As another year wraps up, we asked the KCC team to share the books, podcasts, and resources that encouraged their faith in 2025. Here’s what we loved!
The Perrys Podcast
I like how it’s a conversation rather than just straight preaching, the variety that they give through having different guests on as well. It’s quite personable, and it’s topical but brings in different theological elements. – Alice
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OneLove 2025 Talks
I really enjoyed listening to the OneLove talks I missed, they had great teaching around how to live through hardship and keep consistently living for Jesus as sadness and suffering happen all around. – Joel
Discipleship Is More Than You Believe Series
I also enjoyed Discipleship Is More Than You Believe. A great short series about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus and how we should have the right beliefs, right practices and right desires. – Joel
Bible in a Year
I’ve been liking Bible in One Year! It helps me read and understand the bible (almost) every day especially parts of the OT. – Aisling
Book: Recovering Eden: The Gospel According to Ecclesiastes by Zack Eswine
I loved reading Zack’s book on Ecclesiastes. Zack unpacks the book’s message with fresh language, vivid illustrations and challenging application; it’s been helping me enjoy the Lord in my ‘lot’—right where he’s placed me in the ordinary stuff of life. – Jeremy
Book: “Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairy Tale” by Frederick Buechner
It’s a short book – 90-odd pages but one of the most potent reads on preaching I’ve ever come across. I’ve read it three times so far.
I love it because it’s a powerful incentive for preachers to tell the truth: to cut through all the things they think they ought to say, and start saying what they need to say.
It made me think about the gospel a totally different way: as a tragedy (our painful, human experience of failure): as a comedy (God’s outlandish, ‘ridiculous’, love of human beings despite our failure; and as a fairy tale because the ending – transformation, resurrection – is so wonderful, it’s too good not to be true; and that’s the way we need to preach it.- Jonathan
Kids Books: Training Young Hearts Board Books by Abbey Wedgeworth; Emma Randall (Illustrator)
I actually struggled to find age-appropriate board books like these ones and found that other options were either too wordy or advanced. I loved these lift-the-flap children’s board books and I’m so glad these exist! They are short and really engaging for toddlers who can’t sit still. – Patrizha
Book: Resilient Rhythms by Mitch Everingham
I found that creating intentional patterns in my life for things like relationship building, generosity, prayer, and Bible reading set a great tone and perspective for the days God has given me. – Steph
We pray these resources bless you as they have blessed us!
