How to Respond When a Servant, an Elder, or the Preacher Struggles with Pornography
By Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.29.2018How should we respond we a public servant, an elder, or the preacher confesses to looking at pornography?
Helping Women Whose Husbands Struggle with Pornography
By Jeremy Yong | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.29.2018These foundational truths should help us pastors minister to the hurting hearts of sisters whose husbands struggle with pornography
Killing an Increasingly Tolerated Sin
By Vergil Brown | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.29.2018The temptation for the Christian is to redefine sexual purity according to the shifting standards of morality.
Is Pornography Use Ever Grounds for Divorce?
By Thomas R. Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.29.2018In Matthew 5:32 and 19:9, Jesus gives grounds for divorce based on sexual immorality (porneia). Does pornography use qualify?
How To Have Elders Without Actually Having Elders
By Walter Price | 10.26.2018If I wanted to transition the church toward being elder-led, then I knew I faced a long, uphill struggle, if not outright war. So I did what my old pastor suggested. I had elders without having elders. Let me explain.
4 Reasons You Should Preach through Isaiah
By Kyle Newcomer | 10.25.2018Here’s the message of Isaiah: the Lord’s day of judgment and salvation is coming, and when it does, his glory will be revealed through his anointed Servant-King.
Civil Rights Vision Trip: One Church’s Story
By Mark Vroegop | 10.22.2018A few weeks ago, I led 50 leaders from our church on what we called a Civil Rights Vision Trip. Here’s what we learned.
3 Reasons You Should Preach through The Song of Solomon
By Aaron Menikoff | Church Discipline | 10.18.2018The Song of Songs certainly is about marriage. However, since marriage is a window into the relationship between Christ and the church, the Song of Songs is about the gospel, too.
An Open Letter to the Preacher Writing a Sermon
By Lewis Allen | 10.17.2018Dear fellow preacher, I want to say one thing to you today as you work on your sermon.
Elders Are to Be Hospitable, Not Just Their Wives
By Kent Butterfield | 10.15.2018May all elders have the reputation that they are given to hospitality.
The Story of John Calvin and Martin Bucer
By Geoff Chang | 10.12.2018Through his friendship with Martin Bucer, Calvin learned not only how to be a better pastor, but he also grew as a Christian in patience and humility.
3 Reasons You Should Preach through Ecclesiastes
By Matt McCullough | 10.11.2018Ecclesiastes surprises people. That’s partly because it says things you don’t expect to hear from the Bible.
Does Your Church Offer Weak Community?
By Barry Cooper | 10.10.2018If we truly care about the health of our churches, we’d do well to ask ourselves some questions.
Should Pastors Talk about Brett Kavanaugh on Sunday?
By Jonathan Leeman | 10.04.2018You don’t have to address Brett Kavanaugh this Sunday. But if you do, don’t pick a side.
Are Catechisms a Baptist Thing?
By Jeff Robinson | 10.01.2018To the thinking of many, “Baptist” and “catechism” aren’t allies. But historically speaking, nothing could be further from the truth.
