Biblical Theology
13 Pillars for Planting Healthy Churches
By Matt Rogers | 04.11.2022What ingredients are necessary to plant healthy, strong, biblical churches—and sustain them?
Scattered, Smothered, and Covered: How (Not) to Use Systematics in Your Sermon
By David King | 9Marks Journal: Sound Doctrine: The Foundation for Faithful Ministry | 11.16.2021Don’t “Waffle House” your preaching text.
Why We Need Pastor-Theologians in the Church
By Kevin DeYoung | 9Marks Journal: Sound Doctrine: The Foundation for Faithful Ministry | 11.16.2021When I say we need pastor-theologians in the church, I mean that every pastor must conduct his ministry with an eye to declaring theological truth, diagnosing theological error, and discipling his congregation to be theologically informed and articulate.
Pastors Should Be Theologians
By G. Hiestand, T. Wilson | 9Marks Journal: Sound Doctrine: The Foundation for Faithful Ministry | 11.16.2021Scripture establishes pastors as the theological leaders of the church, however much they might think they have delegated this responsibility to the academy
The Freedom that Comes from Being Boringly Biblical
By Eric Bancroft | 9Marks Journal: The Ordinary Means of Grace—Or, Don’t Do Weird Stuff | 07.26.2021Pastor, there’s freedom in a simple philosophy of ministry. God hasn’t called you to creativity, or outpacing expectations.
“The Word Did It All”: The Necessity of Preaching According to the Protestant Reformers
By Shawn Wright | 9Marks Journal: The Ordinary Means of Grace—Or, Don’t Do Weird Stuff | 07.26.2021In the Reformation, the Word did it all. Five hundred years from now, may that be said of your ministry and mine.
7 Reasons You Should Preach Through Revelation
By Andrew Birch | 07.23.2021If you’ve never done it before, I hope that the seven reasons I give here encourage you to preach through the book of Revelation.
Book Review: Providence, by John Piper
Review by Mark Redfern | 05.07.2021The vision of God in these pages is (to use some hyphenated Piperisms) hope-giving, pride-humbling, and mind-stretching.
Protect Sound Doctrine
By Jaime Owens | 9Marks Journal: How to Build Up Your Church: A Guidebook for Members | 03.30.2021So, how can we protect sound doctrine? First and foremost, by filling our church with it. God’s truth is never as vulnerable as when it’s rarely received.
On Earth as in Heaven: A (Very) Brief Biblical Theology of Heaven
By Sam Emadi | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020Does Scripture offer more than a few scattered references to heaven? Even more, does heaven play any part in the Bible’s storyline?
Do We Get Rewards in Heaven?
By Brian Vickers | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020Christians should never think of obedience, love, or service in terms of earning some future pay-off.
God Can’t Wait for You to Get to Heaven: A Reflection on Ephesians 2:7
By Dane Ortlund | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020Ephesians 2:7 is telling you that your death is not an end but a beginning. Not a wall, but a door. Not an exit, but an entrance.
Don’t Get Left Behind: Why Pastors Should Consider Preaching through Revelation in Our Cultural Moment
By Sam Emadi | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Through Political Turmoil | 09.29.2020If you want to pastor faithfully in the midst of cultural and political turmoil, then consider teaching through the book of Revelation.
Genesis 1:1–3:19 | On the Serpent, the Promised Seed, and Nahash the King of the Ammonites (Bible Talk, Ep. 1)
By A. Duke, J. Hamilton, S. Emadi | 09.09.2020These first three chapters of the Bible are so important because they set the trajectory for everything that comes next—all the way until we get to Revelation 22.
Book Review: None Greater, by Matthew Barrett
Review by Mark Donald | 08.13.2020Barrett reminds us that the character of God is at the center of the Christian faith and helps us marvel at his majesty.
