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Pastoral Leadership

Being a pastor is a challenging, yet sacred, calling. If you're feeling burned out in your pastoral vocation, these books will inspire you and support your spiritual health, giving you new motivation and wisdom for leading your church. You can also browse books specifically on the art of preaching and women in ministry.

Attentive Church Leadership: Listening and Leading in a World We've Never Known, By Kevin G.Ford and Jim Singleton
Attentive Church Leadership
Jim Singleton and Kevin Graham Ford
The Softer Side of Leadership: Essential Soft Skills That Transform Leaders and the People They Lead, By Eugene B. Habecker
The Softer Side of Leadership
Gene Habecker
Disabling Leadership: A Practical Theology for the Broken Body of Christ, By Andrew T. Draper and Jody Michele and Andrea Mae
Disabling Leadership
Andrew Thomas Draper and Jody Michele Courtney and Andrea Mae
Humility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character, By Dennis R. Edwards
Humility Illuminated
Dennis R Edwards
The Offensive Church: Breaking the Cycle of Ethnic Disunity, By Bryan C. Loritts
The Offensive Church
Bryan Loritts
What Jesus Intended: Finding True Faith in the Rubble of Bad Religion, By Todd D. Hunter
What Jesus Intended
Todd D. Hunter
Centering Discipleship: A Pathway for Multiplying Spectators into Mature Disciples, By E. K. Strawser
Centering Discipleship
Eun Kyong Strawser
The Resilience Factor: A Step-by-Step Guide to Catalyze an Unbreakable Team, By Ryan T. Hartwig and Léonce B. Crump Jr. and Warren Bird
The Resilience Factor
Ryan T. Hartwig and Léonce Crump and Warren Bird
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church, By Nijay K. Gupta
Tell Her Story
Nijay K. Gupta
Creating Cultures of Belonging: Cultivating Organizations Where Women and Men Thrive, By Beth Birmingham and Eeva Sallinen Simard
Creating Cultures of Belonging
Beth Birmingham and Eeva Sallinen Simard
Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest: From Sabbath to Sabbatical and Back Again, By Ruth Haley Barton
Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest
Ruth Haley Barton
When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse, By Chuck DeGroat
When Narcissism Comes to Church
Chuck DeGroat
Next Sunday: An Honest Dialogue About the Future of the Church, By Nancy Beach and Samantha Beach Kiley
Next Sunday
Nancy Beach and Samantha Beach Kiley
Buried Talents: Overcoming Gendered Socialization to Answer God's Call, By Susan Harris Howell
Buried Talents
Susan Carol Harris Howell
Speaking Across Generations: Messages That Satisfy Boomers, Xers, Millennials, Gen Z, and Beyond, By Darrell E. Hall
Speaking Across Generations
Darrell Eryx Hall
Who Moved My Neighborhood?: Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change, By Mark E. Strong
Who Moved My Neighborhood?
Mark E. Strong
Centered-Set Church: Discipleship and Community Without Judgmentalism, By Mark D. Baker
Centered-Set Church
Mark D. Baker
Don't Blow Up Your Ministry: Defuse the Underlying Issues That Take Pastors Down, By Michael MacKenzie
Don't Blow Up Your Ministry
Mike MacKenzie
The Flourishing Pastor: Recovering the Lost Art of Shepherd Leadership, By Tom Nelson
The Flourishing Pastor
Tom Nelson
Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, and Practical Perspectives, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce and Cynthia Long Westfall
Discovering Biblical Equality
Edited by Ronald W Pierce and Cynthia Long Westfall
Together in Ministry: Women and Men in Flourishing Partnerships, By Rob Dixon
Together in Ministry
Rob Dixon
Sermons That Sing: Music and the Practice of Preaching, By Noel A. Snyder
Sermons That Sing
Noel A Snyder
Cradling Abundance: One African Christian's Story of Empowering Women and Fighting Systemic Poverty, By Monique Misenga Ngoie Mukuna
Cradling Abundance
Monique Misenga Ngoie Mukuna
Women Rising: Learning to Listen, Reclaiming Our Voice, By Meghan Tschanz
Women Rising
Meghan Christian Tschanz
Lead Like It Matters to God: Values-Driven Leadership in a Success-Driven World, By Richard Stearns
Lead Like It Matters to God
Richard E Stearns