40 Best Books

Recently, a friend challenged me with a question - what are the 30 best books you would recommend for a pastor? I started thinking about those resources that God has used to particularly bless my life, marriage, walk with Jesus, preaching and teaching, compassion for others, and personal holiness. 

Here are the 40 books I came up with, and may they bless you: 40 Best Books.

The Pastor's Justification Book Review

Pastors, may God bless you this year! More than ever you may feel the pressure to lead your church well through a very difficult time. Attendance is likely lower than it has been in years at your church. The budget may have stepped considerably backwards from previous years. You may be tempted towards frustration, discouragement, or even despair. 

Pastor, a.k.a. "Mr. In-Over-His-Head"

I am serving during my first year as full-time pastor at Granite Hills Baptist Church in Reno, NV (ghbcreno.org) by the grace, kindness, and sovereign humor of God.  God has brought me and my family to a church that is filled with His Spirit, with love for one another, and with wonderful opportunities to share the Gospel in a very spiritually dark and dead community.  There is a wise senior pastor, a secretary, me (associate pastor), and several lay leaders.  This past week, the senior pastor was on vacation which left me as the only pastor.  God has grown me by leaps and bounds just this week by putting me in the middle of situations that were simply beyond anything I could handle without His Spirit and His word which points to hope in Christ.