Books & Materials

Resources for the journey

The books and materials used in the LEAD program are chosen to do two primary things…

  1. Help create an environment where the Holy Spirit can transform you.
  2. Provide you with tools to aid others in being transformed by the Holy Spirit.

All of the materials produced by The LEAD Program are designed to equip others for ministry. The resources used in The LEAD Program are carefully chosen so that our leaders can use them to equip others.

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Some of the books listed below contain affiliate links to booksellers such as Amazon or directly to a publisher. You may buy your books from any retailer you choose.

 

 

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The Cure

This book has been dynamic in the lives of our leaders for over a decade. John Lynch, Bruce McNicol, and Bill Thrall have written an intelligent book that helps leaders raise their view of both God and themselves.

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Systematic Theology

Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology has been an excellent resource for LEAD students trying to embrace deep theological concepts. Dr. Grudem’s style makes complex concepts more accessible as he illuminates various theological nuances based on theological history and theological distinctiveness.

 

 

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Power Through Prayer

Since the time of the apostles, no man besides E. M. Bounds has left such a rich inheritance of biblical research into the life of prayer. Here are teachings on the only effective barrier against the powers of evil that prevail throughout the present world. Through these writings, you will discover how you can have a totally effective prayer life and how you can know the fullness of divine power.

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Celebration of Discipline

The book explores the ”classic disciplines” of Christian faith: the inward disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study; the outward disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission and service and the corporate disciplines of confession, worship, guidance and celebration.

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How To Study the Bible

The book explores the ”classic disciplines” of Christian faith: the inward disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study; the outward disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission and service and the corporate disciplines of confession, worship, guidance and celebration.

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Experiencing the Holy Spirit

Discover the life-changing benefits of being filled with the Holy Spirit. As God’s divine power flows into your heart and permanently transforms your life, you will excel to new heights in your Christian maturity and experience!

 

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How To Give Your Faith Away

How to Give Away Your Faith has helped equip thousands of readers over more than fifty years. It is now available as the second volume in the IVP Signature Collection, which features special editions of iconic and bestselling books in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of IVP. Thoroughly updated and including a study guide for individuals or groups, this book is as current as it is classic.

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Sent

How to Give Away Your Faith has helped equip thousands of readers over more than fifty years. It is now available as the second volume in the IVP Signature Collection, which features special editions of iconic and bestselling books in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of IVP. Thoroughly updated and including a study guide for individuals or groups, this book is as current as it is classic.

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Tangible Kingdom Primer

The TK Primer is about building life-long habits, with two primary purposes: first as a formation tool to prepare your heart for mission, and second as a field guide for starting mission together.

 

 

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Cultivating A Life For God

Cultivating a Life for God calls upon us to rethink our busy, fast-paced lives. If there is a stirring in your soul for “something more” in your spiritual journey, take a risk on what God might do in and through your life. Discover the compassion that comes from heaven and can be experienced in a Life Transformation Group (LTG). You may never be the same again! “The Life Transformation Group system is a grass roots tool for growth.

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Divine Healing

Jesus is “the Saviour of both the soul and of the body … ready to grant pardon and healing,” says Andrew Murray.

In these thought-provoking meditations, Murray – who personally experienced God’s healing – lays a clear biblical foundation for healing.

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Follow

A fundamental premise to this book is that everyone can make disciples. You don’t need to be a pastor, and you don’t need years of training. All you need is to know Jesus and allow the Holy Spirit to lead you as you lead others to follow Jesus. As you make disciples, commission them to make disciples as well. If you can make disciples who make disciples, there is no limit to the advancement of God’s Kingdom. Think multiplication, not merely growth.

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Three Passions of the Soul

Why don’t people look more like Christ after years of participating in the life of the church? Could it be that our discipleship methods are missing the mark? “Either there is something desperately wrong with the way we are doing ministry, or there is something desperately wrong with the Gospel,” Bruce Terpstra explains. There is nothing deficient in the Gospel so we must examine the way we disciple.

 

 

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The Preacher

Justin Thornton has written an excellent book on preaching/teaching in the modern age. Preaching isn’t what it used to be. Justin helps communicators of God’s Word prepare themselves and the message that God has for their listeners. Rev. Thornton’s book is being used in seminaries in the United States. The Preacher will transform how you prepare yourself and deliver God’s message.

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Church Unique

Will Mancini’s book Church Unique will help you remember the uniqueness of your church ministry in your context. Your local church is positioned to make a lasting impact in your community, and Will wants you to celebrate that goodness, not simply import another church’s vision for their context. Church Unique helps you articulate God’s vision for your church and shows you how to bring that God-given vision to life.

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Basic Guide to Escatology

Millard Erickson is an eschatological scholar. His insights have guided many people who want to better understand Biblical end-time events.

 

 

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Missionary Messages

This book is a collection of sermons preached by Dr. A.B. Simpson. These sermons ignited a missionary-sending movement in North America. As you read, you will be inspired to extend Christ’s love to the “unreached masses.”

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A Spirituality of Fundraising

“Fundraising is, first and foremost, a ministry,” writes the best-selling author and renowned spiritual teacher Henri Nouwen. “It’s a way of announcing our vision and inviting other people into our mission.”

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Women Who Risk

“Despite enormous risks to themselves and their families, former Muslim women are now influencing their husbands and their children and bringing others to faith in Jesus Christ. No matter where they live, these women are the God-ordained spiritual gatekeepers of their families. Even though the level of oppression that women face under Islam is unfathomable to many in non-Muslim nations, these brave women stop at nothing to share their faith.”

 

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Renovation

“God’s ultimate design for the church is simply for every member of Christ’s church to live the gospel in whatever places God calls us, thus saturating every home, workplace, community, city, and nation with the gospel message through the people of God.”

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The Gospel of Healing

“A.B. Simpson was the founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance. A Canadian preacher, Simpson authored 101 books and countless hymns, periodicals, booklets, articles, and curriculum’s over his lifetime. He inspired people of all denominations towards spreading the gospel in all lands. The Gospel of Healing is one of his most well known works.”

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Members of One Another

“How each of 7 key New Testament metaphors for the church contributes its own unique insight into church health How the dozens of “one-another” passages in the New Testament require a radical view of church life, quite at odds with many modern assumptions The Lord will encourage you that New Testament church is possible”

Raising Up Leaders

From the Harvest, For the Harvest

In 2013 Clint Bieri & Josh Franks heard from Jesus that the way to change the world was to raise up the next generation of ministry leaders and do it in a way that was affordable, accessible, and approved. More men and women who are equipped as ministry leaders is what will bring hope to a world which is in desperate need. Jesus told us to pray to the Lord of the harvest that He would raise up more workers. They began praying and Jesus invited them to equip those that he was raising up. We believe each of our students is an answer to this Luke 10:2 prayer request.

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