Aspiring Pastors Need Encouragement, Too: 5 Ways Paul Encouraged Timothy
By Zack DiPrima | 07.06.2022Encouragement from anyone is always good. Encouragement from seasoned saints—especially pastors—builds up young leaders in a pronounced way.
How to Have Fruitful Conversations About the Immigrant Church
By John Lee | 07.01.2022Having a productive conversation about the immigrant church requires both cultural and ecclesiological fluency.
On Keeping Your Greek and Hebrew in Ministry
By Matt Emadi | 06.27.2022Are the original languages really that important?
A Conflict of Visions: Comparing Rick Warren’s SBC Speech and Juan Sanchez’s Convention Sermon
By Alex DiPrima | 06.23.2022Rick Warren’s brief address and Juan Sanchez’s convention sermon at the SBC annual meeting represent two different, competing visions of ministry and the local church.
Book Review: The Gospel-Driven Church, by Jared C. Wilson
Review by Zach Schlegel | 06.23.2022Jared C. Wilson’s “The Gospel-Driven Church” holds up a biblical picture of success and exposes misguided ones.
Book Review: Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism, 1750-1858, by Iain Murray
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022I commend Iain Murray’s classic book to all present and aspiring church leaders, and to any Christian who likes to ask, “How did we get here?”
Why Does a Pastor Being “Above Reproach” Matter?
By Peter Hess | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022In the church of Jesus Christ, character matters for leadership. No character, no qualification to lead.
Why Is Being “Above Reproach” Necessary in Hard Times?
By David Doran Jr. | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022By God’s grace, you want shepherds who live with such obvious Spirit-dependence and fruit that false accusations fall flat.
What Does Being “Above Reproach” Mean?
By Paul Alexander | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022To be above reproach is, arguably, the most general of all the elder qualifications, so it has to be defined more generally.
Why Revivalism Causes Pastors to Burn Out and Job-Hop
By Phil Newton | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022Understanding dependence on the Word and Spirit would have reoriented my entire approach to and practice of pastoral ministry. But instead, I struggled to make sense of the man-centered revivalism I’d been taught.
What Is the Root of Quarrelsomeness and How Does It Get Fixed?
By David Dunham | 9Marks Journal: Expressive Individualism in the Church | 03.18.2022A prideful and insecure heart will destroy a ministry, but a humbled heart can serve the Lord and his church well.
How Do We Recognize Quarrelsome People?
By Nathan Loudin | 9Marks Journal: Expressive Individualism in the Church | 03.18.2022The Bible expects us to discern quarrelsome people. But how?
What Does Proverbs Teach about Being Quarrelsome?
By Mark Redfern | 9Marks Journal: Expressive Individualism in the Church | 03.18.2022What can we learn from the book of Proverbs about what it means to be quarrelsome?
Why Pastors Need to Understand an Abstract Topic Like “Expressive Individualism”
By Justin Harris | 9Marks Journal: Expressive Individualism in the Church | 03.18.2022In many ways, ministry in the 21st century West really is the best of times and the worst of times. Some unhealthy churches have fully capitulated to the rise and triumph of the modern self. Others have effectively rebelled against its influence.
Questions about Gender Should Send Us to Scripture
By Thomas R. Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: Expressive Individualism in the Church | 03.18.2022In some circles, cultural arguments receive precedence over scriptural ones—as if they alone have the final say on the truth or falsity of a particular biblical interpretation.
