Books

Brandon O’Brien’s Top Books on Small Church Ministry

Rather than being a subcategory of American ministry, the small church is the norm. If you take a longer and broader view, most churches throughout history and in most parts of the world are and always have been small.

Grover Park Baptist Church: A Thread of Hope

At auction, the quilts go for hundreds or even thousands of dollars that directly help women and children in need, providing funds for baby and maternity items at the pregnancy resource center.

James N. Sells: The Best Books on Church Care

People in pain do not live in the “post-Christian era.” They go to church for help.

Orphan Care: The Unexpected Difference You Can Make

Johnny Carr: "Many churches view orphan care as a 'project,' but biblically, the church is the agent God has set in place for orphan care."

Serving the God We Know, Knowing the God We Serve

Tyler Wigg-Stevenson: "What does the shape of my service look like? If I cannot save the world, what can I do in it?"

America's Changing Religious Landscape

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson: "As the West becomes post-Christian, non-Western Christianity is coming to the West."

The Church Plant Question: What Would Jesus Do?

Steve Addison: "We must look beyond what we can do and ask, 'What needs to be done? What will it look like when our task is finished?'"

Connecting Across the Religious Divide

Bob Roberts Jr.: "Are you ready to stop living in isolation as a follower of Jesus?"

Excellent at a Few Things – And Other Laws of Leadership

Gary L. McIntosh and Charles Arn: "Many churches could reduce the number of their institutional programs by 25 percent without doing any damage to their ministry. "

A Reasonable Response: Evolutionary Theory and Theism

William Lane Craig: "This is just one more of those cases that illustrate so powerfully the importance of careful philosophical thinking about science."

Flesh

Hugh Halter: Bringing the Incarnation Down to Earth, Learning to Be Human Like Jesus