Book summaries
Leader’s Edge summaries: the argument of a book in a few minutes. Page 20 of 21 · 485 in all.
Sexual Morality in a Christless World
Author Matthew Rueger openly embraces the hot topic of sexuality, writing compassionately but adamantly to outline the truth from a reasoned, conservative Christian perspective.
Grit
This book is a detailed study of what makes some people succeed where others fail: grit. Grit, according to Duckworth, is a combination of passion and perseverance that drives people to great accomplishment.
Author Interview: Jon Hirst
Jon Hirst is the director of Global Mapping International (GMI), that focuses on mission data and research. With so much data now available it is easy to miss important major global developments.
Our Anchor in a World Adrift
Jon Hirst is the director of Global Mapping International (GMI), that focuses on mission data and research. With so much data now available it is easy to miss important major global developments.
The Soul of Shame
Missio Nexus’ leadership thoughtfully summarize books, giving you the Leader’s Edge to help inform, stimulate and provoke profitable discussion. Summary Christian psychiatrist Curt Thompson believes…
The Sharing Economy
Anybody who has taken a ride on Uber, rented an Airbnb room or purchased a product from Etsy has participated in the sharing economy . Sundararajan explains the mechanics behind the sharing economy in part 1 of this book, focused on the Cause, and then details some ramifications and potential reactions to it in part…
Author Interview: Matthew Soerens
In Seeking Refuge , three experts from World Relief, a global organization serving refugees, offer a practical, well-rounded, well-researched guide to the pressing refuge issue.
Seeking Refuge
In Seeking Refuge, three experts from World Relief, a global organization serving refugees, offer a practical, well-rounded, well-researched guide to the pressing refuge issue.
Strong and Weak
Crouch posits that true flourishing travels down an unexpected path – of being both strong and weak at the same time. But two temptations lure us away from abundant living – withdrawing into safety or grasping for power.
Deep Work
This is a book about personal productivity in which the author makes the case and gives strategies to maximizing “deep work” in an environment which calls us to focus on “shallow work.”
Author Interview: Andrew Scott
Missio Nexus’ leadership thoughtfully summarize books, giving you the Leader’s Edge to help inform, stimulate and provoke profitable discussion. The Author Interview is an informal…
The Ideal Team Player
This book, like most of Lencioni’s books, is written in two parts, the first being a business parable and the second is the unpacking of the ideas in the story. The ideal team player is described as somebody who is smart, humble and hungry.
Scatter
In Scatter, missions innovator Andrew Scott sounds a call for a new era of missions, one that uses the global marketplace for gospel growth and sees every Christian—engineer, baker, pastor, or other—as God’s global message bearer.
Unparalleled
The popular notion today is that all religions are basically the same. If all religions are the same, then there’s no reason to choose one over another beyond what suits one’s particular taste. In Unparalleled, Wilson reveals how Christianity is not merely one among many options, but categorically different.
Author Interview: Marcus Warner
An interview with Marcus Warner, author of Rare Leadership: 4 Uncommon Habits For Increasing Trust, Joy, and Engagement in the People You Lead
Rare Leadership
Warner and Wilder believe that healthy teams begin with healthy leaders, and at the heart of this dynamic is emotional maturity—the quality the greatest leaders possess.
The Triumph of Faith
Stark, a prolific sociologist in the realm of religion, critiques a couple of well accepted theories using recent surveys of global religion. He debunks the secularization theory (that the entire world is marching toward secularization) and other commonly held assumptions about religion in our world.
You Are What You Love
Author James Smith believes that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. He states that we may not realize the ways our hearts are taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made.
Well Sent
Well Sent provides a description of a missionary sending process that squarely rests in the hands of the local church. It acknowledges the many challenges both churches and agencies face due to an increasing number of unreached peoples throughout the world coupled with the current increase of retiring missionaries.
All the Places to Go … How Will You Know?
Very rarely in the Bible does God command someone to “Stay.” He opens a door, and then he invites us to walk through it—into the unknown. And how we choose to respond will ultimately determine the life we will lead and the person we will become.
The Unexpected Christian Century
Dr. Scott Sunquist, Dean of the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, provides a learned overview of major themes in twentieth-century world Christianity. He masterfully shows how such factors as migration, political turmoil, persecution, the decline of Western Christianity, and…
Team of Teams
This is a book which describes the transformation that the US military undertook in the initial years of the War on Terror. The US military had grown out of an era where efficiencies created a massive organization capable of bringing great force to bear in fairly predictable war scenarios.
Author Interview: Scott W Sunquist
In 1900 many assumed the twentieth century would be a Christian century because Western “Christian empires” ruled most of the world. What happened instead is that Christianity in the West declined dramatically, the empires collapsed, and Christianity’s center moved to Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific.
Smarter Faster Better
Duhigg is the author of the best selling book, The Power of Habit, and writes Smarter, Faster, Better in the same story and research format. This book is divided into eight discreet chapters. While there is some overlap, one could read each chapter as a standalone treatment of the topic it addresses.