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Leaders are Readers
Continue to grow in your leadership by diving into some of the titles recommended by YWAM leaders in Europe. Don’t forget to scroll down to an ever-increasing bibliography of recommended books specifically for your leadership development. Some are available for downloading.
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Current Books of the Month
If you were to join us in either of our homes at the end of almost any evening, or if you were to attend one of our retreats, we would invite you to do with us the process described in these pages. This book is about asking ourselves two questions: For what am I most […]
God’s Eye View On Tension. We live in an age of uncertainty and the tension it creates. I know how humanity feels about tension, but do you want to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how God views tension? This fun comic ebook will give you a new way to look at tension. It is Matt’s […]
Previous Books of the Month
Garden City: Work, Rest and the Art of Being Human In Garden City, popular pastor and speaker John Mark Comer gives a fresh take on our calling and our purpose, with a surprisingly counter-culture take. Through his creative and conversational style, Comer takes a good look at Genesis and the story of a man, a woman, and […]
A Cup of Cold Water: Hospitality at Its Best In presenting this book, it is my hope that the ministry of hospitality will become nearer and dearer to your heart and that you will discover new ways to serve those who come your way. We have been called by God to wave the flag of […]
Eric Demeter: Moody Publishers 2021 Pitch the Christian dating rulebook out the window. There’s a better way! No matter what you might have heard, God didn’t mandate a divine way to date. What He did do, in the Bible, is lay out principles for wise and healthy relational living among believers. His boundaries for us […]
Barry teaches pastoral theology and spiritual formation at Dallas Theological Seminary and is a teaching pastor at Irving Bible Church. He received his masters of theology degree from Dallas Seminary and his PhD in theology from Wheaton College.
John Ortberg is a pastor near San Francisco, California. He is the bestselling author of many books, including “If you want to walk on Water, You’ve got to get out of the boat”.
Gordon MacDonald (Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press 1984) Gordon MacDonald has been a pastor for over 40 years, and served as President for InterVarsity USA. Through this book he explains the inner life in practical ways and explains the necessity for this: “Because I am convinced that the inner world of the spiritual must govern the […]
John Maxwell has been a pastor for any years, and he is the founder of INJOY, Maximum Impact, The John Maxwell Team, ISS and EQUIP.
As a pioneer in the Christian coaching field, Tony Stoltzfus has trained hundreds of coaches and helped found an international coaching school, developing training materials used around the world.
Tom Marshall from New Zealand used to teach in YWAM schools, LTSs and conferences in the 1970 and 80ties. He had a strong prophetic teaching gift and became a blessing to many.
Laying down rights is a concept foreign to our culture, indeed a concept foreign to the very nature of humankind. We live in a world where the protection and exaltation of individual rights has become an obsession.
Loren Cunningham's dream began with a vision--waves of young people moving out across the continents announcing the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Tom Marshall from New Zealand used to teach in YWAM schools, LTSs and conferences in the 1970’s and 80’s. He had a strong prophetic teaching gift and became a blessing to many. This book, one of his last, reveals the power of relationships expressed by four dynamics: trust, love, respect & honour as well as understanding.
Loren Cunningham had a “download from the Lord” in 2010—Circles, Circuits and Cycles. The circles referred to leading from and with teams. I couldn’t see how that would work locally, though we implemented it above local level. Now I think he was seeing something that was at least a decade away—as he sometimes does.
If you want direct access to the spiritual inheritance of Billy Graham and the modern evangelical movement, The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham provides key insight, how to build a leadership team and a public ministry in godly manners.