Intensive Care Urban Ministry – New York : Book Recommendations

The following three books are recommendations for pastors needing a boost in their preaching.

Every head coach needs a play book. Gary L. McIntosh helps the pastor and church to gain and keep growth and momentum. He helps the local congregation detail the building, develop a visitor-friendly church family, create a positive buzz, roll out the red carpet, and invest in people. It takes your church from broke to brilliant assessing the problems that prevent visitors from coming back and being plugged into church life.

Apprenticeship with Jesus

Learning to Live Like the Master

Gary W. Moon

Devotional in nature, the book uses a mentor style of presentation. One feels like they are standing next to Jesus the master carpenter at the work bench of your life, using a blend of amusing stories, heart wrenching narratives, and scriptures that chisel away the junk. Homework is given at the end of each chapter to release the best in you as you, the apprentice, learn from Jesus and are touched by the hand of the master.

Gutenberg to Google

The 20 Indispensable Laws of Communication

James O. Davis

Give your preaching a boost! Appealing to right and left brain communication, “We must be equipped to cross the 3G bridge of communication,” moving from great grandfather’s Gutenberg Printing press to the instant access of Google’s high speed knowledge. That none would parish (John 3:16). Twenty laws help make you a better communicator. “The Bible was not written to put the lives of people in print but to put life in people.”