This is the story of the birth and growth of Seattle's innovative Mars Hill Church, one of America's fastest growing churches located in one of America's toughest mission fields. It's also the story of the growth of a pastor, the mistakes he's made along the way, and God's grace and work in spite of those mistakes. Mark Driscoll's emerging, missional church took a rocky road from its start in a hot, upstairs youth room with gold shag carpet to its current weekly attendance of thousands. With engaging humor, humility, and candor, Driscoll shares the failures, frustrations, and just plain messiness of trying to build a church that is faithful to the Gospel of Christ in a highly post-Christian culture. In the telling, he's not afraid to skewer some sacred cows of traditional, contemporary, and emerging churches.

Each chapter discusses not only the hard lessons learned but also the principles and practices that worked and that can inform your church's ministry, no matter its present size.

Here Hybels shares God-given conclusions that have directed his leadership strategy of Willow Creek, majoring on Vision and Strategy; Teamwork and Communication; Activity and assessment; Personal integrity.

If you are in any sort of leadership position, you have probably asked yourself many times, what it takes to be a good leader. Now you can find the answer in 'Developing the Leader Within You'. By examining differences between leadership styles, John Maxwell outlines principles for inspiring, motivating and influencing others. These principles can be used in any organisation, to foster integrity and self-discipline, and bring about positive change.

A noted author and speaker on management and church growth shares the principles of leadership he's learned over the last two decades of his preaching/teaching ministry and leadership training.

Three-hundred-sixty-degree leaders don’t just direct their gift of leadership south, to the people under their care. They also learn to lead north by influencing those with authority over them, and to lead east and west by impacting their peers. But most importantly, they learn how to keep the compass needle centred by leading themselves – by keeping their own lives in tune so they can provide maximum directions or others. In the most important book he has every written, Bill Hybels shares what he has learned about Christian leadership in the nearly thirty years he has pastured Willow Creek. Courageous Leadership offers leadership strategies that have been proven and refined in the trenches. Best of all, it gives you the very essence of one of today’s foremost Christian leaders – his fervent commitment to evangelism and discipleship and his zeal to inspire fellow church leaders even as he seeks to keep growing as a leader himself. “The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders,” Hybel insists. If unchurched people matter to you ...if you love seeing believers serve passionately with their spiritual gifts ...if God's heartbeat for the church is your heartbeat as well ...then this book is a must.

Courageous Leadership will convince you to lead with all your might, all your skill, and all your faith. And it will give you the tools to do just that.

Your Guide to understanding the Bible.

Understanding the Bible isn’t for the few, the gifted, the scholarly. The Bible is accessible. It’s meant to be read and comprehended by everyone from armchair readers to seminary students. A few essential insights into the Bible can clear up a lot of misconceptions and help you grasp the meaning of Scripture and its application to your 21st-century life.

This revised edition of a classic combines a keen global awareness with a gift for penetrative analysis of today's society, and the important issues we contend with.

We have schedule planners, computerized calendars, and self-stick notes to help us organize our business and social lives every day. But what about organizing the other side of our lives---the spiritual side?

One of the great battlegrounds of the new century is within the private world of the individual. The values of our Western culture incline us to believe that the busy, publicly-active person in ministry is also the most spiritual. Tempted to give imbalanced attention to the public world at the expense of the private, we become involved in more programs, more meetings. Our massive responsibilities at home, work, and church have resulted in a lot of good people on the verge of collapse.

In this timely update of his classic Ordering Your Private World, Gordon MacDonald equips a new generation to live life from the inside out, cultivating the inner victory necessary for public effectiveness. Includes study guide.

Graduation, a time of great excitement and great challenge. A time to be the head of the class, to lead. Give the graduate a look into the leadership secrets of one of the most renowned leaders today, Billy Graham. Filled with devotions and Scriptures to challenge the new graduate.

A book you might actually read on Church Leadership – who can be in church leadership, how does it work, what is it’s responsibility. A very accessible read.