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Total Well-Being Assessment

The following resource is an exercise from the book, Building Blocks for Longer Life and Ministry by Tommy Yessick. This tool will help you evaluate the total well-being of your life. The results of the assessment can be used to help provide insight and help you establish a plan to improve all aspects of your life and ministry. To take the assessment, click the button below, download and print the PDF, and follow the instructions in the document.

 

Books by Jim Henry

  • Son of a Gunn: Where a Journey of Faith Can Lead 
  • Alzheimer's Dementia What Now?: Help and Hope for Caregivers, Family, and Friends 
  • Pastor's Wedding Manual, Updated Edition 
  • In Remembrance of Me: A Manual on Observing the Lord's Supper 
  • A Minister's Treasury of Funeral and Memorial Messages

Dr. Henry's books can be purchased at Amazon.com

 

Pastoral Leadership Top Ten Book List

  • Pastoral Leadership: A Handbook of Resources for Effective Congregational Leadership by Robert D. Dale
  • The 10 Key Roles of a Pastor: Proven Practices for Balancing the Demands of Leading Your Church by Gary L. McIntosh
  • The God Who Goes Before You: Pastoral Leadership as Christ-centered Followership by Michael S. Wilder & Timothy Paul Jones
  • Entrusted to the Faithful: An Introduction to Pastoral Leadership by Kenneth S. Coley (Editor)
  • Pastoral Leadership Is...How to Shepherd God’s People with Passion and Confidence by Dave Earley
  • Strategic Preaching: The Role of the Pulpit in Pastoral Leadership by William E. Hull
  • Leadership in Christian Perspective: Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Practices for Servant Leaders by Justin A. Irving & Mark L. Strauss
  • Shepherds After My Own Heart: Pastoral Traditions and Leadership In The Bible by Timothy S. Laniak
  • The Minister as Shepherd: Pastoral Leadership According to the Bible by Charles E. Jefferson
  • Who Rules the Church? Examining Congregational Leadership and Church Government by Gerald P. Cowen

 

Strategic Leadership Top Ten Book List

  • Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization’s Enduring Success (2nd Edition) by Richard L. Hughes, Katherine Colarelli Beatty & David L. Dinwoodie
  • Strategic Leadership: How to Think and Plan Strategically and Provide Direction by John Adair
  • Lead Like It Matters: 7 Leadership Principles for a Church That Lasts by Craig Groeschel
  • Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership: How to Make a Difference Regardless of Your Title, Role, or Authority by James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
  • Leading at The Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition (2nd Edition) by Dennis N.T Perkins
  • The Art of Strategic Leadership: How Leaders at all Levels Prepare Themselves, Their Team, and Organizations for the Future by Stephen J. Stowell & Stephanie S. Mead
  • Transforming Leadership: Jesus’ Way of Creating Vision, Shaping Values, and Empowering Change by Leighton Ford
  • Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Uproar: Calm Leadership in Anxious Times by Peter L Steinke
  • Leading Major Change in Your Ministry by Jeff Iorg

 

Ministerial Wellness Top Ten Book List

  • Managing Stress in Ministry by David, and Lisa Frisbie
  • Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome by Ken and Barbara Hughes
  • Building Blocks for Longer Life and Ministry by Tommy Yessick
  • Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion by Wayne Cordeiro
  • Preventing Ministry Failure by Michael Todd Wilson & Brad Hoffman
  • Disciplines of a Godly Man (Updated Edition) by R. Kent Hughes
  • Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry (Updated and Expanded) by John Piper
  • Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry by Paul David Tripp
  • Holy Grit: The Will to Persevere by M. Dean Register
  • The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life by Erwin Raphael McManus

 

Evangelism Top Ten Book List

  • Conversational Evangelism: Defending the Faith, Reasoning from the Scriptures, Explaining and Proving, Instructing in Sound Doctrine, and Overturning False Reasoning, by Edward Andrews
  • Invitation to Evangelism: Sharing the Gospel with Compassion and Conviction by Timothy Beougher
  • The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman
  • Share Jesus without Fear by William Fay
  • Share Jesus Like It Matters by Steve Gaines
  • Evangelism in the Early Church, Revised Edition by Michael Green
  • Fuel the Fire: Lessons from the History of Southern Baptist Evangelism by Charles S. Kelley
  • Engage: Tools for Contemporary Evangelism by Wm. Craig Price
  • Recapturing Evangelism: A Biblical-Theological Approach by Matt Queen
  • Making Friends for Christ, Second Edition by Wayne McDill

 

Evangelistic Preaching Top Ten Book List

  • Preaching Evangelistically: Proclaiming the Saving Message of Jesus by Al Fasol, Roy Fish, Steve Gaines, and Ralph Douglas West
  • Coming to Jesus: Giving a Good Invitation, Expanded and Revised Edition by Foy Fish
  • The Evangelism Mandate by David L. Larsen
  • Evangelistic Preaching that Connects: Guidance in Shaping Fresh & Appealing Sermons by Craig Loscalzo
  • Show Me How to Preach Evangelistic Sermons by R. Larry Moyer
  • Evangelistic Preaching by Lloyd M. Perry and John Strubhar
  • Preparing Evangelistic Sermons: A Seven-Step Method for Preaching Salvation by Richard Ramesh
  • Effective Evangelistic Preaching by Vernon L. Stanfield
  • The Effective Invitation, Second Edition by Alan R. Streett
  • Evangelistic Preaching and the Old Testament by Faris Whitesell

 

Discipleship Top Ten Book List

  • Transforming Disciples: Making Disciples a Few at a Time by Greg Ogden
  • Discipleship that Fits: The Five Kinds of Relationships God Uses to Help Us Grow by Alex Absalom and Bobby Harrington
  • Together We Equip by Jody Dean and Hal Stewart
  • Strategic Disciple Making: A Practical Tool for Successful Ministry by Aubrey Malphurs
  • Mind the Gap: Leading Your Church to Agility and Effectiveness in Any Environment by Clint Grider
  • The Cost of Discipleship by Deitrich Bonhoeffer
  • The Unstuck Church by Tony Morgan
  • The Complete Book of Discipleship: on Being and Making Followers of Christ by Bill Hull
  • Biblical Foundations for Small Groups by Gareth Weldon Icenogle
  • The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship by Dallas Willard
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