Pinchot and Pellma, Intrapreneuring in Action

Pinchot, Gifford and Pellma, RonIntrapreneuring in Action: A Handbook for Business Innovatio

Intrapreneuring in Action: A Handbook for Business Innovation, by Gifford Pinchot and Ron Pellman (San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 1999) 176 pages, paperback, $14.95. Obtain from Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 450 Sansome St., Ste 1200, San Francisco, CA 94111, (415) 288-0260

Picking up where his best […]

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 […]

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 […]

In Growing Churches, Plan B is Plan A

The countdown ticked down the seconds on the screens as they waited for the opening chords of the worship band. The worship center was typically semi-crowded as the early birds and the on timers drifted in, glancing at the countdown … weighing up if they had time to go grab a coffee. They waited […]

Gerard Kelly, RetroFuture

Kelly, GerardRetroFuture

(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 237 pages, paperback, $12.99, Obtain from InterVarsity Press, PO Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515.

RetroFuture is a must read. It is clear, concise, and biblically pointed in the questions that it poses. Anyone can understand this book without forfeiting any depth whatsoever. The author is a gift […]

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 […]

Gallup and Lindsay, The Gallup Guide

Gallup Jr., George & Lindsay, D. MichaelThe Gallup Guide

The Gallup Guide, by George Gallup Jr. & D. Michael Lindsay (Loveland, CO, Group Publishing, 2002) 175 pages, paperback, $16.99. (Obtain from Group Publishing, P.O. Box 481, Loveland, CO 80539.

Churches wanting to use surveys to interpret the trends in their area or the hopes and dreams […]

Blanchard, Carlos, Randolph, Three Keys of Empowerment

(San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 1999) 276 pages, hardback, $20.00. Obtain from Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

A highly practical companion to Empowerment Takes More Than Minute that can help church leaders who: one, wish to change from a command and control to a permission-giving, empowered organization; two, want to change from a hierarchical, […]

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 […]