The Discipleship Opportunity: Leading a Great-Commission Church in a Post-Everything World
The book presents a discipleship framework that seeks to equip and empower pastors to lead, evangelize, disciple, and preach differently in today’s …
Category: Leaders Edge
The “Leader’s Edge” series offers in-depth book summaries and interviews with authors in four categories: Leadership, Missions and Ministry, Spiritual Formation, and Missionary Biographies. These summaries inform, stimulate, and provoke profitable discussions among readers. This series is a valuable resource for leaders, missionaries, and those seeking spiritual growth, offering actionable insights and fostering thoughtful discussions.
Great Commission Spirituality: Abiding in Christ, Serving in Obscurity
Great Commission servants can often feel overwhelmed, struggling to maintain steadfastness and joy through the pressures and obscurities of the work.
Leading with Significance: How to Create a Magnetic, People-First Culture
Joey Havens has served in various leadership positions, including almost ten years as Executive Partner, with Horne LLP, one of the leading accountin…
Behind the Ranges
James Outram Fraser, known as “Fraser of Lisuland,” was raised in a well-to-do British home and was deeply impacted by the life of his godly mothe…
Joyful Perseverance: Staying Fresh through the Ups and Downs of Ministry
This book, written by the well-known former director of Youth for Christ, Sri Lanka, encourages ministry leaders to rely on God’s grace to find joy,…
Lead with Prayer – The Spiritual Habits of World-Changing Leaders
This book is a collaborative effort by the three authors. Ryan Skoog leads the church planting group Venture. Greer is the President and CEO of HOPE I…
Author Interview: Karl Vaters
As seen in the main title, this book addresses the concept of de-sizing the church (i.e., “choosing to evaluate the health and vitality of a congreg…
De-Sizing the Church: How Church Growth Became a Science, Then an Obsession, and What’s Next
Big churches are not the problem. Bigness is the problem. Bigness is an obsessive mindset” (page 12).
The People that Time Forgot
Alice and Don Gibbons went to Irian Jaya (Papua New Guinea) aboard a freighter in 1953, sent by the Christian and Missionary Alliance, as part of a …
Metamorph – Transforming Your Life and Leadership (Inspired Wisdom from the Extraordinary, Ordinary People of the Bible)
Kate Coleman was the first Black woman Baptist minister in the UK. She has served as president of the UK Baptist Union as well as chair of the UK Evan…