Over the past couple of weeks the blogs and sites I read have been humming with list after list of the top books of 2020. It seems that just about every avid reader I follow is eager to share his or her picks for the year that was. I love these lists and especially love comparing them to see which books become the consensus favorites. With that in mind, and based on perhaps 20 or 25 such lists, I analyzed them and narrowed it down to just a few books that received a lot of attention.
Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane Ortlund. There’s no doubt as to the consensus favorite for books published in 2020: Gentle and Lowly. It was WORLD magazine’s Accessible Theology book of the year and TGC’s Popular Theology book of the year. Andrew Wilson says “It is a stunning book, packed with beautiful truths expressed poignantly and applied wisely, and I cannot recommend it highly enough” while Kristen Wetherell says, “I’m on my second reading of Gentle and Lowly and highly, highly recommend it to you. Amid a difficult season of much weariness, Jesus knew
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