Professional Reading:  What ABC-NE Pastors are Reading

ABC Nebraska Pastors and Staff are invited to e-mail their submissions to area.minister.ne@charter.net

Please place the words "BOOK LIST" in the Subject line. (Note:  We are limiting space to five books apiece.  If you want to add to your list please tell me what to delete.)

Clergy Book
Steve Bils

McMannus, Erwin Raphael, The Barbarian Way, Nelson, 2005  

Miller, Donald, Searching for God Knows What, Nelson, 2004

Jeff Johnson (National Ministries)

Practicing Greatness:  Seven Disciplines of Extraordinary Leaders by Reggie McNeal

Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership:  How to Become an Effective Leader by Confronting Potential Failures by Gary McIntosh and Samuel Rima

At the Heart of Leadership:  How to get results with emotional intelligence by Joshua Freedman

Why CEO’s Fail:  the 11 behaviors that can derail your climb to the top and how to manage them by David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo 

If This Is the Way the World Works:  Science, Congregations, and Leadership by William O. Avery and Beth Ann Gaede

Off Road Disciplines:  Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders by Earl Creps
Dave Lundholm

Burt, Steven E. and Roper, Hazel Ann, The Little Church that Could, Judson, Valley Forge, 2000.

[Vacation Reading]  Pollan, Michael, The Omnivore's Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals Penguin, London 2006.

Pollan, Michael, In Defense of Food

Weil, Andrew, Healthy Aging [End Vacation Reading]

Boursier, Helen T., Telling it With Style: Evangelism for Every Personality Type, Intervarsity, Downers Grove, 1995

 
Robin Stoops

Falling for God, Saying Yes to His Extravagant Proposal   Gary W. Moon, Shawbooks 2004

 

Ancient Christian Devotional, A Year of Weekly Readings    Thomas C. Oden, InterVarsity Press, 2007

 

Shaped by God’s Heart, the Passion and Practices of Missional Churches    Milfred Minatrea, Jossey-Bass Press 2004

 

Picturing the Gospel, Tapping the Power of the Bible’s Imagery    Neil Livingstone, InterVarsity Press, 2007
Darren Stroh

John Piper The Passion of Christ (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2004), 122 pgs. ISBN: 1-58134-608-5  (Covers 50 reasons why Christ went willingly to the cross.  An easy, but good read.  I'm using it as a personal Lenten devotional).  

Bill Hybels, Making life work: Putting God's Wisdom into Action.  (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1998) 206 pages.  ISBN:  0-8308-1788-3.  (Study of the book of Proverbs).

AW Tozer, Success and the Christian:  The Cost and Criteria of Spiritual Maturity (Camp Hill, PA: Christian Publications, 1994)  ISBN: 0-87509-537-2  

Warren Wiersbe, On Being a Servant of God, revised.  (Grand Rapids:  Baker Books, 2007) 140 pages.  ISBN: 10:8010-6819-3

David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, UnChristian: What a new generation really thinks about Christianity...and why it matters.  (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2007) 246 pages.  ISBN: 10: 0-8010-1300-3

 
Kevin Walden McIntosh, Gary.  One Church Four Generations: Understanding and reaching all ages in your church. Grand Rapids, MI.  (c) 2002 Baker Books, 248 pgs.

Fee, Gordon and Douglas Stuart. How to read the Bible for All Its Worth.  (Third Edition)  Grand Rapids, MI.  (c) 2003 Zondervan Publishing 275 pgs.

Mulholland, M. Robert Jr.  Shaped By The Word:  The Power of Scripture in Spiritual Formation.  (Revised) Nashville, TN.  (c) 2000 Upper Room Books.

Detweiler, Craig and Barry Taylor.  A Matrix of Meanings:  Finding God in Pop Culture.  Grand Rapids, MI.  (c) 2003 Baker Academic, 318 pgs.

Flory, Richard W. and Donal E. Miller (Editors).  Gen X Religion.  New York, NY.  (c) 2000 Routledge,249 pgs.
Rick Wheatley

Rainer, Thom S., The Unchurched Next Door, 2003, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI  

Rainer, Thom S. Surprising Insights From The Unchurced, 2001, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI

Tom Wiles

Wright, Christpher J.H., The Mission God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative, © 2006, IVP Academic.

Peterson, Eugene H., The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways that Jesus is the Way, © 2007 Eerdmans.

Buechner, Frederick, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons, © 2006, Harper San Francisco.
The Good Soil Churches

Boursier, Helen T., Telling it With Style: Evangelism for Every Personality Type, Intervarsity, Downers Grove, 1995

Dana, Daniel Conflict Resolution, 2001, McGraw-Hill, USA

Stanley, Andy, Visioneering, Multnoma, ©1999

Wills, Dick, Waking to God's Dream,© 1999 Abingdon Press, Nashville.

Foster, Richard J., Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth, © 1978, 1988, Harper Collins, New York.

Jones, Laurie Beth, The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life, © 1996, Hyperion, New York.

Laubach, David C., 12 Steps to Congregational Transformation: A Practical Guide for Leaders, © 2006, Judson Press, Valley Forge, PA.