Recommended Reading

Below are books on various topics that I highly recommend reading.

Spiritual Life

• John Eldredge, Journey of Desire, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2000)

• Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline, (San Francisco, California: Harper, 1988)

• Richard J. Foster, Devotional Classics, (San Francisco, California: Harper, 1993)

• C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity,

• Gordon MacDonald, Renewing Your Spiritual Passion, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1989)

• William MacDonald, True Discipleship, (Walterick Publishers, 1975)

• James Packer, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, (Madison, Wisconsin: Inter-Varsity Press, 1961)

• R.A. Torrey, How To Pray, (Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, n.d.)

• Bruce Wilkinson, The Prayer of Jabez, (Sisters, Oregon: Multinomah Publishers, 2000)
  

Personal Management

• David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, (Piaksus Books, 2015)
• David Allen, Ready for Anything (Pengu, 2005)
• Stephen Covey, First Things First, (Free Press, 1996)
• Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, (Simon & Shuster, 2020)

Health and Fitness

• Archibald Hart, Adrenalin and Stress, (Dallas, Texas: Word Publishing, 1995)

Relationships

• Gary Smalley, If Only He Knew, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1982)

• Fred Smith, You and Your Network, (Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1984)

Personal Finances

• George Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon: Six Laws of Wealth, (CreateSpace, 2013)

• Charles Givens, Financial Self-Defense, (New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995)

• Stephen Pollan and Mark Levine, Die Broke, (New York, New York: Harper Business, 1997)

Creativity, Writing, Speaking

• Julia Cameron, It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again, (New York: Tarcher Perigee, 2016)

• Julia Cameron, The Right to Write, (New York: Jeremey P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1998)

• Henriette Anne Klauser, Writing on Both Sides of the Brain, (San Francisco, California: Harper, 1986)

• Noah Lukeman, The First Five Pages, (New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000)

• Gordon MacKenzie, Orbiting the Giant Hairball, (New York, New York: Penguin Putnam, 1996)

• Stephen Rafe, How to be Prepared to Think on Your Feet, (New York, New York: Harper Business, 1990)

• William Knowlton Zinsser, On Writing Well, (New York, New York: Harper & Row, 2001)

Leadership and Management

• Kenneth Blanchard, The One Minute Manager, (William Morrow & Company, 1982)
• Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, First, Break All The Rules, New York, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999)
• James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, Built to Last, (New York, New York: HarperBusiness, 1994)
• James C.Collins, Good to Great, (New York, New York: Harper Collins, 2001)
• Patrick Lencioni, Five Dysfunctions of a Team. A Leadership Fable. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2002)
• John Maxwell, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1998)
• Thomas J.Peters, In Search of Excellence, (Warner Books, 1982)
• Al Reis and Laura Reis, 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, (New York, New York: Harper Business)
• Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline, (Doubleday and Company, 1990)

Church and Ministry

• Jim Cymbala, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1997)

• Aubrey Malphurs, Ministry Nuts and Bolts, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Kregel Publications, 1997)

• J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Problems, (Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1971)

• J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership, (Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1967)
• Lee Strobel, Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1993)
• Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Church, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1995)

General Interest

• Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, (BackBay Books, 2002)

• Dr Michale Guillen, Five Equations that Changed the World, (Hachette Books, 1996)
• Tim Marchall, Prisoners of Geography, (Ten Maps that Explain Everyting About the World,) (Scribner Books, 2016)