New! The 9Marks Church Leadership Toolkit helps leaders assess the health of their church, equip elders and deacons, and learn biblical strategies for serving their congregations.
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🚨GIVEAWAY🚨 “Spurgeon: A Life” from @RHB_Books is now on Amazon. To celebrate, I’m giving away two free copies (w/ free shipping to anywhere in the US). To qualify you have to “like” AND “repost” this post. I’ll select two people at random by the end of the day on Friday!
I’m very pleased to release a new Thinking in Public conversation today with @abigailshrier: “Bad Therapy, Cultural Seduction, Children in Crisis.” Watch or listen at the link.
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We have 234 catalogs of ministers’ libraries in the Netherlands during the seventeenth century. Here are three lessons we ought not neglect.
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I'm excited to announce the Los Angeles Ministers' Conference, hosted by @FBArtesia, @9Marks, and the Los Angeles Southern Baptist Association!
Come and hear Mark Dever, Nam Park, and @pastorbscott on faithfulness in pastoral ministry:
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We asked pastors around the world a simple question: what books did you read in 2023 that helped you be a better pastor?
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Counting the Cost: Your Love of Ease by J.C. Ryle
What does it cost to be a true Christian?
It will cost a man his love of ease. He must take pains and trouble, if he means to run a successful face towards heaven.
He must daily watch and stand his guard, like a soldier on enemy’s ground. He must take heed to his behavior every hour of the day, in every company, and in every place, in public as well as in private, among strangers as well as at home. He must be careful over his time, his tongue, his temper, his thoughts, his imaginations, his motives, his conduct in every relation of life. He must be diligent about his prayers, his Bible-reading, and his use of Sundays, with all their means of grace.
This also sounds hard. There is nothing we naturally dislike so much as ‘trouble’ about our religion. We hate trouble. We secretly wish we could have a ‘vicarious’ Christianity, and could be good by proxy, and have everything done for us. Anything that requires exertion and labor is entirely against the grain of our hearts. But the soul can have ‘no gains without pains.’ Let us set down that item third in our account. To be a Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.
The rumors are true! We are having our biggest ebook sale ever! For one week only, get every ebook in our library for $1, $3, or $5: https://t.co/PKFYCa3j3k
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