“What Do You Want?”: Pastoral Reflections on Faithfulness
By Aaron Menikoff | 08.07.2017We may share the gospel a thousand times, and never see a convert. It’s our job to be faithful. The rest is up to God.
Be Strong and Courageous, Young Leader
By Thabiti Anyabwile | 08.05.2017First Five Years is a 9Marks Conference meant to encourage and instruct new pastors. Check out the videos from First Five Years 2017 on our website, or listen to the messages on … keep reading…
Loving Your Family While Leading God’s Church
By Garrett Kell | 08.04.2017First Five Years is a 9Marks Conference meant to encourage and instruct new pastors. Check out the videos from First Five Years 2017 on our website, or listen to the messages on … keep reading…
Caring for God’s Flock
By Brian Davis | 08.04.2017First Five Years is a 9Marks Conference meant to encourage and instruct new pastors. Check out the videos from First Five Years 2017 on our website, or listen to the messages on … keep reading…
Beware the Dangers of Pragmatism
By Thomas White | 08.04.2017First Five Years is a 9Marks Conference meant to encourage and instruct new pastors. Check out the videos from First Five Years 2017 on our website, or listen to the messages on … keep reading…
Grace without Compromise
By Nathan Knight | 08.04.2017First Five Years is a 9Marks Conference meant to encourage and instruct new pastors. Check out the videos from First Five Years 2017 on our website, or listen to the messages on … keep reading…
Thinking Through the Missionary’s Influence in a New Church
By Scott Williamson | 08.04.2017What role should cross-cultural church planters play in a new church plant?
What kind of authority do pastors have?
By Brian Davis | 08.03.2017A pastor’s authority is real, godly, and limited according to the Bible.
How important is a pastor’s devotional life?
By Garrett Kell | 07.27.2017There’s nothing more important than a pastor’s devotional life.
There Are Souls to Be Saved: How Can We Rest?
By David Murray | 07.24.2017The theological root of so much burnout is a failure to believe in the sovereignty of God. We simply don’t trust God to do the work that only he can do.
Book Review: Reset, by David Murray
Review by Daniel Patterson | 07.19.2017If you know a pastor, he likely feels overworked and exhausted; he’d be greatly helped by this book.
VIDEO: How do you raise up leaders in poor communities?
9Marks | 07.13.2017It’s not always a good thing for someone to have their “rough edges” knocked off. A man or woman can have character and rough edges, while still keeping their effectiveness for ministry.
9Marks at 9 with ERLC
By J. Leeman, M. Dever, P. Bethancourt, R. D. Moore | 06.23.2017At the 2017 SBC, Jonathan Leeman interviewed Russell Moore, Mark Dever, and Philip Bethancourt on building healthy churches in a confusing culture.
Episode 19: Church Mergers and Plants
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 9Marks Journal: Church Mergers and Plants | 06.20.2017We just released a Journal on church planting and church mergers. Because neither Mark nor Jonathan wrote an article for it, we devoted this episode of Pastors’ Talk to the topic.
Church Plants Need Pastors, Not Entrepreneurs
By Matt McCullough | 9Marks Journal: Church Mergers and Plants | 06.20.2017We often assume church planting requires more entrepreneurial skills than other pastoral contexts. Is that a fair assumption?