Book summaries
Leader’s Edge summaries: the argument of a book in a few minutes. Page 15 of 21 · 485 in all.
All That’s Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment
Our lives are noisy and filled with too much information and too little wisdom. Many are doing their best in life just to survive. Anderson posits that God wants us to thrive in this chaotic world – to rediscover the beauty and goodness God established in the beginning.
The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance
Every organization, church, ministry or other coordinated activity requires meetings. Rogelberg looks at this important topic with an aim toward providing actionable, researched recommendations on how to make meetings produce desired results.
Author Interview: Dean Inserra
This book equips you to understand and confront cultural Christianity with honesty and grace.
The Unsaved Christian: Reaching Cultural Christianity with the Gospel
Most every “Christian” country is full of cultural Christians. They are Christians by history and tradition, rather than by conviction.
Holy Noticing: The Bible, Your Brain, and the Mindful Space Between Moments
Many today think mindfulness is dangerous, unchristian, or associated with Eastern religions—and often that is true.
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
This book challenges the reader with the question: are you driving your digital habits or are your digital habits driving you?
Author Interview: Eddie Byun
In this book, Eddie Byun provides a practical guide to praying for missionaries. He shows the vital connection between prayer and missions, how our prayers are connected to both the well-being of missionaries and the fruit of their work. Byun offers ways to pray for the various needs that missionaries have on the…
Praying for Your Missionary: How Prayers from Home Can Reach the Nations
The author explores Scripture’s teachings on how to live a disciplined life while offering practical strategies for growth based on the science of self-control.
Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets to Self-Control from the Bible and Brain Science
The author explores Scripture’s teachings on how to live a disciplined life while offering practical strategies for growth based on the science of self-control.
Brave New Work
We are all confronted with the fact that the scale and bureaucracy that once made our organizations strong are liabilities in this era of constant change.
Women in God’s Mission
In my research I have been astounded by this: when women encountering difficult gender hurdles choose forgiveness over bitterness, God often finds ways around the hurdles and gives them even more influence than if the original door they sought had been open to them.
Author Interview: Mary Lederleitner
Mission researcher, Mary Lederleitner, interviewed and surveyed respected women in mission leadership from across the globe to gather their insights, expertise, and best practices. She unveils how women serve in distinctive ways and identifies key traits of faithful connected leaders.
Suffering
Suffering in not pleasant. But when God allows it in our lives, we need a biblical perspective to sustain us and help us cope. Weaving together his personal story, pastoral ministry experience, and biblical insights, Paul David Tripp helps us trust God in the midst of suffering.
Insight: The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us, How We See Ourselves, and Why the Answers Matter More Than We Think
his is a deep dive into a rather narrow, but foundational, subject. Eurich makes the case for why self-awareness is at the core of every leader’s success (or failure).
Forgive Your Way to Freedom
Withholding forgiveness works much like a jail cell in that we surrender our freedom to the dictates of our emotions or other people. Consequently, we are not free to trust, to engage, to love, or to experience life to its fullest.
Author Interview: Jeannie Marie
Connecting with people from different cultural backgrounds simply starts with walking across the street as we join in God’s redemptive plan for our neighborhoods, our cities, and around the world.
Across the Street and Around the World: Following Jesus to the Nations in Your Neighborhood … and Beyond
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Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Unchartered Territory
Utilizing “on the map” and “off the map” as two ways that leaders must understand their challenge, Bolsinger challenges the reader to reconsider how leadership itself works in today’s environment. In a readable format, this book summarizes much of contemporary leadership theory.
Mission Strategy in the City: Cultivation of Inter-ethnic Common Grounds
Kim presents the theoretical foundation needed to accurately understand the unique challenges to urban ministry. He draws on years of experience as he proposes principles to guide the urban missionary seeking to develop a workable strategy.
Redeeming How We Talk
The authors examine why “we have become a world of people all alone, together.” How do we learn to connect, converse wisely and lovingly, and build community again? They look at history, Scripture, and the current technological trends that reveal the importance of effective communication.
The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors that Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders
The authors draw on a significant data set of over 17,000 CEO interviews to draw conclusions about what makes a CEO successful. The book is filled with quotable observations and illustrations from industry.
Focus on Fruit! Movement Case Studies & Fruitful Practices
Movements belong to God. We see what God is doing to bear fruit and follow His lead. When we notice patterns—God bearing fruit in a similar way over and over again through people—we call that a Fruitful Practice. We can follow God by implementing Fruitful Practices, and we learn Fruitful Practices by observing what…
How to Grow: Applying the Gospel to All of Your Life
Christians can be stuck, not only spiritually but in many areas of life. Dash’s approach is not moralism or adding more sermons to your diet. He aims to capture us with the redemptive story of Scripture, apply that truth to every area of our life, and help us learn how to practice new habits that will move us toward…
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
This is an immensely important book about the epistemological models driving our economy and Google in particular. It reveals the values behind Google and the outcomes of their vision of a “free stuff” world. Gilder warns that security and privacy are impossible when the collection of data is the goal and delivering…