Reflections on the SBC Annual Meeting, Tuesday, June 14, 2016
By Grant Gaines | 06.15.2016After all that transpired today, I was left with appreciation for our denominational systems, with some lingering questions about our theology and practice, and with hopefulness in the area of racial unity
Reflections on SBC Pastors’ Conference, Monday, June 13, 2016
By Grant Gaines | 06.14.2016Grant Gaines reflects on the Pastor’s Conference at the Southern Baptist Convention.
Why You Should Be Praying the Psalms
By Donald S. Whitney | 9Marks Journal: The Church Praying | 06.09.2016Tired of praying the same old things about the same old things? Try praying the psalms.
Looking to the Past for Lessons about Prayer
By Thomas S. Kidd | 9Marks Journal: The Church Praying | 06.03.2016With all due regard to churches’ individual circumstances, it’s hard to justify the lack of congregational prayer in many of today’s churches, or the relegation of prayer to an obligatory sidelight.
When Do You Practice Church Discipline? And How Do You Confront the Sin?
By Jonathan Leeman | 06.01.2016What sins should result in public church discipline? And how should we confront brothers or sisters in sin?
4 Ways to Categorize Complaints in the Church
By Jonathan Rourke | 05.27.2016Hearing and responding to complaints is in the pastor’s job description. But how can we do this better?
The Limitations of Parachurch Ministries & Church Planting
By Nathan Knight | 05.26.2016Five years of service in your local church will yield much better dividends than five hours of being evaluated by the greatest church planting minds in the country.
Is Meek Weak?—Pastoral Reflections on Gentleness
By Aaron Menikoff | 05.23.2016The pastor who feels the need to power his church to greatness through the exercise of his own gifts underestimates the power of the gospel.
6 Reasons to Confess Your Faith Corporately
By Gregg R. Allison | 05.19.2016These days, it’s hard to find churches with a strong and public commitment to their confessions of faith. That should change.
Book Review: The Whole Christ, by Sinclair Ferguson
By Paul Alexander | 05.18.2016This book is an instant classic—historical theology at its best.
Don’t Be Like Moses the Pragmatist
By Phil Ryken | 05.05.2016God does not rank preachers by the number of their converts or the size of their churches. Rather, he judges them according to the accuracy of their Bible exposition.
9 Factors to Consider When Choosing Someone to Disciple
By Mark Dever | 05.03.2016Here are 9 factors to consider when choosing someone to disciple.
How the Lord’s Supper Makes a Local Church
By Bobby Jamieson | 04.28.2016The ordinances make it possible to point to something and say “church” rather than only pointing to many somethings and saying “Christians.”
Churches in Madagascar: Growing Deeper and Wider
By Tim Cantrell | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 04.27.2016Please join me in rejoicing at how God’s Word is at work in Madagascar, and also in praying for the spread of his Word in that needy place.
Should You Stay or Go?
By Mark Dever | 04.26.2016Is the point of all this to say that some of you should leave your churches? Kind of. Some should go to help struggling churches. Some should plant new ones. Some should go overseas. And some should stay.
