Church Growth and Revival

You know people around the world are struggling. A homeless man holds a sign that reads, “Anything helps.” A poor child lives in a slum swarming wi...

Based on years of experience as a pastor and professor of theology, John Leith reflects on the dilemma of the church today as primarily "a crisis o...

Calm provides United Methodist church leaders with the skills and tools to shepherd local churches through times of conflict and tension, including...

When church and culture look the same... For the many Christians eager to prove we can be both holy and cool, cultural pressures are too much. We ...

Neil Cole's best-selling book Organic Church described the fastest growing segment of contemporary Christianity-the so-called organic church. Now i...

Two of the world’s foremost church research experts take an unprecedented qualitative look at how churches can change the culture through the trans...

Preacher and teacher David Mosser offers practical and spiritual guidance for pastors struggling to manage and respond to changes in the economy, c...

It's not enough to plant individual churches in isolation from each other. The spiritual need and opportunity of our cities is too big for any one ...

To Transform a City is a valuable guide for those who dream big about the spiritual and social changes possible for the cities and towns that surro...

Are you tired of hearing people dismiss the church as an irrelevant relic? (Do you secretly wonder if they are right?) Don Everts explores an excit...

Years ago, the Lord spoke these words to international Bible teacher Derek Prince, author of the acclaimed book Shaping History Through Prayer and ...

Public gatherings are vital for movement, but too often in our approach to planting churches, we haven't paid enough attention to the difficult gra...

A theologically grounded, yet practical, user-friendly guide for church leaders seeking to save their churches. A methodical, logical approach for ...

The most devastating experience of God’s people in the Old Testament was the exile. But rather than being destroyed by their circumstances they eme...

Many of us believe revival is possible, but sometimes it feels so far away - we hear of astonishing accounts from across the world or read about re...

Our world has changed dramatically in the past quarter century. People are losing faith in technology. Our society has lost consensus and is dividi...

Ministry training often emphasizes expanding on the work of existing ministries to the neglect of addressing the difficulties of planting new churc...

God's mission needs movement leaders. Jesus pioneered something completely new in human history - a dynamic missionary movement intent on reaching ...

Churches have tried all kinds of ways to attract new and younger members - revised vision statements, hipper worship, contemporary music, livelier ...

Based on a national study, this book shows how churches can move both new and old members into ministry by implementing effective new members' clas...

Eugene Peterson instilled the love of the local church in his family, and especially his son, pastor Eric E. Peterson. This collection of letters, ...

In this concise book, respected pastor, author, and church consultant Thom Rainer explains how the local church is God’s primary plan for reaching ...

This is only the third time in the history of the church that both the mission field and the way we communicate with that mission field have change...

Some churches grow rapidly, only to hit a ceiling. Other churches have experienced declining or static attendance--many of them for decades. Frustr...

With nearly fifty years combined global church-planting experience, Craig Ott and Gene Wilson offer here a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for cros...

Church growth models have often been long on promises and short on disciple making. We continue to watch consistent church attendance shrink, and o...

This book is a practical and encouraging 'how-to guide' for turning vision into reality and managing church growth. Tricia Neill draws on more than...

Is the Church out for the count? ... or ready for a rebirth?This is not yet another book about surviving lockdown, it is about possibilities that ...

Leaders who are interested in planting or revitalizing congregations often feel discouraged and defeated after leadership conferences, or after rea...

Hope and help for pastors and congregations who are asking, What now? And What’s next? Some pastors and congregations have managed remarkable innov...

Highly acclaimed for his work with parish renewal and the New Evangelization, Fr. James Mallon shares with us the many ways for bringing our parish...

The Apostle Paul was a veteran church planter who "laid a foundation like a wise and master builder" and there is much we can learn from his exampl...

Access to education has long been a priority for Americans. Full access to formal schooling is a symbol of freedom, a gateway to opportunity and re...

A critical assessment of church planting strategies and practices, offering a biblical, theological and historical foundation for this component of...

People have lost faith in all collective institutions: government, corporations, the media, and the church. We are in the midst of a spiritual disa...

The Church Is the Only Hope for Renewing and Redeeming Your Community Your church is meant to be a conduit of hope and healing, redemption and rene...

A powerful movement of the Holy Spirit in UK universities/colleges, including Wales, from the 1940s resulted in many students being converted and s...

In an age when church growth is centered in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, evangelicalism must adapt to changing demographics or risk becoming ir...

In John 17, Jesus prayed for the unity of the church. Yet today, we tend to accept disunity as inevitable. In this book, Anthony Burgess calls us t...

Is the Church Losing the Next Generation?More than half of all Christian teens and twentysomethings leave active involvement in church. Based on re...

The book that will forever change the way you think about church. The statistics are clear:  The American church is in decline.  People are leaving...

Something in the Church is broken.  For Christianity to move beyond business as usual, Christians must learn it’s not about what you do, but who yo...

Have Christians misunderstood what it means to be in the world but not of it? Has the church, in a sense, neglected the world to the detriment of a...

Galileo Church is not a cool, hip, exotic breed; it's just church, reimagined for a new day.In We Were Spiritual Refugees, Katie Hays, planter-past...