Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
“I’m tired of helping others enjoy God—I just want to enjoy God for myself.”
With this painful admission, Ruth Haley Barton invites us to an honest exploration of what happens when spiritual leaders lose track of their souls. Weaving together contemporary illustrations with penetrating insight from the life of Moses, Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership explores topics such as
Each chapter includes a spiritual practice to ensure your soul gets the nourishment it needs. Forging and maintaining a life-giving connection with God is the best choice you can make for yourself and for those you lead.
This expanded edition includes the popular “How Is It with Your Soul?” assessment for leaders and a flexible six- or twelve-week guided experience for groups.
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- Invites us to an honest exploration when spiritual leaders lose track of their souls.
- Explores leading from your authentic self.
- Encourages and empower us to seek God more deeply.
In the same spirit in which Henri Nouwen wrote The Return of the Prodigal Son, Ruth Haley Barton has captured the soul of Moses and has revealed him to us as a seeker of truth, wisdom, and vulnerability.
--Glandion W. Carney, Chaplain of the Christian Legal Society
A weary, waiting world cries out for God-shaped leaders who would serve more than be served, who would find power by laying down power, who would lose their lives for others. In her reflections on the life of Moses, God’s radically human and holy friend, Ruth Haley Barton has given us not only a portrait of what sacrificial and redemptive leadership looks like, but has provided practice for getting there. This is a book to read alone and together. It will encourage and empower us to seek God more deeply, to listen for and embody our innate callings, to stay faithful to our solitary and even lonely journeys in community, and to love God for the long haul.
--N. Gordon Cosby, cofounder of The Church of the Saviour, Washington, DC
In a landscape littered with leadership books that tinker at the margins of what really matters, Ruth Haley Barton offers us practical guidance to the core of life-changing leadership: spiritual authenticity and health. Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership lays bare the ancient truth that great leadership comes from the inside out, and provides a helpful road map for examining and seeking God’s transformation of that largely unexamined inner core from which true leadership proceeds. This is a powerful resource for me and my own leadership team.
--Gary Haugen, president, International Justice Mission, and author of Good News About Injustice
- Title: Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry
- Authors: Gary A. Haugen, Ruth Haley Barton, Leighton Ford
- Edition: Expanded Edition
- Publisher: IVP
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 251
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Moses (Biblical leader); Christian leadership › Biblical teaching; Spiritual life › Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9780830874170, 9780830846450, 0830874178, 083084645X
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830874170
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:49:30Z