Recommended Reading

Barbour’s Bible Promise Books are perennial best-sellers, with millions of copies in print. Now, the Bible Promise Book is available in the most readable Bible text, the New Life Version! Containing the same topics found in Barbour’s original Bible Promise Book–Anger, Contentment, Forgiveness, Hope, Obedience, Salvation, Worry, Worship, and dozens more–The Bible Promise Book-New Life Version offers hundreds of encouraging scriptures in language that even the youngest reader can clearly understand.

The single most important skill in coaching is asking powerful questions. In this book, master coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus joins with 12 other professional coaches to present dozens of valuable asking tools, models and exercises, then illustrates these coaching strategies with over 1,000 examples of penetrating questions. Covering the gamut from basic techniques like options and actions to advanced concepts such as challenge and reframing,

Coaching Questions is a book that will find a home on any coach’s short list of handy references. Coaching Questions: A Coach’s Guide to Powerful Asking Skills includes: 1) Dozens of asking tools, models, and strategies. 2) The top ten asking mistakes coaches make, and how to correct each one. 3) Nearly 1200 examples of powerful questions from real coaching situations and so much more.

Imagine the Creator of the Universe sitting across from you as you map our your day, week, and life. Who better to counsel, encourage, and help you to live fully and make a difference every day than the One who has known you from your very first breath? These sixty coaching sessions offer strategies for success using Scriptural guidance, encouragement, and fresh ideas to propel you into a meaningful life.

JESUS THE MASTER COACH Workbook provides strategic and practical ways to apply the Heart of Jesus where it matters in your life today.  Without using religious language, you will learn to be an effective communicator that connects powerfully in family, workplace, community, and church conversations and relationships.

Leadership Coaching is an essential tool for anyone who wants to learn to coach or improve their coaching skills. Written by a top Christian coach trainer, it is filled with real-life stories, practical tools and application exercises that bring coaching techniques to life. It provides an in-depth look at how coaching fits with the purposes of God. It uses a hands-on, interactive approach to show you how to coach. This book is a great introduction to the powerful tool of Coaching.

What if you could turn your passion for God’s Kingdom and your gift for helping people…into a full-time career? 

Now you can! Coaching is one of the hottest professions in the world today. And you don’t need a college degree to earn a six-figure income…just by doing what you love and making a real difference in people’s lives.

This Ultimate Guide for The Kingdom-Minded Coach combines God’s passionate heart to strongly support you…and the practical tools you need to do your best coaching. If you feel called to transformational life coaching — or business coaching — you’ll find everything you need right on these pages. And it’s all from a Christian business perspective.

Get ready to launch your coaching business into the stratosphere! 

“All Christians know they should pray, but sometimes it’s hard to know how—especially if the minutes start to drag and our minds start to wander. Offering readers hope, encouragement, and the practical advice they’re looking for, this concise book by professor Donald Whitney outlines a simple, time-tested method that can help transform our prayer lives: praying the words of the Bible. Praying the Bible shows readers how to pray through portions of Scripture one line at a time, helping us stay focused by allowing God’s Word itself to direct our thoughts and words. Simple yet profound, this resource will prove invaluable to all Christians as they seek to commune with their heavenly Father in prayer each and every day.”

What would happen in your business if you truly put the King’s agenda first?

When you are a Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur, it is certainly not business as usual. In “The Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur’s Guide: Doing Business God’s Way”, Shae Bynes takes you on a transformational journey by revealing the mindset, heart posture, and counter-cultural behaviors of entrepreneurs who desire to thrive in their kingdom business by putting Jesus Christ–The King of kings–and His agenda at the center of their plans.

In The Prayer Powered Entrepreneur, a 31-day prayer journey, Christian business coach Kim Avery helps entrepreneurs ditch the hurry and worry and instead build a business powered by God.While Christian entrepreneurs start their days with prayer, the hustle and bustle of running their own businesses quickly takes focus away from their vital partnership with the almighty God. As a result, prayers for business are often broad, unfocused, and strictly tied to the entrepreneur’s vision of ideal results. The Prayer Powered Entrepreneur model walks entrepreneurs through 31 days of recognizing God as CEO through an inside-out system of praying for transformation.

Jesus promises, “Come to Me all who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). Jesus was crucified and resurrected so that His followers could experience His rest today. How did He walk in rest? What did He believe and practice that produced rest in His soul? How can we walk in His rest today? Be: The Way of Rest, the first volume in the Be, Go, Make series, is a holistic recipe for walking in the promises of Jesus. The recipe will provide clarity and confidence for any follower of Jesus who is looking for His promised life.

Daily Living by Father Chapin and David Engler offers practical reflections on the Gospel of Matthew.

The COACH Model® is a radically different approach to leading people. Rather than provide answers, leaders ask questions to draw out what God has already put into others. ICF Professional Certified Coach and speaker Keith Webb teaches Christian leaders how to create powerful conversations to assist others to solve their own problems, reach goals, and develop their own leadership skills in the process.

TransforMissional coaches bring Spirit-led skills to come alongside and empower leaders to be transformed to be more like Jesus and join Jesus in His great redemptive mission in our world. Be more like Jesus. Do more with Jesus. That’s the heart of TransforMissional Coaching.

In this revised and updated 10th Anniversary edition, we share more of what we’ve learned about the “be” and “do” of coaching in our changing ministry world.

Pastors, counselors, teachers, parents, leaders – all are called to coach in some capacity – to encourage and help those entrusted to them for a lifetime, a season, or a school year. How will you know if God is leading you to a more significant coaching role? In Called to Coach, fifty life coaches share their personal stories of struggle, conflict and doubt and the way God led them to their calling as Christian life coaches.