Loving Your Family While Leading God’s Church
By Liam Garvie | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024When conduct in the home lags behind the conduct we commend, we’re falling into hypocrisy.
Patience! Pick Your Battles Wisely
By Jeramie Rinne | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024Impatient pastors often love the idea of the church more than the people in the church.
Find a Mentor!
By Cheston Pickard | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024Find a mentor—for your sake, for your family’s sake, for your people’s sake, and for Christ’s sake.
Be a Strong and Courageous Young Leader
By Clint Darst | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024God is with you, pastor, and he has spoken. Lean into his presence, and lead with his Word.
Candidate Wisely and Honestly
By Branton Burleson | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024Throughout the candidating process, trust God. Remember that he is sovereign and will be with us wherever we go.
You Aspire, but Are You Willing?
By Raymond Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024It’s easy to aspire to be a great pastor, but are you willing to do all that it takes?
Listen to Others More Than Yourself: The External Call
By V. Samuel Clintoc | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024In our society, where desires, feelings, and self-impressions are authoritative, it is tempting to anchor the call to ministry primarily in our self-assessment.
Elder Before You Elder
By Zack DiPrima | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024Every church needs men who do the work of pastoring before they’re officially recognized as pastors.
Join a Church and Follow a Faithful Pastor
By Joshua Chatman | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024The training that comes from joining a church and following faithful pastors is invaluable and irreplaceable.
Book Review: The Pastor, by Faculty and Friends of Old Princeton
Review by Bert Daniel | 04.25.2024‘The Pastor: His Call, Character, and Work’ by the faculty and friends of “Old” Princeton is full of biblical reflection and practical wisdom that would benefit any pastor and especially the young, aspiring minister.
Pastoring a Transient Church
By Josh Hayward | 02.21.2024How can pastors shepherd their ever-changing flocks to devote themselves to fellowship?
Book Review: The Pastor and the Modern World, by William Edgar, R. Kent Hughes & Alfred Poirier
Review by Scott Daniel | 02.20.2024We’ve been served well by this set of three essays, originally lectures, delivered by William Edgar, R. Kent Hughes, and Alfred Poirier.
Leading a Congregational Church Through Constitutional Change
By Trent Rogers | 02.15.2024Here are eight nuggets of practical wisdom for leadership in an elder-led, congregational church about changing its constitution.
Pastoring a Small Church While Parenting Special Needs Children
By Eric Brown | 02.13.2024All pastoring and parenting is hard. But some situations may be more difficult than others.
Three Lessons from 234 Pastors’ Libraries
By Forrest Strickland | 01.18.2024We have 234 catalogs of ministers’ libraries in the Netherlands during the seventeenth century. Here are three lessons we ought not neglect.
