Author · Pastor · Counselor
Books on church growth, discipleship, counseling, and following God by design.
Retired senior pastor · Founder of the International Growth Institute · Host of the Life by Design radio program · Board Certified Pastoral Counselor
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The Playbook Series — Team Players · Team Managers · Team Coaches
A three-part playbook for living a life of power in the post-modern church. Built around the vision that everyone can invite a person into a space with an unobstructed view of Jesus, these books equip players, managers, and coaches to build dream teams that change the world.
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Second Edition Revised — God’s Design for Personal and Church Growth
Spiritual transformation is a focus problem, not a will problem. This expanded second edition weaves together theology, neuroscience, and real ministry experience to show how clearer focus on God — not more willpower — is the path to lasting change.
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Become Available, Usable, and Equipped for God
A clear, practical guide to living the life God designed for you — becoming available to Him, usable for His purposes, and equipped to make a difference right where you are.
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Fourteen Protocols for the Whole Disciple
The companion manual to Life by Design. Fourteen Life Design Protocols — seven spiritual and seven physical — give whole-person disciples a practical framework for ordering body and soul around God’s design.
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How to Come Alongside the Hurting
A training guide for lay counselors and caregivers who want to come alongside hurting people in the power of the Holy Spirit. Grounded in Scripture and decades of pastoral counseling experience.
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Charting a Course to Godly Decisions
Eight nautical “markers” — buoys for the soul — guide you through making major godly decisions. A practical, biblical framework for charting a wise course when the choices ahead feel uncertain.
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Jesus Returns — A Three-Volume Set
A pastoral and theological vision of what the Father has been doing across the whole arc of redemptive history — and what He is doing now as the age moves toward its climactic close. Not a book about decoding the news, but about being formed in the framework that lets the Church read the season ahead with clarity, courage, and hope.
Available September 1, 2026
Dan Stanley, PhD, is a retired senior pastor, author, Board Certified Pastoral Counselor, and Certified Brain Health Coach. For nearly twenty-five years he led RockFish Church, growing it from a small congregation to a thriving community of nearly 3,000 people.
He is the founder of the International Growth Institute and host of the daily Life by Design radio program. His writing centers on a single conviction: that spiritual transformation is a focus problem, not a will problem — we grow by gaining a clearer, unobstructed view of Jesus.
Dan and his wife, Jan, have shared life and ministry together for more than fifty years. They make their home in Port Charlotte, Florida.
Selected titles are available as Kindle editions in as many as six languages.
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