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).
On Pastoral Sabbaticals (with Jamie Dunlop) | Pastors Talk, Ep. 164
By J. Dunlop, J. Leeman, M. Dever | 03.16.2021Are sabbaticals in the Bible? Are they . . . fair? (After all, what other profession gets them!) How should they be structured?
Not Gathering with the Church Hurts You Spiritually
By Jonathan Leeman | 03.05.2021Pandemic-weary pastor, gently encourage your pandemic-weary congregation to gather as soon as they can.
On Firing Church Staff | Pastors Talk, Ep. 162
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 03.02.2021Firing someone is almost always hard, perhaps especially in the church. In this episode of Pastors Talk, Jonathan chats with Mark about this difficult topic, one that Mark says is a personal weakness of his.
How to Pastor When Sanctification Becomes Illegal
By Murray Campbell | 02.18.2021I now live and pastor in a State where, before long, genuine conversion to Christ—and the life of holiness that ensures—may be deemed illegal. So what should I do?
The Hope of Heaven at the Beginning and End of Ministry (with Omar Johnson & Phil Newton)
By O. Johnson, P. Newton | 02.05.2021Pastors need the hope of heaven at the beginning of their ministry, and they still need it at the end of their ministry. Jonathan Leeman chats with Phil Newton (a pastor … keep reading…
On Chairing an Elders Meeting (with Isaac Adams & Ken Barbic) | Pastors Talk, Ep. 158
By I. Adams, J. Leeman, K. Barbic, M. Dever | 02.02.2021What is an elder chairman? What do they do? Why is it a helpful role?
