What Leaders are Reading

Paul Wartman
Peace Portal Alliance Church, White Rock, British Columbia

• Surprised by Hope
  • N.T. Wright

• Speaking of Sin: The Lost Language of Salvation
  • Barbara Brown Taylor

• Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional
  • Jim Belcher

• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
  • Daniel Pink

I’m preaching through the book of Exodus – have re-read two great books on the relationship between belief & certainty (or rather, pseudo-certainty)

• Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt and Certainty in Christian Discipleship
  • Leslie Newbigin

• The Myth of Certainty: The Reflective Christian & the Risk of Commitment
  • Daniel Taylor

Dan Cochrane
Crossroads Church,, Red Deer, Alberta

• Kingdom Without Borders
  • Miriam Adeney.
  • (A great look at what God is doing globally)

• A New Kind of Christian
  • Brian Mclaren
  • (Annoying but necessary to keep abreast of what is happening in the greater Christian world.

• Life Among the Lutherans
  • Garrison Keiller
  • (For fun)

Henry Schorr
Centre Street Church, Calgary, Alberta

• Counterfeit God’s
  • Tim Keller

• IT
  • Craig Groeschel

• Deliberate Simplicity
  • Dave Browning

• Missional Renaissance
  • Reggie McNeil

• Sticky Church
  • Larry Osbourne

• The Monkey & the Fish
  • Dave Gibbons

• The Same Kind of Different As Me
  • Ron Hall & Denver Moore

Wayne Alguire
Trinity Baptist Church, Kelowna, British Columbia

• Tangible Kingdom
  • Hugh Halter and Matt Smay

• Missional Renaissance
  • Reggie McNeal

• Unstoppable Force
  • Erwin McManus

• The Monkey and the Fish
  • Dave Gibbons

• Simple Church
  • Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger

• Culture Shift
  • Robert Lewis and Wayne Cordeiro

• The End of Religion
  • Bruxy Cavey

• The Prodigal God
  • Timothy Keller

Keith Taylor
Beulah Alliance Church, Edmonton, Alberta

• How The Mighty Have Fallen
  • Jim Collins
  • (A must read for older organizations)

• The Forgotten Ways
  • Alan Hirsch
  • (It’s been around for a while)

• They Found the Secret
  • Raymond Edmond
  • (Story of 20 leaders who encountered the deeper spiritual life- a light read yet inspiring)

• The Principle of the Path
  • Andy Stanley
  • (Some good preaching fodder)

Greg Hochhalter
Sherwood Park Alliance Church, Sherwood Park, Alberta

• Blue Parakeet:  Rethinking How You Read the Bible
  • by Scot McKnight
  • (Great inspiration for teaching, message preparation, etc.)

• Under the Unpredictable Plant
  • Eugene Peterson
  • (Great soul care reading, especially for pastors. I feel bad that I didn’t read it until now.)

• So Beautiful:  Divine Design for Life and the Church
  • Leonard Sweet
  • (This is the book that’s currently messing with my mind and re-framing some thoughts and ideas about church.)

• How the Mighty Fall
  • Jim Collins
  • Favorite recent ‘business book’ with considerable cross-over application to the church world