Books by dave



You could say it took me fifteen years to write this book.



PITHY (2021)



French philosopher Denis Diderot (1713-1784) said “Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon your memory.” I hope you find PITHY pithy-filled and each one unique in it’s brevity and usefulness. Let these ‘pithies’ chalIenge you to think, to think deeply about important things especially when it’s not entirely clear to you what it is that I’m getting at. I pray that God will show you many ways to use PITHY in your church, your ministry, your family, and your personal life.


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The Demons Come At Night
(2024)

Drawing from journal entries during the first two years after his marriage crumbled, The Demons Come At Night chronicles the author’s life that followed and what it looked like for a man whose world had been turned upside down to remain functioning and to hold tightly to the hand of God one day at a time. Anyone who has experienced the death of a marriage, a spouse, a child, a parent, a sibling, or close friend, will find hope and help from this story of survival and living without what you never thought you could live without.




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Second Thoughts (2020)



100 things small church pastors need to reconsider



The older I get, and the longer I do what I do, the more I find myself having second thoughts about how we do church. And not just church, but how pastors think. It’s not that I am worried that we’ve got it all wrong, but maybe there is another way to look at things. Maybe it would be helpful for us to reconsider things. Maybe the way we run our churches made sense at one time, but now there might be a more effective way to do it. Maybe there are things that fill our minds as pastors of smaller churches that aren’t doing us any good. We need to rethink, reconsider, challenge our approach to ministry and our role as a pastor.


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Naked Man Running (2017)



100 ideas that work in a small church



For the past fifteen years I have been coaching pastors of smaller churches. These leaders are always searching for answers and ideas that will relate to the unique challenges of pastoring a small church. Often times frustrated, they return from conferences led by pastors of larger churches telling them how to grow their church or offering them solutions that simply won’t work in a small church. A few years ago I realized that I had been accumulating ideas for the everyday problems pastors face. I’ve gathered all these ideas into one volume and categorized them so that a pastor can easily find answers to their specific problems.


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Belligerent Believers (2016)



Too many Christians and Pastors have become hostile, confrontational, and belligerent towards those they disagree with politically or theologically. This is a violent response directed towards those outside and inside the church. Belligerent Believers is an attempt to help us see our belligerence and replace it with love, acceptance, and respect, without compromising our convictions.


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Mile Wide, Inch Deep (2014)



Experiencing God beyond the shallows, soul care for busy pastors and the rest of us



Humorist Artemus Ward, a favorite author of President Abraham Lincoln, estimated the river Platte to be "a mile wide and an inch deep." Many pastors, if they were honest, would say that Ward could have easily been describing their own spirituality. They are a mile wide, and an inch deep. If you feel like your depth of intimacy with God is an inch deep, while your ministry responsibilities stretch you a mile wide, then this book was written for you. For pastors and the rest of us, Mile Wide, Inch Deep will help you experience God beyond the shallows. It’s possible to go deeper.


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