Books

This book does not disappoint! If you want to understand how the positives and negatives of Alexander Campbell’s personality have been imprinted on the Stone Campbell Movement’s collective personality, then this book is for you. . 

Foster, helps us, as a movement, to understand our past and present by gaining a clear and honest picture of one of the most prominent ancestors and influencers of the Stone Campbell heritage. 

Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus takes you on a fascinating tour of the Jewish world of Jesus, offering inspirational insights that can transform your faith. Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg paint powerful scenes from Jesus’ ministry, immersing you in the prayers, feasts, history, culture, and customs that shaped Jesus and those who followed him.

In Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus, Lois Tverberg challenges readers to follow their Rabbi more closely by re-examining his words in the light of their Jewish context. Doing so will provide a richer, deeper understanding of his ministry, compelling us to live differently, to become more Christ-like. We'll begin to understand why his first Jewish disciples abandoned everything to follow him, to live out his commands. Read everything that Lois Tverberg writes! 

Read everything that Lois Tverberg writes! Is it possible that reading the Bible with a modern, western, Greco-American eye hinders my understanding of scripture - as God intends? 

LoisTverberg help reader to understand the treasures of reading the Bible through eys of our Jewish Rabbi - Jesus. Lois bridges the gaps of time and culture in order to open the Bible to readers today.

Torn Asunder examines the forces, issues, and personalities behind the officially-recognized 1906 division of the disciples.

Conviction and Civility teaches you how to hold Christian convictions and still treat those opposed to your convictions with respect. You will learn to evaluate your own convictions, engage others about them, and do both of these with civility.

Other than the Bible, this book may be the best book on effectively navigating crucial conversations (CC). A CC is one with high stakes, opposing opinions, and strong emotion. 25 years research. Author speak to business, organizations, family life. This is not a religious book but the authors themselves are faith-based. Over 3 million copies sold. 

How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World

In sharing his journey, Scazzero says, he was doing “more activity for God than” his “being with God could sustain.” He says “What you do matters, but who you are matters even more.” Moreover, he shares the importance of leading out of our brokenness, a deep and abiding contemplative relationship with God, and emotionally healthy relationships. The unity and health of our congregations and movement suffer when leaders are more focused on doing for God and less focused on being with God. May we value emotionally healthy leaders - both spiritually and relationally.

Stone-Campbell Movement: An Anecdotal History of Three Churches by Leroy Garrett. This is a must read for anyone who desires greater unity and who desires to have a thorough understanding of Restoration Movement History. 

This history of the Restoration Movement looks at why it exists, where it has succeeded, and why it has sometimes failed to accomplish the goal of Christian union and the goal of biblical authority.

The Stone-Campbell Movement: A Global History tells the story of Christians from around the globe and across time who have sought to witness faithfully to the gospel of reconciliation. Transcending theological differences by drawing from all the major streams of the movement, this foundational book documents the movement's humble beginnings on the American frontier and growth into international churches of the twenty-first century.

A celebration and examination of the common beliefs and shared heritage of two groups of American churches, both part of the Restoration Movement, by two of their leading ministers.

392 paperback Christian book on the History of the Restoration Movement.

F. LaGard Smith challenges Christians to think more critically about identity, salvation, and fellowship.

This book is well written and good for the average Christian and/or seeker. This is a clear and comprehensive study of an extremely important subject. 

Surveys Scriptures on unity, songs and prayers about unity, biblical symbols of unity, famous slogans of unity, and key documents on unity from the Stone-Campbell movement. A rich blend of Scripture and stories, songs and prayers, wisdom and humor, insight and challenge - all pointing to God's desire for his children to be "together in Christ."

This is an exhaustive four volume history of the Restoration Movement up to 1950. 

This an exceptional overview of 2,000 years of church history is a very readable form. Shelley helps the reader see how cultural, political, and religious influences have shape the course of Chistian History and how men of God, while imperfectly, have consistently struggled to form and reform the chruch as God would have it. This is a great read. 

A vision. You as a leader may have it, but has your organization caught it? If a leader's vision is all about what could be and what should be, why are you buried under what is? Noted author and pastor Andy Stanley points out that if followers don't get the vision, it's because the leaders haven't delivered it. He reveals the three reasons vision doesn't stick. And then he delivers three ways to make vision stick, to make you a leader worth following