Curated reads

Discover books recommended by David & Lydia Osborne. Each reflects their heart for faith, family, and community while guiding readers toward growth.

The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.

Money – investing, personal finance, and business decisions – is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together.

Why Should White Guys Have All the Wealth?: How You Can Become a Millionaire Starting From the Bottom

Why Should White Guys Have All the Wealth?digs into why you find it hard to do what you need to do with your money to become a millionaire and shows you how to push past it.

Yes, there’s tons of information on personal finance, but Nash’s M$M wealth-building system integrates the steps you need to develop the right mindset, adopt the right values, and make the right money moves.

The Generous Life: Giving Meaning to Your Money

For most of us, we want to be known as someone who lived a generous life. We don’t want money and possessions to guide our decisions. We would rather live open-handed so that we can bless others.

This book gives practical steps on how to achieve your generosity goals, even if you don’t yet have any! You’ll hear stories from people who never realized God could use them in such a significant way.

Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck: The Proven Path to Break Free from Debt, Build Real Wealth, and Live Free on Any Income

Number one national bestselling author and trusted financial expert Anthony O’Neal provides the practical tools and everyday habits needed to build margin even if you’re starting from zero.

Drawing from his own story and years of coaching thousands toward financial freedom, Anthony shows you how to create real breathing room and finally take control of your money.

THE BALANCING ACT: CREATING HEALTHY DEPENDENCY AND CONNECTION WITHOUT LOSING YOURSELF

“In The Balancing Act, Nedra Glover Tawwab offers the wisdom so many of us crave: how to stay connected to others without losing ourselves.” —Dr. Becky Kennedy, bestselling author of Good Inside

Every relationship is a balancing act. If we give too much, we lose ourselves. If we hold back too much, we become isolated and unable to get our needs met. Achieving the right balance is how we find connection, authenticity, and joy.

THE MISEDUCATION OF THE NEGRO

Discusses the impact of slavery on the black psyche, questions what and who African Americans are educated for, and explores the difference between education and training.

CHRISTIANITY CORRUPTED: THE SCANDAL OF WHITE SUPREMACY

Christianity Corrupted explores how Christian theologies in the United States have been shaped to normalize white superiority and privilege. Divided into three parts, the book traces the theological roots of this scandal, examining the influence of Reformed notions of election, Enlightenment theories of race, and proslavery theologies embraced by colonists.

MEDITATIONS OF THE HEART

Howard Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart is a beautiful collection of over 150 prayers, poems, and meditations on prayer, community, and the joys and rituals of life by one of our greatest spiritual leaders. Thurman, a spiritualist and mystic, was renowned for the quiet beauty of his reflections on humanity and our relationship with God.

THE INWARD JOURNEY

Meditations that address the deepest needs and aspirations of the human spirit. Themes include: The Quest for Meaning, The Quest for Understanding, The Quest for Fulfillment, The Quest for Love, The Quest for Peace, The Quest for God, and Psalm 139.

PEACE IS A PRACTICE

When you breathe in all the grace available to you and release everything that is outside of your control, you’ll discover peace that surpasses your circumstances. All it takes is practice.

If you feel overwhelmed with anxiety about the future, you’re far from alone. For many of us, when we’re not worrying about what is to come, we find ourselves wrestling with things from the past. Where does that leave us today?

THE GARDEN WITHIN

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

Featured on SUPER SOUL PODCAST hosted by Oprah Winfrey.

Too often we’ve been taught to view our emotions with suspicion, seeing them as something to be suppressed, managed, or mastered. This isn’t true. Emotions are not your enemy. Internal war is not your destiny. You were created to flourish.

THE MAN THE MOMENT DEMANDS

Transform your life when you discover the essence of true masculinity and become the right kind of man for every challenge that lies ahead.

Men are lost and in crisis. In a world full of misinformation and broken relationships, they are unsure of the true meaning of manhood and grab on to distorted versions of masculinity that pull them into emotional incarceration. But there is hope and a path to freedom.

EMOTIONALLY HEALTHY SPIRITUALITY

A road map for discipleship with Jesus that is powerfully transformative.

Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can’t be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Even though he was the pastor of a growing church, he did what most people do—avoid conflict in the name of Christianity; ignore his anger, sadness, and fear; use God to run from God; and live without boundaries.

BLACK LITURGIES

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies

“A true spiritual balm for our troubled times.”—Michael Eric Dyson, author of What Truth Sounds Like

RELATIONSHIP ROAD MAP

ECPA BESTSELLER Practical, biblical guidance for every step of your relationship journey—from single to dating to engaged to married from the bestselling author of Stop Waiting for Permission.

“A helpful resource for anyone looking . . . to align their relationship with God’s heart.”—Tim Timberlake

CRY LIKE A MAN

As a leader in teaching, training, and transforming boys in Detroit, Jason Wilson shares his own story of discovering what it means to “be a man” in this life-changing memoir.

His grandfather’s lynching in the deep South, the murders of his two older brothers, and his verbally harsh and absent father all worked together to form Jason Wilson’s childhood. But it was his decision to acknowledge his emotions and yield to God’s call on his life that made Wilson the man and leader he is today.

RELATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Relational Intelligence is your action plan for getting smart about who you surround yourself with. Using Jesus’s relational framework for choosing the twelve disciples, this book gives you the tools you need to define, discern, align, assess, and activate your relationships to unlock your greatest potential.

BATTLE CRY

Become a better husband, father, and leader when you learn to express your emotions in a healthy way.

In a culture that tells men to suppress instead of express, join bestselling author, speaker, and leader Jason Wilson (featured in the award-winning ESPN documentary The Cave of Adullam) as he calls you to unlearn society’s definition of masculinity and discover the power of engaging with your emotions.

THE EMOTIONALLY HEALTHY WOMAN

Part of the bestselling Emotionally Healthy Spirituality book collection, The Emotionally Healthy Woman provides women a way out of surface-level spirituality to genuine freedom in Christ.

Geri Scazzero knew there was something desperately wrong with her life. She felt like a single parent raising her four young daughters alone. She finally told her husband, “I quit,” and left the thriving church he pastored, beginning a journey that transformed her and her marriage for the better.

TRUTH'S TABLE

FINALIST FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • A collection of essays and stories documenting the lived theology and spirituality we need to hear in order to lean into a more freeing, loving, and liberating faith—from the hosts of the beloved Truth’s Table podcast

“The liberating work of Truth’s Table creates breathing room to finally have those conversations we’ve been needing to have.”—Morgan Harper Nichols, artist and poet