All posts in March 2024

Perman spends about two-thirds of the book on productivity’s biblical and theological foundation — and rightfully so! He’s about to turn the corner into suggestions for tools and frameworks to use daily to manage your work in progress.

This one was recommended to me by a close friend and supporter. He and I were roommates in college for three of my four years at Cedarville University. His small group at church has been going through this book together and he said it’s been huge for him.

We’ve had conversations over the years about our struggles and one that we share is our tendency toward workaholism. At the core, this is idolizing productivity and work, and chasing after personal worth and value through work, rather than finding our identity in Christ.

I’m reading this with my Dad; I just started last week. It’s an excellent, thorough history from Lyn Alden. I read nearly everything she writes and have benefited immensely from her analysis of both historic and current macro conditions.

Our leadership training group at McCoy Memorial Baptist Church finished reading this one this week. It is a quite detailed and practical (blueprint-like!) look at how to design and implement a leadership development program in your local church.

I’m nearing the end of this book and it has been practical. It has shown me examples of how leadership development can work in local church contexts. I’m on the leadership-development-focused subgroup of our church’s transition team and we are developing our approach to leadership development for the coming years.

This book builds upon the previous book in the series, Being Leaders, and provides “blueprints” to aid in cultivating leaders and a healthy leadership culture in the local church.