Book of the Year (in the Category of The Church/Pastoral Leadership)

award winner Dr. Zack Eswine.  In addition to the award-winning The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus, Zack is also the author of Spurgeon's Sorrows: Realistic Hope for those who Suffer from Depression, Preaching to a Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons that Connect with our Culture, Recovering Eden: The Gospel According to Ecclesiastes and Kindled Fire: How the methods of CH Spurgeon can help your preaching.  Zack pastors at Riverside Church in Webster Groves, MO and is the Director of Homiletics at Covenant Seminary.

the themes in Zack's writing, this interview is essential listening for

pastors who struggle with burnout, significance and self-striving.  So

much of what has become normative in church culture for pastors is the

opposite of what Jesus taught and modeled for his followers.  Zack

exposes these things with such grace, experience, and wisdom, offering

the rest of us the hope from the hamster wheel of ministry he has found

in Jesus.