The Pastor's Library Archives

The title of Dr. Kevin Leman’s newest book, When Your Kid is Hurting: Helping Your Child through the Tough Days, admits right away that hurt in...

Nicole Unice, author of The Struggle is Real talks with Crosswalk.com about how to choose to enter into the good life that God invites us to,...

Imagine planning a mission trip for a group from your church, and you end up shipwrecked or in jail in some foreign country. Wouldn't you think...

Reading has always been easy for me. I’ve read more novels that I can count. I own so many that I couldn’t take them all with me when I left home...

It turns out that mental illness shares the same first rule as Fight Club: you don’t talk about it.

If all you had to reference were the Bible, what would Church look like? Francis Chan's latest book "is about how [I] and others have been trying...

What is a good book? Or to put it another way: is this book worth reading? Here are four questions to ask of a book you're about to read.

Starting in this new year, you can make sure that you're as productive as possible in ministry to leave the kind of legacy God intends.

Every generation sees hot-button issues. These are issues which often matter; issues that need to be addressed. God cares about real people and...

Every year, shortly after Memorial Day, I offer 10 titles as a suggested summer reading list. These are books that I have either read over the past...

As I have aged and grown in my own intellectual acumen (for better or worse), I’ve noticed a pattern in other intellects. There are certain people...

Kate Bowler, author of Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I've Loved) talks with Crosswalk.com about living with stage IV colon cancer...

The letter Tolkien wrote Michael in the year 1941–with the world exploding in war and civilization coming apart at its seams–is a model of fatherly...

Leading like Jesus Christ involves a threefold focus, on: spirituality (loving God), chemistry (loving people), and strategy.

Recently I had a pastor ask me for my “best advice” for other pastors. Here are 12 words of encouragement for pastors.