How often do poets, advertisers, and movie makers influence Sunday sermons? Perhaps these image experts have much to offer pastors. Author Peter Jonker looks to these professionals as he examines the importance of having a controlling, vivid, dominant image that repeats throughout sermons. In Preaching in Pictures, Jonker details how a controlling image helps to unify the sermon and to communicate the sermon's central thought. The best sermons center around a compelling image that embodies either the trouble present in the Biblical text, or the trouble destroying grace of God that the text proclaims. Jonker offers exercises designed to help pastors find strong, controlling images for their sermons. Preaching in Pictures is the third book in the Artistry of Preaching Series.

Your Volunteers is written for pastors and church leaders who are in the trenches of ministry. A practical field guide packed with real-world understanding - Your Volunteers will help you create an environment that fosters volunteerism, and implement the essential operational elements necessary for a thriving volunteer ministry. Read this book and you, along with your ministry team, will find out how easy it can be to grow an energetic volunteer ministry that impacts your church, your community and beyond.

Kairos Prison Ministry is rooted in Cursillo, and similar to the Via de Cristo, Tres Dias, and Walk To Emmaus programs. It is a three and a half day program on teaching and demonstrating God's unconditional agape love to inmates, resulting in life changing results in inmates. This program operates in 13 prisons in North Carolina, in 32 States in the US, and in 9 countries. Its international headquarters is DeBary, Florida. This manual presents important psychological tools for weekend leaders to use in assembling and keeping volunteers active in the program. The author is a veteran of over 25 Kairos weekends conducted in four prisons and two states, and is a member of the Kairos Executive Council for North Carolina. The tools and advice in this short book, approximately a one hour read, are also useful for leaders of similar programs mentioned above and for any leaders in volunteer based ministry programs.

Grenwich Community Church is a typical local church - a typical "anxious" local church. There's only one small problem. They wouldn't describe themselves as an "anxious" local church. Barry Moffat, a dynamic visionary leader has just arrived on the scene as their new Lead Pastor. There are signs of life, growth, and momentum. But fear lurks beneath the surface, threatening to disrupt the momentum and sense of excitement. Whether you realize it or not, Grenwich Community Church's story is your church's story. Weaving organizational systems principles and theological reflection into Grenwich's story, Ken Thiessen illustrates how anxiety and fear dominate many of the decisions made in every local church. Your local church. He identifies some of the key manifestations of anxiety and fear and outlines healthier ways of acknowledging and managing anxiety so as to help the church better love God and other people. This book has the potential to change your life and the life of your church, but hold on for the ride