52 Books in One Year!

I made a goal this year to read 52 books, one for each week of the year. A few would be for pleasure reading, many for ministry, and others for personal growth. Here is the completed list, after finishing book 52 today:

 1.     "Autopsy of a deceased church" by Thom Rainer

 2.     "Autism and your church" Barbara J. Newman 

 3.     "Reading it right" by Andy Addis

4.      "Killing Jesus" by Bill O'reilly and Martin Dugard

5.      "I am a Church Member" by Thom Rainer

6.      "Father Fiction" by Donald Miller

7.      "Iscariot: a novel of Judas" by Tosca Lee

8.      "Wake up Generation: You have a life...how will you use it?" Paige Omartian

9.      "Think Bigger: The Call of a Leader" by Pat Williams, Danny Akin, Brad Lomenick, and Mark    

           Miller 

10.    "Go Big" Dude Perfect's Cory Cotton

11.    "Divergent" Veronica Roth

12.    "Insurgent" Veronica Roth

13.    "Hunger Games" Susanna Collins

14.    "Allegiant" Veronica Roth

15.    "Catching Fire" Susanna Collins

16.    "Mocking jay" Susanna Collins

17.    "Elusion" Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam

18.     "Creating a Lead Small Culture" Reggie Joiner

19.    "Alone with God" John MacArthur 

20.     "Nuts and Bolts of Church Planting" Aubrey Malphers

21.     "Be all you can be" John Maxwell

22.     "Overcoming Barriers to Church Growth: Proven Strategies for taking your church to the 

   next level" by Michael Fletcher 

23.     "changing diapers" Kelly Wels

24.     "A Simple Way to Pray" Martin Luther

25.     "The Screwtape Letters" C. S. Lewis 

26.     "Real Marriage The Truth about Sex, Friendship and Life Together" by Mark and Grace 

    Driscoll

27.     "Who you are when no one's looking" Bill Hybels 

28.   "The Essentials of and Prayer" E. M. Bounds

29.     "A Cast of Stones" by Patrick W. Carr

30.     "Experiencing Prayer with Jesus" Henry and Norman Blackaby

31.   "Show Them Jesus: Teaching the Gospel to Kids" by Jack Klumpenhower

32.     "Godspeed: Making Christ's Mission your own" by Britt Merrick

33.     "Be Real: because Fake is Exhausting" by Rick Bezet 

34.     "An Unstoppable Force: Faring to become the church God had in mind" Erwin McManus 

35.     "Seven Steps for Planting Churches" by Tom Cheney, J. David Putman and Van Sanders

36.   "Spark: Igniting a Culture of Multiplication" by Todd Wilson 

37.   "You can multiply your church: one journey to radical multiplication" by Ralph Moore 

38.   "Discipling Skeptics and Seekers:why very believer needs to share their faith" by Beau

           Crosetto and James Choung

39.   "Led: Going with the Spirit" by Larry Walkemeyer 

40.   "The Viral Gospel: How finding your person of peace accelerates your mission" Alex 

           Absalom

41.     "Student Ministry Essentials" Steve Vandegriff and Rich Brown

42.     "The end of me" Kyle Idleman 

43.   "99 Thoughts for Parents of Teenagers" Walt Mueller

44.   "#Struggles: Following Jesus in a selfie-centered world" by Craig Groeschel

45.     "Ministry is...How to serve Jesus with passion and confidence" Dave Earley and Ben Gutierrez 

46.     "Dad is Fat" by Jim Gaffican

47.     "The False Promise of Discipleship" by Bill Hull and Brandon Cook

48.     "Disciples who make Disciples" by Alex Absalom and Greg Nettle

49.     "I Will: Nine Traits of the outwardly focused Christianity" Thom Rainer

50.     "Narrow Minded Evangelism" by Aaron Chambers

51.     "It: How Churches and Leaders can get it and keep it" by Craig Groeschel

52.     "Good to Great" by Jim Collins