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Exploring Religious Liberty in “Faith and Freedom”
This episode features a conversation about the newly released book, “Faith and Freedom: Six Theological Reflections on Religious Liberty.” On today’s episode, ERLC President Dr. Evan Lenow speaks with the book’s editor, Dr. Jennifer Patterson, and one of the book’s contributors, Dr. Jonathan Leeman.
Preaching to Different Kinds of Hearers
(Editors’ note: this article was originally published at 9Marks and has been adapted from Jonathan’s book Word-Centered Church.) The preacher’s task is to hold up reality as the Bible presents it, and to ask how it compares to what his hearers have been calling reality. He asks if all the promises that sin has been making to them have turned out to be true. He shows them that the Bible is, in fact, a better interpreter of their experience.
A prospective pilot study of urine microRNA as a biomarker of urinary radiation toxicity following MRI-guided prostate stereotactic body radiotherapy
Abstract Introduction: Urinary toxicities are common following prostate radiotherapy and can impair quality of life. New biomarkers are needed that can predict the risk of urinary toxicity following MRI guided stereotactic body radiotherapy (MR-SBRT) to assist with selection of the most appropriate radiotherapy treatment approach. We aimed to identify urine miRNA biomarkers of radiation-induced urinary toxicities.
Active Surveillance Outcomes After Template-Guided Mapping Biopsy Among Patients With Prostate Cancer
Supplement. Figure. Kaplan-Meier Curve of the Cumulative Incidence of Overall Mortality and Therapeutic Intervention Among Patients Managed With Active Surveillance (AS) After Template-Guided Mapping Biopsy (opens in new tab) Table.
Must Baptism Precede Membership? Of Course!
(Editors’ note: This article was originally published at 9Marks.) Must someone be baptized before he or she can join a church? I’ve been told by people who know history better than I do that Christians of almost all traditions have said yes for 2,000 years. It’s really only today that people have thought otherwise. The historical precedent is pretty compelling in and of itself.
7 Steps a Father Can Take to Show Love to His Children
1. Fear the Lord and Get Wisdom Step one of exercising authority in your children’s lives is to fear the Lord and get wisdom yourself. God wants you to use your authority, to be a parent, to teach and administer discipline. Yet he wants you to use it compassionately and studiously, always calibrating your corrections and instructions for their weaker frames. So study the word. Examine the character of God as a loving Father and consider how you might grow in these ways. Devote yourself to prayer.
Reverence Requires Submission
Submission over Autonomy If there is an s-word other than the original s-word these days, it’s the word submission. If you don’t believe me, announce that your next women’s Bible study topic is going to be submission, and watch your participants run. But submission isn’t just for women. It’s for Christians. Every one of us is ultimately under the authority of God.
A Primer on Church Discipline, Part 2: How Should a Church Do It?
How should a church practice church discipline? Jesus provides the basic outline in Matthew 18:15–17. He says to His disciples: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church.
A Primer on Church Discipline, Part 1: What Is It?
What would you think of a coach who instructs his players but never drills them? Or a math teacher who explains the lesson but never corrects her students’ mistakes? Or a doctor who talks about health but ignores cancer? You would probably say that all of them are doing half their job. Athletic training requires instructing and drilling. Teaching requires explaining and correcting. Doctoring requires encouraging health and fighting disease. Right?
Godly Leaders Go Low and Aim High
“I feel like the air-traffic-control tower at O’Hare Airport,” said the pastor, referring to Chicago’s infamously busy airport. I had just popped into his office to ask a logistical question. Within a few minutes, I watched several others do the same. “Lots of planes taking off and landing!” he remarked. That’s a decent picture of good leadership: Air-traffic controllers have authority, but they use their authority to enable others to fly.
Should a Fallen Pastor Be Restored?
Many Christians struggle with what it means to forgive a pastor who has committed a grievous act. A few years ago, a Memphis megachurch pastor admitted to a “sexual incident” with a high school student in Texas, more than two decades after the incident. I’m not in a place to render judgment over another church’s matters. Yet how should we think about forgiveness of a pastor? Christians struggle with this question because Christianity centers on the idea of forgiveness.
Prioritizing the Church in Missions
Bibles Books Tracts Articles Donate By John Folmar, Scott Logsdon, Series edited by Jonathan Leeman, Scott Logsdon, Brooks Buser, Foreword by Conrad Mbewe ... Show All Encourage Long-Term Faithfulness in Missions with a Biblically Informed Strategy That Recenters the Church The church is the origin, means, and end of missions. Scripture calls on missionaries to start and strengthen churches where new believers—and more missionaries—can grow.
Good Authority Passes Out Power
When people feel empowered, they are more likely to be transparent and honest. It keeps a church from being tribalistic. A man who continually gives away authority teaches those around him that he is most interested in the success of the gospel, regardless of who’s leading (see Phil. 1:12ff.). Moses: God blessed them.
Authority
Bibles Books Tracts Articles Donate with Study Questions By Jonathan Leeman ... Show All Format: Crossway+ members receive 30% off books. Learn more. Availability: In Stock Retail Price: $22.99 with Study Questions By Jonathan Leeman ... Show All Accessible Guide from 9Marks Equips Believers to Steward Their God-Given Authority In every position of power—from executives and world leaders to church elders and parents—lies the potential for life-giving leadership or destructive corruption.
Good Authority Passes Out Power
Moses: God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Gen. 1:28) Paul: If we endure, we will also reign with him. (2 Tim. 2:12) John: . . .
What Is Spiritual Authority?
Spiritual authority belongs to the Bible, churches, and pastors. It’s the authority that Scripture asserts over every person’s life, particularly as Scripture is mediated and applied in the lives of believers by churches and pastors. To be sure, Christians do not depend directly on church authority for their salvation. For that reason, they should remain ever vigilant and be willing to defy a church when it departs from the Word of God.
What Is Spiritual Authority? Neither Authoritarianism nor Anti-Institutionalism
Share FacebookXLinkedInRedditEmail Several years ago, a pastor friend became convinced that, when leading the Lord’s Supper, he should “fence the Table.” If you don’t know that phrase, it refers to the practice of saying who should and should not receive the Lord’s Supper—putting a fence around the Supper, as it were, leaving some people inside the fence and other people outside of it.
Prioritizing Missions in the Church
Bibles Books Tracts Articles Donate By Aaron Menikoff, Harshit Singh, Series edited by Jonathan Leeman, Brooks Buser, Scott Logsdon ... Show All Pastors from America and India Share How They Patiently and Faithfully Lead Missions in Their Local Churches What role should the local church play in the mission to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth? Many Christians view missions work as a task for large churches or parachurch ministries.
The Woman Who Saved Capitol Hill Baptist Church
The Woman Who Saved Capitol Hill Baptist Church In 1944 America was in the throes of an existential crisis. With World War II still raging, the nation’s future felt uncertain. But amid the global turmoil, another crisis—less dramatic but no less significant—was unfolding in a church just a mile from the US Capitol. After forty-one years as pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church (later renamed Capitol Hill Baptist Church), Dr. John Compton Ball had finally decided to retire.
The Story of God’s Faithfulness to Capitol Hill Baptist Church
Jesus Is Committed to the Church Jesus’s promise that the gates of hell would not prevail against his church (Matt. 16:18) was not given to any particular church but to the church universal. No local church is promised that it will remain until Christ’s return. Rather, from the days of the apostles, new churches have been birthed and rebirthed, died and disappeared to this day.
Clinical Outcomes and Genomic Alterations in Gleason Score 10 Prostate Cancer
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“You understand that the Bible is very clear on this, right? It’s wrong to leave your wife for another woman.” “I understand what you’re saying, but I don’t think you get how hard our marriage has been. I’m sure she would prefer to be married to someone else. All she does is criticize me. She never wants to be physically intimate. It’s been a long time since we were in love, if we ever were. Plus, this other woman is my soul partner.
(This is part 2 of a 2-part series) Not every sin requires public discipline. As I’ve said elsewhere, my wife might privately rebuke me for selfishly eating all the ice cream. I might even continue in this pattern unrepentantly. Yet that’s probably not the kind of sin that would warrant public discipline. Instead, churches should publicly address those sins that are simultaneously outward, significant, and unrepentant.
Why Do Christians Care So Much About Submission to Authority?
God Rules The super short answer is that there is a God, and you are not him. You are a creature created in God’s image, called to image him, represent him, and show what he’s like. And so fundamentally, he’s the one with rule. And we live into ourselves, we live up to our fullest humanity—in fact, we even grow into authority—as we submit to him, his law, and his rule in our lives. Now, that’s scary because Satan lies to us and says, Hey, listen, if you cast off this law, you’ll be like God.
Is Joining a Church as a Member Actually Necessary?
What Is Church Membership? What exactly is church membership? Church membership is how we formally recognize and commit to one another as believers. It’s the thing we create by affirming one another through the ordinances. To offer a definition, church membership is a church’s affirmation and oversight of a Christian’s profession of faith and discipleship, combined with the Christian’s submission to the church and its oversight.
Biochemical response to neoadjuvant androgen deprivation therapy before radiation therapy and the risk of death in patients with unfavorable‐risk prostate cancer: A secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial
A prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level >0.5 ng/mL after 9 to 10 weeks of neoadjuvant androgen deprivation therapy and before radiation therapy (RT) was associated with an increased PSA-failure risk; however, the impact on all-cause mortality (ACM) risk after adjusting for serum testosterone level remains unknown.
On the Importance of Ecclesiology for a Church Plant, with Matt Smethurst (Pastors Talk, Ep. 276)
In this episode of Pastors Talk, Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman interview Matt Smethurst, a pastor of River City Baptist Church, on the importance of ecclesiology for a church plant. ***** Subscribe and listen to this episode on Spotify and Apple Podcast Future 9Marks Articles delivered By Alex Duke, Jim Hamilton, Sam Emadi By Deepak Reju, Garrett Kell, Hayley Satrom
What Are the Limits of a Church’s Authority?
What Kind of Authority Is Church Authority? Christians have long said the church’s authority is declarative, by which they mean to distinguish it from the state’s authority, which is coercive. That’s true so far as it goes, but what kind of declaration is it?
Authority: How Godly Rule Protects the Vulnerable, Strengthens Communities, and Promotes Human Flourishing
With the words, “authority and submission,” one enters a minefield of potential misstep, misunderstanding, and controversy. What’s more, it is a minefield with many entrances. You may have arrived via the subject of parenting. Or marriage. Or church governance. Or the church-state relationship. Jonathan Leeman’s recent work gives a chapter to each of these arenas (and others), and so will be useful as a “one-stop shop” for those broadly interested in the subject.
When Best Care Takes a Back Seat to the Bottom Line
Within the last decade, an elegant radiotherapy system was developed that incorporated a low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner together with a linear accelerator (MR-linac) for cancer treatment.
3 Activities That Help Us Maintain Evangelical Unity
Activities to Help Us Maintain Evangelical Unity We must be deliberate about several activities if we are to maintain unity among ourselves as God’s people. Here are a few of them. 1. We must grow in our understanding of the gospel and of Christian truth in general. Unity in the faith cannot deepen when it is only based on nice feelings, good music, and vague words. You can get those things anywhere in the world. They are superficial and never sustain rich, lasting unity.
Why Preaching Is the Number One Way a Pastor Leads
The Authority of Scripture Preaching has to be the first way we lead as pastors, in one sense, because it’s inherent within our position, within our role. It’s a qualification that we have to be able to teach. When you look at the pastoral letters to Timothy and Titus, they are full of things like, Exhort the people. Devote yourself to public reading of Scripture, teaching, reproving, exhortation. All of these things have this connotation that the Bible commands us to.
Pastor: Office or Gift?
Editor’s note: This article has been adapted from a talk I presented at 9Marks at 9 at the SBC in New Orleans in 2023. * * * * * In recent years, a growing number of churches have begun distinguishing between the offices of “elder” and “pastor.” Typically, the purpose for making this distinction is to create a space for female pastors among complementarian churches. These churches adhere to 1 Timothy 2:12’s prohibition against women having authority over men in the church.
Southern Baptist Churches, Confessional Statements, and Cooperation
By Nathan Finn (Lead Author), Trevin Wax, Jonathan Leeman, and Kason Branch When the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was formed in 1845, the new body did not adopt a confession of faith. This is not because founding President William Bullein Johnson represented the majority opinion when he referenced a “Baptist aversion for all creeds but the Bible” in his address to the public. Rather, there are likely two reasons for this decision.
What Authority Do Pastors Have? Eight Principles for Local Churches
To answer the question, “What authority do pastors have?” you have to pick a side in the polity debates. I choose elder-led congregationalism. My sense, however, is that many Christians and pastors avoid the topic of polity because it’s contested territory. Maybe it feels unimportant. Besides, can’t we read through 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, and passages like Acts 20:17–38 and 1 Peter 5:1–4, and easily answer the question?
How Should a Wife Respond to Her Husband’s Bad Authority?
Compel the Gospel How we respond to bad authority depends on what you mean by bad authority. There’s everyday, typical, selfish uses of authority that can be lived with, but then I also want to be very sensitive to those kinds of abuses of such a nature that they can’t be lived with. Let’s start in that first category.
The Church Should Mind Its Spiritual Business
The True Calling of the Church The calling, or mission, of the church as the church is to proclaim the gospel to the ends of the earth, not to be another merely (or even chiefly) political, social, or economic institution. The church, in its full-orbed existence, may have political, economic, or social concerns that develop out of its mission, but those aspects are not what primarily mark and define it.
Authority with Integrity: How Jesus Guides Our Leading
The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Collin Hansen You might hate it, but you can’t live without it. And I’m talking about authority. If that word strikes fear in your heart, I understand many of us have been hurt by authorities were raised to trust ourselves and to question authorities.
Why the Mission of the Church Is Spiritual and Not Political
An Ongoing Dialogue Historically, the church has at times claimed a supremacy that she does not have—over the state, especially—and she has, at other times, allowed the state to dominate her. Part of the genius of the Reformation was the rediscovery that the state is not over the church or vice-versa, but that all institutions are properly under God.
What Authority Does a Husband Have over His Wife?
Authority of Counsel vs. Authority of Command A husband’s authority is what I would characterize as an authority of counsel, not an authority of command. In both kinds of authority, there is the right to make commands, and the person under is called to submit. So wives are called to submit in the same way children are called to submit. But the difference between authority of counsel and authority of command is that there’s no enforcement mechanism, no discipline mechanism for a husband.
What Is Good Authority?
Authority has not been a popular idea since Genesis 3. Yet it has become especially unpopular of late. We’re told we cannot trust the authority of the government, the church, the pastor, the media, the scientific establishment, men, and probably not our parents, at least the ones who insist on their rules. Watch out for the Deep State, Big Eva, Mainstream Media, #metoo, #churchtoo, abusive pastors, and the list goes on. Both the political left and right have their list of bad guys.
Good Authority Submits
A leader who doesn’t view himself as being inside an accountability structure effectively becomes a law unto himself. He teaches everyone under him to fear him, when it’s only God whom we should fear. Loyalty to a leader is indeed a good thing, but good loyalty is loyalty to his leadership under God and anyone else under whom God has placed him, like fellow elders or a congregation.
Good Authority Submits
Good Authority Is Not Unaccountable but Submits to a Higher Authority Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”—John 1:49 The Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.—John 5:19 I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me. —John 8:28 Jesus is king. Jesus obeys. How do we hold those two truths together?
3 Ways That Scriptural Leadership Differs from Secular Leadership
Key Differentials Preaching is inherently a form of leadership. Our identity as pastors and the influential nature of our pulpit ministries necessarily define it as such. And like any aspect of Christian leadership, we must be careful to exercise it and evaluate it according to biblical standards rather than worldly principles. This is what essentially differentiates scriptural leadership from secular leadership.
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PRESS RELEASE NH TherAguix Announces the completion of Phase I Recruitment for the Pancreas Cohort and the entry into Phase II in the NANOSMART phase Ib/II trial. * Key clinical milestone showcasing the potential of AGuIX®, a next-generation nanodrug developed by NH TherAguix, to improve tumor targeting and augment efficacy when combined with radiotherapy in solid tumors.
10 Key Bible Verses on Ministry
This article is part of the Key Bible Verses series. All commentary notes adapted from the ESV Study Bible. 1. Matthew 28:18–20 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
What Should a Pastor’s Authority Look Like?
An Example The good news is the Bible has a number of texts on what a pastor’s authority should look like.
Transcript: Interview with Jonathan Leeman on Christian Nationalism
David Schrock: Jonathan, welcome to the Christ Over All Podcast. Jonathan Leeman: Thank you, brother. Glad to be here. David Schrock: It’s good to be back with you. It was a joy to spend time with you back in March thinking through some of the egalitarian issues. And today, we’ll be talking a little bit about Christian nationalism—what it is, what it’s not, and how to think through that. So, looking forward to the conversation. And Steve, as always, good to have you brother.
Cardiorespiratory fitness in early-stage breast cancer patients with radiotherapy-related fatigue: A prospective pilot study
Abstract Fatigue is among the most common but one of the most poorly understood radiotherapy-associated toxicities. This prospective study sought to investigate whether cardiorespiratory fitness, an integrative measure of whole-body cardiopulmonary function, is associated with patient-reported fatigue among women with early-stage breast cancer undergoing radiotherapy.
The Ultimate Human Diagnostic
Confrontation of Sin I was rebuked, and it stung. As my colleague confronted me, I felt my chest tighten and my ears get warm. I wanted to rise to my defense, to tell him that he misunderstood what I had done. I wanted to let him know that I wasn’t the only sinner in the room; I’d known him long enough to see his weaknesses and failures too. I wanted to be self-righteously angry, but I couldn’t. I knew he was right. I knew he saw me in a particular situation with greater accuracy than I saw myself.
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