A Pastor’s Priorities For Day One
By Bob Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 02.25.2010Here are five priorities you should bring to your first day of ministry.
Preaching Up: Applying the Word of God to Midlife and Beyond
By Israel Haas | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 02.25.2010I’m 29 years old. Can I apply the Scriptures effectively to the lives of people twice my age who live in a world without YouTube and iPods and dreams as big as the Montana sky?
Why I Love the Temporariness of My Pastoral Ministry
By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 02.25.2010I love thinking about the temporariness of my pastoral ministry.
A Pastor Defends His Multi-Site Church
By J. D. Greear | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 02.25.2010Here is why we enthusiastically embrace the multi-site strategy as biblically sound, practically wise, and pastorally helpful.
The Therapeutic Gospel
By David Powlison | 9Marks Journal: The Gospel | 02.25.2010In this new gospel, the great „evils“ to be redressed do not call for any fundamental change of direction in the human heart.
Leaving Home, Returning Home
By Michael Lawrence | 02.25.2010From the perspective of the Fall, we understand better not only what it means that we have all truly left home, but also how we can make it back again.
8 Steps for Dealing with Difficult Leaders
By Ken Swetland | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 02.25.2010Here are eight principles for dealing with difficult people.
How God’s Wrath Equals and Reveals God’s Worth
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: The Gospel | 02.25.2010Wrath and worth are perfectly matched together. The former takes the measure of the latter and expresses itself accordingly. One is as precious as the other.
Good Friday Meditation: A Fitting Crown
By Michael Lawrence | 02.25.2010Jesus did not claim the throne of Rome or any other empire. No, his claim was over the whole world, the entire creation, and for that only thorns would do.
„Why Are We Joyfully Committed?“
By Tom Steller | 9Marks Journal: Raising Up the Next Generation of Pastors | 02.25.2010Why are the pastors at Bethlehem Baptist Church joyfully committed to pastoral mentoring?
„Look, It’s the Church’s Job“
By Al Jackson | 9Marks Journal: Raising Up the Next Generation of Pastors | 02.25.2010I am persuaded that training for pastoral ministry, as it’s currently practiced in the United States, does not adequately prepare God-called pastors for service in our churches.
Third Mark of a Healthy Church MEMBER: Gospel Saturated
By Thabiti Anyabwile | 9Marks Journal: The Gospel | 02.25.2010So essential is the gospel to the Christian life that we need to be saturated in it in order to be healthy church members.
Brian McLaren and the Gospel of Here & Now
By Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: The Gospel | 02.25.2010For all his off-the-cuff casualness, McLaren is nothing if not deliberate. He has an agenda, and it’s to reset altogether the church’s understanding of the gospel.
How to Become a Liberal Without Attending Harvard Divinity School
By Michael Lawrence | 02.24.2010I love my sheep, and I love myself. And it’s those two loves, wrongly focused, that tempt me down a gospel-denying path.
The Church, Counting Numbers, & You
By Matt Schmucker | 02.24.2010What has happened to our understanding of evangelism, conversion, church discipline, and discipleship that allows people to remain on the roles of a Christian church but never attend?
