John Onwuchekwa

Carved in Ebony

Children & Youth

“Books are meant to shape us. While reading Carved in Ebony, I imagined that I was joining Jasmine Holmes on a journey looking at old truths with fresh eyes. After I was done, I realized that Jasmine wasn’t just using her pen to tell a story. She was using it as a chisel. My faith and confidence in the goodness of God has been refined and polished as a result of seeing God’s faithfulness in the lives of these women. I can’t wait to witness the other statues she sculpts when other people get their hands on this book.”

Crowned with Glory

History & Biography

“Books are meant to shape us. While reading Carved in Ebony, I imagined that I was joining Jasmine Holmes on a journey looking at old truths with fresh eyes. After I was done, I realized that Jasmine wasn’t using her pen just to tell a story. She was using it as a chisel. My faith and confidence in the goodness of God has been refined and polished as a result of seeing God’s faithfulness in the lives of these women. I can’t wait to witness the other statues she sculpts when other people get their hands on this book.”

Dearly Beloved

Christian Living

“If you've ever had the wonderfully disorienting experience of extending your arm for a handshake and being pulled in for a hug, then you know what it feels like to read this book. We approach this beautiful metaphor with such familiarity, and that familiarity is our problem. We confuse awareness with comprehension and, in so doing, we overlook the things God wants us to see. To gaze. To wonder. As Vermon pulls on the threads of his curiosity surrounding this image, he pulls us closer and closer to feeling the warmth God intended. Each chapter builds off the previous one. I'm excited for what this will do in the world.”

I Wish My Dad

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Vulnerability is a contagious cure. Tune models that with every page in this book. I Wish My Dad has the potential to cure us from our despair and free us to hope again.”

The Rule of Love

Church Leadership & Ministry

“I don’t know many people who have thought as long, as hard, and as well about the church as Jonathan Leeman. He helps us to reconstruct our idea of the local church, not by rearranging the walls, but by refitting the two floorboards that undergird the church—love and authority. It seems our culture has been drawn to the former and rejected the latter because it has understood neither. In a world that is quick to react, Leeman challenges us to step back and reconsider love, authority, and the way they were designed to relate to each other. He opens our eyes to our hidden assumptions and fears about love and authority. With theological precision and pastoral sensitivity, he does much more than highlight our problems and fears—he also shows us a grand vision for the gospel working in the world through a church that rightly understands love, authority, and their inseparable connection. This is an excellent work for pastors, church members, and even people on the outside trying to make sense of what Christians believe. I am grateful that Jonathan has condensed his years of study about the church and pastoring in the church into a such a potent book, and I’m excited for others to get their hands on this.”