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Every person has been designed by God for one-of-a-kind Masterpiece
Mission, what most people refer to as personal calling or personal
purpose. Everyone needs to be able to name what God has put them on
the earth to do. Most people never do. That is a tragedy of epic
proportions. We need a simple way to discover that calling, and
Find Your Place is that way. GPS technology is widely known as a
way to know where you are on the earth, as well as a way to guide
you to get where you want to go. The Find Your Place book will help
followers of Jesus locate three signals that will help people
discern their personal calling: their Gifts, their Passions, and
their Story, and help them take meaningful next steps to engage
that calling. Furthermore, the American Church has a Co-Dependency
Disorder. Church members have become dependent upon church leaders,
and church leaders need their members to remain that way. This
co-dependence is doing more than throttling the vitality of the
church...it is strangling it. In order for the people of God to
truly thrive and be salt and light in the world, church leaders
must move from simply "gathering and teaching" their members to
"empowering and releasing them." This book, the accompanying online
assessment, and the disciple-making tools that both will be
integrated into, will all be a part of a turn-key solution for
church leaders to accomplish that goal.
The roles of pastor and theologian have gone their separate ways.
Throughout much of the church's history, these two roles have been
deeply intertwined, but in our contemporary setting, a troubling
bifurcation between them has developed. The result has been a
theologically weakened church and an ecclesially weakened theology.
The Center for Pastor Theologians (CPT) seeks to overcome this
divide by assisting pastors in the study and production of biblical
and theological scholarship for the theological renewal of the
church and the ecclesial renewal of theology. Based on the first
CPT conference in 2015, this volume brings together the reflections
of church leaders and academic theologians to consider how pastoral
ministry and theological scholarship might be reconnected once
again. The contributors consider several facets of the complex
identity of the pastor theologian, including the biblical, public,
and political dimensions of this calling. In addition, the essays
explore the insights that can be gained from historical examples of
pastor theologians-including John Calvin, John Henry Newman and
Dietrich Bonhoeffer-as well as the essential role of Scripture
within the ministry of the pastor theologian.
Humans are sexual creatures. Our sexuality can be a beautiful and
mysterious expression of what it means to be human. But it can also
become distorted and sinful. Perhaps no issue is as urgent for the
church today, or confronts it with as many questions, as human
sexuality: What does it mean to fulfill God's will through our
sexuality? To what extent should our sexuality define who we are?
How can we navigate cultural trends around sexuality while being
faithful to Scripture? The Center for Pastor Theologians (CPT)
seeks to assist pastors in the study and production of biblical and
theological scholarship for the theological renewal of the church
and the ecclesial renewal of theology. Based on the 2016 annual CPT
conference, this volume brings together the reflections of church
leaders and academic theologians who seek to answer the urgent
questions concerning human sexuality. Contributors engage with
Scripture, draw on examples from church history, and delve into
current issues in contemporary culture, including embodiment,
marriage, homosexuality, pornography, transgenderism, and gender
dysphoria. Beauty, Order, and Mystery tackles difficult questions
with discernment in order to offer a theological vision of faithful
human sexuality for the church. Based on annual CPT conferences,
the volumes in the Center for Pastor Theologians series bring
together the reflections of pastors and theologians who desire to
make ongoing contributions to the wider scholarly community for the
renewal of both theology and the church.
Great ministers don't just happen. Great falls from ministry don't
just happen either. A complex mix of factors both internal and
external test the limits of your ability to minister wholeheartedly
over the long haul. Senior pastor Brad Hoffmann and licensed
professional counselor Michael Todd Wilson work with pastors
removed from their place of service. The common experiences of
these pastors revealed patterns that consistently contributed to
burnout, ineffectiveness and moral failure. If such patterns can be
predicted, the authors reasoned, can they be prevented? Preventing
Ministry Failure is a personal guidebook for pastors and other
caregivers to prepare them to withstand common pressures and to
flourish in the ministry God has called them to. Work through the
exercises and reflections individually or in conversation with your
peers, and you'll find yourself better equipped for the challenges
of vocational ministry, and more conscious of the presence of God
leading you on and restoring your soul.
Throughout the history of English literature, church ministers have
figured prominently in novels, plays, morality tales, and even
poetry. "Pastors in the Classics" is a unique, unprecedented
collection of relevant literary masterpieces in which the pastor's
experience is a major part of the story.
Part 1 is a reader's guide to twelve important classics written
over four centuries and covering seven different nationalities.
Each chapter not only describes and interprets the work in
question, it also highlights a specific feature of pastoral
ministry explored in the work. Part 2 is a handbook that defines
the canon of literary masterpieces that deal with the pastor's
experience, offering reading suggestions for both ministers and
lovers of literature.
From the familiar ("The Canterbury Tales"; "Cry, the Beloved
Country"; and "The Scarlet Letter") to the lesser-known ("Silence,"
"Witch Wood") to the surprising ("A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man"), this collection uncovers the good, the bad, and the
ugly ways in which pastors have been presented to the reading
public for the past half millennium.
More meets Christians where they're at, acknowledging the roots of
their discontent and demonstrating how to move from inspiration and
desire into action. Church strategist and ministry activator Todd
Wilson shows how all believers can live more abundant lives around
the uniqueness of how they were made and what they are called to
do. Introducing a memorable vocabulary and an easy-to-use practical
framework, More equips readers to embark on a journey of
discovering their unique personal calling. It enables readers to
answer three of the most important and profound questions we all
naturally ask. (1) Who am I created to be? (2) What am I created to
do? (3) Where am I to be best positioned to do it? The integrated
answers to these key questions-the BE-DO-GO of a person's
life-represent the core dimensions of personal calling. Inspiring
and challenging, More gives readers permission and encouragement to
engage in the journey God has solely for them.
What do you do when you've made a mess of things? Where do you
go when you've blown it badly? How does the death and resurrection
of Jesus Christ empower us to combat things like hypocrisy, pride,
people-pleasing, and apostasy? Paul's letter to the Galatians tells
us what we need to know in these situations as he teaches us how to
rely upon costly grace.
In this fresh and engaging commentary, pastor Todd Wilson
invites us to look beneath the surface of controversy in Galatia to
the even more fundamental issue at stake: gospel-rooted living.
Combining scholarly depth with practical wisdom, he offers us a
soulful commentary based on years of ministry experience and
biblical reflection. Read Galatians anew with this exegetically
engaged, theologically informed, and pastorally minded resource
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Daniel - A 12-Week Study (Paperback)
Todd Wilson; Edited by (general) J.I. Packer; Series edited by Dane C. Ortlund, Lane T. Dennis
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This 12-week study leads readers through the book of Daniel,
highlighting God's reign over all the earth as the sovereign Lord
of history.
If I had known the Enneagram earlier in my ministry, I would have
been a much better pastor. When this thought came to Todd Wilson,
he had already served as a pastor in several churches for the
better part of fifteen years and was successfully leading a large,
historic, and diverse congregation. He'd started out in ministry
with a strong education in everything from biblical exegesis and
homiletics to organizational development and Christian education.
However, at its root, pastoral ministry is about shepherding,
serving, leading, and loving people, and Todd realized that what he
lacked was wisdom about how people work. He says, "When it came to
empathetically shepherding people and sensitively engaging their
manifold personalities and diverse ways of seeing the world, I was
an amateur." Whether you are on a church staff or leading a small
group, you will find that the insights from the Enneagram that have
helped many grow in self-awareness can be applied to life in our
faith communities. The Enneagram can help us to become better
teachers. It can influence how we develop worship and Christian
education. And it can guide us in building and leading teams. It's
time to take the Enneagram to church-and to allow it to shape our
life together.
Throughout his ministry, Jesus consistently demonstrated his
concern and love for the whole person: soul, mind, and body. That
task is carried forward today by pastors and church leaders, who
are called to care for people in the midst of individual
circumstances as well as seismic cultural shifts. How might that
calling be informed by recent developments in psychology? How
should the church attend to matters of mental health? How might
psychology and counseling aid us in our spiritual formation? Based
on the 2018 Center for Pastor Theologians conference, this volume
brings together reflections by pastors, theologians, and
psychologists who explore the relationships among three fields of
study-theological anthropology, spiritual formation, and modern
psychology. The result is a vibrant whole-person theology that can
aid the church today in its centuries-old call to care for the
soul, mind, and body. Based on annual CPT conferences, the volumes
in the Center for Pastor Theologians series bring together the
reflections of pastors and theologians who desire to make ongoing
contributions to the wider scholarly community for the renewal of
both theology and the church.
The doctrine of creation is crucial to the Christian faith, but it
has often been maligned, misinterpreted, or ignored. Some, such as
pagan philosophers and Gnostics, have tended to denigrate the
goodness of the material world. More recently, new questions have
emerged regarding human origins in light of the Darwinian account
of evolution. What does it mean today to both affirm the goodness
of God's creation and anticipate the new creation? The Center for
Pastor Theologians (CPT) seeks to assist pastors in the study and
production of biblical and theological scholarship for the
theological renewal of the church and the ecclesial renewal of
theology. Based on the third annual CPT conference, this volume
brings together the reflections of church leaders, academic
theologians, and scientists on the importance-and the many
dimensions-of the doctrine of creation. Contributors engage with
Scripture and scientific theory, draw on examples from church
history, and delve into current issues in contemporary culture in
order to help Christians understand the beginning and ending of
God's good creation. Based on annual CPT conferences, the volumes
in the Center for Pastor Theologians series bring together the
reflections of pastors and theologians who desire to make ongoing
contributions to the wider scholarly community for the renewal of
both theology and the church.
Sex and sexuality are hot topics these days. But many single adults
are tired of the "how far is too far?" approach because it doesn't
go far enough. Why does the discussion stop at the physical? What
about the deeper spiritual and relational aspects of sexuality?
Pioneering Christian sex therapists Doug Rosenau and Michael Todd
Wilson team up in this helpful and hopeful book about understanding
sexuality and intimacy beyond what our "do it if it feels good"
culture says it is. Providing a much-needed spiritual perspective
to the sexuality debate, the authors tackle difficult topics from a
biblical foundation to help single adults establish practical
models for maintaining purity and creating a healthy sexuality.
With real-life personal stories, Soul Virgins helps singles accept
their sexuality as a godly discipline. Rosenau and Wilson provide a
3-D discussion of body, soul, and spirit that proves sexuality is
ultimately more about relational intimacy than just the physical
act of sex. Originally published in Paperback by Baker Books.
Now available in paperback, this volume celebrates veteran pastor
Kent Hughes's legacy of preaching God's Word by examining what it
means to be an expository preacher.
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