Corporate Worship
The Body of Christ as a Self-Fulfilling Metaphor
By Patrick Schreiner | 07.02.2015When the Scriptures speak in metaphors they are both describing and creating in the people of God how to think and act.
Book Review: Gather God’s People, by Brian Croft and Jason Adkins
Review by Zach Schlegel | 06.30.2015This book is a concise, helpful introduction for new pastors or church leaders to hone their skills and better their understanding of what the Bible teaches about their task.
How to Evaluate Your Pastor’s Sermons
By Keith Collier | 9Marks Journal: Expositional Preaching | 06.18.2015In the long run, good, helpful feedback will make him an even better preacher, which will contribute to your own spiritual growth and build up the church to the glory of Christ.
Mailbag #9—Lord’s Supper in Small Groups; Elder Disqualified by Unbelieving Wife; Immersion Necessary for Baptism?
By Jonathan Leeman | 06.12.2015—Is it legitimate to take the Lord’s Supper apart from a local congregation? —Can a man with an unbelieving wife serve as an elder? —Is immersion necessary for baptism?
Compelling Community—A Conversation with Mark Dever & Jamie Dunlop
By J. Dunlop, J. Leeman, M. Dever | 05.21.2015If God the Holy Spirit left your church this weekend, what would happen next?
Mailbag #7—Cake-baking Principles; Two Services or One; Youth Pastors; & A Discipline Issue
By Jonathan Leeman | 04.24.2015Mailbag #7—Cake-baking Principles; Two Services or One; Youth Pastors; & A Discipline Issue
Book Review: Expository Listening, by Ken Ramey
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 04.16.2015It’s hard to sit down and listen to an hour-long sermon when you spend your day flipping from the smart phone to the iPad to the big screen.
Mailbag #2: Deaconess Qualifications, Private Baptisms, Knowing Members’ Giving
By Jonathan Leeman | 03.13.2015If you have a question for us, please send it to mailbag@www.9marks.org. Thank you!
Don’t Give Up Meeting Together
By Michael Kelley | 12.02.2014In an affluent and relatively free society, safe from persecution based on religious preference, what might keep us from continuing to show up?
Why We Need the Church
By Jenny Manley | 11.20.2014The statement “I love Jesus; I just don’t care for the church” does not make sense when we understand the church is a gift given to the people of God for the glory of God.
Five Tips for Better Public Scripture Readings
By Trent Hunter | 11.17.2014We need to hear God’s Word, and we need to hear it together.
Book Review: Ordinary, by Michael Horton
Review by Dallas Goebel | 10.15.2014God has given us some very ordinary means of grace through which he will do some extraordinary things.
The Problem with Evangelistic Programs
By J. Mack Stiles | 10.09.2014A strict diet of evangelistic programs produces malnourished evangelism.
Book Review: The Missional Quest, by Lance Ford & Brad Brisco
Review by Brian Davis | 09.29.2014To make the sending aspect of the church her essence is reductionistic.
