The EPC General Assembly Office provides a variety of downloadable resources, including EPC Book of Order, Westminster Confession of Faith, Leadership Training Guide, and others. Printed copies of many EPC documents are available from epcresources.org.

The Presbyterian Story by S. Donald Fortson, III, D.Min., Ph.D., Professor of Church History and Practical Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC. The Presbyterian Story is useful to elders, seminarians, church members interested in how the EPC fits into Presbyterianism in America. (Comes with a study guide which relates Scripture to history.) Click here to order.

Liberty in Non-Essentials also by S. Donald Fortson, III, D.Min., Ph.D. A history of the EPC, celebrating 35 years of ministry: 1981-2016. Click here to order.

Out of Order: The Self-Destruction Of A Mainline Denomination, by Rev. Powell Sykes, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Burlington, NC. 

In 1927 American Presbyterians chose to stop listing and insisting upon "the essential tenets of the Reformed faith"; instead, they emphasized tolerance and essential action. Since then, historic, biblically based Christianity has been supplanted more and more by a different religion, dubbed Religious Liberalism by the author, within the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States. This, coupled with decades of removing practical means of holding pastors accountable for any of their beliefs and much of their behavior, is leading to that denomination's demise in the early years of the 21st Century. The author combines historical overview and perspective with his own experiences as a pastor of Presbyterian churches in North Carolina to make his case. Click here to order.

Reformed with Power (How Reformed faith and Calvinistic theology flow with the power of the Holy Spirit) [Kindle Edition], by Rev. Tom Pittman.

The Reformed faith and Calvinistic theology flow with the power of the Holy Spirit and His gifts. How does a reformed church exercise and govern the spiritual gifts today? Can any follower of Jesus flow with the power of the Holy Spirit? Reformed With Power is an apologetic and guide for the use of the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. Throughout his years in ministry, Tom Pitman has had fellow reformed pastors and church members ask him about the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit and His gifts. Through this work, he illustrates biblically, historically and logistically how the Holy Spirit has been actively using His gifts throughout time and how important they are for today. Click here to order.

The Leadership Ladder Developing Missional Leaders in the Church by Steven Ogne & Kenneth Priddy. There are over 100 million people in our country who are not connected to any church. Research shows that growing churches grow on the edges of their ministries. They have active evangelism on the front edge and leadership development on the back edge. Ogne & Priddy make the case that when we raise up and multiply leaders, we are growing the capacity of the church to minister to more people in more and better ways.

They outline a holistic pathway -  The Leadership Ladder - to address the urgent need for multiplying missional leaders in our churches. Discover how this pathway could impact your church! Click here to order. 

Becoming the Likeness of Jesus by Bill Day, PhD, LCSW, member of Fellowship of Christ EPC in Cary, NC. The Gospel is a multi-faceted diamond that reflects the Light of the world. One facet that rivets the attention of Christian believers is Jesus' sacrificial death, through which we are forgiven and redeemed: "Jesus paid it all," we say.

However, there is another facet of this diamond, a facet of transformation. We can also say "Jesus took it all." This facet radiates a luminescent clarity that Jesus took upon Himself, onto the cross, our counterfeit "human nature." He took all the self-centered, prideful, rebellious dispositions of our hearts...as well as the wounds, afflictions, and abuses heaped upon us by the self-slants of others. In exchange, He gives us His life, i.e., true human nature.

Becoming the Likeness of Jesus is a story about this forgotten facet of transformation, and is a guide for shifting from knowing about the facet into its actualization in daily life. It is "the rest of the story" in which you may find depths of discovery for your own journey towards healing, wholeness, and truth. Click here to order. 

Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition by Kelly M. Kapic and Wesley Vander Lugt. Wes is Lead Pastor of Warehouse 242 in Charlotte, NC. The Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition is ready to assist you over the rough parts of readings, lectures, conversations and blogs. It will also be a companionable and concise introduction to one of the great Christian traditions. It would be beneficial for the PMA and the EPC in general, especially for candidates preparing for ordination. Click here to order. 

Living Theodrama: Reimagining Theological Ethics also written by Wesley Vander Lugt. Living Theodrama is a fresh, creative introduction to theological ethics. Offering an imaginative approach through dialogue with theatrical theory and practice, Vander Lugt demonstrates a new way to integrate actor-oriented and action-oriented approaches to Christian ethics within a comprehensive theodramatic model. This model affirms that life is a drama performed in the company of God and others, providing rich metaphors for relating theology to everyday formation and performance in this drama. Different chapters explore the role of the triune God, Scripture, tradition, the church, mission, and context in the process of formation and performance, thus dealing separately with major themes in theological ethics while incorporating them within an overarching model. This book contains not only a fruitful exchange between theological ethics and theatre, but it also presents a promising method for interdisciplinary dialogue between theology and the arts that will be valuable for students and practitioners across many different fields. Click here to order.