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A practical and insightful guide for developing relational leadership skills.
Foreword by Ralph Erwin McManus

Relational Intelligence offers church leaders a guide for learning to increase their ability to form and sustain stronger and healthier relationships with everyone in their organizations-staff, lay leaders, members, prospective members, and others. Based on the premises that we often aware of relational awkwardness in others but blind to it in ourselves, the book shows how leaders can learn to be smarter in the way they conduct their relationships.

- Offers practical tips and engaging anecdotes to show church leaders how to develop their relational intelligence.
- Delineates the key ingredients that make leaders relationally intelligent.

Author Steve Saccone reveals how to pay attention to nuances of relational dynamics and offers suggestions for way to handle relationships more intelligently and productively.

A practical, creative guide for planting or redesigning a church and developing leaders.

Written by Linda Bergquist and Allan Karr, two experienced church planters and mentors/teachers, Church Turned Inside Out offers church leaders a new way to think about how their churches are run. Taking cues from the world of business and offering a multi-disciplined and leading-edge approach, the authors stress the importance of incorporating the design process when establishing a new church or planning the ongoing future of an established church. This groundbreaking book also includes ideas for becoming a more effective church leader.

- Offers a practical perspective and a multi-disciplinary approach to establishing a new church or running an existing one
- Includes important lessons for nurturing church leadership skills
- Shows how to honor a church's purpose while embracing its unique culture
- Contains a wealth of illustrative models, examples, charts, and other visual aids

A movement is rumbling through the body of Christ—a revolutionary army of people giving hope to a hurting world through practical, personal acts of service.

In Servolution, Dino Rizzo shares the story of his relentless pursuit of ways to bless the lost, poor, and hurting people of his community in Jesus’ name. You’ll be amazed and inspired by the incredible ways God has used Healing Place Church to meet the needs of thousands of people. Each chapter includes practical suggestions and resources for use in any church.

Be encouraged by the testimony of how God’s Spirit can use a simple passion to serve to revolutionize your approach to ministry. Wherever you are and whatever your gifts, you can play a vital role in this revolution through serving.

Start your Servolution at www.servolution.org

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This elegant, hard-covered coffee table book is packed with stories and pictures of people who are making a difference in their second half. These people stand out in our culture not because of their talent, success or fame, but because they looked inside their hearts and discovered what it is that God created them to do, listened carefully to their unique calling and then summoned the courage to live it out.

This book not only inspires, it provides simple ideas to make the second half the most exciting and fulfilling season of life.

Download Sample Chapters: Patrick McConathy; Linda Hood

Learn More at www.halftime.org/thesecondhalf

Since the publication fifteen years ago of Bob Buford’s award-winning and newly updated and expanded bestseller, Halftime, more than half a million men and women have made the halftime journey from success to significance. If you are contemplating that journey yourself or have already started, Beyond Halftime is for you.

“This book is the result of fifteen years of answering questions about halftime,” writes Buford. “I’ve focused on the areas that seem to come up most from those who contact me, and I’ve answered them in much the same way I would answer you if we sat down together over coffee. So in a very real sense, this book allows me to be your companion as you negotiate the ups and downs of the whole halftime experience.”

Beyond Halftime invites you to slow down and take time to listen—really listen—to the voice of your heart and the rhythms of your life. The discoveries you’re about to make during this vital phase of your life can’t be rushed.

Enjoy this wise guidance on the things that matter most in moving from gaining success to leaving a legacy. Your most rewarding years lie ahead of you. Welcome to the journey.