This week’s post is sponsored by The Master’s Academy International (TMAI), a global network of pastoral training centers that specialize in expository preaching.

 It’s no secret that I love to recommend good and godly books. And in a culture like ours, with so many insightful resources to point to and so many publishers to print them for us, I think it’s worthwhile to step back and reflect on how we as Christians are so extraordinarily blessed to be surrounded by such a vast number of Christ-centered, God-glorifying books. But when we do that, we have to realize that this is hardly the experience of all Christians everywhere. In fact, for most Christians around the world today, it’s rare for theologically sound books to exist at all in their native language, much less in their local market.

That’s why I encourage you to get behind the global publishing initiatives of The Master’s Academy International (TMAI). They are a worldwide non-profit network of pastoral training centers that equips indigenous church leaders to preach the word and shepherd their people, and a natural extension of this ministry is publishing. So just like we in the West are blessed to have


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