Book summaries
Leader’s Edge summaries: the argument of a book in a few minutes. Page 18 of 21 · 485 in all.
Marching Off the Map: Inspire Students to Navigate a Brand New World
With a focus on the youngest up and coming generation, Elmore outlines the differences that these kids bring to our society. He then goes into an exploration of how we might consider helping these kids as they deal with the realities of their sometimes-shocking reality.
Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End
Keeping the end of our life in mind should shape how we live our lives now. Living life backwards means taking the certainty of our death and letting that inform our life as we progressively journey there as pilgrims in this world.
Author Interview: Steve Moore
This book grew out of Steve Moore’s multiyear study of leadership conversations in the Bible. Leadership lessons are drawn from the conversation and interwoven with additional insight and experience from the author’s life. The first chapter relays how the author evaluated the conversations and chose the “top 10.”…
Top 10 Leadership Conversations in the Bible
This book grew out of Steve Moore’s multiyear study of leadership conversations in the Bible. Leadership lessons are drawn from the conversation and interwoven with additional insight and experience from the author’s life. The first chapter relays how the author evaluated the conversations and chose the “top 10.”…
Worn Out by Obedience: Recovering from Spiritual Fatigue
Using King David’s experience of his extended stay in Ziklag (1 Samuel 27-30), when he was in a state of fatigue and disobedience, Ron Moore (pastor of The Bible Chapel, Pittsburg, and President and Bible teacher of Back to the Bible) shows how God often molds our hearts in seasons of brokenness, loneliness…
Missions: How the Local Church Goes Global
astor Andy Johnson makes a solid biblical case as to why every local church should be engaged in global missions. With strong biblical support he demonstrates how churches are to train, send, and support missionaries. One value of the book is that it deals with 3 issues churches grapple with today.
Author Interview: Denny Spitters & Matthew Ellison
Far too long many churches have become either distracted or sidelined by prevailing misconceptions of what their mission to the world should be. Through this book Spitters and Ellison have taken up the banner of giving much needed correction to misunderstandings and mistaken mission practices that have become…
When Everything is Missions
Far too long many churches have become either distracted or sidelined by prevailing misconceptions of what their mission to the world should be. Through this book Spitters and Ellison have taken up the banner of giving much needed correction to misunderstandings and mistaken mission practices that have become…
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
This is a practical “how to” manual for learning how to coach people. Coaching is presented as listening and getting people to surface their own solutions. The author provides a simple, seven question approach.
Chasing Contentment: Trusting God in a Discontented Age
The biblical practice of contentment can seem like a lost art in our discontented age characterized by impatience, overspending, grumbling, and unhappiness. But even the apostle Paul said that he learned to be content in any and every circumstance. Erik Raymond helps us understand what biblical contentment is …
Break Open the Sky: Saving Our Faith from a Culture of Fear
In this book Stephan Bauman, former president of World Relief, makes the case that even though compared to previous generations we are safer, live longer, hurt less, and earn more, we are also more afraid than ever. We have fallen prey to a culture of fear.
Author Interview: Stephan Bauman
Stephan Bauman, former president of World Relief, makes the case that even though compared to previous generations we are safer, live longer, hurt less, and earn more, we are also more afraid than ever. Bauman invites us, and tells how to live in authentic faith, free from fear and its debilitating symptoms that…
The Year Without Pants
This is a book about the author’s experience as a WordPress employee with a focus on the company’s culture and decentralized workforce. The author, a former Microsoft employee, describes what it is like to work for a company which has almost no physical workspaces.
I Didn’t Sign Up for This
When everything goes wrong in life, it’s easy to give in to the pain, frustration, and anger that threaten to overwhelm us. Though we may feel like giving up, there is life and hope after our world gets turned upside down. Westfall says that it’s often in the face of fear and loss that we truly learn to live with…
Author Interview: Tabor Laughlin
In the author’s ten years living in China, Chinese friends and foreign friends alike have told him that in many ways he is more like a Chinese person than an American. Taking his cue from the Apostle Paul, “I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some” (1 Cor 9:22), Laughlin…
Becoming Native to Win the Natives
In the author’s ten years living in China, Chinese friends and foreign friends alike have told him that in many ways he is more like a Chinese person than an American. Taking his cue from the Apostle Paul, “I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some” (1 Cor 9:22), Laughlin…
Multipliers (Revised and Updated)
This a leadership book which divides leaders into two basic categories. There are multipliers and there are diminishers. The former multiply the potential of other people while the latter leaders diminish those around them.
Becoming Curious
This is a book about the discipline of asking questions. Tygrett suggests that curiosity moves us deeper into the lives of people around us, leads to opportunities we never knew existed, helps us understand our emotions, and if focused on Jesus, will make us more like him. Instead of settling for easy answers in…
Author Interview: Hans Finzel
An informal conversation with Hans Finzel to discuss his book Top Ten Ways to Be a Great Leader . Listen as Finzel talks about the word LEADERSHIP, and masterfully uses the letters to outline the ten essential skills every leader must master.
Top Ten Ways to Be a Great Leader
This is Hans Finzel’s tenth book on leadership. That being so, there is quite a bit of overlap from what he has written in his previous books. But, even so, there is much value here, especially for the new leader who wants to lead well.
God Has A Name
God has a name, and it is “Yahweh.” This one simple idea has the potential to radically alter how you relate to God, not as a doctrine, but as a relational being who responds to you in an elastic, back-and-forth way. This book is a simple, yet helpful guide to what God says about himself.
Transcending Mission
Missiology is becoming the new dismal science in that it focuses almost exclusively on deconstructionism. Michael Stroope’s, Transcending Mission: The Eclipse of Modern Tradition, is a deconstructionist tour de force. Stroope critiques the language behind mission, missions and missionary while arguing that the…
Author Interview: Jay Matenga
This book is the result of a qualitative research project on mobilization that collected data from around the globe. The text was analyzed and a broad set of results were gathered under the headings of perceptions of mobilization, items that accelerate mobilization, and finally, items that retard or impede…
Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit
What are the virtues of conduct that identifies Christ-likeness for the believer? Building off a very basic daily prayer of John Stott’s that concludes by asking God to help one live the fruit of the Spirit found in Galatians 5:22-23, Chris Wright invites us to live a life in step with the Spirit by cultivating the…