“What Exactly Should We Be Looking For?”: Reflections on My Recent Search for a Church
By Simona Gorton | 12.07.2020If you’re looking for a church, I invite you to ask some of the same questions we asked and to examine a few of the principles laid out in Scripture.
Episode 148: On How A Culture of Discipling + Lay Elders = Church Planting
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 10.20.2020Healthy churches plant churches. But how? What causes a church to “bubble over”? Here’s one way.
Preachers Talk, Episode 10: On Preaching the Gospel
By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 09.24.2020Must you preach it in every sermon? How do you prevent every sermon from sounding the same or flattening your text?
3 Reasons You Should Preach through Hebrews
By Bobby Jamieson | 09.14.2020Perseverance is a drum pastors can always afford to beat, especially during a pandemic. And Hebrews tells us how to persevere: look to Christ who persevered before us, and for us.
Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Movements, by Steve Addison
Review by Caleb Morell | 08.27.2020Addison’s proposal may create movements of “churches” that burn hot and fast, but I fear that they will not last.
What Do You Have that You Didn’t Receive?
By Brian Davis | 07.30.2020Christian, what do you have that you didn’t receive? Everything good you have, God says he gave you (1 Cor. 4:7). So why do you boast like you didn’t receive it from him?
Further Reflections on Recent Conversations about Christian Freedom
By Jonathan Leeman | 07.27.2020Why would 9Marks feel compelled to respond to Grace Community Church’s elders and raise these points right now?
Episode 139: Remembering J. I. Packer
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 07.22.2020Jonathan Leeman asks Mark Dever to reflect on his friendship with J. I. Packer.
The Danger of Sending Unqualified Missionaries
By John Folmar | 07.16.2020What does John Folmar — the senior pastor of United Christian Church of Dubai in the Middle East — want to say to American churches and missions organizations?
Send Missionaries & Inspire Senders
By John Folmar | 9Marks Journal: Shepherding: The Work & Character of a Pastor | 06.30.2020Here are three practical ways our congregations can be staging areas for gospel advancement into the unreached places of the world.
Do the Work of an Evangelist
By Jaime Owens | 9Marks Journal: Shepherding: The Work & Character of a Pastor | 06.30.2020Dear pastors, do the work of an evangelist. By the grace of God, those whom you are called to lead will fill up the tracks you’ve made.
Book Review: Against God and Nature, by Thomas McCall
Review by Stephen J. Wellum | 06.25.2020What is sin? And how does our answer to that question affect our understanding of the gospel itself?
Episode 134: On the Difference between Revival and Revivalism
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 06.23.2020In this episode of Pastors Talk, Jonathan asks Mark to take a brief tour of church history so that pastors and Christians today can discern the difference between revival—a good thing—and revivalism—a bad thing.
Pastoring in a Pandemic, Episode 13: Is COVID-19 an Obstacle to the Great Commission? (with David Platt)
By D. Platt, J. Leeman | 05.20.2020COVID-19 seems to have conspired against Christianity. Churches aren’t gathering. Mission trips aren’t happening. Does this mean the Great Commission is in trouble? Tune in as Jonathan Leeman chats with David Platt about COVID-19 and the Great Commission.
Episode 8: COVID-19 Is an Opportunity for Evangelism (with Mez McConnell)
By J. Leeman, M. McConnell | 05.13.2020Jonathan Leeman chats with Mez McConnell, a pastor in Scotland, about how COVID-19 and all its difficulties also present a wonderful opportunity for evangelism.
