Dave Carder

Don't Blow Up Your Ministry

Church Leadership & Ministry

“This book is not just for pastors but a guide for each of us, from the professionally trained to those who volunteer. Why? Because we all started with a passion, a calling, a felt ministry for those we came alongside. It contributed to our sense of significance, developed compassion, and created feelings of belonging while caring for others. Yet this sense of serving and sacrifice can get us into trouble, wear us out, and make us hate what we used to love! Though Don't Blow Up Your Ministry focuses on pastors, the concepts are applicable to all who serve, both in a vocation or as a volunteer. Don't destroy what you love doing most. Be proactive, drawing on the safeguards and practices laid out in Don't Blow Up Your Ministry, and looking back you will be grateful for the long-lasting, immense satisfaction of your calling.”

From Trauma to Transformation

Christian Living

“From Trauma to Transformation takes the reader on a journey of learning how to maximize betrayal’s chaos and pain as a stimulus for Spirit-led growth. Not because change is required or caused the spouse to make bad choices but rather because pain has opened a door, a chance to do things differently. While set in the arena of sexual betrayal, this book is going to prove helpful to all who are attempting to work through any trauma. Deb helps you learn to live daily with the tension of both/and as you practice ‘the last of human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances’ (Viktor Frankl). This is no trite self-help. This is a deep dive, no-holds-barred, gentle journey with the Holy Spirit. I just wish it had been available when I first started working with my couples many years ago!”

Preventing Ministry Failure

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Thirty years ago the moral failure of my second senior pastor forced me to start working with adultery in ministry. I wish I had had this material then. After years of everyone telling us pastors that we need to be in a small group where we can be open and vulnerable, Michael Todd Wilson and Brad Hoffmann finally provide for us a guide that not only tells us but shows us how to do that. I know of nothing else like it for those of us in vocational Christian ministry, and I can't wait to use it in my own group.”