Bill Hybels

LaVonne Neff

Most of us have trouble finding time to pray. And then the crises hit! Time for prayer seems impossible to find. The ideas in this practical book can help us to learn to slow down to be with God as well. Also included is a helpful guide for personal and group prayer.

Slowing Down to Be with God

Too Busy Not to Pray

In "Simplify," bestselling author Bill Hybels identifies the core issues that lure us into frenetic living--and offers searingly practical steps for sweeping the clutter from our souls. Today's velocity of life can consume and control us . . . until our breakneck pace begins to feel normal and expected. That's where the danger lies: When we spend our lives doing things that keep us busy but don't really matter, we sacrifice the things that do.What if your life could be different? What if you could be certain you were living the life God called you to live--and building a legacy for those you love? If you crave a simpler life anchored by the priorities that matter most, roll up your sleeves: Simplified living requires more than just cleaning out your closets or reorganizing your desk drawer. It requires uncluttering your soul. By eradicating the stuff that leaves your spirit drained, you can stop doing what doesn't matter--and start doing what does.

Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul

Simplify

When the spiritual gift of leadership comes alive in churches everywhere, the church will become the hope of the world and a most influential force for good.

Courageous Leadership

Bill Hybels offers inspiration for developing a consistently Christian character.

Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

Who You are when No One's Looking

slowing down to be with God

Too busy not to pray

Courageous leadership

Mark Mittelberg

This proven action plan will show you how to impact the spiritual lives of friends, family members, co-workers, and others.

Becoming a Contagious Christian

Slowing Down to be with God : Including Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Lee Strobel

The participant's guide is designed to help you get the most out of the Becoming a Contagious Christian course. It provides an easy-to-use, hands-on means of identifying and developing an evangelism style that's effective at leading unbelievers toward Christ. Becoming a Contagious Christian is a proven course designed to equip believers for effective evangelism in today's world. It avoids stereotyped approaches that feel intimidating to many Christians. Instead, it shows ordinary believers how they can share the Gospel in a natural and powerful way while being the person God made them to be. Each session's exercises, discussions, self-assessments, and video vignettes give step-by-step guidance to help participants become effective communicators for Christ to those around them. There's even a section on everyday answers that will help believers respond to difficult questions regarding Christianity. Over 800,000 people have participated in Becoming a Contagious Christian training in the last eight years.

Communicating Your Faith in a Style That Fits You

Becoming a Contagious Christian Participant's Guide

Immer mehr, immer besser, alles sofort - darauf ist das Leben in unserer Gesellschaft ausgerichtet. Kein Wunder, dass viele Menschen inzwischen das Gefühl haben, dass ihr Alltag nur noch fremdbestimmt ist. Doch es geht auch anders. Wenn Sie sich danach sehnen, ein ausgewogenes, entschleunigtes Leben zu führen und den wirklich wichtigen Dingen Priorität einzuräumen, dann ist dieses Buch genau das Richtige für Sie: Bestsellerautor Bill Hybels nimmt Sie mit auf eine Reise durch die verschiedenen Bereiche Ihres Lebens und zeigt ganz praktisch, wie Sie in zehn Schritten Prioritäten setzen und Ihr Leben vereinfachen können.

Zehn Schritte zu einem aufgeräumten Leben.

Einfach.

Pastor Bill Hybels believes that there is a new reality in America. The church has entered an era of growth and unprecedented spiritual opportunity to share the Gospel, yet at the same time we face a shrinking economy and a world in crisis. This poses a great resource challenge for the church. In order to reach out to people who are spiritually hungry, the church needs more people to be equipped to serve others. Hybels passionately believes the key to the future of the church is the equation 'X (paid staff) + Y (volunteers) = Z (bearing much fruit for God's glory).' Churches cannot afford to continue hiring more and more staff with limited budgets. The key to resourcing the church is what Hybels calls 'the Y factor.' The Y factor is the pool of volunteers in every church. The great need of the church is to grow the church's volunteer base through the equipping ministry of church staffs. As churches recover the message of Ephesians 4:11-12 to 'equip God's people for works of service' they will launch a Volunteer Revolution. People are just waiting to discover the gifts and passions that God has given them to serve others and then be invited to use those gifts and passions through the local church in order to advance the kingdom of God on Earth. Hybels believes that every church staff should be helping people discover their spiritual gifts, passions and place of service in order to meet the growing needs in our churches and world. Hybels makes a clarion call to move beyond volunteer retention to volunteer acquisition. By attracting, connecting, training, and sustaining volunteers, churches will mobilize people into places of service that will bring new meaning to their lives and understand why God put them on planet Earth. Hybels also outlines how we can build lifelong volunteers in the church through community, celebration, and commendation.

Unleashing the Power of Everybody

The Volunteer Revolution

Encourages Christians to leave their own comfort zone and reach out to others who are living without God.

Simple Steps Pointing People to Faith

Just Walk Across the Room

The best leaders not only lead well but also reflect on their leadership long enough and thoughtfully enough to articulate the philosophies that cause them to do so. Whether serving in the marketplace or in ministry, as executives or rank-and-file employees, as salaried staff or volunteer servants, good leaders can pinpoint the rationale for their actions and decisions with the ease of reciting their home address. In Axiom: author Bill Hybels divulges the God-given convictions that have dictated his leadership strategy for more than three decades as senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church. Oriented toward four key leadership categories ... 1. Vision and strategy ('Promote Shameless Profitability, ' 'Take a Flyer') 2. Teamwork and communication ('Obi-Wan Kenobi Isn't for Hire, ' 'Disagree without Drawing Blood') 3. Activity and assessment ('Develop a Mole System, ' 'Sweat the Small Stuff') 4. Personal integrity ('Admit Mistakes, and Your Stock Goes Up, ' 'Fight for Your Family') ...Axiom brokers accessible wisdom from one leader's journey, as well as emboldens you to nail down the reasons why you lead like you lead.

Axiom

Readers are shown how they can find and feed their personal areas of holy discontent, fight for it when things get risky, and follow it when it takes a mid-course turn in this guide.

Fueling the Fire That Ignites Personal Vision

Holy Discontent

Kenneth H. Blanchard

Phil Hodges

Told in the parable format of The One Minute Manager, this work draws on the model and messages of Jesus as a source of practical lessons in effective leadership. Recounting the story of a teacher, a minister and a marketplace leader who support one another in their leadership challenges, this book offers unexpected and exceptional answers to tough leadership issues. The authors offer simple strategies for bringing vision - and values - to the workplace by examining messages and examples from the Bible.

Tools to Transform Your Workplace

Leadership by the Book

Expresses how turning an ear toward heaven can help with decision making, inciting inspiration, and spurring growth, and discusses how to interpret and act upon messages from God.

Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond

The Power of a Whisper

The book you hold resonates with this conviction: that leaders such as you have the potential to be the most influential forces on planet Earth. Yours is the staggering responsibility and the matchless privilege of rallying believers and mobilizing their spiritual gifts in order to help people who are far from God become fully devoted followers of Christ. Life transformation and the eternal destinies of real people depend on the redemptive message entrusted to the local church. Are you willing to do whatever it takes to lead your church effectively so God’s message of hope can change the world? Then this book is for you. Courageous Leadership is Bill Hybels’ magnum opus, a book far too important to be written before its time. Only now, after nearly thirty years leading his own church from a handful of people with a burning vision into a globe-spanning kingdom force—only after almost three decades of victories and setbacks, of praying hard and risking big—is Hybels ready at last to share the lessons he has learned, and continues to learn, about Christian leadership. Too much is at stake for you not to maximize your spiritual gift of leadership, insists Hybels. In this passionate, powerful book, he unpacks the tools, tasks, and challenges of your calling. You’ll discover the power of vision and how to turn it into action. You’ll gain frontline insights for developing a kingdom dream team, discovering your leadership style, developing other leaders, making decisions, walking with God, embracing change, staying your God-given course, and much, much more. Drawing on his own richly varied life experiences, Hybels fleshes out vital principles with riveting firsthand stories. This is far more than another book on leadership strategies and techniques. You’ll find those topics in here, to be sure. But beyond them, you’ll find the very essence of one of today’s foremost Christian leaders—his fervent commitment to evangelism and discipleship and his zeal to inspire fellow church leaders even as he seeks to keep growing as a leader himself. If unchurched people matter to you . . . if you love seeing believers serve passionately with their spiritual gifts . . . if God’s heartbeat for the church is your heartbeat as well . . . then this book is a must. Courageous Leadership will convince you to lead with all your might, all your skill, and all your faith. And it will give you the tools to do just that.

Francis Chan

Eugene Peterson

Highly respected, best-selling spiritual mentors, including Francis Chan, Eugene Peterson (The Message), Bill Hybels, and others, provide guidance as you navigate uncharted roads ahead.

A Personal Guide for Your Journey

The Road We Must Travel

This analysis of the inconsistencies in the lifestyle of today's Christians is accompanied by specific examples and discussion of how Christians can restore authentic Christianity in their personal lives and thus nurture a troubled world.

Becoming an Authentic Christian

Honest to God?

Sherry Harney

Where do we find hope, strength, and comfort? Through faith in Jesus we can be connected to the heart of the Father with inseparable love. Romans chapter eight contains a message of hope-filled optimism. We are loved children and our Father will never let go of us. Nothing can separate us from the love of God...nothing.

Bill Hybels

About

Books

Join the club