Encouragement: The Unexpected Power of Building Each Other Up

Some books deserve to be forgotten, or to be read for a short time. Others — fewer than you’d think — deserve to be read for decades. One book that deserves continued attention is Encouragement: The Unexpected Power of Building Each Other Up by Larry Crabb and Dan Allender. It was first written in 1984, and I read it as a seminary student around 1990. I can’t think of a more timely book for today.

Understanding Encouragement

The first part of the book helps us understand what encourage...