Loving Questions for Pastors of Seeker-Sensitive Churches
By Aaron Menikoff | 03.01.2010Does God leave churches to decide how to conduct their own worship services?
Re-Imagining Success in Ministry
By Mark Dever | 03.01.2010Certainly no church is perfect. But, praise God, many imperfect churches are healthy.
Pastors’ and Theologians’ Forum on Church and Culture
By Forum | 9Marks Journal: Church & Culture | 03.01.2010Does Scripture call the local church to the work of cultural transformation?
What Distinguishes Biblical Counseling from other Methods?
By David Powlison | 02.26.2010Just what is “biblical counseling” anyway?
Dealing with Bad Documents
By Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Confessions, Covenants, and Constitutions: How to Organize Your Church | 02.26.2010Very often a new pastor will find a statement of faith like our church had—unclear at best and heretical at worst.
A Call To the Ministry
By Basil Manly | 02.26.2010More ministers, and better ministers, are the great want of the Church.
Cultivating a Culture of Missions in a Small Church
By Tom Ascol | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 02.26.2010Small churches are not exempt from the work of missions, nor should they want to be.
Cultivating a Culture of Counseling and Discipleship
By Tim Lane | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 02.26.2010When we live as children of light, we live a persuasive lifestyle that gets the attention of the non-Christian.
How My Mind Has Changed: The Centrality of the Congregation
By Mark Dever | 02.26.2010Love is largely local. And the local congregation, then, is the place which claims to display this love for all the world to see.
What Is this Thing, Anyway? A Multi-Site Taxonomy
By Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 02.26.2010Congregational? Presbyterian? Episcopalian? Presbygational? Conbypalian? Epigregyterian? I've heard them all (even made up a few myself).
"Its just as congregational as any other church," some argue. "We have a meeting of the whole church every quarter."
"No, it's Presbyterian" others say. "You have a group of pastors that makes decisions for multiple congregations."
On Reading and Studying as a Pastor
By Ligon Duncan | 02.26.2010But precisely because our people are bathed in trivial information in this day and age, they need a shepherd with real knowledge, much discernment, and a nose for truth.
A Passion for Reading and Learning (Part 1)
By C. J. Mahaney | 02.26.2010Though I didn’t understand much of what I was reading I knew that I was reading “the words of eternal life.”
Theological Defense of Multi-Site
By Gregg R. Allison | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 02.26.2010How strong are the biblical, theological, historical, and missional arguments used by advocates of multi-site churches?
The Goals and Benefits of an Installation Service
By Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 02.26.2010What were my goals for the day? I wanted to begin shepherding the congregation.
The Alternative: Why Don’t We Plant?
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 02.26.2010Christianity, by which I mean church membership, is a participatory sport, not a spectator sport.
