Reflections on Elders from 1 Peter

by | Mar 26, 2011 | Other Ministries

This was posted on the 9Marks Blog: Building Healthy Churches by Aaron Menikoff on 3/24/11. At Mount Vernon where I serve, we have been talking about moving to elders for a couple of years. Through it all, I’ve found that one of the most helpful texts to speak...

Book Review: The Deliberate Church (Mark Dever)

by | Mar 25, 2011 | Book Reviews, Quotes

The Deliberate Church After many people read “The Nine Marks of the Healthy Church,” they asked, if we realize that our church is unhealthy, what can be do concretely to become a healthy church? In his sequel, Mark Dever, pastor of Capital Hill Baptist...

John Piper's Leave of Absence and What God Taught Him

by | Jan 3, 2011 | Other Ministries

I wrote this report for Bethlehem and have adapted it for this first day of 2011 on the DG Blog. It’s longer than a blog should be. My only excuse is that I did cut 263 pages. For eight months of this year (May–December), I was on a leave of absence. That meant I was...