Don’t Be Color-Blind at Church
By Isaac Adams | 9Marks Journal: Multi-Ethnic Churches | 09.25.2015Christians should be both colorblind and color-conscious. Why? Because that’s what God is like.
Why the Race Conversation Is So Hard
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Multi-Ethnic Churches | 09.24.2015The race conversation is so hard, but shouldn’t our churches be the first places on the planet where we talk about these things, and listen to one another?
22 Mistakes Pastors Make in Practicing Church Discipline
By Jonathan Leeman | 09.18.2015Church discipline should be practiced, but with care and a biblical focus.
A Sample Statement on Regular Church Attendance
By Garrett Kell | 09.01.2015Faithful attendance honors Christ and builds up His church. Non-attendance moves in the other direction. It makes light of His name and harms His church in many ways and for many reasons.
Congregationalism Doesn’t Stop at 8 p.m.
By C. Greggsen, S. Emadi | 08.26.2015When you reduce congregationalism down to just members’ meetings, you deprive yourself of much of the blessing the Lord intends to grant his church through good polity.
When Do You Stop Counseling?
By Deepak Reju | 08.20.2015When to end counseling is always a judgment call that requires a lot of wisdom. The decision to bring the counseling process to a close is sometimes clear, but often not.
Should Christians “Disown” Gay Sons and Daughters?
By Jonathan Leeman | 08.18.2015Christian parental love denies neither the child nor God’s law. It insists on loving both child and God’s law, which may be the hardest challenge of all.
A Conversation about Church Revitalization with Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 07.23.2015The more we reduce ministry to business, the more pastors are convinced to think like CEOs and less like shepherds.
Stop Launching Churches! Instead, Covenant Together
By Nathan Knight | 9Marks Journal: Church Mergers and Plants | 07.17.2015I think we should stop talking about “launching” new church plants and instead refer to them “covenanting” for the first time.
Adopting and Choosing a Statement of Faith
By Will McCartney | 07.15.2015Not having a statement of faith exposes a church to every individual’s own interpretations of various doctrines, and opens the door for denials of biblical authority.
50 Quotes from Bobby Jamieson’s New Book “Going Public: Why Baptism Is Required for Church Membership”
By Matt Smethurst | 07.07.2015“After trusting Christ, baptism is the first thing faith does. It’s how faith shows itself before God, the church, and the world. Baptism is where faith goes public.”
The Body of Christ as a Self-Fulfilling Metaphor
By Patrick Schreiner | 07.02.2015When the Scriptures speak in metaphors they are both describing and creating in the people of God how to think and act.
Is Your Preaching Tone Deaf?
By Mark Vroegop | 9Marks Journal: Expositional Preaching | 06.18.2015Faithfulness is not just saying the right words. It’s saying them like Scripture says them.
How to Evaluate Your Pastor’s Sermons
By Keith Collier | 9Marks Journal: Expositional Preaching | 06.18.2015In the long run, good, helpful feedback will make him an even better preacher, which will contribute to your own spiritual growth and build up the church to the glory of Christ.
A Gospel-Centered Sermon is a Gospel-Shining Sermon
By David King | 9Marks Journal: Expositional Preaching | 06.18.2015What exactly does “gospel-centered” mean in expositional preaching?
