{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"15 characteristics of effective pastors \/ Kevin W. Mannoia and Larry Walkermeyer","author":"Mannoia, Kevin W.; Walkermeyer, Larry","isbn":"9780830744770","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Regal Books"},"datePublished":"2007","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: Grace and growth -- Love for God -- Spiritual formation -- Personal integrity -- Love for the church -- Servant leader -- Model of holiness -- Prayer life -- Holy Spirit empowerment -- Inspired preaching -- Sure calling -- Godly character -- Personal accountability -- Strong marriage -- Visionary leadership.\r\n\r\nAbstract:  This invaluable guidebook explores the 15 character qualities of pastors who are deemed to be the most effective and offers hope to pastors and church leaders who are in doubt about how well they are doing in their role.\r\n\r\nOther Notes: Includes bibliographical references.\n\nPublished in: Ventura, Calif.\n\nPhysical description: 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"An introduction to the reformed tradition : a way of being the Christian community \/ John H. Leith.","author":"Leith, John H.","isbn":"0804204799","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"John Knox Press"},"datePublished":"1981","inLanguage":"English","description":"1. Traditioning the faith -- The tradition and the traditions -- A secular and pluralistic society -- The open tradition -- 2. The Reformed churches -- The beginnings -- The Reformation in Switzerland -- Europe -- Great Britain -- The United States and Canada -- Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa -- The Reformed tradition and the younger churches -- The ecumenical movement -- 3. The ethos of the reformed tradition -- The majesty and praise of God -- The polemic against idolatry -- The working out of the divine purposes in history -- Ethics, a life of holiness -- The life of the mind as the service of God -- Preaching -- The organized church and pastoral care -- The disciplined life -- Simplicity. \r\n4. Theology and the Reformed tradition -- What is theology? -- Characteristics of reformed theology -- The development of Reformed theology -- Representative theologians -- Reformed confessions -- 5. Polity and the Reformed tradition -- The significance of polity -- The subordination of polity to the Gospel -- The one, holy Catholic, apostolic church -- Reformed polities -- Calvin's polity -- Presbyterianism -- Episcopacy -- Congregationalism. \r\n6. Liturgy and the Reformed tradition -- John Calvin and Karl Barth on worship -- Reformed liturgies -- Calvin's liturgy of 1545 -- Farel's liturgy -- The Westminster directory -- The American experience -- 7. Culture and the Reformed tradition -- Visual arts -- Literature -- Architecture -- Music -- Political order -- Economic order -- Learning -- 8. Prospects -- The freedom of God -- The reality of the power and presence of God -- The Bible as the Word of God -- The emphasis on the Word: spoken and written -- The vision of the Christian community -- The possibility of discipline -- The simple life.\n\nPublished in: Atlanta\n\nPhysical description: 264 pages ; 21 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Baptism and confirmation \/ volume editor, Mark Searle ; authors, Mark Searle [and others].","author":"Searle, M","isbn":"0814614949","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Liturgical Press"},"datePublished":"1987","inLanguage":"English","description":"Preface \/ Bernard J. Lee -- Introduction \/ Mark Searle -- Infant baptism reconsidered \/ Mark Searle -- Infant baptism in the light of the human sciences \/ Andrew D. Thompson -- Pastoral care in the process of initiation \/ Herbert Anderson -- Celebrating baptism in stages: a proposal \/ Gail Ramshaw-Schmidt -- Reaction from an RCIA perspective \/ Robert D. Duggan -- Speaking from experience: worship and the social sciences \/ Stephen Happel.\n\nPublished in: Collegeville, Minn.\n\nPhysical description: 192 pages ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Care of persons, care of worlds : a Psychosystems approach to pastoral care and counseling \/ Larry Kent Graham","author":"Graham, Larry Kent","isbn":"0687046750","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Abingdon Press"},"datePublished":"1992","inLanguage":"English","description":"Abstract: A comprehensive social and systemic foundation for pastoral and caretaking that will be an invaluable guide for the activities of parish ministers and counseling practitioners. Graham's model better interprets and responds to the interplay between individuals and the larger cultural and environmental realities which contribute to their distress and its transformation\n\nPublished in: Nashville (Tenn.)\n\nPhysical description: 266 s. : 1 illustration ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Clinical handbook of pastoral counseling \/ Robert J. Wicks, Richard D. Parsons, Donald Capps, editors.","author":"Wicks, Robert J.; Parsons, Richard D.; Capps, Donald","isbn":"0809133512","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Paulist Press"},"datePublished":"1993","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: New York\n\nPhysical description: Xi, 707p.;23cm.","bookEdition":"Expanded ed.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Cultivating wholeness : a guide to care and counseling in faith communities \/ Margaret Zipse Kornfeld ; for Blanton-Peale Institute.","author":"Kornfeld, Margaret Zipse","isbn":"0826412327","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"THE CONTINUUM PUB."},"datePublished":"1998","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: In a time of change -- The ground of community -- Caregiver, counselor : yourself as gardener -- A guide to facilitating change -- Preparing for community care, counseling, and referral -- Change supported by the solution-focused method -- Care and counseling at life's many beginnings -- Care and counseling at life's many endings -- Care and counseling in life's daily round -- Tending yourself.\r\nAbstract : Commissioned by the Blanton-Peale Institute, Cultivating Wholeness is a practical, comprehensive, contemporary guide to community care and counseling. Margaret Zipse Kornfeld, a pastoral psychotherapist for almost thirty years, focuses on wholeness, the dynamics change, an inclusive understanding of spirituality, the caregiver\/ counselor, and on community as not merely the context for healing but also the means by which healing happens.\n\nPublished in: New York\n\nPhysical description: xx, 377 pages ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Death and ministry : pastoral care of the dying and the bereaved \/ J. Donald Bane [and others] editors.","author":"Bane, J. D","isbn":"0816402604","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Seabury Press"},"datePublished":"1975","inLanguage":"English","description":"Part I. Personal Perspectives -- A personal odyssey : experiencing the human \/ Peter H. Beisheim -- A crisis \/ Judith Best -- The impact of the death of patients on the minister's (chaplain's) faith \/ John M. Humphreys -- Vignette \/ Zelda Foster -- To write about death, we must contemplate our own death \/ Cima Star -- Response to the threat of death, immediate and\/or postponed \/ Carroll A. Wise -- Part II. Ministry to the dying -- Ministry to the dying as a learning encounter \/ Carl A. Nightswonger -- Another look at the hopeless chase \/ Joseph R. Proulx -- The waiting vulture syndrome \/ Glenn W. Davidson -- Prayer and the dying patient : intimacy without exposure \/ Daniel C. DeArment -- The dying patient's concept of God \/ David H.C. Read -- The psychological function of religion to the dying patient \/ Edgar Draper -- Communication and pain \/ Kenneth A. Chandler -- Part III. Ministry to the bereaved -- The cup of Mithradetes \/ William L. Nate, Jr. -- Bereavement : an opportunity for emotional growth \/ Harry S. Olin and Grace B. Olin -- Mourning, family dynamics, and pastoral care \/ Richard G. Bruehl -- Consoling the bereaved in the weeks after the funeral \/ Walter Debold -- The grief work cycle in Judaism \/ Steven Moss -- The bereaved in the hospital \/ Carleton J. Sweetser -- Bereavement : a pediatric view \/ Rudolf Toch -- Divorce and grief \/ John Freund -- Part IV. Clergy and the medical professionals -- Problems which confront the minister \/ Edward F. Dobihal -- The clergyman as the dying patient's agent \/ Robert M. Veatch -- The physician's ministry to the dying \/ James A. Knight -- Alternatives to cure in ministration to the dying \/ Joseph R. Proulx -- Learning to talk with the cancer patient \/ Arnoldus Goudsmit -- Ministerial leadership in thanatology \/ J. William Worden -- The minister as part of health care team \/ J. Donald Bane and Elizabeth Dorsey I. Smith -- Part V. What does death mean? -- The agnostic and the religious : their coping with death \/ Paul E. Irion -- The concept of bereavement \/ H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- Bereavement in New Testament perspective \/ Schuyler P. Brown -- The trouble with the concept \"death\" \/ George M. Schurr -- Perspectives on death : philosophical and theological \/ James M. Demske -- Mortality and the fear of death \/ Lloyd R. Bailey -- Developing a theology of death \/ Peter H. Beisheim -- Death and incarnation \/ William B. Frazier.\n\nPublished in: New York\n\nPhysical description: ix, 278 pages ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Effective Pastoring: Guidelines for Christian Ministry \/ Christian Fred Worlali Gbekor","author":"Gbekor C.F.W.","isbn":"9789988864491","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"sonLife Press"},"datePublished":"2016","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Accra, Ghana\n\nPhysical description: xvi, 146p.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Introduction to pastoral care \/ William V. Arnold.","author":"Arnold, W. V.","isbn":"0664244009","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Westminster Press"},"datePublished":"1982","inLanguage":"English","description":"Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-216) and index.\n\nPublished in: Philadelphia\n\nPhysical description: 221 pages ; 21 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Listening and caring skills : a guide for groups and leaders \/ John S. Savage.","author":"Savage, John S.","isbn":"0687017165","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Abingdon Press"},"datePublished":"1996","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:  Basic listening skills for ministry. Paraphrase ; Productive questions ; Perception check ; Expression of feelings and emotions ; Fogging ; negative inquiry ; Behavior description -- Hearing the story. Story listening ; Story polarization listening -- Advanced listening skills for ministry. Life commandments ; The linguistic bridge.\r\nAbstract :  \"The secret to leadership and transformation of a group, or of another person, is the quality of the relationship one person has with another. Thus the effective group leader or counselor will be the person who learns how to listen to other people. By studying and employing these listening skills, church leaders will engage others more compassionately, allowing them to feel that their needs are being met. The skills can be used with persons who are terminally ill, inactive at church, going through a divorce, in a family with a severely ill person, unemployed, seeking a new church, grieving, traumatized by catastrope, going through teenage adolescence, in marriage counseling, or leading a ministry team.\" \"John Savage offers eleven specific and teachable listening skills for improving relationships among those who do ministry in small-group settings or when offering counsel to others. The skills are taught through oral exercises and unfailingly helpful examples from actual congregational situations. The skills include paraphrase, productive questions, perception check, expression of feelings and emotions, fogging, negative inquiry, behavior description, and story listening.\"--BOOK JACKET.\n\nPublished in: Nashville\n\nPhysical description: 152 pages ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}