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Book Review: The Seven Churches NOT in the Book of Rev, by Gene Mims

By Gene Mims, John Perry
Reviewed by Greg Gilbert | 3.3.2010 Print

B&H Books, 2001.
128 pages. $7.99

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Book Review: God's New Community

By Graham Beynon
Reviewed by Mike GilbartSmith | 3.3.2010 Print

Inter-Varsity Press, 2005.
144 pages.

Community is hard work. As a result, many people love the idea of community more than the experience of community. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from p. 110 of book

Why are authentic communities simultaneously so attractive and so elusive? Is it because we want all the benefits and none of the costs?

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Book Review: Vibrant Church

By Daniel Akin
Reviewed by Jonathan Leeman Print
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Trust Media Oto, 1969.
160 pages.

There is no shortage of books promoting a different model of church. Think of titles like Missional Church, Purpose-Driven Church, Organic Church, Total Church, Deliberate Church, Vintage Church, Equipping Church, Not Your Grandfather's Church, We're Cooler Than Our Parents Church, or, a recent favorite, We Want to Be Faithful to the Gospel AND Have the World Love Us Church. 

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Book Review: The Living Church: Convictions of a Life Long Pastor

By John Stott
Reviewed by Jonathan Leeman Print

IVP Books, 2007.
180 pages. $17.00

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The Greatest Danger Facing the Church

By James M. Hamilton Jr.

The greatest danger facing the church is probably not what most of us expect. We expect some sort of direct challenge from without, but it probably comes from within. In our day, it may well come from well-meaning pastors.

How could well-meaning pastors pose the greatest threat to evangelical churches today? Do they deny the truth?

No, the pastors who pose the greatest threat to the church today will confess belief in the right things. They will confess the authority and inerrancy of the Bible, that Jesus saves, and that he is the only way of salvation.

Re-imagining Success in Ministry

By Mark Dever | 3.1.2010

Abridged Excerpts from the Introduction to Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (Wheaton: Crossway, 2000).

A Reforming Ministry

By Mark Dever | 3.1.2010

Welcome to the website of the 9Marks Ministries.   9Marks is a ministry of Capitol Hill Baptist Church (Washington, DC) and other like-minded churches and church-leaders who want to see God glorified in His church as we move into this new century.