Category: Book Review / Insight

If you’ve been around for a while, you know the drill: when Jason Young writes a book, I buy it. He’s an endless fount of wisdom in my life, and even though his books now...

I’ve long said that there is a disparity between those who write about guest services in the local church and those who are practitioners of guest services in the local church. While I’m grateful for...

I’m still a little shocked at how a traditional paper-and-pen guy like myself has adapted to e-books. Last year, out of the 70 books I read, a whopping 57 of them were on Kindle. But...

One of the most interesting – and by interesting I mean nerd territory – books that I’ve read over the last year is James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds. In it, he posits the idea...

Nerd week continues! In the last post, I shared ten titles (plus a bonus) that I hope you’ll consider for your summer reading. Today I’m sharing what I’m going to attempt to tackle between Memorial...

Forget what Christmas crooner Andy Williams says: for book nerds, this is the most wonderful time of the year. When I come across a post of what everyone will be reading at the beach, I...

Most of our leadership could use a good infusion of followership. I fear that in our over-platformed, uber-influencer, random-thought-leader society, we’ve forgotten what it looks like to humbly depend on the inner work of Jesus...

I recently downloaded Melina Palmer’s What Your Customer Wants and Can’t Tell You: Unlocking Consumer Decisions with the Science of Behavioral Economics. Melina is the host of The Brainy Business podcast, and her new book...

As this post goes live, it’s the Tuesday after Easter. Which means two things: Okay, so the Tuesday after Easter doesn’t automatically mean that summer book reading lists are just around the corner, but my...

Several years ago someone put a copy of The Rest of God by Mark Buchanan into my hands. It was one of the first books I’ve ever read on Sabbath, and still one of the...