Listen to Others More Than Yourself: The External Call
By V. Samuel Clintoc | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024In our society, where desires, feelings, and self-impressions are authoritative, it is tempting to anchor the call to ministry primarily in our self-assessment.
Attend to Your Character
By Garrett Conner | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024Our character can be used by God for eternal good—or our lack thereof can wreak havoc.
Elder Before You Elder
By Zack DiPrima | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024Every church needs men who do the work of pastoring before they’re officially recognized as pastors.
Join a Church and Follow a Faithful Pastor
By Joshua Chatman | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024The training that comes from joining a church and following faithful pastors is invaluable and irreplaceable.
Pastor: Office or Gift?
By Jonathan Leeman | 06.05.2024In recent years, a growing number of churches have begun distinguishing between the offices of “elder” and “pastor.” Typically, the purpose for making this distinction is to create a space for female pastors among complementarian churches.
Lord’s Day’s Worship Gathering Preparation & Evaluation Guide
By Blake Boylston | 05.28.2024„They received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.”
A Better Way to Look at Missions
By Brooks Buser | 05.21.2024People often ask me: “Is such and such a good idea in missions?” The reason for this question is that there are thousands of different things going on in the missions world today. It makes sense why pastors are at a loss in sorting through the good and bad. How do we know what amounts to “good” missions?
Are All of Our Shrinking Churches Evangelistic Failures?
By Alex Bouffard | 05.17.2024True evangelism often takes longer, grows slower, and prunes more intentionally than mere intellectual assent accounts for.
Regulative Discipleship: Why a Full Calendar Doesn’t Necessarily Produce Mature Church Members
By Caleb Batchelor | 05.15.2024If we affirm the regulative principle for the Sunday morning gathering, shouldn’t we also apply the same conviction to the rest of our discipleship ministries?
A Quick-Start Guide for Church Revitalization
By Jake Wright | 05.01.2024How do you shepherd a flock to healthier pastures when the sheep aren’t yet convinced that the grass is greener on the other side?
Book Review: The Church, by Erin Wheeler
By Rachel Ware | 04.29.2024Erin Wheeler does a wonderful job of both defending the doctrine of the church and describing its beauty.
Four Reasons to Preach the Psalms as a Book
By Davy Ellison | 04.26.2024The intentional ordering of the 150 psalms may have been rediscovered in academia, but it has very practical benefits for the Christian in the pew.
Give Them Time: How to Protect the Assuring Nature of a Child’s Baptism
By Michael Lawrence | 04.12.2024How do we know if we’re looking at a good kid or a regenerate kid? The one thing we know for sure is that time will tell.
Four Ways God Used a Church Fire for Good
By Skylar Spradlin | 04.09.2024On November 1, 2022, our church building burned down. Not one part was salvageable. The fire swept through the attic at astonishing speed. Not a single notepad or paper clip … keep reading…
Visible Grace in Disagreements
By Caleb Batchelor | 03.06.2024Does the tone of your disagreements sound more like the intercessions of Jesus or the accusations of Satan?
