Want to Be a Pastor? Be Someone Worth Imitating.
By Bobby Jamieson | 09.08.2021To be a pastor is to live your life in public. Even when you’re off, you’re on. If you want to be a pastor, get ready to be watched, and start setting an example worth watching.
Learn to Pastor from Faithful Pastors and Healthy Churches
By Bobby Jamieson | 08.18.2021The best way to learn the art of pastoral medicine is by closely observing a healthy church body. Learn to pastor from faithful pastors and healthy churches.
Don’t Do Weird Stuff
By Sam Emadi | 9Marks Journal: The Ordinary Means of Grace—Or, Don’t Do Weird Stuff | 07.26.2021For years, 9Marks has been standing with historic Protestantism advocating the ordinary means of grace. There’s nothing radical about this proposal.
Do Weird Stuff
By Alex Duke | 9Marks Journal: The Ordinary Means of Grace—Or, Don’t Do Weird Stuff | 07.26.2021After my first Sunday at Capitol Hill Baptist Church, I asked myself one question and one question only: “Are these people crazy?”
Good News, Ordinary Pastor! You Don’t Need a Winning Personality
By Dan Miller | 9Marks Journal: The Ordinary Means of Grace—Or, Don’t Do Weird Stuff | 07.26.2021The good news for the unspectacular pastor is this: “winning personality” is not found in the list of pastoral qualifications in 1 Timothy 3 or Titus 1.
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.
