Church Health and Revitalization
Richard Foster: Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home
David Busic: The Praying Pastor: Learning to Lead from Your Knees The Foundry Publishing, 2022
Rueben P. Job & Norman Shawchuck: A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and Other Servants The Upper Room Press, 1998
Ryan Skoog, Peter Greer, & Cameron Doolittle: Lead with Prayer Faith Words, 2025
Ruth Haley Barton: Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry
M. Robert Mulholland: Invitation to a Journey Intervarsity Press, 2016
Thomas Merton: Praying the Psalms Liturgical Press, 1956
Brother Lawrence: The Practice of the Presence of God Grand Rapids, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 1994
Ruth Haley Barton: Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry Intervarsity Press, 2018
Ruth Haley Barton: Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry
- Dallas Willard: The Great Omission: Rediscovering Jesus' Essential Teachings on Discipleship
- David Busic: Way, Truth, Life: Discipleship as a Journey of Grace
- Sam Barber: A People of Grace: Becoming Disciples Together
- Peter Scazerro: The Emotionally Healthy Church: A Strategy for Discipleship that Actually Changes Lives
- James Hicks: Five Values for the Discipleship Journey
- Dean Diehl: What We Believe
Books
- Mark Labberton: The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus
- Tom Nees: Compassion Evangelism: Meeting Human Needs
- Worth Seeing: Viewing others through God's eyes by Amy L. Williams
- Strong and Weak: Embracing a life of love, rise and true flourishing by Andy Crouch
- Reconciling all things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing (this whole series is great)
- Compassion: A reflection on the Christian Life by Henri J.M. Nouwen
- Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty isn’t the American Dream
- Brenda Salter McNeil—A Credible Witness
- Compassion from the inside out by Rachel Dodd
- The hopeful Neighborhood Field Guide by Don Everts
- When Helping Hurts
- Toxic Charity or Charity Detox
- SInners in the hands of a loving God
- Everywhere you look by Sorens
- Beyond Welcome by Karen Gonzalez
- Be the Bridge
Videos
Podcasts
- Being Human – Eugene Cho’s Guide to Mercy over Burnout
- Peace talks with Jon Guerra
- Resettled Podcast
- Be the Bridge Podcast
- Jeff Stark: The News is Good: Evangelism as a Way of Life
- Priscilla Pope-Levinson: Models of Evangelism
- Dave and Jon Ferguson: BLESS: 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World
- Darrell Guder: The Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America
- Dwight Gunter: From the Ground Up: A Parable for Cultivating a Missional Church
- Gordon MacDonald: Ordering Your Private World
- Peter Scazerro: Emotionally Healthy Church
- David McKenna: Christ-Centered Leadership: The Incarnational Difference