Are Buildings Essential to Building Healthy Churches?
By Adam Sinnett | 9Marks Journal: The Ordinary Means of Grace—Or, Don’t Do Weird Stuff | 07.26.2021Are buildings essential to building healthy churches? No. Can they be incredibly helpful? Absolutely.
How I Accidentally Stumbled Across—And Then Fell in Love with—the Ordinary Means of Grace
By Alex Duke | 9Marks Journal: The Ordinary Means of Grace—Or, Don’t Do Weird Stuff | 07.26.2021This ordinary man and his ordinary sermons brought extraordinary change to my ordinary life.
Why Deacons are Crucial
By J. Leeman, J. Sanchez, M. Dever, M. Smethurst | 07.12.2021A conversation between Mark Dever, Jonathan Leeman, Matt Smethurst, and Juan Sanchez.
On Pastoring and Parenting (with David Helm, Juan Sanchez, and Michael Lawrence) | Pastors Talk, Ep. 172
By D. Helm, J. Leeman, J. Sanchez, M. Lawrence | 06.08.2021In this episode of Pastors Talk, Jonathan Leeman chats with David Helm, Juan Sanchez, and Michael Lawrence about parenting as a pastor.
What’s in the Water?: Baptism as a Sign of the New Covenant (Part 2)
By Trent Hunter | 06.04.2021We’ve now explored the various invisible realities to which baptism points. Most preeminently, we we discussed the nature of the new covenant as a regenerate community.
Five Reasons to Pastor an Old Church, Even With All Its Problems
By Marc Minter | 06.02.2021Starting a new church is exciting, especially when compared to taking an established church with all its problems.
Our Church Wants a Plurality of Elders, But We Don’t Know Where to Start
By Dave Harvey | 05.17.2021Transitioning to a plurality of elders is an urgent topic—for both planters and pastors who don’t yet have this structure. Why? Because the quality of your elder plurality determines in large part the health of your church. It really is that important.
Pastors, Fight Against Fear of Man by Fighting for the Fear of the Lord
By Dave Cook | 05.10.2021It’s possible to be afraid of God, but the man who rightly fears God enjoys the thrill, the breathlessness, the awe of glimpsing God’s glory. This man knows his own smallness—and doesn’t mind it.
When You Long for Friends: A Meditation for Elders’ Wives
By Megan Hill | 04.30.2021In your time as an elder’s wife, you will doubtless experience times of loneliness. You can take encouragement from the example of Paul that a desire for friends is a good desire.
Don’t Muzzle the Ox
By Ken Mbugua | 9Marks Journal: How to Build Up Your Church: A Guidebook for Members | 03.30.2021God’s Word languishes in the pulpit because churches have been taught to invest in buildings and projects, not men who have given themselves to the ministry of the Word.
Invite Your Pastors into Your Life
By Omar Johnson | 9Marks Journal: How to Build Up Your Church: A Guidebook for Members | 03.30.2021Don’t let your pastors live on a ministry island. Let them get to know you, and the Lord’s love for them through you. They need you.
Encourage Your Pastor
By Chad Van Dixhoorn | 9Marks Journal: How to Build Up Your Church: A Guidebook for Members | 03.30.2021Where do we find the books that tell us how to look after those who look after us?
Anxious People Need Shepherds Who Point Them to the Chief Shepherd
By David Murray | 03.29.2021Pastors, anxiety is probably running rampant in your church. So how do you shepherd your people to respond to anxiety rightly? You teach them about God’s character, God’s promises, and God’s songs.
11 Elder Chairman FAQs
By Isaac Adams | 03.23.2021Here are 11 frequently asked questions for elder chairmen.
20 Tweet-sized Lessons for the Chairman of the Elders
By Isaac Adams | 03.22.2021While an elders meeting isn’t a worship service, I pray these lessons will help your elders do all things “decently and in order” (1 Corinthians 14:40).
