another has entered the race...

It seems that I read not one but two new books this year. Shepherds after My own Heart; Pastoral traditions and leadership in the Bible (part of the New Studies in Biblical Theology series) by Timothy S. Laniak is a must read for senior pastors and elders. Read it together and shepherd together. I cannot promise that it will all make sense to the lay reader, but enough will sink in to make it more than worthwhile. In a year when there was undoubtedly scores of books written on how to be a better church leader, there probably was not a book more closely knit to God's understanding of Christian leadership.