Recommended Reading

Here are some books I recommend. Links to Amazon.com are provided for convenience only.

Ministry in the Marketplace

The 9 to 5 Window: How Faith can Transform the Workplace by Os Hillman

Evangelism

Walk Across the Room by Bill Hybels
UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity…and Why it Matters by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons

Spiritual Growth

The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard

Self Improvement

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey
Crucial Confrontations: Tools for talking about broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

One of my team has challenged me to list my Top 10 Book Recommendations. This will take some time (I’m not good at being that selective). I will do it in 3 categories – Business, Christian, and Fiction.

Business

1. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable by Seth Godin
2. QBQ! The Question Behind the Question by John Miller
3. Seven Habits of Highly Successful People by Stephen Covey (classic, but combine with the next one)
4. Getting Things Done by David Allen
5. Crucial Confrontations: Tools for talking about broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
6. Good to Great by Jim Collins
7. The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

Christian

1. The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
2. Glocalization by Bob Roberts, Jr.
3. Search and Rescue: Becoming a Disciple Who Makes a Difference by Neil Cole
4. The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns

Fiction

1. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R. Tolkien (need to read all four)
2. Harry Potter series (Do the ends justify the means? What does it mean to be a friend?)
3. Brad Thor (Fast action)
4. Robert Ludlum’s Bourne Series (Classic spy novels, the movies are good in their own right, and different than the novels)
5. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (What does faith mean?)
6. Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
7. Sherlock Holmes (classic detective stories)
8. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (fantasy)
9. Joel Rosenberg (chilling reading, especially when you look at the story and when it was written)
10. Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (do you have your towel?)