Reviews – 2009 Upcoming Reading
Here are the books on my list so far for this year. As always, the links include my Amazon Associate number, so if you love me and want to buy the book click through the link. This will be a good thing.
Finished 2009
- All My Friends Are Superheroes, by Kaufman, Andrew
That’s an hour of my life I’d like to have back – confusing, pointless and with a very unsatisfying ending.
- Messy Spirituality, by Yaconelli, Mike
Wonderful, warm, worthwhile. I’ll happily invest another couple of hours sometime to re-read it – lots to think about. It’s a bit messy itself, but that may be because the author has thoughts flying around at top speed. Great nuggets in here. Mike’s passing was a deep loss.
Now Reading
- The Ascent of a Leader: How Ordinary Relationships Develop Extraordinary Character and Influence, by Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol, Ken McElrath
- Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God, Revised and Expanded, by Henry Blackaby, Richard Blackaby, and Claude King
- The Purpose-Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message & Mission, by Rick Warren
- Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul, by John Eldredge
- Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God, by Mark Batterson
Ordered
- The Big Idea: Focus the MessageMultiply the Impact (Leadership Network Innovation Series), by Dave Ferguson
- Simply Strategic Growth: Attracting a Crowd to Your Church, by Tim Stevens & Tony Morgan
In the Queue
- Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs, by Bill Hybels
- Branding Faith: Why Some Churches and Nonprofits Impact Culture and Others Don’t, by Phil Cooke
- Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication, by Andy Stanley & Lane Jones
- Community of Kindness, by Steve Sjogren & Rob Lewin
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t, by Jim Collins
- ID: The True You, by Mark Batterson
- It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It, by Craig Groesche
- Killing Cockroaches: And Other Scattered Musings on Leadership, by Tony Morgan
- Lasting Impressions: From Visiting to Belonging, by Mark L. Waltz
- Leaders at All Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis, by Ram Charan
- Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Selling Out the Church The Dangers of Church Marketing, by Philip D. Kenneson & James L. Street
- Sticky Church (Leadership Network Innovation Series), by Larry Osborne
- Sticky Faith: 52 Family Messages for Big Church, by Group Publishing
- The Fine Line: Re-envisioning the Gap between Christ and Culture, by Kary Oberbrunne
- The Living Church: Convictions of a Lifelong Pastor, by John R. W. Stott
- The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World (J-B Leadership Network Series), by Alan Roxburgh
- The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream, by John Zogby
- They Like Jesus but Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations, by Dan Kimball
- To Be Told: God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future, by Dan B. Allender
- Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community (Re:Lit), by Tim Chester & Steve Timmis
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, by Seth Godin
- unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity… and Why It Matters, by David Kinnaman & Gabe Lyon
- Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You, by Erwin Raphael McManus
- Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God, by Bob Kauflin
Mike
Dave Travis
Rose
Thanks for this great synopsis. (BTW, “No Name” near bottom of your list was Mel Lawrenz, Elmbrook...