Category: Books

Books read in 2012

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Here are the books I read in 2012 – not including fiction 😉 NIV Bible Art of Neighbouring (by Jay Pathak) Handle with prayer (by Charles Stanley) Surprised by the Voice of God (Jack Deere) The Silent Listener Falklands 1982 (Major DJ Thorpe) Straight to the Heart of 1 & 2 Samuel Thinking for a […]

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Copying Amazon Kindle highlights to Evernote

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I’m loving Evernote as a storage and retrieval medium for notes and quotes. You can download the app for most devices here and once installed it will synchronise with your online account. If like me you are just getting started with Evernote, then this ebook Evernote Essentials by Brett Kelly is well worth a look. […]

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Excited

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I’m so excited, this just arrived from ICMBooks Direct who trade on Amazon and with their own website (Their Amazon store is often slightly cheaper). “The Gospel According to John” by D.A. Carson is the definitive commentary on John. I’m looking forward to spending the first half of next year digging into John at The […]

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Evernote

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Okay, so I am a late adopter, but I am loving Evernote to keep quotes, notes and clippings for future use! Best of all it is free! Evernote works on all platforms and most devices and synchronises your notes to the cloud, so they are available across your devices. It has a super search engine […]

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Ouch

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Ouch! I’m reading a book “The art of Neighbouring” where the authors are writing about putting loving your neighbour into real practice. All very innocuous and nice until I got to page 36, where they have what is jokingly called the chart of shame. The idea is to write a little a bit about the […]

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Handle with Prayer

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Handle with Prayer by Charles Stanley is free on Amazon Kindle at the moment and an utter gem of a book! In eleven chapters Charles Stanley casts a vision for praying and delivers helpful pointers to developing a life that is full of prayer and breakthrough. He tells us “It is in prayer that our […]

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Reading Well!

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Reading well is important to leaders! Michael Hyatt says Readers are leaders and leaders are readers. I’ve always made it my practice to make the most of any reading I get to do. I’m not the fastest reader, but here’s how I try to make it memorable and useful. 1) I read with a highlighter […]

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Books read in 2011

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Whose Word is it Anyway?: Receiving and Acting on Personal and Corporate Prophecy (by Keith Hazell) Zion’s Christian Soldiers?: The Bible, Israel and the Church (by Stephen Sizer) Living Under Grace: Romans 6: 1-7: 25 (by Michael Eaton) Fathering Leaders, Motivating Mission (by David Devenish) The Message of Luke (by Michael Wilcock) The Confession (by […]

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“Good to grow” review

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I found myself enjoying Good to Grow far more than I thought I would. It was chock full of pithy principles that Steve has used to grow King’s in Catford and himself. I was surprised, because Steve is one of the most task oriented people I have met and I am relationally wired – probably […]

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Just Walk Across the Room

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The Church I lead has plateaued. It is pretty common with church plants. They grow rapidly at the start, because they are so hungry for growth they are the most welcoming and friendly church in the area. For eighteen months or so the growth is rapid and consists of those who are new to the […]

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