Donahue and Robinson, Walking the Small Group Tightrope

Walking the Small Group TightropeBill Donahue & Russ Robinson

(Grand Rapids, MI, Zondervan, 2003), 203 pages, paperback, $12.99. (Obtain from Zondervan, 5300 Patterson SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49530.)

This has to be one of the top five best books on small groups ever written. Its practicality is amazing.  I found myself saying “yes” more times than I […]

Careaga, Andrew, eMinistry

( Kregal Publications, Grand Rapids, MI, 2001) 216 pages, paperback. Obtain from Kregal Publications, P.O. Box 2607, Grand Rapids, MI 49501.

This easy-to-read book, based on the observation of volunteer youth pastor and journalist Andrew Careaga, offers solid foundational material on the importance of the Internet for the coming generations. It is a solid approach […]

Bailey, James, After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence

(New York:; Basic Books:: 1996, 277 pgs., hardback. Obtain from Harper Collins. $25.00)

Baily has struck a home run in his reading of history. He identifies three revolutions that have changed the way humans think. The first revolution was geometry. Ancient people wanted to know where they were in relation to the universe. The math […]

Arn, Win and Charles, The Master’s Plan for Making Disciples

(Baker Books, 1998) 175 pages, paperback, $10.99. Obtain from Baker Book House Co., P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49516-6287.

This may be the last book on evangelism you need on your bookshelf. The book is based on one assumption: The most effective was as well as the New Testament way to make disciples is […]

Preaching with Integrity

Preaching with Integrity

Kenton C. Anderson (Grand Rapids, MI, Kregel Publications, 2003), 144 pages, paperback, $10.99.  (Obtain from Kregel, Inc., PO Box 2607, Grand Rapids, MI 49501.)

Even you do not like fiction, you won’t be able to put down this book. Anderson does not just tell us how to preach with integrity, he shows us through […]

Renting

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There are at least three major issues regarding setup:

1) the chairs: are they already fixed in seating, or do you have to set them up?
2) the sound system (and lighting, if you require that as well) will require quite a bit of […]

Blank, Warren, The Nine Natural Laws of Leadership

(New York: American Management Association, 1995) 240. Obtain from AMA: 1-800-262-9699

Blanks draws nine leadership essentials from his understanding of quantum physics. His connection of leadership with quantum physics makes this a complementary book to my book, Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers. The most interesting twist is that Blank describes leadership as an event that […]

Kevin Kelly, New Rules for the New Economy

Kelly, KevinNew Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a C

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World

(New York, NY: Viking, 1998), 172 pages, hardcover, $19.95. Obtain from Viking, Penguin Putnam, Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014.

New Rules for The New Economy was just added […]

Donald E. Miller, Reinventing American Protestantism

Miller, Donald E.Reinventing American Protestantism
(University of California Press, 1997) 245 pages, hardback, $27.50. Obtain from University of California Press, 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720, 510-643-0682.Few books like this one come along in a lifetime. Anyone interested in reaching and discipling unchurched or pre-Christian people born between 1945 and 1970 (anti-institutional Baby Boomers) will […]