What Do Baptism & the Lord’s Supper Symbolize?
By H. B. Charles | 05.25.2018Pastor HB Charles, Jr. explains the theological realities behind baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
What the Church Can and Should Bring to the #MeToo Movement
By Whitney Woollard | 9Marks Journal: Church Life: Our True Political Witness | 04.17.2018The world doesn’t have the tools to offer the kind of redemption the #MeToo movement calls for. But thankfully, the church does.
What Does It Mean to “Examine Oneself”?
By H. B. Charles | 03.21.2018In 1 Corinthians 11:28, Paul tells us to “examine ourselves” before we eat of the bread and drink of the cup. But what does that mean practically?
Church Discipline for Love’s Sake
By Jonathan Leeman | 03.15.2018Fundamentally, churches should practice church discipline for love’s sake.
7 Ways to Protect and Pass On the Gospel
9Marks | 03.09.2018Christian, you have an assigned task from Jesus and it involves at least two things: helping fellow church members make it to heaven and getting the gospel into the next generation.
5 Ways Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle Cultivated Meaningful Membership
By Geoff Chang | 02.26.2018The goal is for every church to be faithful—in doctrinal purity, in guarding the membership, in active gospel ministry. In this, Spurgeon and the Metropolitan Tabernacle remain a model for pastors and churches today.
I’ve Been Hurt By a Church Before. Why Join Another One?
By Jonathan Leeman | 02.21.2018Jonathan Leeman answers this important pastoral question.
Mailbag #71: A Pastor and Pre-Conversion Sins . . . Young Children, Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper
By Jonathan Leeman | 02.09.2018— To what degree should a man’s past life—perhaps even before his conversion—affect how we consider his qualification for ministry? — Should young children who have been baptized but left out of church membership be given the Lord’s Supper?
What Does Congregationalism Really Look Like?
By Mark Dever | 01.26.2018What Mark Dever tells his congregation: if I start teaching false things, then because you love me please fire me.
Episode 34: On Church Discipline
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018As a part of the new 9Marks Journal—Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body—Jonathan Leeman sits down with Mark Dever to talk about church discipline.
A Biblical Theology of Church Discipline
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018God’s discipline of his people is an integral part of the Bible’s entire storyline, from Eden to the new creation.
Putting People Before Policies in Church Discipline
By Nate Pickowicz | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018In recent years, the number of churches committed to exercising biblical church discipline seems to be increasing.
Why Calvin Thought Church Discipline is Essential to the Health of the Church
By Matthew Tuininga | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018Why did John Calvin believe church discipline to be essential to the health of the church?
Church Discipline Starts with You
By Whitney Woollard | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018A loving church will be a disciplining church—and the burden of that discipline rests primarily us “ordinary Christians” who make up the discipleship community.
A Testimony of Restoration
By John Jones | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018To this day, I don’t know if I was a backslidden convert or if I was a deceived non-Christian. Either way, church discipline served to expose my hypocrisy.
