Tulgan, BruceThe Manager’s Pocket Guide to Generation X
(HRD Press, 1997) 102 pages, paperback, $7.95. Obtain from HRD Press, 22 Amherst Road, Amherst, MA 01002, 1-800-822-2801, http://www.hrdpress.com
Written by, for, and about the elusive Gen X Generation. This book has value two ways. For church leaders it is a definitive, short work on this generation. For […]
By Scott Thumma and Dave Travis
Jossey_Bass, 2007
Crow is not my (Bill Easum) favorite dish to eat, but as this book points out, I’ve had to eat one of the myths so artfully debunked by the authors. This is the most definitive work done to date on the mega church (2007).
Towns, Elmer, C. Peter Wagner & Thom S. Rainer
The Everychurch Guide to Growth
(Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1998), 205 pages, paperback, $12.99. Obtain from Broadman & Holman Publishers, Nashville, TN.
A more than excellent book describing the “How To’s” of moving beyond the traditional worship barriers of 200, 400, and 1,000. Although the language […]
Missional Worship is a refreshing and interested new look into worship that goes beyond the worship service and boundaries of the sanctuary. In her quest to take worship to another level the author takes on everyone from traditional mainline to those in the emergent movement. What makes this book different from other attempts to […]
Missional Worship is a refreshing and interested new look into worship that goes beyond the worship service and boundaries of the sanctuary. In her quest to take worship to another level the author takes on everyone from traditional mainline to those in the emergent movement. What makes this book different from other attempts to […]
Townley, Cathy
Designing Worship Teams
Designing Worship Teams, by Cathy Townley (Nashville, TN, Abingdon Press, 2002) 174 pages, paperback, $17.00. Obtain from Abingdon Press, 201 Eighth Avenue South, P.O. Box 801, Nashville, TN 37202-0801.
This is one of those books that people responsible for worship should read, especially artists. The book is written from the artist’s perspective […]
If you’re looking for a well written summary of the cultural factors behind the emergence of the Emergents (no pun intended) this book is for you. Tickle couches the entire drama within the context of “who or where is the authority?”
I have two problems with the book. First, like all emergent writings the verdict […]
Tapscott, DanGrowing Up Digital
(New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1998), 338 pages, hardback, $22.95. Obtain from McGraw-Hill, 800-262-4729.
This book just made my top ten best list for the 1990’s. I give it four stars. Finally, a book about the millennial generation that makes sense. Tapscott calls them the N-Gen for Net Generation. He uses the dates […]
Sweet, LeonardSoul Salsa: 17 Surprising Steps For Godly Living In The 21st
Soul Salsa: 17 Surprising Steps For Godly Living In The 21st Century
(Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI, 2000) 224 pages, hardback, $18.99. Obtain from Zondervan Publishing House, 5300 Patterson Ave. S.E., Grand Rapids, MI 49530.
Soul Salsa is vintage Sweet. The author shares seventeen […]