“ok” describes my experience with this book. It is a good read – but not great. There are a lot of other great books (here, here, or here) on the topic of “vision” that say what Aubrey Malphurs says in a less antiquated way. Antiquated? Yes…outdated. Old. On the verge of irrelevant. In fact, there…
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Book Review: Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath
I must be upfront and honest and say that this isn’t a true book review. For those of you who are familiar with Strengths Finder, it’s less about the book and more about the tool for finding your potential strengths. One of the things I learned by reading the book is that the title is…
Book Review: Church Unique by Will Mancini
I first mentioned Church Unique when I posted about it on my facebook page and have been chomping at the bit to share a review of it. Well, I’ve finally found a day off to share with you some insight. For the most part I really learned a lot from this book. It challenges a…
Book Review: You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church and Rethinking Faith
DISCLAIMER: If you are a follower of Christ- who is already going to heaven – and talk about changing the traditions which define the methods of the “church” (lower case “c” on purpose) irritates you, you’ll definitively not appreciate this book…just sayin’ 🙂 …we must be honest enough with ourselves to determine where our allegiance…
Book Review: Simple Church by Rainer and Geiger
“Many of our churches have become cluttered. So cluttered that people have a difficult time encountering the simple and powerful message of Christ. So cluttered that many people are busy doing church instead of being the church.” When I read “Simple Church” it was both a breath of fresh air and a heavy blow at…
Book Review: Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
Point #1. You need to buy/read this book The subtitle of Chip and Dan Heath’s book, Switch, is “How to change things when change is hard.” I first heard this book at the willow creek leadership summit I was at last year. And after hearing a keynote address regarding this book, I knew I had…
Book Review: How to Start a New Service by Charles Arn
This book found itself on my desk today because of changes that are happening in the fall at Maple Grove Free Church. Because of the growth that we are seeing in our church we are running out of room and are in need of implementing a new service. So this fall we are planning to…
Book Review: How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins
When I read Jim Collin’s book, Good to Great I felt it was a game changer for anyone interested in leading their organization from Good to Great. I personally learned so much about how to build healthy and productive teams from that book that I was very interested to hear what Jim Collin’s had to…
Book Review: Visioneering by Andy Stanley
I absolutely LOVE reading books regarding leadership, vision, etc. A couple of weeks ago I finished reading Andy Stanley’s book, Visioneering “God’s blueprint for developing and maintaining vision.” While this book could be already considered “old” I found myself totally captured by the relevancy of it’s content for today. I’ve ready many books regarding vision…
Book Review: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect by John Maxwell
I received this book Everyone Communicates, Few Connect for free a while ago and have been so excited to dive into it. This is probably one of the books I received this year that I was most interested in getting into, simply because I know that I personally have a lot of room for growth…