Made by a pastor. Built for pastors.

The local church has always been the most powerful publishing house in history. It just never knew it.

Bubba Jennings on stage at Resurrection Church

Our story

Bubba Jennings preaching from a dark wooden pulpit, in black and white

Most publishing companies are built by publishers. Pulpit to Publishing was built by a pastor.

Every week, pastors stand before their congregations and deliver a chapter-level argument. The research is done. The illustrations are tested. The message has been prayed over, prepared, and proven effective.

Then it goes where sermons go: a folder on a hard drive.

That bothered us. What if the work pastors already do (the sermons already preached, the series already delivered, the messages sitting in YouTube archives and sermon folders) could be shaped into something permanent? Something that reaches people who would never walk into a church, outlives your time in the pulpit, and carries your theological voice long after Sunday has passed?

We do not ask you to sit at a keyboard for months. We take what you have already said, and we make it permanent.

We speak both languages.

Most editors know publishing. We know the pulpit.

Theologically fluent.

Our editors understand expository preaching, doctrinal language, and the structure of a sermon series. We do not flatten your voice. We translate it.

Publishing craft.

We know how a three-point sermon becomes a six-chapter arc, and what breathes on a page versus what only works behind a microphone.

A house behind it.

Barker Publishing House has published more than 3,000 authors since 2018 with one team that writes, edits, designs, formats, translates, records and markets. We pointed that team at sermons.

Example covers. Your series, with your name on it.

Bubba Jennings, lead pastor of Resurrection Church, preaching with a microphone

Meet Bubba Jennings

Founder, Pulpit to Publishing

Bubba Jennings is the lead pastor of Resurrection Church, with campuses in Tacoma and Gig Harbor, Washington, which he planted in 2015. He holds two master's degrees in leadership and has more than 23 years in pastoral ministry and nonprofit leadership.

He is also the founder of Zera Investment Group, a multi-company portfolio that includes Barker Publishing House and Biznistry, a coaching platform for pastor-entrepreneurs who believe business and ministry are equally sacred callings.

He built Pulpit to Publishing because he believes every pastor who has been faithful to the pulpit for years deserves to hold their words in their hands. Wholly Healthy, written with Drew Dawson from the Healthy Habits series they preached together at Resurrection Church, is the first Pulpit Edition. He went through the process himself before asking any other pastor to.

"This service is everything I wished had existed when I was building my own body of work. Made by a pastor. Built for pastors. That is not a tagline. It is a conviction."Bubba Jennings

A Barker Publishing House company.

Pulpit to Publishing is built for pastors who preach in series and want their messages to matter beyond Sunday. Barker Publishing House works on the conviction that words matter, that ideas worth saying are worth preserving, and that the best books are often still locked inside the people who have not had time to write them.

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