Our schedules often loosen during the summer. We get to travel, spend time at the beach or the mountains, or just take a slow week of “stay-cation.” Because of this summer is a wonderful time to invest in yourself.
In view of that, here are five books that I think it would be worth your while to read this summer:
Bill Hull, The Complete Book of Discipleship: On Being and Making Followers of Christ.
This book is a complete guide to becoming an increasingly faithful follower of Jesus. It contains all the resources you need to understand and practice the disciplines of the Christian life and to place them in their context as tools rather than as ends in themselves.
Michael Hyatt, Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World.
This is a book about communication. The immediate context is building a tribe as a writer or blogger, but the principles carryover to influence leadership and career. Great read.
Tim Keller,
Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City.
Keller excels in communicating the simplicity that is beyond complexity. He’s also adept at holding things in tension that are often envisioned a disparate. In this book he explains how churches can engage in ministry in their context that is centered upon the message of Jesus.
Alistair McGrath, C.S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet.
McGrath, like Lewis, is a product both of Ulster and of Oxford. He writes with affection that avoids hagiography and with more than the usual sense of Lewis’s Irish roots–a reality often overlooked by other biographers.
Jon Acuff, Quitter: Closing the Gap Between your Day Job and your Dream Job.
Jon provides the reader with a roadmap that takes her from her current reality into her dream reality. Thoroughly realistic, the book argues that our current reality provides the platform and the security necessary to allow us to practice and hone our craft before launching.
Jeff Gissing 