Updating my “What I’m Reading” Page today. Here’s a list of ome of my favs from this years reading list on Ministry and Leadership. I’ll share a few favs in History and Biography next Friday.

1. Reaching the Unreached: Becoming Raiders of the Lost Art by Peyton Jones. Challenging book that pushes against some of what makes modern ministry comfortable instead of urgent. Love Peyton Jones. Gave away a couple of boxes of this book this summer to our church planters and partners in Louisiana.

2. Everyone’s a Genius: Unleashing Creativity for the Sake of the World by Alan Briggs. This book will challenge your excuses and as a leader, make you believe again in the people around you to accomplish big things. Grateful for Alan. This is his third book and all three have made me think and are books I keep picking up to remember the insights gleaned.

3. Turning Everyday Conversations into Gospel Conversations by Jimmy Scroggins, Steve Wright, Bennett Leslee. This book gives great encouragement and a simple how to for those wanting to be consistent witnesses. Also has some great insights on church multiplication.

4. Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World by James Emery White. I have three kids that are Gen Z, so I was interested in this book. I was a little disappointed that it was really more about ministry in today’s world than insight into Gen Z. However, the insights are great. But don’t expect a plan for how to raise and think like your Gen Z kids.

5. Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus Into the Everyday Stuff of Life by Jeff Vanderstelt. No one writes and speaks clearer about how to take the deep work of the Gospel into everyday life than Jeff Vanderstelt. Must read.

6. The Church as Movement: Starting and Sustaining Missional-Incarnational Communities by J.R. Woodward and Dan White Jr. Very technical work on Missional communities. Every chapter is one to savor and work on. Would be a great book to mentor a future church planter through. Some other insights and my fav quotes here.

7. Sharing Jesus without Freaking Out: Evangelism the Way You Were Born to Do It by Alvin Reid. Reid’s latest book will encourage you as a witness for Christ. Shorter in length than his textbook The Evangelism Handbook, which I recommend you read as well, this book is very personal, borrowing from personal stories of witnessing encounters of Reid and others. Some of my fav quotes here.

8. Designed to Lead: The Church and Leadership Development by Eric Geiger and Kevin Peck. Another book that you’ll want to revisit every year as you tweek systems and processes in your church. A few insights and quotes here.

Got any good recommends?

Let’s connect over on Goodreads as well and interact around what we’re reading.