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In this guide, we’ll highlight some of the best reference books for new pastors like trusted commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and other essential study tools. These resources will help you build a strong foundation for preaching, teaching, and shepherding God’s people.
EbookHopecasting
Finding, Keeping and Sharing the Things Unseen
by Mark Oestreicher
Foreword by Scot McKnightWhy are some people full of hope, while many of us struggle to get past the snooze alarm?Hope often seems elusive—both to explain and to experience. So we find ourselves instead clinging to lesser substitutes. From self-medication to lazy clichés,we apply these balms to our pain and experience little to no comfort. But we know, in our guts, that these replacements aren?t the hope-filled lives we ...
PaperbackBetween Heaven and Hell
A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley
The IVP Signature Collection
by Peter Kreeft
On November 22, 1963, three great men died within a few hours of each other: C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley. All three believed, in different ways, that death is not the end of human life. Suppose they were right,and suppose they met after death. How might the conversation go?
Peter Kreeft imagines their discussion as part of the great conversation that has ...
PaperbackThe New Friars
The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor
by Scott A. Bessenecker
Finalist, Fourth Annual Outreach Resource of the Year
Vows—exclusive promises or commitments—are almost unheard of these days. They're considered a quaint relic of times past when open options were not such highly regarded virtues. But many people in this commitment-averse culture are begging for someone to set the bar higher, to call them to higher levels of devotion.
Across ...
PaperbackEmbrace
God's Radical Shalom for a Divided World
by Leroy Barber
The walls between us seem impenetrable.We live in an age of strife and division. Factors such as race, class, values and lifestyles keep us from connecting with others in meaningful ways. It's easy to avoid or ignore those who make us uncomfortable and those we simply do not like, but God's call to the church is to do just the opposite.Leroy Barber has spent decades pursuing reconciliation and justice ...
PaperbackRenaissance
The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times
by Os Guinness
Logos Bookstores' Best Book in Christianity and Culture
Honorable Mention, Best Book of the Year from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
We live in dark times. Christians wonder: Are the best days of the Christian faith behind us? Has modernity made Christian thought irrelevant and impotent? Is society beyond all hope of redemption and renewal?
In ...
PaperbackThe #MeToo Reckoning
Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct
by Ruth Everhart
2020 Publishers Weekly Book of the Year—Religion
"Everhart’s unsparing analysis will be helpful for both ministers and lay readers who are concerned about sexual abuse." — ★ Publishers Weekly Starred Review
The #MeToo movement has revealed sexual abuse and assault in every sphere of society, including the church. But victims are routinely ignored ...
PaperbackReciprocal Church
Becoming a Community Where Faith Flourishes Beyond High School
by Sharon Galgay Ketcham
The church faces an unprecedented loss of rising generations.Young adults who were active and engaged in the local church are more frequently leaving the community behind after high school. What can we do? Responding to these concerning statistics, Sharon Galgay Ketcham reflects theologically on the church community and its role in forming faith. She exposes problems in the way ...
PaperbackUncommon Decency
Christian Civility in an Uncivil World
by Richard J. Mouw
Can Christians be civil in a world falling apart?In these wild and diverse times, prolifers square off against prochoicers, gay liberationists confront champions of the traditional family, husbands and wives face each other in court, artists attack legislators, and "politically correct" intellectuals abhor crusading fundamentalists.Philosopher and ethicist Richard Mouw is concerned that, too often, ...
PaperbackHealing Racial Trauma
The Road to Resilience
by Sheila Wise Rowe
Foreword by Soong-Chan RahForeword INDIES Book of the Year Award - Multicultural
Christianity Today Book Award - Christian Living/Discipleship Award
Publishers Weekly starred review"People of color have endured traumatic histories and almost daily assaults on our dignity. We have prayed about racism, been in denial, or acted out in anger, ...
