
The Ordinances: A True and Better Identity Politics
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Expressive Individualism in the Church | 03.18.2022What can unearth and uproot and undermine the unbiblical assumptions that animate identity politics and threaten to tear apart what God has joined together? I would submit a simple, perhaps surprisingly obvious answer.

Raising Children in an Age of Expressive Individualism
By Abigail Dodds | 9Marks Journal: Expressive Individualism in the Church | 03.18.2022The world is awash in self-identity and the need to express it far and wide. So what do parents do?

The Pastor and an Unmessianic Sense of Non Destiny
By Carl Trueman | 9Marks Journal: Expressive Individualism in the Church | 03.18.2022We all need to cultivate that certain unmessianic sense of non-destiny which will make us better citizens of the kingdom.

Social Media Is Designed to Divide Churches—So What Do We Do?
By Clare Morell | 9Marks Journal: Expressive Individualism in the Church | 03.18.2022How should Christians in general and pastors in particular think about discipling amid the proliferation of social media?

If You Want to Address LGBTQ Issues, Then Address Expressive Individualism
By Ryan Fullerton | 9Marks Journal: Expressive Individualism in the Church | 03.18.2022If you want to help your church know what to make of the LGBTQ movement, as well as their own personal temptations, you’ll want to understand the soil out of which it grows.

Youth Ministry and the Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
By Walt Mueller | 9Marks Journal: Expressive Individualism in the Church | 03.11.2022Have our youth ministries been complicit in expressive individualism’s cancerous spread within the body of Christ?

When a Pastor’s Child Strays
By David Gough | 01.17.2022I write not as a mere observer or sympathized, but as a father and a pastor who prays for his own wayward children. How desperately I long for them to embrace the faith they were taught.

Confessing the Faith: The Place of Confessions in Church Life
By K. Soltau, M. Short | 9Marks Journal: Sound Doctrine: The Foundation for Faithful Ministry | 11.24.2021So in 2021, in a largely unchurched and post-Christian European country, why make confessions a regular rhythm in church life?

Editor’s Note: Defending Sound Doctrine Against the Deconstruction of American Evangelicalism
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Sound Doctrine: The Foundation for Faithful Ministry | 11.16.2021Jonathan Leeman reflects on the recent and popular project of “deconstructing” evangelicalism.

What the Doctrine of Justification Means for Facebook Fights Among Church Members?
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Sound Doctrine: The Foundation for Faithful Ministry | 11.16.2021What does sola fide have to do with Facebook squabbles?

What the Doctrine of Man Means for Your Accountability Group
By Caleb Greggsen | 9Marks Journal: Sound Doctrine: The Foundation for Faithful Ministry | 11.16.2021The usefulness of accountability relationships depends on whether or not you allow the Bible’s instruction about people to inform how you think about such groups.

What the Doctrine of Revelation Means for Our Lord’s Day Gatherings
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Sound Doctrine: The Foundation for Faithful Ministry | 11.16.2021What you believe about how God reveals himself to us will impact what kind of church you build.

Friendship: The Foundation of Paul’s Global Ministry
By Caleb Greggsen | 10.25.2021One of Paul’s most consistent values may surprise us: friendship.

On Translating Books and the Great Commission (with Rick Denham, Daniel Henderson and David Adams) | Pastors Talk, Ep. 181
By D. Henderson, D. Adams, R. Denham | 09.28.2021What does translating books have to do with the Great Commission? Jonathan Leeman sat down with three international publishers to talk about that question.

Must Churches Follow Mask Mandates?
By Jonathan Leeman | 09.20.20219Marks doesn’t exist to make any of these judgments for you or your elder board. That’s your job, pastor. But as well as I know how to describe it, these are the principled questions before you.