Church Ministry

Speciality Search Engines, Indexes and Link Sites

• TheoWiki. TheoWiki is a dynamic resource containing information about theology, religions, and philosophies. It is also a community of online users who can all contribute to the content development in TheoWiki.
• THEOLDI. Theological Literature Documented in the Faculty for Catholic Theology at Leopold Franz University Innsbruck. THEOLDi contains the following databases: BILD - Biblical Literature Documented in Innsbruck; KALDI - Canonistic Literature Documented in Innsbruck; and MIMESIS - Documentation on the Mimetic Theology of Rene Girard.

General

• Churches - Site to locate Web pages to local churches.
• Church Planting Links.
• Wabash Center - Pastoral Counseling and Ministry.
• Wabash Center - Pastoral Counseling and Ministry Syllabi.
• Center for Congregational Research and Development.
• Congregational Resource Guide.
• CrossSearch - International resources for Christian counseling.
• Pastoral Care and Training Center - Brite Divinity School.

Academic Church Ministries Societies

• The Academy of Parish Clergy.
• American Association of Pastoral Counselors.
• Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.
• Association of Professional Chaplains.
• The National Association of Church Business Administration.
• The Society for Pastoral Theology.

Online Book Collections - Church Ministry

Online Journals - Church Ministry

• Church & Society in Asia Today. CSAT is a periodical concerned with Christian Ministry and Mission in Asia Today published by the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia, Trinity Theological College, Singapore.
• Cell Group Journal & Magazine.
• E-Journal list for Pastoral Counseling & Ministry at Wabash.
• Journal of Ministry & Theology - Baptist Bible Seminary - Clarks Summit, PA.

Church Leadership

• Church Resource Ministries - Empowering Leaders.
• Institute for Servant Leadership.
• Pulpit and Pew - Research on Pastoral Leadership.

  Special Topics

  • Tenelshof, Judy. "Encouraging the Character Formation of Future Christian Leaders." JETS 42, No. 1 (1999): 77-90.

Christian Education

• Little, Bruce A. "Christian Education, Worldviews, and Postmodernity's Challenge," JETS 40, No. 3 (1997): 433-444.
• Spiceland, James D. "On the Rationality of Christian Commitment." JETS 19, no. 4 (176): 217-224.
• Moore, T. M. "Conscientization and Christian Education: The Process Pedagogy of Paulo Freire." JETS 31, No. 4 (1988): 453-464.

Topics - Women in Ministry

• Grenz, Stanley J. "Anticipating God's New Community: Theological Foundations for Women in Ministry," JETS 38, No. 4 (1995): 595-612.
• Knight, George W., III. "The New Testament Teaching on the Role Relationship of Male and Female with Special Reference to the Teaching/Ruling Functions in the Church." JETS 18, no. 2 (1975): 81-92.
• Cerling, C. E., Jr. "Women Ministers in the New Testament Church?" JETS 19, no. 3 (1976): 209-216.
• Osborne, Grant R. "Hermeneutics and Women in the Church." JETS 20, no. 4 (1977): 337-352.
• Liefeld, Walter L. "Women and the Nature of Ministry." JETS 30, No. 1 (1987): 49-62.
• Barron, Bruce. "Putting Women in Their Place: 1 Timothy 2 and Evangelical Views of Women in Church Leadership." JETS 33, No. 4 (1990): 451-460.

Topics - Evangelism & the Nature of Faith

• Smith, Brian K. "Christianity as a Second Language: Rethinking Mission in the West." Theology Today 53, No. 4 (1997).
• Malik, Charles H. "The Two Tasks." JETS 23, no. 4 (1980); 289-296.

Pastoral Theology

• Barr, Browne. ""Tell Us What You Don't Know," or, To Be a Pastor to People
  Who Can't Even Predict the Weather." Theology Today 53, No. 4 (1997).
• Bixby, Howard L. "Designing a Pastoral Staff." Journal of Ministry & Theology 1, No. 1 (1997).
• Bixby, Howard L. "Hearing the Call-A Mandate for Ministry." Jouranl of Ministry & Theology 2, No. 1 (1998).
• Hawley, Richard R. "Vision Casting for Biblical Change." Journal of Ministry & Theology 3, No. 1 (1999).
• Schmitz, Mark. "The Second Man in Ministry." Journal of Ministry & Theology 3, No. 2 (1999).
• Milton, Michael A. "The Pastoral Predicament of Vavasor Powell (1617-1670): Eschatological Fervor and its Relationship to the Pastoral Ministry." JETS 43, No. 3 (2000): 517-528.
• Harrison, Paul V. "Pastoral Turnover and the Call to Preach." JETS 44, No. 1 (2001): 87-106.
• Milton, Michael A. ""So What Are you Doing Here?" The Role of the Minister of the Gospel in Hospital Visitation, or a Theological Cure for the Crisis in Evangelical Pastoral Care." JETS 46, No. 3 (2003): 440-464.

Topics - Music

• Thompson, Milo E. "Biblical Guidelines to Evaluate Music." Journal of Ministry & Theology 4, No. 1 (2000).
• Guthrie, Steven R. "Singing, in the Body and in the Spirit." JETS 46, No. 4 (2003): 633-646.

Homiletics

• Allen, Robert A. "The Expository Sermon - Cultural or Biblical?" Journal of Ministry & Theology 2, No. 2 (1998).
• Allen, David L. "A Tale of Two Roads: Homiletics and Biblical Authority." JETS 43, No. 3 (2000): 489-516.
• Harrison, Paul V. "Pastoral Turnover and the Call to Preach." JETS 44, No. 1 (2001): 87-106.
• Blue, Scott A. "The Hermeneutic of E. D. Hirsch, Jr. and Its Impact on Expository Preaching: Friend of Foe." JETS 44, No. 2 (2001): 253-270.
• Cameron, Charles M., "The Use of the Bible in Evangelical Preaching Today," Evangel 13, no. 1 (1995): 16-21.
• McLaughlin, Raymond W. "The Ethics of Persuasive Preaching." JETS 15, no. 2 (1972): 93-106.
• Aldridge, Marion D. "George Whitefield: The Necessary Interdependence of Preaching Style and Sermon Content to Effect Revival." JETS 23, no. 1 (1980): 55-64.
• Evans, Craig A. ""Preacher" and "Preaching": Some Lexical Observations." JETS 24, No. 4 (1981): 315-322.
• Goldberg, Louis. "Preaching with Power the Word "Correctly Handled" to Transform Man and His World." JETS 27, No. 1 (1984): 3-18.
• Osborne, Grant R. "Preaching the Gospels: Methodology and Contextualization." JETS 27, No. 1 (1984): 27-42.
• Dodd, C. H. The Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments. Harper & Row, 1964.
• Ngien, Dennis. "Theology of Preaching in Martin Luther," Themelios 28.2 (Spring 2003): 28-48.

  Online Lectures

  • Lyman Beecher Lectures - 2006
    • Long, Thomas G. "Preaching from Memory to Hope - I: A Likely Story: The Perils and Power of Narrative in Preaching.
    • Long, Thomas G. "Preaching from Memory to Hope - II: No News is
      Bad New: The Presence of the Word in Preaching."
    • Long, Thomas G. "Preaching from Memory to Hope - III: Preaching in the Future Perfect Tense: Eschatolgoy and Proclamation."
  • Lyman Beecher Lecture - 2005
    • Stout, Harry S. "Preaching Morality in America's Civil War -
      I. And the War Came.
    • Stout, Harry S. "Preaching Morality in America's Civil War - II. The Conduct of War.
    • Stout, Harry S. "Preaching Morality in America's Civil War - III. The War and American Civil Religion.

Evangelism & Church Planting

• Davis, Kenneth L. "Developing Strategies for Reaching Cities." Journal of Ministry & Theology 4, No. 2 (2000).
• Davis, Kenneth L. "Multicultural Church Planting Models." Journal of Ministry & Theology 7, No. 1 (2003).

Church Growth

• Towns, Elmer L. "The Relationship of Church Growth and Systematic Theology." JETS 29, No. 1 (1986): 63-70.

Pastoral Counseling

• Holdridge, Donald W. "Is Self-Forgiveness Biblical Forgiveness." Journal of Ministry & Theology 5, No. 1 (2001).
• McQuilkin, J. Robertson. "The Behavioral Sciences Under the Authority of Scripture." JETS 20, no. 1 (1977): 31-44.

  Online Lectures

  • Mollica, Richard. "The Transfiguation of Healing: The Care of Survivors of Mass Violence and Torture." Yale Divinity School - 2005 - Margaret Lindquist Sorensen Lecture.

Youth Ministry

• Princeton Theological Seminary - Lectures - Institute for Youth Ministry. pdf-ed lectures.

Blogs, ELists & Forums

Bibliographies

• Evangelism Resources.
• Church Planting Resources.
• Center for Congregational Research and Development - Bibliographies on Church Renewal; Faith and Film; Liberation Theology; Ministry in Multi-Cultural Contexts; New Church Development; Urban Ministry.
• Small Church Bibliography.
• The Web Edition of Biblical Counsel: Resources for Renewal.