Missional Renaissance

I just started reading Reggie’s book Missional Renissance. As always, from the beginning i can tell its going to be a good read. What I am seeing is much of what I’ve always said about the use of the word “missional.”- its the only way to describe an authentic church. In an earlier post […]

Erwin McManus, Seizing Your Divine Moment

McManus, ErwinSeizing Your Divine Moment

(Nashville, TN, Thomas Nelson, Inc.) 246 pages, hardback, $19.99.  (Obtain from Thomas Nelson Publishers, a division of Thomas Nelson, Inc., www.ThomasNelson.com.)

What a book!  Every Christian who feels in their gut that there must be more to their faith than they are experiencing should read this book.  Every church leader who knows he or […]

Brian McLaren, A New Kind of Christian

McLaren, BrianA New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritua

A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey, by Brian D. McLaren, (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishing, 2001), 173 pages, hardback, $21.95. Obtain from Jossey-Bass Publishing, 350 Sansome Street, San Francisco, CA 94104-1342, www.josseybass.com

My guess is […]

Brian McLaren, More Ready than You Realize

McLaren, BrianMore Ready Than You Realize – Evangelism as Dance in the Pos

More Ready Than You Realize – Evangelism as Dance in the Postmodern Matrix

(Grand Rapids, MI, Zondervan, 2002) 188 pages, paperback, $10.99. (Obtain from www.zondervan.com)

Another winner from Brian D. McLaren.  His explanation of Aspiritual friendship,@ known to Modernity as Aevangelism,@ is as clear and […]

Everything Must Change

By Brian McLaren

As are all of McLaren’s book, Everything Must Change is extremely well written and researched prose bordering at times on poetry. His theme is simple yet profound – unless everything changes in our approach to the suicidal systems story that drives today’s world life on this planet isn’t sustainable. He argues for Christians to believe a […]

Brian McLaren, The Church on the Other Side

McLaren, BrianThe Church on the Other Side

(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1998, 2000 formerly titled Reinventing Your Church) 227 pages, hardcover, $17.99. Obtain from Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

This is a book worth purchasing even though it is a revision and expanded edition of Reinventing Your Church. The author has added one […]

Here Today, There Tomorrow

Once again McIntosh delivers a down to earth, practical book on how to turn around a dying or troubled church. Gary shares the turnaround wisdom he has gleaned from more than four decades of consulting with more than a 1,000 churches. This isn’t armchair theory; it’s the real deal.

2010, Wesleyan Publishing House

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Morgan McCall Jr. The Lessons of Experience

McCall, Jr.Morgan The Lessons of Experience: How Successful Executives Develop

The Lessons of Experience: How Successful Executives Develop on the Job

(The Free Press, New York, NY 1988) hardback, $27.50. (Obtain from The Free Press, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.

This is a must read book for seminary students, young pastors, judicatories who […]

Michael Mazarr, Global Trends for 2005

Mazarr, Michael J. Global Trends for 2005: An Owner’s Manual for the Next Decad

St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1999) 330 pages, hardback, $27.95. Obtain from St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010)

Although the book is not written for church leaders, the author identifies a host of trends that will affect ministry […]