Discipleship
A Gospel-Centered Framework for Ministering to Lonely People
By DW | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.20.2017Even the best things in life cannot fill a human being’s need for companionship.
Singleness in Modern Culture
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.20.2017Vocation and service: two major areas of life that are often neglected in the pulpit, but that help the people of God find purpose and hope in this fallen, often lonely world.
Diagnostic Questions for Ministering to Singles
By Mary Willson | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.20.2017As you are preaching through the Scriptures and thinking about applying the text, you might consider whether your text addresses questions like these.
Folding Singles into Family in the Life of the Church
By Sean DeMars | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.20.2017How are the families in your church are doing at loving single people? Do they strive to fold single people into their lives?
Using the Holidays to Host Singles
By Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.20.2017Here are a few comments intended to encourage you to fold single-adult friends into your special family events.
Singleness, Same-Sex Attraction, and the Church: A Conversation with Sam Allberry, Rosaria Butterfield, and Christopher Yuan
By C. Yuan, R. Butterfield, S. Allberry | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.20.2017Sam Allberry, Rosaria Butterfield, and Christopher Yuan answer questions on same-sex attraction, singleness, and the church.
Redefining Intimacy
By Ed Shaw | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.20.2017We live in a society whose only route to true intimacy has become the joy of sex.
Can a Single Person Fully Image God?
By Stephen J. Wellum | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.20.2017Human marriage is vitally important, but it’s not permanent nor is it the only place where humans fully image God.
Reforming College Dating through Discipleship
By Allen Duty | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.20.2017Older men in the church can help college men develop a God-honoring approach to dating by encouraging them to imitate godly examples, embrace biblical values, and involve the church.
Sermon: A Biblical Theology of Singleness
By 9Marks | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.19.2017Charles Hedman, a pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church, preached a sermon on a biblical theology of singleness. You can listen to that sermon here.
Sunday School Curriculum: Singleness and Courtship
By 9Marks | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.19.2017Capitol Hill Baptist Church offers a 13-week Sunday School course on singleness and courtship for free on its website. You can find all the manuscripts here.
Mailbag #56: What Makes a “True” Church?
By Jonathan Leeman | 03.17.2017— Is it okay to tell my church members, “You should never vote for a pro-abortion candidate”? — Would you say churches that don’t practice membership or discipline are not true churches?
Episode 5: On Political Disagreements in the Church
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 03.14.2017We live in politically contentious times. Jonathan Leeman sat down with Mark Dever to chat about how to pastor people faithfully amidst political disagreement.
Can Christians Marry Non-Christians?: A Biblical Theology
By Mike Gilbart-Smith | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.13.2017When you’re married to a non-Christian, you sing: “I want this song to be about Jesus,” while your spouse sings, “It’s just you and me.” There can be no ultimate harmony.
Book Review: The Blessed Life, by Robert Morris
Review by David Schrock | 02.27.2017I don’t believe Morris is deliberately twisting Scripture, but his faulty, self-referential, story-telling, proof-texting approach leads him to doctrines and practices that are errant for the disciple, if not downright dangerous.
