Gold Medallion Book Award
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The Christian Book Award (known as the Gold Medallion Book Award from 1978 through 2005) is an annual award given by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association
to honor Christian content in several categories, including Bible
s, Fiction, Children, Inspiration, Bible Reference, and Non-Fiction. Winners are announced each year at the industry's Executive Leadership Summit. From among these recipients is also chosen a Christian Book of the Year, based on a combination of judging scores and sales.
Evangelical Christian Publishers Association
The is an international non-profit trade association whose member companies are involved in the publishing and distribution of Christian content worldwide...
to honor Christian content in several categories, including Bible
Bible
The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
s, Fiction, Children, Inspiration, Bible Reference, and Non-Fiction. Winners are announced each year at the industry's Executive Leadership Summit. From among these recipients is also chosen a Christian Book of the Year, based on a combination of judging scores and sales.
Selected winners
- 2011 - Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy - Eric Metaxas
- 2010 - The Hole in Our Gospel - Richard Stearns
- 2009 - ESV Study Bible - Crossway
- 2008 - The Word of Promise New Testament Audio Bible, NKJV - Carl Amari, Producer
- 2007 - Ever After - Karen KingsburyKaren kingsburyKaren Kingsbury is an American Christian novelist. Her first novel was Missy's Murder. She got this idea from an optional topic in the Los Angeles Times....
- 2006 - Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible - Kevin VanhoozerKevin VanhoozerKevin J. Vanhoozer is Blanchard Professor of Theology at Wheaton College. He will resume his old position, Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, in Fall, 2012. He is the author of several books on theology, hermeneutics, and...
, General Editor - 2005 - Experiencing the Passion of Jesus - Lee StrobelLee StrobelLee Patrick Strobel is a writer, creationist, former journalist and former megachurch pastor. He is the author of several books, including four which received ECPA Christian Book Awards and a series which addresses challenges to a Biblically inerrant view of Christianity...
and Gary Poole - 2005 - Love & RespectLove & RespectLove & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs is a self-help book that was written in 2004 by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs that suggest a direct connection between the emotional needs of men and women and a verse of scripture found in the Bible, that when adhered to, can...
Dr. Emerson Eggerichs - 2004 - The Purpose Driven LifeThe Purpose Driven LifeThe Purpose Driven Life is a devotional book written by Christian author Rick Warren and published by Zondervan. The book has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for advice books for one of the longest periods in history, while also topping the Wall Street Journal best seller charts as...
- Rick WarrenRick WarrenRichard Duane "Rick" Warren is an American evangelical Christian minister and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch located in Lake Forest, California, currently the eighth-largest church in the United States... - 2003 - The Purpose Driven LifeThe Purpose Driven LifeThe Purpose Driven Life is a devotional book written by Christian author Rick Warren and published by Zondervan. The book has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for advice books for one of the longest periods in history, while also topping the Wall Street Journal best seller charts as...
- Rick Warren - 2002 - The Prayer of JabezThe Prayer of JabezThe Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life is an inspirational Bruce Wilkinson published in 2000 by Multnomah Books as the first book in the "BreakThrough" book series...
- Bruce WilkinsonBruce WilkinsonBruce Wilkinson is a Christian teacher and author. He was born in New Jersey and graduated from Northeastern Bible College , Dallas Theological Seminary and Western Conservative Baptist Seminary . He served as a college professor at Multnomah School of the Bible in Portland, Oregon, until... - 2001 - The Prayer of JabezThe Prayer of JabezThe Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life is an inspirational Bruce Wilkinson published in 2000 by Multnomah Books as the first book in the "BreakThrough" book series...
- Bruce Wilkinson - 2000 - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire - Jim Cymbala with Dean Merrill
- 1999 - Just Like Jesus - Max LucadoMax LucadoMax Lucado is a best-selling author and writer and preacher at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas...
- 1998 - What's So Amazing About Grace - Philip YanceyPhilip YanceyPhilip Yancey is an American Christian author. Fourteen million of his books have been sold worldwide, making him one of the best-selling evangelical Christian authors. Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996, What's So Amazing About...
- 1997 - In the Grip of Grace - Max Lucado
- 1996 - The Jesus I Never Knew - Philip YanceyPhilip YanceyPhilip Yancey is an American Christian author. Fourteen million of his books have been sold worldwide, making him one of the best-selling evangelical Christian authors. Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996, What's So Amazing About...
- 1995 - When God Whispers Your Name - Max Lucado
- 1994 - When God Doesn't Make Sense - James DobsonJames DobsonJames Clayton "Jim" Dobson, Jr. is an American evangelical Christian author, psychologist, and founder in 1977 of Focus on the Family , which he led until 2003. In the 1980s he was ranked as one of the most influential spokesman for conservative social positions in American public life...
- 1993 - The Body - Charles ColsonCharles ColsonCharles Wendell "Chuck" Colson is a Christian leader, cultural commentator, and former Special Counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973....
with Ellen Santrill Vaughn - 1992 - The Coming Economic Earthquake - Larry BurkettLarry BurkettLarry Burkett was an American author and radio personality whose work focused on financial counseling from an evangelical Christian point of view. Burkett was born the fifth of eight children. After completing high school in Winter Garden, Florida, he entered the U.S...