadership will challenge and encourage the business and church leader alike to follow God's Biblical design for successful leadership, which is servanthood. Jesus Christ modeled the design and his legacy and influence continues on more than two thousand years and its still growing. The author has shared invaluable principles gained from his own leadership experience as well as his interaction with great scholars and writers on the subject. The principles will be of great help both to the experienced and the novice in leadership. The book will also help the reader appreciate that Leadership is not an event but a process and that servanthood is the only model that will guarantee success in leadership that will leave a legacy.