How to Discourage a Grieving Friend Perhaps your words of encouragement and your advice are not as helpful as you believe them to be. What worked for you in your grief may not hold the

Pastor, Hold Fast Until Relieved At times the pastorate can be discouraging and, as Jared Stacey argues here, humiliating. He goes on to make the case that the battles in which the pastor fights are

The Most Damaging Attitude in Our Churches Perhaps we are guilty of it and don't even realized it. We think we are offering "constructive" criticism, yet what we are actually doing is engaging in cynicism. Like

Hermeneutics: Knowing and Living the Text Coming to the Scriptures should not reflect a picture of coming to a self-service gas station, filling up our tanks, and driving away, while never interacting with others. No,

Five Great Benefits from Preaching There is great benefit to hearing the Word of God preached. Listening to preaching is much more than hearing a lecture or talk. There are benefits that derive uniquely from

Hobby or Habitat? Biblical Anorexia in the West In this talk, Fergus MacDonald tackles the problem of why so many people have access to the Scripture and yet so few engage it seriously and regularly.

The Wrath of God Poured Out: The Humiliation of the Southern Baptist Convention The last several weeks have been humiliating for the Southern Baptist Convention. There has been scandal followed by scandal. The scandals have come from some

Who Exactly Am I Preaching To?  In this article, Daniel Darling offers the reminder that preaching is contextualized to the congregation before you. He challenges preachers to avoid the mistake of crafting messages in view of hoped-for

How the Exodus Connects to Baptism and the Lord's Supper What does it mean to say, "Christians are called to live the exodus?" That is the question Andrew Wilson seeks to answer in this IX Marks

Reversing the Gospel: Warfield on Race and Racism  Warfield was a staunch defender of the Christian faith who rarely engaged in social issues. Yet, according to Fred Zaspel, the one issue that Warfield confronted was the