The Goodness of God in the Gift of Scripture

Uche Anizor
Chair and Professor of Theology
Crossway, January 2026

Do you view the Bible as a gift or a burden? We will love Scripture only when we see it as an expression of God’s goodness and love. The promises, warnings, instructions, and rebukes of Scripture are all gifts to us. Do you believe that? These twenty brief meditations, based primarily on Psalm 119, will help you focus on the unique gifts that God communicates through Scripture, including righteousness, hope, freedom from shame, and strength in affliction. In each chapter, Uche Anizor presses home the wonderful truth that God, the source of all blessings, has chosen his word as a primary way to connect us to those blessings.

Pastoral Confessions: The Healing Path to Faithful Ministry

Jamin Goggin
B.A. ’03, M.A. ’08, M.A. ’08, Associate Professor of Christian Ministry and Leadership
Baker Books, October 2025

Many pastors are tempted to conceal their sin rather than risk vulnerability or disqualification from ministry. But this is spiritually dangerous, for both the pastor and the church. Unconfessed sin leads to guilt, shame, exhaustion, and loneliness. Instead, God invites pastors to confess, repent, and be healed, just like every other Christian. With great vulnerability and refreshing honesty, Jamin Goggin writes of those temptations and sins that uniquely plague the pastoral vocation. He shows pastors how to integrate regular confession to God and others, leading to a more hopeful, fruitful, and virtuous life and ministry.

Becoming God’s Family: Why the Church Still Matters

Carmen Joy Imes
Associate Professor of Old Testament
IVP Academic, October 2025

After waves of disillusionment, #churchtoo movements, and political divides, it’s easy to question the value of investing in the church. Yet Carmen Joy Imes offers a profound answer that resonates through the pages of Becoming God’s Family. Exploring the familial and communal identity of the church, Imes traces the thread of God’s presence in the gathered community of faith across the entire Bible. She invites readers into a vision of the church that is rooted deeply in Scripture and speaks directly to the challenges we face today. Imes reminds us of a powerful truth — God delights in the global, intergenerational family he has created.

When God Seems Distant: Surprising Ways God Deepens Our Faith and Draws Us Near

Kyle Strobel, Co-Author
M.A. ’02, M.A. ’05, Director, Institute of Spiritual Formation and Professor of Spiritual Theology
John Coe, Co-Author
B.A. ’79, M.A. ’83, Professor of Spiritual Theology
Baker Books, February 2026

Most Christians experience zeal early in their Christian life, but when that fades to a season of dryness, it’s tempting to assume one of two things: We have failed or God is absent. So we throw ourselves into ministry, spiritual disciplines, and study in order to break through to the other side of this dry season, not realizing that willpower and habit modification cannot “fix” our spiritual lives or kick-start a new season of spiritual growth. Why? Because we’ve missed the point of the wilderness. Far from being evidence that we’re failing in our faith, spiritual dry seasons are actually part of God’s plan to draw us into a deeper walk with him.