5 Steps to Serving Children with Autism, ADHD, and Attachment Disorders
By Evan Collier | 02.16.2017Recently, our church launched a program dedicated to serving children with behavioral diagnoses such as autism, ADHD, and attachment disorders (common with adoption). Here’s what we’ve learned.
Pastor, Defend Christian Liberty
By Caleb Greggsen | 02.09.2017We trivialize the doctrine of Christian liberty when we focus on freedom to while neglecting the beauties of freedom from.
Living in the “Nevertheless”: Pastoral Reflections on Peace
By Aaron Menikoff | 02.06.2017At its core, peace is not singing “Kumbaya” around a campfire with a dozen of your closest friends. The root of peace is the objective reality that God has adopted you into his family as his precious son or daughter.
The Pronouns of the Gospel
By Mike McKinley | 02.02.2017As a person begins to understand what it means to be part of a church, the “you” and “they” turns to a “we” and “us.”
Fighting Burnout as a Pastor’s Wife
By Erin Wheeler | 01.31.2017Let’s re-discover that our Lord’s yoke is easy and light, and in it we’ll find the rest our souls are looking for.
Good and Bad Ways To Think About Religion and Politics
By Caleb Morell | 01.24.2017All around us, from pulpits, to newspapers, to pop culture, we are surrounded by bad ways of thinking about religion and politics. How should Christian think about these things?
20 Pieces of Advice for Establishing a Church Bookstall
By J. Sok, P. Conner | 01.18.2017The goal of a church bookstall isn’t actually to sell books. It’s a discipleship tool. The goal is to highlight the particular books you really want your congregation to read.
What Preachers Can Learn from George Whitefield’s First Sermon
By Thomas S. Kidd | 01.12.2017In George Whitefield’s very first sermon, he exposed the spirit of nominal religion that was so debilitating to England, and to so much of America today.
Churches in Albania: Preserved and Maturing
By Genci Cesula | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016After near extermination under Communism, the church in Albania has grown in numbers and maturity. Albanian Christians are growing in applying to gospel to all of life, even as they work to grow in ownership of their churches.
Churches in Australia: The Lucky Country?
By Nathan Malpass | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Gospel unity and clarity is slowly growing in Australian churches, though confusion on the church and her mission persist.
Churches in Brazil: Realizing the Reformation
By Rick Denham | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016The availability of good Christian literature has pushed Brazil into a modern Reformation.
Churches in Great Britain: Living with the Legacy
By Mike Gilbart-Smith | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Conservative evangelical churches in Britain benefit from the legacy of faithful expositors of the Word. However, clarity on the centrality of the gospel is accompanied by confusion on the importance of secondary matters.
Churches in Cameroon: Battling to Rejoice in the Riches of Christ
By Dieudonné Tamfu | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Despite the proliferation of the prosperity gospel, churches in Cameroon are blessed with an evangelistic fervor and missionary zeal.
Churches in China: Growing Healthier Under Threat
By Joshua Fang | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016For many churches in China the idea of being healthy is a luxury. Yet in recent years there is a growing trend of pursuing not only the survival, but the health of churches.
Churches in India: A People “Formed for God”
By Aubrey Sequeira | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016As a result of a low view of preaching for many years, the health of churches in India has suffered. Yet through a growing number of faithful shepherds, faithful preaching, and your prayers, the Lord may bring to India the reformation its churches need.
