A Look Back at 2018

To God Be the Glory

As 2018 draws to an end, we would like to look back at what God has been pleased to do in and through Crossway over the last 12 months.

As the world is ever changing, Crossway—originally founded 80 years ago—remains committed to its original mission: proclaiming the gospel through publishing and other means in order, by God’s grace:

To bring men, women, and children to Christ as their Lord and Savior;
To help individual Christians and the church grow in knowledge and understanding of the Christian life;
To bear witness to God’s truth, beauty, and holiness, and to the Lordship of Christ in every area of life; and
To glorify our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in every way.

New Bibles

In the last 12 months, we published over 20 new Bibles—all conceptualized, designed, typeset, and printed to bear witness to the gospel and the truth of God’s Word in all of life and serve the needs of the global church, to the honor and glory of the Lord.

Some of these Bibles include:

New Books

2018 saw the release of over 60 new books by a host of respected, trustworthy Christian pastors, ministry leaders, professors, and writers aimed at proclaiming the gospel and applying God’s Word to every area of life.

Some of these books include:

In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character by Jen Wilkin
Suffering: Gospel Hope When Life Doesn’t Make Sense by Paul David Tripp
The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World by Rosaria Butterfield
The Ten Commandments: What They Mean, Why They Matter, and Why We Should Obey Them by Kevin DeYoung
Christian Ethics: An Introduction to Biblical Moral Reasoning by Wayne Grudem
Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology by J. P. Moreland
Can We Trust the Gospels? by Peter J. Williams
The Gospel according to God: Rediscovering the Most Remarkable Chapter in the Old Testament by John MacArthur

Free Bible Reading Plans & Devotionals

There are now over 35 free Bible reading plans and devotionals available at esv.org designed to help Christians read God’s Word each and every day.

Some of these reading plans and devotionals include:

Rooted in God’s Love: A 9-Day Devotional for Women featuring Nancy Guthrie, Rosaria Butterfield, Jaquelle Crowe, Gloria Furman, and more
Gospel Hope for Suffering: A 5-Day Video Devotional featuring Paul David Tripp
Loneliness: A 5-Day Devotional featuring Lydia Brownback
Reflecting God’s Character: A 10-Day Video Devotional featuring Jen Wilkin
Jesus’s Path to the Cross: A 9-Day Devotional

Articles

In 2018, we published over 400 articles written by Crossway authors at crossway.org aimed at serving God’s people with edifying content—all completely free.

Some of these articles include:

5 Myths about Hospitality by Rosaria Butterfield
An Open Letter to the Suffering Christian by David Powlison
10 Things You Should Know about Charles Spurgeon by Michael Reeves
3 “Dos” of Fatherhood by R. Kent Hughes
How to Turn Weeping into Witnessing by Andrew Wilson
5 Myths about the Bible by Chris Bruno
10 Things You Should Know about God’s Communicable Attributes by Jen Wilkin

Gospel Tracts

By the end of 2018, over 19,000,000 gospel tracts will have been sold and distributed around the world via churches, evangelistic ministries, and individual Christians.

Originally known as Good News Publishers, Crossway was founded in 1938 through the evangelistic ministry of Clyde and Muriel Dennis, two people who cared deeply about the advance of the gospel. The Dennis family found that tracts could have a unique and strategic role to play in the work of evangelism, printing over 50 million tracts during World War II alone.

Worldwide Bible Distribution

In the last 12 months, over 26,000,000 printed editions of the ESV were published and distributed around the world—with most of these being complete Bibles or New Testaments distributed free through evangelistic ministry partnerships on six continents.

Digital Access to God’s Word

Finally, in 2018 the text of the ESV Bible was accessed digitally over 1,600,000,000 times around the world, in partnership with other global ministries via the web (e.g., esv.org) and free mobile apps (e.g., the ESV Bible app for iOS).

We’re grateful for the Lord’s provision this past year and look forward to seeing how he works in 2019!