{"id":121711,"date":"2025-05-30T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=121711"},"modified":"2025-05-30T00:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T05:09:41","slug":"new-and-notable-christian-books-for-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=121711","title":{"rendered":"New and Notable Christian Books for May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"c54e4e38-49ac-4bc7-a77f-73e3cc4f1d10\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">While the month of May has already almost fully waned, it has proved to be a good month for Christian book releases. I sorted through the stacks that landed on my desk and arrived at this list of new and notables. In each case, I\u2019ve provided the editorial description to give you a sense of what it\u2019s all about. I hope there\u2019s something here that catches your eye!<\/p>\n<figure data-beyondwords-marker=\"c98d4dca-1c41-49e7-bf62-2ba115a69290\" class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"c585f922-67a4-4d25-bc0e-eb5e50bc02ce\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Remember Heaven: Meditations on the World to Come for Life in the Meantime<\/em> by Matthew McCullough<\/strong>. \u201cWhat we expect from our future has tremendous power over our experience in the meantime\u2014that\u2019s why the Bible places the hope of heaven at the center of the Christian life. But even if we affirm the reality of our heavenly future, we often struggle to long for heaven, much less to connect the promises of the world to come to the concrete details of life in this world as it is. If and when we think about heaven at all, it\u2019s easy to think of it like an insurance policy that will be there when we need it. But the Bible defines our future hope as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the month of May has already almost fully waned, it has proved to be a good month for Christian book releases. I sorted through the stacks that landed on my desk and arrived at this list of new and notables. See AlsoNew and Notable Christian Books for February 2025New and Notable Christian Books for June 2024New and Notable Christian Books for May 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":121755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[750],"class_list":["post-121711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-resources","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/New-and-Notable-scaled-2-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121756,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121711\/revisions\/121756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}