Table of contents
Deepening Your Ministry Through Prayer and Personal Growth
These books, originally published by Leadership Journal, offer deep dives on pressing issues of ministry and leadership from veteran ministry experts like Eugene Peterson, Fred Smith, Marshall Shelley, and others.
- Introduction
- Big Shoes to Fill
- The Pastor’s Sabbath
- A Driven Pastor’s Pursuit of God
- How to Spend the Day in Prayer
- Fatal Omission
- A Heart Close to God
- Thankful in a Thankless World
- “The Disuse, Misuse, Abuse, and Proper Use of Prayer”
- Runaway Mind
- Disciplines for the Undisciplined
- The Most Challenging Prayer Partner
- Contagious Prayer
- Keeping Connected to the Power
- The Approval Addiction
- Feeling Good About the Non-Urgent
- Reading Your Gauges
- Finding a Spiritual Director
- Getting Good Advice
- Slaying the Sly Saboteur
- Renewing Your Strength Without a Sabbatical
- Going to Your Left
- Developing a Christian Mean Streak
- What I Want to Be When I Grow Up
- “Being Holy, Being Human”
- Renewing Your Sense of Purpose
- Role Call
- Preaching the Terrors
- Perils of the Professionally Holy
- Pulling Weeds from Your Field of Dreams
Prayer. Quiet time. Spiritual disciplines. Every pastor knows their value. But what do you do when schedules squeeze you tight, when you feel more harried than holy, when you lose your sense of God’s gentle leading? How do you maintain good spiritual health?
Deepening Your Ministry Through Prayer and Personal Growth offers tested, life-changing counsel. It is a focused, no-stone-unturned look at what some of America’s dynamic pastors do to keep grounded—as well as what they had to go through—to stay that way. Never before has there been such an inspiring, challenging treatment of these issues by so many respected church leaders. This fourth book in the Library of Christian Leadership offers the steps to help you stay intimate with the Lord and help others do the same. Out of the trenches and onto the page, here are thirty fresh and helpful chapters of excellent advice.
