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How Can Our Church Find a Faithful Pastor?

How Can Our Church Find a Faithful Pastor?

by Mark Dever

Many new believers have questions about what it means to live as a Christian in the context of a local church, and pastors are looking for resources to pass along to their congregations to help them think biblically about the Christian life. Church Questions is a series by 9Marks that seeks to provide Christians with sound and access… Read more…

Is It Loving to Practice Church Discipline?

Is It Loving to Practice Church Discipline?

by Jonathan Leeman

Many new believers have questions about what it means to live as a Christian in the context of a local church, and pastors are looking for resources to pass along to their congregations to help them think biblically about the Christian life. Church Questions is a series by 9Marks that seeks to provide Christians with sound and access… Read more…

Why Should I Be Baptized?

Why Should I Be Baptized?

by Bobby Jamieson

Many new believers have questions about what it means to live as a Christian in the context of a local church, and pastors are looking for resources to pass along to their congregations to help them think biblically about the Christian life. Church Questions is a series by 9Marks that seeks to provide Christians with sound and access… Read more…

Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges

Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges

by John Swinton

People living with mental health challenges are not excluded from God’s love or even the fullness of life promised by Jesus. Unfortunately, this hope is often lost amid the well-meaning labels and medical treatments that dominate the mental health field today. In Finding Jesus in the Storm, John Swinton makes the case for reclaiming that hope by c… Read more…

Pastors and Their Critics: A Guide to Coping with Criticism in the Ministry

Pastors and Their Critics: A Guide to Coping with Criticism in the Ministry

by Joel R. Beeke and Nicholas J Thompson

When it comes to criticism in church ministry, false optimism hopes that pastors will be above reproach and their congregants fully supportive—while false pessimism holds that criticism is inevitable, constant, and only ever destructive. The truth, of course, is much more nuanced. In this short, comprehensive, and necessary book, pastors Joel Beek… Read more…

God's Design for the Church (Foreword by Glenn Lyons): A Guide for African Pastors and Ministry Leaders

God's Design for the Church (Foreword by Glenn Lyons): A Guide for African Pastors and Ministry Leaders

by Conrad Mbewe

What Is the Church? Foundational Truths from God's Word At the beginning of the twentieth century, Christians in Africa numbered approximately nine million—by the end, that number had grown to more than 380 million. As the number of Christians continu… Read more…

Post-Quarantine Church: Six Urgent Challenges and Opportunities That Will Determine the Future of Your Congregation

Post-Quarantine Church: Six Urgent Challenges and Opportunities That Will Determine the Future of Your Congregation

by Thom S. Rainer

A trustworthy and respected guide for pastors and church leadership in the post-quarantine world, providing hope and vision for the future of your congregation.From thousands of surveys of church leaders and in-person consultations, Thom Rainer and his Church Answers team have gathered the essential wisdom you will need to face the challenges and opportuniti… Read more…

Where Is God in All the Suffering?

Where Is God in All the Suffering?

by Amy Orr Ewing

Suffering and evil affect us all, both at a general level, as we look at a world filled with injustice, natural disasters and poverty, and at a personal level, as we experience grief, pain and unfairness. And how we think about and process the reality of pain is at the heart of why many people reject God. Dr. Amy Orr-Ewing is no … Read more…

Church Recovery Guide: How Your Congregation Can Adapt and Thrive after a Crisis
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Church Recovery Guide: How Your Congregation Can Adapt and Thrive after a Crisis

by Karl Vaters

Narrated by Brad Ziffer

What’s Next for Your Church?In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, church leaders are facing challenges they’ve never encountered. As you scramble to adapt to this fast-changing situation, you must also begin thinking through the months ahead to consider: how will my church recover?The Church Recovery Guide outlines the practical steps you can… Read more…

Master Teacher: October- December 2020

Master Teacher: October- December 2020

by RH Boyd Publishing Corporation

Master Teacher is the teacher’s quarterly to be used with Adult Christian Life and College and Career. Each lesson contains extensive biblical exposition and specific instructions for the teacher. The outline of the lesson is reader-friendly, and includes suggestions for maximizing teacher/student interaction and topics for making the study informative and… Read more…

The Beauty of Preaching: God's Glory in Christian Proclamation

The Beauty of Preaching: God's Glory in Christian Proclamation

by Michael Pasquarello

What does beauty have to do with healing the fragmentation within our churches? According to Michael Pasquarello, everything. Amid the cacophony of ugly political invective that dominates nearly every space today—including church—only God has the power to unify and heal through his truth and goodness, revealed in his beauty. And every Sunday, tho… Read more…

Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church

Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church

by Paul David Tripp

The church is experiencing a leadership crisis. What can we do to prevent pastors from leaving the ministry? For every cel… Read more…


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