9marks Resources
From Gospel Translations
Biblical Theology of Corporate Prayer
By James M. Hamilton Jr. | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Appendix: Church Membership Interview Form
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Beginning the Work
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/The Four P's
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Doing Responsible Evangelism
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Doing Church Discipline
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/The Importance of Elders
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Music
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Loving Each Other
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Understanding the Regulative Principle
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/The Role of the Ordinances
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Applying the Regulative Principle
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Taking in New Members
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/The Roles of the Different Gatherings
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/The Role of the Pastor
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Looking for a Few Good Men
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Foreword
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Introduction
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Conclusion
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
A Display of God's Glory/Deacons
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Decision Making: How to Talk About It
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/The Agenda: What to Talk About
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/The Word and Prayer
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Staffing
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Getting Started
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Why Character is Crucial
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Assessment
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Prayer in the Life and Ministry of the Pastor
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Gospel Implications
By Mike Bullmore | 9Marks
Expositional Preaching and Application
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Does Regeneration Necessarily Precede Conversion?
By Thomas Schreiner | 9Marks
Biblical Church Growth I Thessalonians 3:12-4:12
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church/Introduction
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church/Conclusion
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church/Biblical Church Leadership
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church/A Concern for Promoting Christian Discipleship and Growth
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church/Biblical Church Discipline
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church/A Biblical Understanding of Church Membership
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church/A Biblical Understanding of Conversion
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church/A Biblical Understanding of Evangelism
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church/A Biblical Understanding of the Good News
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church/Biblical Theology
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church/Expositional Preaching
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church/Appendix: A Typical Covenant of a Healthy Church
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Why Should I Join a Church?
By Jim Elliff | 9Marks
Why is Defending Male Headship Important for Church Health?
By Bruce A. Ware | 9Marks
What Questions Does a Biblical Counselor Suggest We Ask
By David Powlison | 9Marks
Unity, God, and You
By Paul Alexander | 9Marks
The Pursuit of Christ in the Devotions of a Pastor
By Mike Gilbart-Smith | 9Marks
The Power of Example
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
A Display of God's Glory/Conclusion
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
A Display of God's Glory/Introduction
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
A Display of God's Glory/Membership
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
A Display of God's Glory/Congregationalism
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
A Display of God's Glory/Elders
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
A Pastor for Now
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Is This a Hill Worth Dying On?
By Matt Schmucker | 9Marks
A Theology for the Church
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
A Theology for the Church/The Church
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
A Display of God's Glory
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Foreword by D.A. Carson
By D.A. Carson | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Paul's Preface
By Paul Alexander | 9Marks
The Deliberate Church/Mark's Preface
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church/About This Book
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Raising Up Pastors Is the Church's Work-Part 2
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
By Whose Authority
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
By Whose Authority/Preface
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
By Whose Authority/Introduction
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
By Whose Authority/Elders in the Bible
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
By Whose Authority/Elders in History
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Together for What?
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
By Whose Authority/Elders in Baptist Life
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
By Whose Authority/A Personal Testimony
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Raising Up Pastors Is the Church's Work-Part 1
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
How to Change Your Church
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
There’s Something Worse than Death
By Kevin DeYoung | 9Marks
Pastoral Fearmongering, Manipulation, and Hell
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
What Then Shall We Preach on Hell?
By Sinclair Ferguson | 9Marks
Air Conditioning Hell: How Liberalism Happens
By Albert Mohler Jr. | 9Marks
A Biblical Case for Expositional Preaching
By Mike Bullmore | 9Marks
Preach to the Ignorant, the Doubtful, and Sinners
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Preaching and Biblical Theology 101
By Thomas Schreiner | 9Marks
The Corporate Component of Conversion
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
Twelve Reasons Why Membership Matters
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
Cleaning Up the Rolls
By Matt Schmucker | 9Marks
Cleaning Up the Rolls (Part 2): The Care List
By Matt Schmucker | 9Marks
A Church Discipline Primer
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
"Don't do it!!" Why You Shouldn't Practice Church Discipline
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Re-imagining Success in Ministry
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
How My Mind Has Changed - the Centrality of the Congregation
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
Love the Church More than its Health
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
Regulative Like Jazz
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
Church Membership
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
The Therapeutic Gospel
By David Powlison | 9Marks
Disagreements and Differences Among Elders
By Matt Schmucker | 9Marks
A Discipler's Daily Itinerary
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
A Narrative Approach: Will it Preach?
By Mark Driscoll | 9Marks
A Conversational Approach: Will it Preach?
By Mike Gilbart-Smith | 9Marks
How T4G Gave Me a Vision for Massive Single-Site, Single-Service Churches
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
The Underestimated Doctrine of Conversion
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
Conversion and the Story of Israel
By Thomas Schreiner | 9Marks
Conversion in the New Testament
By Thomas Schreiner | 9Marks
What Does the Regulative Principle Require of Church Members?
By Terry L. Johnson | 9Marks
His Arm Is Strong to Save: A Trajectory of Conversion in America
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks
Moving Attenders to Members
By Thabiti Anyabwile | 9Marks
Reaching the “Converted”
By Bob Johnson | 9Marks
Evangelism in the Workplace
By Ashok Nachnani | 9Marks
Preach to the Non-Christian, Christian, and Church Member
By Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks
What is an “expositional” sermon?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
Why should a pastor preach expositionally?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What priority do the authors of the New Testament give to sound doctrine?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
How can I grow in my understanding of biblical theology?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What is the gospel?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What are some messages that people falsely claim are the gospel?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What’s the most fundamental problem the gospel addresses?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
Is faith in Christ the only way to be saved?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
The Beauty of Conversion
By Jared Wilson | 9Marks
What is conversion?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What practical difference does a biblical understanding of conversion make in the life of a church?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What is evangelism?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
Who should evangelize?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What are some examples of bad evangelistic practices?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What are some practical guidelines for evangelizing well?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
Is Church Membership Biblical?
By Matt Chandler | 9Marks
According to Scripture, why should every Christian join a church?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What is “meaningful membership”?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
How can I lead my church toward meaningful membership?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What is church discipline?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
When should a church practice church discipline?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
In principle, how does discipleship work?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
In practice, how can I disciple other Christians?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
Should churches primarily view discipleship as a "program" or a "lifestyle"?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
How can I as a church leader help cultivate a culture of discipleship?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
Moving from a Deacon-Led to an Elder-Led Church
By Phil Newton | 9Marks
The Biblical Qualifications and Responsibilities of Deacons
By Benjamin Merkle | 9Marks
What is a church elder?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
Is it important to use the titles “elder” and “deacon”?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What is success in ministry? How can it be measured?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What are the most important things for a young pastor to do?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
How should we decide what does or does not belong in a Christian worship service?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What does the New Testament say that churches should do when they gather?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What are some practical ways a pastor can train younger men for ministry?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
How do pastors know what hills are worth dying on?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What does the Great Commission require of local churches?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What is success in missions and how do you measure it?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
How much theological agreement is necessary in order for Christians to work together in ministry?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
How do we determine which doctrines are more important and which are less important?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
How do we contextualize biblically?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
How can you tell the difference between legitimate contextualization and unbiblical compromise?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
The Bible’s Burden for Church Revitalization
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks
Wanted: Plotting and Provoking Church Members
By Greg Gilbert | 9Marks
Evangelism without an Altar Call
By Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Parachurch Ministry
By J. Mack Stiles | 9Marks
8 Ways to Pray During Sermon Preparation
By Michael McKinley | 9Marks
Why You Can’t Change Your Church (Part 1 of 4)
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks
When Can You Change Your Church? (Part 2 of 4)
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks
How to Change Your Church (Part 3 of 4)
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks
How to Live with What You Can’t Change (Part 4 of 4)
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks
What are warning flags to watch out for when considering a man as a potential elder?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
Discipleship and the Paradoxes of Growth
By Garrett Kell | 9Marks
Discipling When You Need to Be Discipled
By Erin Wheeler | 9Marks
Discipleship According to the Scriptures
By Garrett Kell | 9Marks
How Can Pastors Raise Up Leaders?
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks
Elders—The Church’s Lead Disciple-Makers
By Jeramie Rinne | 9Marks
Discipling: More than a Podcast Preacher
By Jonathan Dodson | 9Marks
The Heart of a Disciple-Making Pastor
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks
Conversion, God, and the Whole Self
By Stephen J. Wellum | 9Marks
Preaching Up: Applying the Word of God to Midlife and Beyond
By Israel Haas | 9Marks
Where Does Your Congregation Turn For Help?
By Deepak Reju | 9Marks
Testimonies of the Underestimated Gospel
By 9Marks | 9Marks
Six Ways to Give Your People False Assurance
By Michael McKinley | 9Marks
How “Belonging before Believing” Redefines the Church
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks
Conversion and Your Church’s Architecture
By Jeramie Rinne | 9Marks
Implementing Membership in a Church Plant
By Michael McKinley | 9Marks
Implementing Membership in an Existing Church
By John Folmar | 9Marks
Meaningless Membership: A Southern Baptist Perspective
By Al Jackson | 9Marks
Church Membership and Contextualization
By Ed Roberts | 9Marks
Joining a Church the Ancient Way: From Clement to Egeria
By Michael Haykin | 9Marks
A Pastor's Priorities For Day One
By Bob Johnson | 9Marks
The Goals and Benefits of an Installation Service
By Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks
Dealing with Bad Documents
By Greg Gilbert | 9Marks
What I CAN and CANNOT Live With as a Pastor
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
8 Steps for Dealing with Difficult Leaders
By Ken Swetland | 9Marks
Should Pastors Change Anything in the First Year?
By Phillip Jensen | 9Marks
WWJD - What Would Jim Do?
By Philip Ryken | 9Marks
Shepherding and Trust
By Robert Norris | 9Marks
Do You Know What Your Missionaries Actually Teach?!
By Sean DeMars | 9Marks
How can we improve the preaching in our church? (Part 1)
By Patricio Ledesma | 9Marks
Does God care how we worship? (Part 1)
By Giancarlo Montemayor | 9Marks
Emotions and Truth
By Edgar R. Aponte | 9Marks
Hermeneutics and Biblical Theology
By Edgar R. Aponte | 9Marks
On Biblical Theology
By Edgar R. Aponte | 9Marks
Does God care how we worship? (Part 2)
By Giancarlo Montemayor | 9Marks
How can we improve the preaching in our church? (Part 2)
By Patricio Ledesma | 9Marks
Six Benefits of Evangelism for Discipleship
By Brian Parks | 9Marks
A Sacred Trust: Reflections on Discipling Women
By Jani Ortlund | 9Marks
Evangelizing Prosperity Gospel Adherents
By Allen Duty | 9Marks
Why is expositional preaching particularly relevant for people in postmodern times?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
What are some practical ways for a pastor to love his family?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
Where Is Your Story Written?/Everyone Loves a Story (Part 1)
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks
Where Is Your Story Written?
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks
Where Is Your Story Written?/The Story of Creation (Part 2)
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks
Where Is Your Story Written?/The Themes of Creation (Part 3)
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks
Where Is Your Story Written?/The Problem of Creation (Part 4)
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks
Where Is Your Story Written?/The Destiny of Creation (Part 5)
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks
The Rise of a Parallel, Post-Biblical Christianity
By Grant Retief | 9Marks
Three Post-Prosperity Gospel Testimonies
By Grant Retief | 9Marks
A "Gospel" that Almost Killed Me
By Sean DeMars | 9Marks
The Prosperity Gospel in My Own Heart
By David W. Jones | 9Marks
A Softer Prosperity Gospel: More Common Than You Think
By David Schrock | 9Marks
The Soil of the Prosperity Gospel
By Jonathan Baer | 9Marks
Why Has the Prosperity Gospel Prospered?
By Miguel Núñez | 9Marks
Why Is the Prosperity Gospel Attractive?
By Sugel Michelén | 9Marks
Errors of the Prosperity Gospel
By David W. Jones | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Prosperity Gospel Church
By D.A. Horton | 9Marks
Money: An Instrument for Blessing, Not an Indicator of It
By John Onwuchekwa | 9Marks
The Prosperity Gospel and Biblical Theology
By Michael Schäfer | 9Marks
9Marks Pastors' and Theologians' Forum
By 9Marks | 9Marks
The Underestimated Pastoral Power of a Proper Doctrine of Conversion
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
A Pastors' and Theologians' Forum on Biblical Theology
By 9Marks | 9Marks
One of the Dirtiest Words Today: C--------n
By Brad Wheeler | 9Marks
Biblical and Systematic Confusion Yields Gospel Delusions
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
Nine Marks of a Healthy Worship Leader
By Alex Duke | 9Marks
Wanted: Apostolic Pastors
By Mark Dever | 9Marks
The Great Commission Is Bigger than Your Church
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks
Pray for Revival—In the Other Guy’s Church
By Andy Johnson | 9Marks
The Birth of a Gospel Partnership: Evangelium21
By Matthias Lohmann | 9Marks
Discipline in the Mainline - Is it Possible or Even Wise?
By Kevin DeYoung | 9Marks
Polity on Church Discipline: A User's Guide
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks
Pastors’ Forum: Are Denominations Worth It?
By 9Marks | 9Marks
Three Lessons for Cross-Cultural Evangelism
By John Folmar | 9Marks
Evangelism across Economic Boundaries
By Michael McKinley | 9Marks
The Gospel for a Gay Friend
By Garrett Kell | 9Marks
Five Reasons We Don't Evangelize
By Michael McKinley | 9Marks
Overcoming Objections to Evangelism
By Kevin McKay | 9Marks
The Pastor and Evangelism: Finding an Audience
By Matt Merker | 9Marks
Three Ingredients for an Evangelistic Church Culture
By Michael McKinley | 9Marks
Connecting Evangelism and Church
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
Pastoring the Wrongly Ambitious
By Jamie Dunlop | 9Marks
For the Young Mother: Ministry, Guilt, and Seasons of Life
By Jani Ortlund | 9Marks
7 Things Pastors Should Teach Those in the Marketplace
By Lukas Naugle | 9Marks
What Makes Work "Christian"?
By J. D. Greear | 9Marks
How Does Hell Glorify God?
By James M. Hamilton Jr. | 9Marks
How Pastors Can Equip Women for Ministry
By Bob Johnson | 9Marks
Discipling Men vs. Discipling Women
By Deepak Reju | 9Marks
Wanted: More Older Women Discipling Younger Women
By Susan Hunt | 9Marks
Why Complementarianism Is Crucial to Discipleship
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
Reflections on “What Can Miserable Christians Sing?”
By Carl Trueman | 9Marks
Who Should Pick the Music?
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks
Rediscovering Jesus’ Hymnbook
By Joe Holland | 9Marks
My Congregation Barely Sings; How Can I Help?
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
Five Qualities of a Congregational Song
By Matt Boswell | 9Marks
Why We Sing
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
Stylized Soundtracks and Sunday Morning
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks
Pastoring the Idle
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks
When Do You Practice Church Discipline? And How Do You Confront the Sin?
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks
Class IX: Church Discipline
By Jamie Dunlop | 9Marks
Can Christians Marry Non-Christians?: A Biblical Theology
By Mike Gilbart-Smith | 9Marks