I’ve started my last book for 2011. Here’s a complete list of what I’ve read this year: 01 – 1/1/2011 – Doing More Faster by David Cohen and Brad Feld 02 – 1/5/2011 – Never By Another Stock Again by David Gaffen 03 – 1/16/2011 – Sex Begins in the Kitchen by Kevin Leman 04 – 1/19/2011 – The E-Myth

Here are the books that I’ve read in 2011: Doing More Faster, by David Cohen and Brad Feld* Never By Another Stock Again, by David Gaffen Sex Begins in the Kitchen, by Kevin Leman The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael Gerber Becoming an Externally Focused Church, by Rick Rusaw Why We Get Fat, by Gary Taubes* Kingdom Giving, by Jerry Wear

During the last two days, I’ve had the opportunity to attend the Global Leadership Summit. The actual Summit is taking place in Chicago, but my home church, Central Baptist Church of Sioux Falls, has the opportunity to serve as a satellite location. This year, we’ve had more than 420 leaders come to the Summit from businesses, non-profits and churches from

Seth Godin has written a number of books, but the one constantly clamored about among entrepreneurs online is the book Tribes. Godin spoke at the 2011 Leadership Summit and I had the opportunity to pick up a copy of the book. Tribes provides a model for leadership in any situation and organization. Godin spends much of the book talking about

Perhaps one of the greatest mistakes that people of my generation, including myself, make is that we fail to learn from the experiences of those that came before us. We believe that we can tackle just about any situation ourselves without any outside help or wisdom. As a result, we make the mistakes made by our forbearers that could have

I’ve always struggled with the command in scripture that we should “be angry and do not sin” (Ephesians 4:26a).  The context of that passage is that the Apostle Paul is writing to the church in Ephesus, providing instructions for Christian living. He tells the church to start living a new life of honesty, forgiveness and rage. Initially, it would seem

I will be attending the Leadership Summit, a conference for leaders in Christian ministry and in the business world, next Thursday and Friday. I will have the opportunity to receive two academic credits toward the M.A. in Christian Leadership that I am working on at Sioux Falls Seminary. One of the requirements for the credits is to read 800 pages

I try to set personal development goals every 60 days for the next 60 days. I’ve tried setting goals over different periods of time, including as long as a year. Some of those goals have been successful and others have failed miserably. I’ve found that 60 days is about right to sprint toward a goal and complete it successfully. One

Thomas Stanley, author of the Millionaire Next Door, tells us that the average millionaire reads one non-fiction book per month. Last year, I had the opportunity to read 22 non-fiction books and the breaks that the month of January offers from my normal routine has allowed me the opportunity to do some additional reading this month. I recently started my