What I’m Crunching — March 24, 2024
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.
What I’m Crunching — March 17, 2024
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.
What I’m Crunching — March 10, 2024
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.
What I’m Crunching — March 3, 2024
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.
What I’m Crunching — February 25, 2024
I think that this book, more than any other I have read, aligns with my God-given bent/wrapping and is entirely relevant to what I’m facing in life right now. The content is practical and applicable. I can consider and then apply concepts the very next day at work at SonSet Solutions, or on our church’s transition team.