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The Good Book Company is grateful for receiving several 2020 awards

December 18, 2020, CHARLOTTE, NC — The Good Book Company is grateful to share that several new titles have received awards or honorable mentions in 2020.

We praise God for the wonderful team of staff, authors, and illustrators who have worked hard this year to create Biblical, relevant and accessible resources. The new resources we celebrate this year include:

  • Jesus and the Very Big Surprise by Randall Goodgame: award of merit in Christianity Today’s 2021 Book Awards. (Find out more here.)
  • Why Does God Care Who I Sleep With? By Sam Allberry: Christianity Today book award of merit in the Apologetics/Evangelism category. (Find out more here.)
  • The Prisoners, the Earthquake and the Midnight Song by Bob Hartman: Children’s: The Gospel Coalition 2020 Book Awards (Learn more here.)
  • Stay Salt by Rebecca Manley Pippert: Evangelism & Apologetics: The Gospel Coalition 2020 Book Awards (Learn more here.)
  • Born Again This Way by Rachel Gilson: The Gospel Coalition 2020 Book Awards, Honorable Mention (Learn more here.)
  • Wherever You Go, I Want You to Know by Melissa Kruger: The Gospel Coalition 2020 Book Awards, Honorable Mention (Learn more here.)
  • Stop Taking Sides by Adam Mabry: World Magazine, honorable mention in Accessible Theology (Read more here.)
  • The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross by Carl Laferton: Bronze Award by the ECPA for over 100,000 copies sold.
  • Where is God in a Coronavirus World? By John Lennox: Bronze Award by the ECPA for over 100,000 copies sold.

Please join us in giving thanks to God for His work in 2020. He is faithful! “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!” -Psalm 107:1

About The Good Book Company: Founded in 1991, The Good Book Company (TGBC) is an international Christian publisher. Their Bible studies, books, devotionals, videos, tracts, evangelistic courses, and training materials are used throughout the English-speaking world, and in translation in over 35 languages worldwide. Everyone at TGBC is passionate about the Lord Jesus, His word, His church, and His gospel of grace. They create and publish biblical, relevant, and accessible resources that will encourage Christians to keep going, keep growing, and keep sharing their faith.

 

 

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