Books Books BOOKS!

Recommendations? Oh, this is just the beginning…

The Complete Worship Service: Creating a Taste of Heaven on Earth

The Complete Worship Leader

Emerging Worship: Creating Worship Gatherings for New Generations

It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God

Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

The Creative Life: A Workbook for Unearthing the Christian Imagination

Why I Left The Contemporary Christian Music Movement: Confessions Of A Former Worship Leader

The Revolutionary Communicator: Seven Principles Jesus Lived To Impact, Connect And Lead

Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium

Jesus in the Margins: Finding God in the Places We Ignore

Essence of the Church, The: A Community Created by the Spirit

Net Words: Creating High-Impact Online Copy

There’s a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent Guide to Life

Great Quotes from Great Leaders

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Do the Right Thing

The Shack

Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times

LEADERSHIP and SELF-DECEPTION

Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Leadership Gold: Lessons I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Leading

Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

Axiom by Bill Hybels
It by Craig Groeschel
Wild Goose Case by Mark Batterson
Crazy Love by Francis Chan
Talent is Never Enough by John Maxwell
Death by Love by Mark Driscoll
Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright
The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller
The Reason For God by Timothy Keller
The Great Omission by Dallas Willard
The Culturally Savvy Christian by Dick Staub

Chris´s last blog post..Life Goals

“A Tale of Three Kings” ~ Gene Edwards
“What Happens When Women Pray” ~ Evelyn Christenson (yes it does say “women” and it may be somewhat outdated as far as time period, but the principles are great!)
“Breakthrough Prayer” ~ Jim Cymbala
“The Difference Maker” ~ John C. Maxwell
“Envy, the enemy w/in” ~ Bob Sorge

Sandi Floria´s last blog post..Merry Christmas From The Florias

Michael Franzese’s Blood Covenant

Stephen Baldwin’s Unusual Suspect

So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore..an unexpected journey…by Wayne Jacobsen & Dave Coleman

I’m actually doing something a little different this year. I’m pulling out the meaningful books I’ve read in the past and re-reading them before getting to any new ones. I figure I need to go deeper with solid concepts and not just get more….

Clayton Bell´s last blog post..Be honest. Christmas Eve is coming.

and here’s more:

singer trilogy

john adams

Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God

The Air I Breathe: Worship as a Way of Life

The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God’s Call to Justice

Emerging Worship: Creating Worship Gatherings for New Generations

Unceasing Worship: Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts

Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers

The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way

Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading

A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction

Living the Resurrection: The Risen Christ in an Everyday Life

Leap Over a Wall : Earthy Spirituality for Everyday Christians

Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer

Run With the Horses

Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Life with God: Reading the Bible for Spiritual Transformation

Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home

Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith

Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World

The Challenge of the Disciplined Life: Christian Reflections on Money, Sex, and Power

Prayers from the Heart

Raising Sons and Loving It

Wild At Heart

Stupid Movie Lines

Devotional:
My Upmost for His Highest~Oswald Chambers
The Pursuit of God~A.W Tozier
The Handbook to Prayer~Ken Boa
Wild at Heart~John Ehteredge
Waking the Dead~John Ehteredge
Uprising~Erwin McManus
Facing Your Giants~Max Lucado

Apologetics:
The Case for Christ~Lee Strobel
The Case for the Creator~Lee Strobel
Evidence that Demands a Verdict-Josh McDowell
Mere Christianity~C.S. Lewis
The Kingdom Of the Cults~Walter Martin

Parenting:
KId CEO~Ed Young Jr.
Dateable: Are you, Are They~Haley Demarco and Justin Lookadoo
Preparing for Every Young Man’s Battle~Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker
Every Young Man’s Battle~Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker
Every young Woman’s Battle~Stephen Arterburn and Shannon Etheredge
Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce~Elizabeth Marquardt

Marriage:
The Best Question Ever~Andy Stanley
Men in Middle Life Crisis~Jim Conway
Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce~Elizabeth Marquardt

Things that Make you go HMMMMM.
The Screwtape Letters-C.S. Lewis
Provocations-Soren Keirkergaard
unChristian~Gabe Lyons and David Kinnamin

Youth Ministry
reThink~Steve Wright and Chris Graves
The Last Christian Generation~Josh McDowel
Essential Church~Thom S. Rainer and Sam S. Rainer

Loui,

Dude, I’ve read both of those 3,000 times.

Got ‘em memorized I think…

wow, what a great list from all your comments… I think one of the most popular resolutions this year is to read more. I am not an avid reader at all but want to get back into reading, great list here to start with

Scott Fillmer´s last blog post..A Blog’s Look at the Highs and Lows of 2008

I’ll add the book that shook me up the most this year:

‘The Naked Gospel’ by Andrew Farley ( I have the ebook if you actually read that way.