Titus, Paul's companion, is a stage 2 apostolic leader. This commentary explores his apostolic ministry. 49 leadership articles including a taxonomy of Apostolic ministries: Paul-Stage 1, Timothy-Stage 2, and Titus-Stage 3. Apostolic gift-mixes are explored for all three stages of apostolic ministry. Contextualization of Christian teaching into the situation in Crete is explored. The book of Titus teaches this basic overall theme: Setting the Church in Order involves the appointing of qualified leaders who are sound in teaching and who model a Christian lifestyle, and necessitates leaders who exhort others to practical Christian living.

Jonah is part of a Biblical leadership commentary series. It examines the book of Jonah from a leadership perspective. How can the book of Jonah inform leaders today with helpful information for their leadership? That is the question this book answers.

The full title of this book is Strategic Concepts-That Clarify A Focused Life, A Self-Study Manual Defining and Applying Focused Life Concepts to Leaders Today. This manual was originally written in 1995 by Dr. J. Robert Clinton and used in classes at Fuller Seminary. After ten years of use the book has been revised to show the latest findings gathered from these ten years of studies of leaders' lives. The manual gives results of research on focused lives: life purpose, effective methodologies, major role and ultimate contribution. It defines a Personal Life Mandate-a two to three page document with narrative paragraphs giving the findings of a focused life. The end result is a major tool for decision making and help in movement toward a focused life. The concepts will be used by leaders for their own lives and for others as they mentor them toward completion of an Ephesians 2:10 life.

This 308 page leadership commentary on Nehemiah is part of a series, the Clinton's Leadership Commentary Series. To date, 14 of these commentaries have been done in either eBook or regular book format. These include: 1,2 Timothy; 1,2 Corinthians, Daniel, Philippians, Philemon, John, Titus, Habakkuk, Jonah, Haggai, Obadiah and Nehemiah. Each of the books in the series is a leadership commentary, not an exegetical commentary. That means the text was studied to see what implications for leadership it suggests. For each commentary in the series there is an overview section giving the historical background of the book, its theme, structure, purposes, and leadership topics/lessons. Then there is a commentary section in which the text is commented on with regard to leadership concepts, insights and topics. Many of these concepts or insights introduced in the commentary section are further explained in a section containing leadership articles. The section containing the leadership articles is by far the largest section of each commentary (220 pages in Nehemiah). These leadership articles are practical and usable by leaders in church and mission organizations. Nehemiah occurs in the 4th leadership era-The Post Kingdom Era. Nehemiah is one of the most focused leaders in the Old Testament. And he is an inspirational leader as well. The theme of Nehemiah captures something of his focused leadership: NEHEMIAH'S ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP was the result of God's initiation, made itself felt in the face of obstacles to rebuild the wall, was inspirational in bringing about reform and a covenant in Jerusalem, and included drastic steps of separation in order to insure an on-going meaningful religiousatmosphere.

This self-study manual gives a comprehensive overview of the three major factors (processing, time, and leader response patterns) that interweave together as God shapes a leader spiritually, ministerially, and strategically over a lifetime to bring about His purposes and resulting ultimate contribution. (456 p.)