We're excited to see many of you at our upcoming Conference for Pastors. We pray that Jesus will be exalted and that you will be strengthened as we consider The Pastor, the People, and the Pursuit of Joy: The Apostolic Aim of Pastoral Ministry.

In an effort to help you prepare for the conference, here are a few recommended resources for you to use and enjoy.

Free Content from our Website:

  1. The Pastor as Father to His Family and Flock
  2. Advice to Pastors: How to Help Your people Be More Satisfied in God
  3. Advice to Pastors: Preach the Word
  4. A Pastor’s Offering to God of Holy People
  5. Top 10 Things to Look Forward to at the Pastors Conference
  6. Brothers, Save the Saints
  7. Brothers, Beware of Sacred Substitutes
  8. Loving God for Who he Is: A Pastor’s Perspective
  9. God’s Word, Good Exposition, Great Joy, Much Strength
  10. APJ: How should a Pastor decide what to preach?
  11. The Glory of Pervasive Holiness in the Life of a Pastor
  12. Certainties that Drive Enduring Ministry (Ch 4 in Stand: A Call for the Endurance of the Saints by John MacArthur)
  13. Scripture: Kindling for Christian Hedonism (Ch 5 in Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist)

Related Books:

  1. Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: the Life and Reflections of Tom Carson (D.A. Carson)
  2. Feed My Sheep: A Passionate Plea for Preaching (Don Kistler)
  3. The Reformed Pastor (Richard Baxter)
  4. The Living Church (John Stott)
  5. The Supremacy of God in Preaching (John Piper)

Related Resources:

  1. A Charge to New Testament Church Leaders, Part 1 (John MacArthur)
  2. A Charge to New Testament Church Leaders, Part 2 (John MacArthur)
  3. The Rebel’s Guide to Joy (Mark Driscoll)
  4. Humble Pastors (Mark Driscoll)

John Piper on C.S. Lewis:

  1. Book Review: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis
  2. 5 Tips for Clear Writing and Talking
  3. Weighty Words on the Meaning of a Husband’s Headship
  4. How Willingly Do People Go to Hell?
  5. The Sorrows of Fathers and Sons
  6. You Shall Worship the Lord Your God
  7. Do People Bore You?
  8. Do You Benefit From Reading Authors That You Don’t Agree With?
  9. The Child To Be Born Will Be Called Holy--the Son of God
  10. Hell Never Produced a Single Pleasure
  11. Worship: The Feast of Christian Hedonism
  12. Treating Delight As Duty Is Controversial
  13. Lewis and Edwards on the Layers of Self-Admiration
  14. Further Up and Further In
  15. John Piper Is Not an Innovator
  16. Seneca, C.S. Lewis, and a Sale
  17. Kids’ Books for Grown-Ups
  18. Lent Preparations for Good Friday and Easter
  19. Thank God for Famous Faith
  20. An Open Letter to Michael Prowse