Discipleship
Ninth Mark of a Healthy Church Member — Follows Leadership
By Thabiti Anyabwile | 9Marks Journal: Elders (Part 2) | 02.26.2010Church members are the people who generally make or break a local church.
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 Do Pastors Raise Up Pastors?
By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Raising Up the Next Generation of Pastors | 02.26.2010Future pastors aren’t built in a day.
What Questions Does a Biblical Counselor Suggest We Ask?
By David Powlison | 02.26.2010In discipling somone, I am doing nothing more than pursuing the same line of questioning and reasoning that I myself need.
Where Does Your Congregation Turn For Help?
By Deepak Reju | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 02.25.2010If you neglect to teach your people biblical application you have failed to shepherd the flock adequately.
Five Advantages of Church-Based Counseling
By Deepak Reju | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 02.25.2010I want to argue that there are distinct advantages to doing specialized counseling in the context of one’s local church, and I would even propose that it should be the norm.
Counseling and Discipleship
By Deepak Reju | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 02.25.2010Every Christian should either be discipling someone else, be discipled by someone else, or be doing both.
Sorting Out the Spiritual and the Physical
By Michael Emlet | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 02.25.2010In my counseling training, I began to see that the Scriptures provide this overarching view to any problem of life.
Twenty Ways to Cultivate a Culture of Counseling
By Deepak Reju | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 02.25.2010By equipping your members to counsel one another, you enable them to do the front-line work of ministry. Here are twenty ways to cultivate a culture of counseling and discipleship in your church.
A Pastor’s Priorities for Day One
By Bob Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 02.25.2010Here are five priorities you should bring to your first day of ministry.
“Why Are We Joyfully Committed?”
By Tom Steller | 9Marks Journal: Raising Up the Next Generation of Pastors | 02.25.2010Why are the pastors at Bethlehem Baptist Church joyfully committed to pastoral mentoring?
Christian Discipleship and Growth with Donald Whitney
By D. S. Whitney, M. Dever | 01.25.2009Don Whitney discusses busyness, praying through Scripture, the disciplines, mysticism, and more.
Book Review: When People Are Big and God is Small, by Ed Welch
Review by Greg Gilbert | 08.02.2002This book would be useful to any pastor who is willing to have numerous and extended conversations with his people.
Book Review: Hearing God, by Dallas Willard
Review by Greg Gilbert | 07.02.2002I think there are probably better, more biblically careful books that hold at least some portion of what Willard is arguing.
Book Review: Guidance and the Voice of God, by Phillip Jensen and Tony Payne
Review by Greg Gilbert | 02.03.2002We know from the Bible what our destination is—union with Christ, and we know that God is working and moving to take us there.