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What Is Biblical Church Leadership?
Scripture presents a clear vision for how the local church should organize and govern, exercise authority, and train future leaders. Beyond knowing what biblical church leadership looks like, pastors need practical tools to implement and communicate it throughout their congregations. This small-group study guide from 9Marks helps churches learn a biblical model for church leadership […]
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The Great Commission Is Bigger Than Your Church
The Great Commission is bigger than your local church. How should that shape your priorities and posture as a pastor?
Review
Book Review: Christian Worldview, by Herman Bavinck
'Christian Worldview' offers a fine philosophical and apologetic workout, and one might even call it cross-training for many of the issues and debates that compete for headline space today.
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Book Review: Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism, 1750-1858, by Iain Murray
I commend Iain Murray’s classic book to all present and aspiring church leaders, and to any Christian who likes to ask, “How did we get here?”
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The Ordinances: A True and Better Identity Politics
What can unearth and uproot and undermine the unbiblical assumptions that animate identity politics and threaten to tear apart what God has joined together? I would submit a simple, perhaps surprisingly obvious answer.
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Teaching the Trinity Through Expositional Preaching
The Trinity is one of the most central and crucial Christian doctrines; it is also one of the least prooftext-able.
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Want to Be a Pastor? Be Someone Worth Imitating.
To be a pastor is to live your life in public. Even when you’re off, you’re on. If you want to be a pastor, get ready to be watched, and start setting an example worth watching.
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Learn to Pastor from Faithful Pastors and Healthy Churches
The best way to learn the art of pastoral medicine is by closely observing a healthy church body. Learn to pastor from faithful pastors and healthy churches.
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The Lord’s Supper: A Foretaste of the Heavenly Banquet
The Lord’s Supper is an appetizer for the feast that will commence on the day when Christ reunites heaven and earth.
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Three Reasons You Should Preach Through Hebrews
Perseverance is a drum pastors can always afford to beat, especially during a pandemic. And Hebrews tells us how to persevere: look to Christ who persevered before us, and for us.
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Can We Celebrate Communion Online?
It’s not the case that a virtually mediated, physically dispersed Lord’s Supper is less than optimal: it’s simply not the Lord’s Supper.
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What Advice Would You Give Churches That Aren’t Livestreaming?
If you’re reading this, you’re likely not livestreaming weekly church services during this pandemic-prompted lockdown.