I have yet to read a book put out by the 9Marks initiative that I didn’t like. I’m so thankful for Mark Dever and the other wise and helpful pastors he’s gotten on board to help us learn about building healthy churches. They have been essential resources for pastors and church leaders, and The Compelling […]
What if we could nail down all of our struggles, all of our mishaps, all of our efforts to one small word? In his newest book, long-time pastor and counselor Paul Tripp has proposed that perhaps we can. At the root of every one of these issues can be traced back to the problem of
The landscape of books on pastoral ministry is so broad that it’s tough to discern what you’re going to get when picking up another book on the subject. You can almost categorize most of these books into simple summary statements: “Care about your leadership more than your people.” “You need the right charisma and strategy
Last year, St. Louis pastor and Vice President of Acts 29 Darrin Patrick wrote a book primarily for an audience of Christian men. In The Dude’s Guide to Manhood, Patrick aimed to walk men of all ages down a path of pursuing true, authentic, biblical manhood. The book was very well-respected and has continued to
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Few issues are as important to a right understanding of the gospel as justification. The recovery of this doctrine as we’ll learn in this review is critical to biblical ministry. This is why I’m thankful for Faith Alone The Doctrine of Justification: What the Reformers Taught… and Why It Still Matters by Dr. Thomas Schreiner.
If you look up the definition of “mixed bag” in the dictionary, it’s possible you may see a picture of a bag of books on discipleship. You truly never know what you’re going to get when you pick up a book on how to do effective discipleship. Some books are heavy on principles with little
Doubt is a normal, if still troubling, part of the Christian life. I counsel people on a regular basis for whom doubt is a regular struggle, and it has been part of my own journey of faith too. Often our fear of doubt is that it either leads to abandonment of the faith, or it
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Two years ago, my wife and I adopted a girl from North Carolina and as a result of that adoption, our lives changed significantly. Many things we thought we were prepared for, in reality, we weren’t, and conversely, many things we thought we were unprepared for, in reality, we were fully prepared for when those
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