Current Best Sellers
Congregational Leadership In Anxious Times (AL318)
This long-awaited volume by internationally respected consultant and Alban best-selling author Peter Steinke will both enlighten and embolden leaders. With anxiety intensifying and penetrating more and more areas of our lives, leaders cannot be as anxious as the people they serve.
Claiming the Beatitudes: Nine Stories from a New Generation (AL384)
Finding church in a pub, learning to give and receive mercy, fighting global slave trade, turning the world upside down through salt and light. Though Jesus spoke the words of the beatitudes thousands of years ago, people throughout our society are continuing to adjust their way of modern living in the hopes of changing the world around them.
Governance and Ministry: Rethinking Board Leadership (AL370)
In Governance and Ministry, Alban Institute senior consultant Dan Hotchkiss offers congregational leaders a roadmap and tools for changing the way boards and clergy work together to lead congregations.
Learning the Way: Reclaiming Wisdom from the Earliest Christian Communities (AL385)
How should the church respond to the changing cultural and societal changes going on around it? Should it reject the historical traditions that served early Christian church or should it turn a blind eye to the changes happening in modern society?
Holy Conversations (AL276)
Holy ConversationsSM is Alban’s approach to planning as discernment and dialogue around three core questions: Who are we? What has God called us to do or be? Who is our neighbor? Written by Alban consultants Gil Rendle and Alice Mann, Holy Conversations offers a comprehensive overview of the planning process.
Pathway to Renewal: Practical Steps for Congregations (AL371)
No pastor can lead a congregation to renewal alone. It requires a change of heart for the whole congregation. Congregational renewal occurs only when people reorient their very understanding of the nature and purpose of their church.
The Practicing Congregation (AL295)
Diana Butler Bass shares her ground breaking research into models of vitality in the mainline. Congregations are finding "new" old ways of being a church, by reappropriating ancient practices such as hospitality, testimony, and prayer. The Practicing Congregation is a central text on the road to envisioning a new way of being a church.
Becoming a Blessed Church (AL302)
Read the book that has generated a lot of word-of-mouth buzz. What is a blessed church? It is a church uniquely grounded in a relationship with God that allows blessings to flow through it. Pastor and author N. Graham Standish describes how a church that is open to God’s purpose, presence, and power can claim God’s blessing.
Tribal Church (AL337)
Many churches are seeking ways to reach out to the younger generations. Unfortunately this often manifests as either a “come be just like us!” attitude—suggesting an unwillingness to change in order to be inclusive of young people—or as a slick marketing campaign that targets young adults in much the same way secular advertising does.
Healthy Congregations (AL320)
New Format! In this sequel to How Your Church Family Works, Steinke takes readers into a deeper exploration of the congregation as an emotional system. Learn ten principles of health, how congregations can adopt new ways of dealing with stress and anxiety, how spiritually and emotionally healthy leaders influence the emotional system, factors that could put your congregation at risk, and more.
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