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Knowing Yourself

Books to Read
Discovering and Using Your Spiritual and Personal Gifts
Author: Harbaugh, Gary L.  
Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1988.

book  image Work, Play, and Type : Achieving balance in your life
Author: Judith A. Provost
Palo Alto, CA : Consulting Psychologists Press, c1990.

Through the use of the Myers-Briggs personality type indicators this book uses case studies and examples to explain the proper use of your personality type. Thought-provoking questions at the end of each chapter personalize the ideas in the book and promote long-lasting change.
book image How to Find Your Mission in Life
Author: Bolles, Richard N.  
Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1999.

How to make the most of your unique gifts and find a vocation that is personally fulfilling in the context of God.

book image Discovering and Using Your Spiritual and Personal Gifts
Author: Harbaugh, Gary L.  
Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1988.

book image Life Keys: Discovering Who You Are, Why You're Here, and What You 
Do Best  
Authors: Stark, David and Jane Kise, Sandra Krebs Hirsh, Kevin Johnson. 
Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 1996.

Three pastors help you explore how your giftedness, personality, values, and purpose provide the keys to a meaningful life.  
Also see:  www.lifekeys.com and www.changingchurch.org/lifekeys/login/index.cfm

book image Created and Called: Discovering Our Gifts for Abundant Living
Authorf: Trumbauer, Jean Morris.  
Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 1998.

A new, comprehensive approach to gifts-based ministry. Explore the reality of the interrelationship between God's creation in us. Discover the mission and ministry we do both as individuals and as a community of faith. Also see: http://members.aol.com/trumbauer/ 


Online Spiritual Gifts Inventories:

All Spiritual Gift inventories are not the same.  You may need to log in to gain full access to the some of these gift inventories. Some choose to focus on certain gifts more than others and others may differ in their choice of questions.  However, through prayer and some searching you will be able to more readily identify your God-given spiritual gifts and how to use them to further His ministry in this world.

  • Spiritual Gifts Discovery Tool.  www.cforc.com/sgifts.html 
    Ramsey, Peg.  Lord of Life Lutheran Church.  Prince of Peace Lutheran Church.  Used by permission of the Texas District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.  "In His Service" materials. 

  • LifeKeys Gift Assessment. www.changingchurch.org/lifekeys/login/index.cfm   
    David Stark, Jane Kise, Sandra Krebs Hirsh, Kevin Johnson. Life Keys: Discovering Who You Are, Why You're Here, and What You Do Best.  Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 1996.