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Category Archives: Resources
The Church Recovery Guide
The Church Recovery Guide: How Your Congregation Can Adapt and Thrive After a Crisis by Karl Vaters ($5.99 for the Kindle edition on Amazon) is a quick read by one of the most respected voices in the Assemblies of God … Continue reading
The Post-Quarantine Church
The Post-Quarantine Church: Six Urgent Challenges & Opportunities That Will Determine the Future of Your Congregation by Thom S. Rainer ($11.06 for the Kindle edition on Amazon) is a brief book (111 pages) on one of the most relevant topics … Continue reading
Digital Ministry: Pastoring in a Pandemic
Digital Ministry: Pastoring in a Pandemic by Myron Pierce ($3.99 for the Kindle edition on Amazon) is a quick and extremely short read. However, the book raises a number of thoughtful points about church and ministry during and after the … Continue reading
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I Am a Follower
I Am A Follower: The Way, Truth, and Life of Following Jesus by Leonard Sweet ($5.49 for the Kindle edition on Amazon) is a somewhat contrarian book that challenges the prevalent “everything rises and falls on leadership” premise. Sweet insists, We … Continue reading
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Believing God for More
What If?: My Story of Believing God for More . . . Always More is Pastor Tommy Barnett’s 2019 autobiography ($8.49 for the Kindle edition on Amazon). Tommy inspires and encourages me. He always has. I have attended his seminars. … Continue reading
Do The Next Right Thing
As an avid reader, I often check the best-seller lists on Amazon for new, interesting, and value-priced books. Therefore, when I recently discovered Emily P. Freeman’s The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions as a … Continue reading
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How To Make Better Decisions
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, by Chip and Dan Heath, is a great read. Plus, as of the date of this post (February 3, 2020), the Kindle edition is bargain-priced at only $1.99 on Amazon! … Continue reading
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What Will You Do With Your Open Door?
Sometimes one book leads to another. In John Mark Comer’s book, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, he mentions meeting regularly with John Ortberg. Therefore, I found myself reading a John Ortberg book mentioned in Comer’s footnotes, All the Places to … Continue reading
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The Ruthless Elimination Of Hurry
Recently, my wife Carolyn suggested a book she discovered during her personal reading, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer ($12.99 for the Kindle edition on Amazon). Comer is a pastor and member of the millennial generation who has … Continue reading
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How to Overcome the Tyranny of the Urgent
During our 2019 PMN staff coaching sessions with Sam Farina, he recommended the booklet, Tyranny of the Urgent by Charles E. Hummel ($1.99 for the Kindle edition on Amazon). It is an easy and quick read. The entire booklet contains just … Continue reading
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