Discipleship
Don’t Speak Up: On the Spiritual Discipline of Silence
By Mark Dever | 09.15.2017Jesus teaches in Matthew 7:6 that loving others involves exercising discernment. And sometimes discernment results in prayerful silence.
Book Review: The Art of Turning, by Kevin DeYoung
Review by Sean DeMars | 08.28.2017Christians need to think more clearly about our innate moral calibration mechanism, and I’m confident this little book will help us do just that.
“But A Portion of Our Transgressions”: A Model Prayer of Confession
By Omar Johnson | 08.21.2017If You, O LORD, should mark iniquities, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, through Christ Jesus.
Book Review: Conversion & Discipleship: You Can’t Have One Without the Other, by Bill Hull
Review by Benjamin Wright | 08.18.2017This book is a mix of both pastoral usefulness and troubling ambiguity.
Christians Should Be Motivated to Minister to Homeless People
By Matthew Spandler-Davison | 08.14.2017Homelessness is always a crisis. But merciful, compassionate, and loving Christians can’t only and always walk the other way.
“What Do You Want?”: Pastoral Reflections on Faithfulness
By Aaron Menikoff | 08.07.2017We may share the gospel a thousand times, and never see a convert. It’s our job to be faithful. The rest is up to God.
Thinking Through the Missionary’s Influence in a New Church
By Scott Williamson | 08.04.2017What role should cross-cultural church planters play in a new church plant?
Ministry to Women When There’s No “Women’s Ministry”
By Carrie Russell | 07.31.2017Events and programs aren’t bad. But when we depend on them to do all the work of discipling and relationship-building, we should expect them to eventually fail.
Book Review: This Changes Everything, by Jaquelle Crowe
Review by Coye Still | 07.26.2017The usefulness of this book stretches beyond its target audience to anyone who is working to communicate the gospel and its implications to teenagers.
Music for the Church: Mark Dever Interviews Keith Getty
By K. Getty, M. Dever | 07.18.2017Mark Dever recently sat down with hymn writer and musician Keith Getty to talk about music for the church. Listen to the interview below.
Don’t Be a Do-Gooder: Pastoral Reflections on Goodness
By Aaron Menikoff | 07.17.2017We need to grow not only in doing good, but in being good. We need the spiritual fruit of goodness. How can we grow in this?
VIDEO: How do you raise up leaders in poor communities?
9Marks | 07.13.2017It’s not always a good thing for someone to have their “rough edges” knocked off. A man or woman can have character and rough edges, while still keeping their effectiveness for ministry.
Book Review: Conscience, by Andy Naselli & J. D. Crowley
Review by Paul Alexander | 07.12.2017You should probably read this book, too. But of course, that’s a matter for you to take up with your own conscience.
VIDEO: What’s wrong with evangelistic programs?
By J. Mack Stiles | 07.11.2017The problem with evangelistic programs is that they often make you feel like you’ve done evangelism—when you actually haven’t.
12 Principles on How to Disagree with Other Christians
By A. Naselli, J. D. Crowley | 07.10.2017It matters how you treat those who disagree with you on disputable matters. When you welcome them as Christ has welcomed you, you glorify God.
