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,…
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…
Authority. Before reading on, take five seconds to stop and stare at that first word. What thoughts come to mind? Are these thoughts generally positive or negative? Does the word stir in you good memories? Perhaps it generates thoughts of a parent or teacher who helped you grow into the person you are now. Or…
I’ll start with some interesting statistics about multisite churches in America: Over a ten-year period, from 1999-2009, the number of multisite churches grew from 200 to over 3,000. There were more than 5,000 multisite churches in America in 2012. Thom Rainer of the Leadership Network estimates that the number of multisite churches today could be…
