Tobi Collection

This book describes and examines the Wesleyan attitude toward and programs with the poor from the time of John Wesley to the present. The chapters ...

To be effective, pastors must minister in a variety of settings. Each setting--whether hospital room, jail, nursing home, funeral home, or even in ...

In this volume, Terence E. Fretheim seeks to introduce the Pentateuch to modern readers, stressing its continuing capacity to speak a word of--or a...

The Pastor's Start-Up Manual  provides a blueprint for seminary students moving into their first pastorate with answers to questions such as: What'...

The standard resource on the structure and programs of The United Methodist Church An indispensable guide for all United Methodists-especially past...

"Can you give me the book that will tell me how to DO Christian education?"  The Nuts & Bolts of Christian Education  is designed to answer the...

Commissioned by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for use in United Methodist doctrine/polity/history courses. Runyon sets Wesley...

The common experience of large congregations getting larger and small congregations getting smaller has given rise to the belief that growing congr...

This book theorizes that there was probably more to both the beginning and the ending of Mark's Gospel than we currently have in our Bible. It was ...

Larger churches are different--in expectations, in performance, in staffing, and in use of lay volunteers. Their unique differences require special...

An introduction to the history of the Christian church in the modern period, beginning with the changing social, cultural, and religious context of...

Commissioned by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for use in United Methodist doctrine/polity/history courses. From a Sunday scho...

In the Methodist lexicon, 'conference' refers to a body of preachers (and later, of laity as well) that exercises legislative, judicial, and execut...

This edition brings together one of the most beautiful renderings of the Hebrew Bible in the English language with a wealth of Jewish art and image...

Why does one's concept of the medieval church have a direct bearing on one's attitude toward ecumenism? How was Europe evangelized? Why is it essen...

The Many Faces of Christology surveys the landscape of traditional and contemporary thought about Jesus. Inbody first grounds his survey in a conci...

This volume in the Effective Church Series is a primer in musical ministry; it clearly describes ten goals of music ministries for any congregation...

No issue more polarizes American Protestants today than the church’s stance on homosexuality. In recent years, a number of denominations have engag...

Using the Apostles’ Creed as the “primary text” this book  explores what we believe as Christians and how those beliefs are relevant today.  The au...

"Jesus wrote no autobiography. He left nothing in writing at all. He committed himself and his teaching simply to the hearts and memories of the ...

The Lenten tree contains eighty-two Lenten devotions for children and adults that will enable individuals and families to travel on a meaningful jo...

Leonard Sweet--with his profound insight and humor--examines how Jesus laughed, played with children, walked, enjoyed the good times, and poked fun...

Those Christians who work in missionary settings among non-Christian groups learned an important lesson long ago about communicating the gospel. Yo...

What if preachers were as contagiously joyful in their preaching as Louis Armstrong was in his playing and singing? As rich in their sermonic rende...

In The Hum: Call and Response in African Preaching , Evans E. Crawford, with Thomas H. Troeger, relates his analysis of African American folk preac...

Hospital visitation is one of the most intimidating tasks new clergy face. Afraid of not knowing what to say when faced with situations of serious ...

Describes what it means to be anointed with the Spirit so that one can preach "to raise the dead." In  The Holy Spirit and Preaching , James A. For...

Recent years have seen an explosion of talk about the historical Jesus from scholarly settings as well as media outlets (including sensational TV d...

In The Historical Books, Richard D. Nelson introduces neophyte readers to the basic concepts of history and historical writing and provides a simpl...

Biblical texts create worlds of meaning and invite readers to enter them. When readers enter such textual worlds, which are often strange and compl...

If you are going to care for someone, you must first understand them. If you're going to hire, marry, or befriend someone, you have to be able to s...

It is a common method in introductory biblical studies classes to choose exemplary biblical texts for further in-depth discussion by students in sm...

Why the small- to mid-sized church remains God's best means to make disciples of Jesus Christ Dizzying changes have taken place in American religio...

Carter writes a piece which will stir the sympathies of pastors thwarted by their own efforts to emulate a congregation's successful predecessor. W...

The first 48 hours are critical to the recovery of trauma victims. First responders make the difference between life and death for trauma victims. ...

There are, it seems, as many definitions of the term "evangelism" as there are people doing the defining. For some, it means proclaiming the gospel...

A new Wesley biography published at the tricentennial of his birth. The aim of this book is simple: it is an attempt to get to know the real John W...

An introduction to the history of the Christian church from its inception to approximately 600 C.E., this volume seeks to balance the traditional p...

Draws on themes of the disability-rights movement to identify people with disabilities as members of a socially disadvantaged minority group rather...

Surveys the essentials of pastoral care and counseling The Concise Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling  is a condensed version of the  Dicti...

Norma Cook Everist contends that it is meaningful to say that in ministries of administration, outreach, and pastoral care, the church is functioni...

For those searching for truth and a map to help lead them down the path of The Way. Jones recounts his experiences in India, where he arrived as a ...