I love to journal in my Bibles. I underline and highlight. I mark up the text with symbols. I use colors for specific things I am looking for, such as characteristics of God and promises in the text. I often write out my thoughts to the side of the Bible passage I am meditating on.…
Here are my resources on the I Am Statements of Jesus in John. I taught this class on Sunday mornings at Stonebridge Church in the Fall of 2026. The Bread of Life The Light of the World The Good Shepherd and The Door The Resurrection and The Life The Way, Truth, and Life The True…
This is a beautiful Bible to use as you seek to enjoy God’s Word. It is also specifically crafted for the task of preaching. This particular edition of the ESV Preaching Bible is verse-by-verse style, as each verse of the text is lined up to the left side of the page. This means you don’t…
This book is a compilation of chapters, each written by a respected evangelical scholar, about sin and depravity – covering historical, biblical, theological, and pastoral perspectives. I enjoyed reading portions of the first book in this “Doctrines of Grace Series” called From Heaven He Came and Sought Her, so I was eager to get my…
The Pastor’s Book, by Kent Hughes, along with Douglas Sean O’Donnell, is a treasure trove of practical resources for pastors. It’s been a tried-and-true pastoral ministry handbook for over a decade now. It is also written with the conviction that all Christian ministry must be centered on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Hughes states that,…
I am excited to share my full PhD dissertation and a summary of the findings. I studied pastoral training approaches in local churches. I found four categories of training approaches and did case study research on exemplary churches within each category. I then categorized the shared practices of these model churches into a list. This…
Christopher Ash explains that this commentary on the Psalms is not a technical or scholarly commentary. But it is, “the Psalms read with the breadth of a whole-bible perspective allied with the depth of a clear focus on Christ, the center of history and the fulcrum of the Bible story.” This commentary, in particular, is…
This commentary set on the Psalms is four volumes by Christopher Ash. The first volume is an introduction to Christ in the Psalms. The second volume is Psalms 1-50. The third volume is Psalms 51-100. And the fourth volume is Psalms 101-150. This series intrigued me from the start. I was interested in how an…
I opened the box to these journaling Bibles and was surprised at how big they are! I was expecting that they would be around the size of the ESV Scripture Journals on the individual books of the Bible that I have used. But these are full-page, standard paper size journals. They feel like one of…
According to recent Barna and Lifeway research projects, the church has a leadership crisis (1-2).[1] The median age of pastors is going up, the number of young pastors is in decline, and there’s a growing urgency to “motivate, mobilize, resource and deploy more younger pastors” (1-2). Scott Pace and Shane Pruitt wrote this book exhorting…
I am a resource guy. I am also a leadership development guy. So when I saw this toolkit available from 9Marks about leadership, I was immediately interested. This kit helps with all things church leadership! The 9Marks ministry put this kit together to assist church leaders as they seek to build biblical leadership in their…
This is a Christian growth book. It’s about the ongoing sanctification of believers. Dane Ortlund writes Deeper to help foster “real change for real sinners.” This book is about how to grow closer to Jesus and experience real change in walking with God over the long haul. I first read this book at a fast…
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This is a helpful book on a subject that is hard to understand, predestination. This book is longer in length than most of the volumes in this series, but it covers a lot of ground on the subject of election and reprobation. The book is divided into two sections about election and reprobation respectively. Within…
According to one of the endorsements on the back, Roman Catholic Theology and Practice is “a landmark book.” I agree. This book reviews Catholic Theology as a whole system as the organizational basis for its evangelical assessment. I have read other resources that explain what unites and divides Catholics and Protestants but most take a…
