Books by Jorge Acevedo

  • EVERYBODY NEEDS SOME CAVE TIME

    With unbridled honesty, Jorge Acevedo explores the "caves" we all experience in life - anger, fear, depression, temptation, grief, hopelessness, and death - and how these caves can be a surprising place where we discover hope, redemption, and space to be with God.

    Everybody Needs Some Cave Time will help you embrace the messiness of life, live in the tension of pain and joy, and discover how God can form your character even in dark seasons. Without denying, dismissing, or avoiding pain, you will learn how to use it to develop more capacity for hope and a spiritual resilience that will transform you into the person you were created to be.

  • A FIELD GUIDE TO METHODIST FRESH EXPRESSIONS

    Fresh Expressions are introducing people to Jesus, expanding the kingdom, and revitalizing churches. Congregations need a practical and theological resource that can help them cultivate Fresh Expressions. As consultants who work nationwide and as innovative pastors, they awaken congregational leaders and ministry teams to a distinctive Wesleyan approach for the Fresh Expressions movement. They show congregations how to cultivate and customize fresh expressions that fit their local context.

  • NEIGHBORING

    "While physical training has some value, training in holy living is useful for everything. It has promise for this life now and the life to come." (1 Timothy 4:8 CEB) Christians crave a deeper, more intimate relationship with God. The spiritual disciplines are historical practices that can guide us in our daily walk, bringing us closer to Christ. The Holy Living series brings a fresh perspective on the spiritual disciplines, enabling us to apply their practices to our current lives. Practicing these spiritual disciplines opens us to God's transforming love.

  • A GRACE FULL LIFE

    Grace is God's all-reaching, never-ending, game-changing love for you and me. In this series, Jorge Acevedo and Wes Olds examine God's Word and discover how grace works in our lives and in our world. A Grace-Full Life seeks to answer the questions: In what ways is God an ever-present God?, Why does God want to have a personal relationship with me?, How can I fully experience and respond to God's grace?, How can I die well surrounded by God's grace?.

  • SENT

    As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them . . . —John 17:18

    God sent Christ into the world as our Savior. That’s what Christmas is all about. In turn, Christ sends us into the world. But do we really understand how, where, and why we are sent? This five-week, churchwide Advent study challenges us through story, art, and Bible study to discover what it means to be Christ’s hands, feet, head, and heart.

  • VITAL

    What behaviors do highly vital congregations have in common? In Vital, Jorge Acevedo passionately and effectively reveals how Grace Church in Cape Coral, Florida, has developed behaviors that result in vital and fruitful ministry. Focusing on spiritual pastoral leadership, lay leadership development, worship, small groups, and service and mission, Acevedo helps leaders of congregations act in their own contexts to develop behaviors essential to vitality.

  • THE HEART OF YOUTH MINISTRY

    Each teenager is on a different level of spiritual maturity. That’s why a youth worker’s greatest challenge is developing a strategy that will serve the needs of young people, each at a distinct level of development.

    The Heart of Youth Ministry will help you systematically develop a plan to reach young people of all ages and levels of commitment.