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Book 1: Shepherds and Servants: Sketches of Leadership for Those Seeking to Make a Difference. A look at the two most common images the scripture uses for leadership and how Jesus teaches and models these classic leadership images for us. He calls us to be like him, shepherding the flock of God as he did and serving those in need, just as he did. This flock may be our family, our pupils, our work team, or anyone in our life given us by God to care for and serve.
Book 2: The Master Who Serves: Sketches of Leadership For Those Who Need God. Leaders can be tempted to believe they are working for God, which makes them God’s heroes. We don’t work for God—he works for us. He’s not our slave—he’s the master! But he is the master who serves! We don’t feed him, we don’t serve him: he has no needs. We get into trouble; he gets us out.  That makes him the hero of our lives, and he likes it that way.
Book 3: Gentle Influence and Wise Leadership: Sketches of Leadership For Humble Influencers. Studies on verbal influence, asking questions, addressing sin and conflict, reconciliation, and forgiveness. It also includes three studies on leading people into inductive, transformative Bible discussions in small groups. 
Book 4: Focus on the Few for the Sake of the Many: Developing Disciples and Reproducing Leaders. Studies in the Gospel of Mark on the methods, model, and message of Jesus regarding how we grow as disciples and multiply our ministry and character in others.
Book 5: Becoming Rich Toward God: The Secrets of Storing Up Treasure in Heaven. Studies on the surprising and surprisingly relevant Parables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. A meditation on prayer, money, friendship, honor, and investing in things that last. 
Book 6: Personal Leadership: Navigating Life’s Turns and Disappointments: A look at burnout, failure, resistance to God’s work, disappointment, disillusionment, temptation, anxiety, fear, suffering, loss, and death. A meditation on becoming an excellent learner of the (hard) lessons of one’s own life: overcoming, avoiding, going through difficulties, and navigating these turns with skill and hope. Whether it is adult development or deep discipleship, failure, disillusionment, and suffering have much to teach us.
Book 7: Visionaries and Team Leaders: Sketches of Leadership to Mobilize the People of God. A look at the leadership wisdom of Moses, David, Solomon, Haggai, Elisha, Nehemiah, and Jesus regarding mobilizing teams and groups to accomplish the mission.
Book 8: Surprising Choices in a Crisis: Sketches of Leadership for Such a Time as This. A look at leadership choices when your original plan isn’t working or when facing internal or external opposition: leading when you don’t know what to do, and leadership without authority. This Bible study sequence was inspired by the events of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is useful in preparation for any crisis. 
Book 9: Missional Leadership: Sketches for Life on the Frontier. What principles can we glean from the teachings of Jesus and the stories of Peter and Paul in the book of Acts? How do we prepare for cross-cultural mission as servant leaders? How can we faithfully incarnate the gospel in our words and deeds?
Book 10: Justice and Deep Mercy: Sketches of God’s Work and Our Response: Studies in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, from the creation to the calling of Abraham at the beginning of chapter 12, and in the book of Habakkuk. Looking at God’s intentions with creation and the corruption of human nature due to the fall. This is a clear-eyed but surprisingly hopeful and relevant message for disciples today.