Books

Brandon O’Brien’s Top Books on Small Church Ministry

Rather than being a subcategory of American ministry, the small church is the norm. If you take a longer and broader view, most churches throughout history and in most parts of the world are and always have been small.

Grover Park Baptist Church: A Thread of Hope

At auction, the quilts go for hundreds or even thousands of dollars that directly help women and children in need, providing funds for baby and maternity items at the pregnancy resource center.

James N. Sells: The Best Books on Church Care

People in pain do not live in the “post-Christian era.” They go to church for help.

Hope of Nations

John S. Dickerson: Standing Strong in a Post-Truth, Post Christian World

Ambassadors in a Post-Christian Era

We must shift our thinking from waging a culture war to diplomacy, speaking to our post-Christian neighbors with grace.

Putting Suffering Into Perspective

If you're a pastor, you're called to suffer. But you're in good company with past saints and God promises to be faithful.

12 Faithful Men

Eds. Collin Hansen and Jeff Robinson: Portraits of Courageous Endurance in Pastoral Ministry

Good Preaching Requires Good Thinking

To preach well, we must be committed to expend the mental effort to understand the Scriptures and exposit them for our hearers.

Expository Exultation

John Piper: Christian Preaching as Worship

ReClaimed Church

Bill Henard: How Churches Grow, Decline, and Experience Revitalization

When to Go Through a Targeted Revitalization

At some point, all churches will be in need of some type of revitalization. Here's how to know when it's time.