Kenneth S. Hemphill, You are Gifted: Your Spiritual Gifts and the Kingdom of God. Broadman and Holman, 2009. Companion volume: Hemphill, Mirror, Mirror On the Wall: Discovering Your True Self Through Spiritual Gifts Referenced in: Spiritual Gifts LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a brief, readable treatment of the subject from a scholar/churchman (Ph.D. in New Testament
J. I. Packer, Keep in Step With the Spirit: Finding Fullness in our Walk With God, Second Enlarged Edition. Baker Books, 2005. Referenced in: Spiritual Gifts LifeandLeadership.com Summary Packer is a self-styled pietistic-theologian, always deeply concerned about the life of the mind, but in a way that supports a vibrant relationship with God and emerges
D. A. Carson, Showing the Spirit: A Theological Exposition of 1 Corinthians 12-14. Baker Academic, 1996. Referenced in: Spiritual Gifts LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is an excellent exegetical work on 1 Corinthians 12-14, setting all of the individual passages associated with spiritual gifts into their context. Of special value is his discussion on 1 Corinthians 13,
Gordon D. Fee, God’s Empowering Presence, The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul. Baker Academic, Reprint Edition, 2009. Companion volume: Fee, Paul, The Spirit, and the People of God Referenced in: Spiritual Gifts LifeandLeadership.com Summary Gordon Fee is a Pentecostal/charismatic scholar who avoids the excesses often associated with Neo-Pentecostoalism on the one hand and
Brian Carraway, Spiritual Gifts: Their Purpose and Power. Winepress Publishing, 2005. Referenced in: Spiritual Gifts LifeandLeadership.com Summary Carraway provides what is probably the best popular-level overview of spiritual gifts. He surveys the full range of views from charismatics to cessationists. He offers his own centrist view that tries to capture the best of the gift-discovery
Henry Blackaby and Mel Blackaby. What’s So Spiritual About Your Gifts? Multnomah Books, 2004. Referenced in: Spiritual Gifts LifeandLeadership.com Summary The Blackabys offer a perspective on spiritual gifts that traces back to the Old Testament. They contend that the focus should not be on gifts but on unique assignments from God that are spiritually discerned.
Kenneth Berding, What are Spiritual Gifts?: Rethinking the Conventional View. Kregel Publications, 2006. Referenced in: Spiritual Gifts LifeandLeadership.com Summary The popular view of spiritual gifts sees them as God’s unique endowments to each individual. People are encouraged to discover their gifts through profiles and/or other exercises, then activate those gifts in Christian service. Usually this
Melvin J. Steinbron, The Lay-Driven Church: How to Empower People in Your Church to Share the Tasks of Ministry. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2004. Referenced in: Ministry Involvement and Gift-Based Ministry LifeandLeadership.com Summary An excellent volume, now in it’s second edition, on how to shape a church culture to be needs-conscious, gift-oriented, egalitarian, ministry-balanced, biblical,
Gary L. McIntosh, The Exodus Principle: A 5-Part Strategy to Free Your People For Ministry. Broadman and Holman, 2000. Referenced in: Ministry Involvement and Gift-Based Ministry LifeandLeadership.com Summary In this volume, popular author and consultant Gary McIntosh presents a five-fold strategy that takes the church through designing, preparing, communicating, practicing, and equipping a “culture of
Edward H. Hammett, The Gathered and Scattered Church: Equipping Believers for the 21st Century, Second edition. Smyth and Helwys, 2005. Referenced in: Gift-Based Ministry, Involvement LifeandLeadership.com Summary Hammett argues the church must see itself in missional terms, i.e. the church is in a secular culture and must be equipped (gathered) to move outside its walls
