Recommended Books



Book for Life 
  • The Holy Bible


Books on Leadership
  • Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
  • Good to Great by Jim Collins
  • Leadership by James MacGregor Burns
  • Loyalty by Bob Sorge
  • Shepherds After My Own Heart by Timothy S. Laniak
  • The Ascent of a Leader by Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol and Ken McElrath
  • The Cost of Moral Leadership by Geffrey B. Kelly and F. Burton Nelson
  • The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
  • The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner
  • The Training of the Twelve by A. B. Bruce
  • The Truth About Leadership by James Kouzes and Barry Posner
  • Transforming Leadership by Leighton Ford


Books on the Spiritual Disciplines
  • Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
  • Living by The Book by Howard Hendricks
  • Prayer by Richard Foster
  • Prayerbook of the Bible by Dietrich Bonhoeffer


Books on Sports
  • Coaching to Change Lives by Dennis Parker and D. W. Rutledge
  • Coaching by The Book by Randy Allen
  • Faith in the Game by Tom Osborne
  • Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger
  • God in the Stadium by Robert J. Higgs
  • Good Game by Shirl James Hoffman
  • InSideOut Coaching by Joe Ehrmann
  • Master Coaches by Grant Teaff
  • Muscular Christianity by Tony Ladd and James A. Mathisen
  • Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy
  • Season of Life by Jeffrey Marx
  • The Winners Manual by Jim Tressel
  • They Call Me Coach by John Wooden
  • Twelve Mighty Orphans by Jim Dent 
  • When the Game Stands Tall by Neil Hayes


Books on Theology and Christian Living
 
  • Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Ethics by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship by N. T. Wright
  • Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
  • Knowing God by J. I. Packer
  • Let the Nations Be Glad by John Piper
  • Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Loving God by Charles Colson
  • Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
  • Radical by David Platt
  • Simply Jesus by N. T. Wright
  • The Apostolic Fathers by Michael W. Holmes
  • The Cross of Christ by John Stott
  • Think by John Piper
  • Transforming Discipleship by Greg Ogden


Biography
  • Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
  • Confessions by St. Augustine
  • Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandella
  • Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy
  • They Call Me Coach by John Wooden
  • Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand


Daily Devotionals
  • Daily Light by William Bagster
  • Magnificent Prayer by Nick Harrison
  • Streams in the Desert by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman 
  • The Valley of Vision by Arthur Bennett
  • While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks by Timothy S. Laniak


Devotional Classics
  • Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
  • Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
  • The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis
  • The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence


Steven D Wright, DMin

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