These are the books I recommend from my 2023 reading (in no particular order) Dave Adamson – MetaChurch: How to Use Digital Ministry to Reach People and Make Disciples Beth Moore – All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir George Yancey – Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism Glenn Packiam – The Resilient Pastor: Leading Your Church in a Rapidly Changing World Scot McKnight – A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing Alan Noble – On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living Marcus Warner – Rare Leadership: 4 Uncommon Habits For Increasing Trust, Joy, and Engagement in the People You Lead Daniel Silliman – Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith Nijay K. Gupta – Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church Scot McKnight – One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow Kaitlyn Schiess – The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here Scot McKnight – Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple B.J. Rutledge & Chris Hurst – Miracle In The Cow Pasture: The Miraculous Story of How a New Church in a Town of 459 Grew to Impact 1000s – Second Edition Ryan Whitaker Smith & Dan Wilt – Sheltering Mercy: Prayers Inspired by the Psalms (An Illustrated Devotional Prayer Book with 75 Daily Free-Verse Poetic Prayer Responses – One for Each of the 1st 75 Psalms) John Mark Comer – The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World Esau McCaulley – How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family’s Story of Hope and Survival in the American South Skye Jethani – What If Jesus Was Serious about the Church?: A Visual Guide to Becoming the Community Jesus Intended Karen Swallow Prior – The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis Trey Ferguson – Theologizin’ Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly Skye Jethani – What If Jesus Was Serious About Prayer?: A Visual Guide to the Spiritual Practice Most of Us Get Wrong