Leadership Resources

Pastoral Leadership Top Ten Book List

  • Pastoral Leadership: A Handbook of Resources for Effective Congregational Leadership by Robert D. Dale
  • The 10 Key Roles of a Pastor: Proven Practices for Balancing the Demands of Leading Your Church by Gary L. McIntosh
  • The God Who Goes Before You: Pastoral Leadership as Christ-centered Followership by Michael S. Wilder & Timothy Paul Jones
  • Entrusted to the Faithful: An Introduction to Pastoral Leadership by Kenneth S. Coley (Editor)
  • Pastoral Leadership Is...How to Shepherd God’s People with Passion and Confidence by Dave Earley
  • Strategic Preaching: The Role of the Pulpit in Pastoral Leadership by William E. Hull
  • Leadership in Christian Perspective: Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Practices for Servant Leaders by Justin A. Irving & Mark L. Strauss
  • Shepherds After My Own Heart: Pastoral Traditions and Leadership In The Bible by Timothy S. Laniak
  • The Minister as Shepherd: Pastoral Leadership According to the Bible by Charles E. Jefferson
  • Who Rules the Church? Examining Congregational Leadership and Church Government by Gerald P. Cowen

Strategic Leadership Top Ten Book List

  • Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization’s Enduring Success (2nd Edition) by Richard L. Hughes, Katherine Colarelli Beatty & David L. Dinwoodie
  • Strategic Leadership: How to Think and Plan Strategically and Provide Direction by John Adair
  • Lead Like It Matters: 7 Leadership Principles for a Church That Lasts by Craig Groeschel
  • Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership: How to Make a Difference Regardless of Your Title, Role, or Authority by James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
  • Leading at The Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition (2nd Edition) by Dennis N.T Perkins
  • The Art of Strategic Leadership: How Leaders at all Levels Prepare Themselves, Their Team, and Organizations for the Future by Stephen J. Stowell & Stephanie S. Mead
  • Transforming Leadership: Jesus’ Way of Creating Vision, Shaping Values, and Empowering Change by Leighton Ford
  • Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Uproar: Calm Leadership in Anxious Times by Peter L Steinke
  • Leading Major Change in Your Ministry by Jeff Iorg

Ministerial Wellness Top Ten Book List

  • Managing Stress in Ministry by David, and Lisa Frisbie
  • Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome by Ken and Barbara Hughes
  • Building Blocks for Longer Life and Ministry by Tommy Yessick
  • Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion by Wayne Cordeiro
  • Preventing Ministry Failure by Michael Todd Wilson & Brad Hoffman
  • Disciplines of a Godly Man (Updated Edition) by R. Kent Hughes
  • Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry (Updated and Expanded) by John Piper
  • Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry by Paul David Tripp
  • Holy Grit: The Will to Persevere by M. Dean Register
  • The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life by Erwin Raphael McManus

Evangelism Top Ten Book List

  • Conversational Evangelism: Defending the Faith, Reasoning from the Scriptures, Explaining and Proving, Instructing in Sound Doctrine, and Overturning False Reasoning, by Edward Andrews
  • Invitation to Evangelism: Sharing the Gospel with Compassion and Conviction by Timothy Beougher
  • The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman
  • Share Jesus without Fear by William Fay
  • Share Jesus Like It Matters by Steve Gaines
  • Evangelism in the Early Church, Revised Edition by Michael Green
  • Fuel the Fire: Lessons from the History of Southern Baptist Evangelism by Charles S. Kelley
  • Engage: Tools for Contemporary Evangelism by Wm. Craig Price
  • Recapturing Evangelism: A Biblical-Theological Approach by Matt Queen
  • Making Friends for Christ, Second Edition by Wayne McDill

Evangelistic Preaching Top Ten Book List

  • Preaching Evangelistically: Proclaiming the Saving Message of Jesus by Al Fasol, Roy Fish, Steve Gaines, and Ralph Douglas West
  • Coming to Jesus: Giving a Good Invitation, Expanded and Revised Edition by Foy Fish
  • The Evangelism Mandate by David L. Larsen
  • Evangelistic Preaching that Connects: Guidance in Shaping Fresh & Appealing Sermons by Craig Loscalzo
  • Show Me How to Preach Evangelistic Sermons by R. Larry Moyer
  • Evangelistic Preaching by Lloyd M. Perry and John Strubhar
  • Preparing Evangelistic Sermons: A Seven-Step Method for Preaching Salvation by Richard Ramesh
  • Effective Evangelistic Preaching by Vernon L. Stanfield
  • The Effective Invitation, Second Edition by Alan R. Streett
  • Evangelistic Preaching and the Old Testament by Faris Whitesell

Discipleship Top Ten Book List

  • Transforming Disciples: Making Disciples a Few at a Time by Greg Ogden
  • Discipleship that Fits: The Five Kinds of Relationships God Uses to Help Us Grow by Alex Absalom and Bobby Harrington
  • Together We Equip by Jody Dean and Hal Stewart
  • Strategic Disciple Making: A Practical Tool for Successful Ministry by Aubrey Malphurs
  • Mind the Gap: Leading Your Church to Agility and Effectiveness in Any Environment by Clint Grider
  • The Cost of Discipleship by Deitrich Bonhoeffer
  • The Unstuck Church by Tony Morgan
  • The Complete Book of Discipleship: on Being and Making Followers of Christ by Bill Hull
  • Biblical Foundations for Small Groups by Gareth Weldon Icenogle
  • The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship by Dallas Willard

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