I wrote this article
on my other blog Word Speaks Today. Here are my Top 17 Book
on Innovative and Creativity Lists. Enjoy! Click HERE
also if you want to read my TOP 20 Book on Personal
Development Lists.
“Creativity is a characteristic given to all
human beings at birth” (Abraham Maslow)
Christianity must be creative because first and
foremost, we follow a creative God. There
is nothing more needed in Christianity today than creativity. We don’t need
more doctrinal precision and biblical knowledge, more conferences and programs.
We don’t need more identical youth groups copied from the megachurch on TV. We
don’t want to hear another worship song with the same beat, the same tempo, the
same words, and the same three chords as every other worship song. We don’t
need to follow Planet Shakers or Hillsongs or True Worshippers. We need to be original and contextualize! Thus,
creativity is needed.
Best example of creative
person and Lord is Jesus. The Scripture says, “He
created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn’t make”
(John 1:3) If you think that the
universe is wonderful and it is an act of creative Being – think Jesus, the
Author of the universe! We are also made in the image of Him, so we’re at some
point – creative people.
There are people who are
good at writing books on creativity. We should read it. Reading books on
creativity doesn’t mean you will be creative instantaneously. You are God’s creation, you already
creative. But to be more creative, you need to cultivate your creativity
through reading and applications. Here are some of my books recommendation for
you to consider reading with a cautious, prayer and wisdom (Why top 17 books?
Because top 10 or 15 or 20 is so mainstream):
1) You Are Creative:
Let Your Creativity Bloom, 3rd Edition by Dr. Yew Kam Keong
2) A Whack on the Side
of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative by Roger
von Oech
3) Cracking Creativity:
The Secrets of Creative Genius by Michael
Michalko
4) How to Get Ideas, New Expended Edition by Jack Foster
5) How to Think Like
Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day by Michael
J. Gelb
6) How to Think Like
Einstein: Simple Ways to Break the Rules and Discover Your Hidden Genius by Scott
Thorpe
7) Buzan's book of Genius:
And How to Unleash Your Own by Tony Buzan and Raymond Keene
8) Lateral Thinking:
Creativity Step by Step by Edward De Bono
9) Six Thinking Hats by Edward
de Bono
10) How to Have a
Beautiful Mind by Edward de Bono
11) The Art of Thinking:
A Guide to Critical and Creative Thought by Vincent R. Ruggiero
12) Becoming a Life
Change Artist: 7 Creative Skills to Reinvent Yourself at Any Stage of Life by Fred
Mandell
13) On Creativity:
Awakening the Creative Mind by Leo Ann Mean
14) What Would Apple
Do?: How You Can Learn from Apple and Make Money by Dirk
Beckmann
15) Business Creativity:
A Practical Guide by Jodie Newman
16) The Power of
Innovative Thinking by Jim Wheeler
17) Creative Bible
Study: A Manual for Training Bible Study Leaders by Ada Lum
If you want to read any of this books, but you can’t
find it in bookstores near you (Poor thing!)
Then come and borrow the book from me ya. God bless you with creativity. Amen.
Then come and borrow the book from me ya. God bless you with creativity. Amen.
Lord, Give
Us Today Our Daily Idea(s)
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