Bishop's Institute Recommendations

2024/2025 LAY PREACHER COURSE TEXT, SERIES 3 This fifth title in the Elements of Preaching series offers preaching students and clergy an overview of some of the most common sermonic...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconnect to their faith, find inner healing, and build spiritual community--from Glennon Doyle's...

Bestseller! For over fifteen hundred years St. Benedict's Rule has been a source of guidance, support, inspiration, challenge, comfort and discomfort for men and women. It has helped both those...

Become a more effective preacher by understanding the multiple intelligences and learning styles present in your congregation. Most preachers experience the conundrum of reaching some people in the congregation, and not...

One of two selected books for 2024/2025 Licensed Lay Preaching Course from the Bishop's Institute, Diocese of Florida This is a newly revised edition of one of the standard introductory...

"The Wounded Healer" is a hope-filled and profoundly simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community but...

Outreach Resource of the Year Why Does Narcissism Seem to Thrive in Our Churches? We've seen the news stories. Maybe we ourselves have been hurt by a narcissistic church leader....

I'm being pulled in a thousand different directions. As a therapist, Chuck DeGroat hears that line all the time. "I hear it from students and software developers," he says. "I...