When Your Pastor-Husband Looks at Porn
By Carrie Kell | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018The sting of pornography has struck many marriages. The way forward can feel confusing and demoralizing. But there’s hope.
Watch Out! To a Pastor Indulging in Pornography
By Andy Naselli | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018Pastor, are you regularly indulging in pornography and rationalizing to yourself why it’s okay for you to do that? If that describes you, then you are in danger.
Does Pornography Use Disqualify a Pastor?
By Garrett Kell | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018The question I want us to consider is this: how do we discern whether or not a pastor who sins with pornography is disqualified?
What to Say When a Church Member Asks for Help
By Clint Darst | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018When a church member first confesses pornography consumption, they’re usually relieved to admit their battle and get help in their fight.
Can We Restore Pastors After Sexual Sin: A Longer Answer
By Jared C. Wilson | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018When a pastor has disqualified himself from his ministry, is he disqualified from ministry altogether? If so, for how long? Forever? Can he ever be restored? If so, how soon?
Book Review: Captured by a Better Vision: Living Porn Free, by Tim Chester
Review by Dave Gobbett | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018In this wide-ranging, honest, and profoundly gospel-centred book, Chester demonstrates that the contemporary pornography pandemic which is crippling lives and ministries is fundamentally a problem of idolatry.
How to Respond When a Servant, an Elder, or the Preacher Struggles with Pornography
By Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.29.2018How should we respond we a public servant, an elder, or the preacher confesses to looking at pornography?
Helping Women Whose Husbands Struggle with Pornography
By Jeremy Yong | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.29.2018These foundational truths should help us pastors minister to the hurting hearts of sisters whose husbands struggle with pornography
Is Pornography Use Ever Grounds for Divorce?
By Thomas R. Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.29.2018In Matthew 5:32 and 19:9, Jesus gives grounds for divorce based on sexual immorality (porneia). Does pornography use qualify?
Should Elders Insist on Unanimity?
By Jamie Dunlop | 10.28.2018We should value trust more highly than agreement.
How To Have Elders Without Actually Having Elders
By Walter Price | 10.26.2018If I wanted to transition the church toward being elder-led, then I knew I faced a long, uphill struggle, if not outright war. So I did what my old pastor suggested. I had elders without having elders. Let me explain.
Episode 61: On Shepherding during Disagreements
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 10.22.2018How should a pastor shepherd people through disagreement? How should he balance the tension between being a truth-teller and a peacemaker? Mark and Jonathan discuss.
Elders Are to Be Hospitable, Not Just Their Wives
By Kent Butterfield | 10.15.2018May all elders have the reputation that they are given to hospitality.
The Story of John Calvin and Martin Bucer
By Geoff Chang | 10.12.2018Through his friendship with Martin Bucer, Calvin learned not only how to be a better pastor, but he also grew as a Christian in patience and humility.
The importance of feedback in pastoral ministry
By Mark Dever | 09.26.2018If you build a ministry where no one can give you feedback, you are teaching your congregation to be proud and self-defensive.
