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Carey Nieuwhof, Leading Change without Losing It: Five Strategies that Can Revolutionize How You Lead Change When Facing Opposition aff. (Cumming, GA: Rethink Group Inc., 2012). 125 pages. Carey...
A popular song at Christmas is “Mary, Did You Know?” written by Mark Lowry. I’m prepared to hear it often over the next few weeks. The song captures the wonder and mystery Jesus’ mother must have experienced....
Daniel J. Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (aff). New York: Dutton, 2014. 513 pages. This book falls into the same genre as...
The family I grew up in wasn’t perfect. Far from it. But it was special. Many people have commented on how unusual the Blackaby family is. I was reminded of that on October 9, 2022, at my...
Iain Murray, The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones 1899-1981 (aff.) (Carlisle, PA.: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2013), 476 pages. I have been curious about Martyn Lloyd-Jones for many...
Peter Greer and Chris Horst, with Jill Heisley, Rooting for Rivals: How Collaboration and Generosity Increase the Impact of Leaders, Charities, and Churches (aff). Minneapolis: Bethany House, 2018. 234 pages.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (aff). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 499 pages. I had heard about this book for a while, and I finally read...
Last week was my mother’s funeral. She found out two months earlier that she had liver cancer, and the end came quickly. My mother was the strongest woman I know. Perhaps what she was most known for,...
Last year my wife and I bought a new car. We like it, but it recently caused us some challenges when someone backed into it in a parking lot. To his credit, the driver took responsibility for...
Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking (aff) (New York: Broadway Books, 2012). 342 pages. I read this book so I could...