Pastoral Resources

Acts 29 Network - A ministry of Mars Hill Church. A network that helps plant Gospel-centered, missional, church-planting churches to a postmodern mindset.

Bob Logan Leadership - Logan Leadership provides coaching and cutting-edge resources to help you actively pursue your unique place in God’s kingdom. Our mission is to help people and communities who want to live like Jesus lived: loving and serving others with compassion, raising up new followers of Jesus, multiplying communities of disciples, and living as the hands and feet of Jesus to the world around us.

Creative Pastors - Ed Young

ChurchNet International Ministries - Robert Logan

Coach U - Coach U is the leading global provider of coach training programs. The Advanced Coaching Program™ (ACP™) meets the academic requirements for becoming an Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC) or Master Certified Coach (MCC) through the International Coach Federation (ICF).

Funerals - Bible.org

George Barna Group - Barna Group is a visionary research and resource company located in Ventura, California. The firm is widely considered to be the leading research organization focused on the intersection of faith and culture. The Barna Group offers a range of customized research, resources and training to serve churches, non-profits, businesses and leaders.

Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership - Welcome to the website of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, an international non-profit organization! We invite you to learn about us and about servant leadership. You can learn more about servant leadership through our annual conference, our online catalog of books and materials, and our Speakers Bureau. You can become a member and access resources for members.

Injoy Ministries - John Maxwell

Lloyd Ogilvie Institute of Preaching - Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie was honored when Fuller Theological Seminary established the Institute for Preaching that bears his name. He has the distinguished history of over 45 years in the pastorate, while also leading a national radio and television ministry, Let God Love You, for over a decade. After 28 years as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, followed by 8 years as the Chaplain of the U.S. Senate (1995-2003), Dr. Ogilvie has unique pastoral experience. He is consistently called upon as a speaker, writer, and resource consultant.

Leadership Journal - Christianity Today

Leaders That Last - Al Ells, Leaders That Last Ministries™ is a not-for-profit organization that equips Christian leaders to finish well. (Hebrews 12:1) We understand the relational and organizational challenges that Christian leaders face in today’s complex world. Through private counseling, personal coaching, organizational consulting and speaking engagements, we are able to help pastors, church staff and marketplace leaders successfully fulfill their mission.

Leader to Leader Institute - Peter Drucker

Monday Morning Insight - Todd Rhoades

Leader Source - Malcolm Webber. LeaderSource is now a part of Korn/Ferry Leadership and Talent Consulting. Joining Korn/Ferry, the talent management industry’s most prominent brand, created the opportunity for us to apply and expand our services for our clients on a more global scale while maintaining best practices.

Mark Driscoll Facebook Page - Resources, sermons, and much more at the Facebook page of Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seatttle, Washington.

Pastoral Helps - Bible.org

Purpose Driven Connection - Rick Warren

Resurgence: Church Leadership - Numerous topics concerning church leadership.

Resurgence - A ministry of Mars Hill Church containing numerous resources on key topics. Special focus on missional leadership training.

Reformissionary - Resources of Tim Keller the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City.

Pastoral Counseling Assessment Tools - The Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis® personality assessment has been used for more than 40 years for individual, premarital, marital, and family counseling. The T-JTA® assessment measures 18 dimensions of personality (9 bipolar traits) that are important in individual adjustment and interpersonal relationships. The T-JTA® instrument is used by thousands of counseling professionals in a wide array of settings and countries to help people understand themselves and important others in their lives.-

Sovereign Grace Ministires - A family of churches passionate about advancing the Great Commission through church planting. In support of that mission we facilitate partnerships among pastors, operate a Pastors College, host events, and publish books, music, and other resources.

TrueFaced - Leadership Catalyst is recognized as an international resource for helping readers, leaders and groups discover the many freedoms of their identity, by learning to live truefaced. It is our prayer that one day, tens of thousands of communities around the globe will experience the freedoms of living authentically as the norm in all their key relationships.

9 Mark Ministries - Building Healthy Churches, 9Marks exists to equip church leaders with a biblical vision and practical resources for displaying God's glory to the nations through healthy churches. The organization has its roots in the pastoral work of Mark Dever and Matt Schmucker at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC. This congregation had been in decline for several decades when Mark (pastor) and Matt (administrator/elder) began to reform it in the early 1990s. The two didn’t follow the conventional wisdom of church growth literature—conduct surveys, establish new programs, or cultivate the right culture. They just opened their Bibles. Mark preached, and both men worked to structure the church after the Scriptures.

XPastor - XPastor has more than 200,000 visitors each year, hundreds of pages of documents and tons of megabytes downloaded each month. With this growing body of information, here are some suggested starting points.Check out the following pages that center on the practical concepts of the Five Functions of Leading and Managing the Church—Administrator, Catalyst, Mentor, Minister and Overseer. The Five Functions are one way to objectively talk about the role of the XP. David's dissertation talks of the five functions. The Executive Pastor Indicator measures the five functions.