OTHER BOOKS BY AUTHOR
Walking the Leadership Higher Ground
It was an awesome responsibility you signed up for when you said yes to God and became a leader. The role of the leader is a very higher calling. Skills that enhance our gifts and abilities should be learned and used.
Some people claim that leaders are born and that signs of leadership assert themselves early in life. But leadership is an acquired trait forged in the battles (successes and failures) of life. Spiritual leaders are not perfect; they pursue the will of Go clothed in the flesh like everyone else. Authentic leadership is about being your best self—the person God created you to be. In fourteen lessons, David explores calling, character, leadership habits and protocols, teamwork and clean delegation, behavioral boundaries and much, much more in order to enjoy a lifetime of effective leadership.
Walking the Leadership Higher Ground invites the reader to pursue God’s highest and best, and leader others to follow it. Once you have heard God’s vision, it must be communicated. The task of the leader is to encourage others to follow it. If no one follows and you think you are leading, you are probably only taking a hike.
ISBN 978-1-937602-13–0
Available on https://www.amazon.com
It Only Takes a Spark
I think you will find this book to be one of the most practical, valuable, straightforward books you will ever read as a pastor on church vitality. It will surface both the problems you face and the promise you may not have seen in the congregation you serve.
You will find that the book is a wonderful mixture of stories and principles. You will be encouraged by David’s own accounts of facing failure and seeing God intervene. You will be moved to greater faithfulness and confidence. You will not find hype here, not mere motivational fluff. Here, David grapples, with real church issues and shows you a path God revealed to him that he believes will be helpful to you.
He challenges pastors, early, to not look at the size of the church, but at the size of the city! It is a macro vision that he sets forth. And it is a no nonsense, prayer-based approach to church vitality. These are not the tools of manipulation that lead to quick, but failed long-term growth. Here you will dis- cover the call to go deep in reliance on God, then high and wide in growth. David learned the importance of surrounding himself with people of prayer, and then moving forth in the strength of the Lord.
The prognosis across the nation regarding the lack of health and potential closures of high numbers of our churches is stunning. David believes, and I share his conviction, that God can turn around churches! That God can do that for the church you serve … God still breathes life on dead bones. He raises the dead. And his passion is not only for the church, but for the city. P. Douglas Small, Foreword
ISBN 978-0-998634-7-6
Available on https://www.Amazon.com or https://www.projectpraypublications.org
Forward on Our Knees
When God has a message to give us in a time of crisis, He’s been known to awaken those who are accustomed to listening, at some of the most inopportune moments. When obedience is our “default setting,” it shouldn’t surprise us when God makes a 2:00 a.m. wake up call. It happened to me. The Spirit whispered, “David, the only way your church is going to move forward is on its knees in prayer.” I fell back to sleep for a while longer, but the message was unmistakably clear. Forward on our knees became a prayer mandate for a church in crisis, but in the years since, I’ve come to see that prayer is the way forward.
In this book, you’ll discover tactics to engage when crisis comes. David F. Nixon will show you the way forward through crisis speaking from the hard knocks of a crisis that drove him to activate extraordinary prayer. When crisis has knocked you flat on your back, you are forced to look up. We listen. We learn. We bring ourselves into alignment with God’s Word. And soon we are on our feet again. The way up is down. At times it seems progress forward is measured in inches not yards.
“Every one of us is always in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis,” wrote Andy Andrews. Where does our strength come from? How long must we pray? And what if God doesn’t answer prayer? If God doesn’t show up, why pray at all? David explores the answer to these and many other questions. He shares what he’s discovered—the mysterious power of prayer. The reader is presented a choice: embrace it by faith or simply leave it alone.
ISBN 976-1-7365408-6-2
Available at https://www.projectpraypublications.org
