Discipleship
How the Reformers Rediscovered the Holy Spirit and True Conversion
By Sinclair Ferguson | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017The Reformation featured a rediscovery of the Holy Spirit.
Wise Men are Men, and Truth is Truth
By Brad Littlejohn | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017How do we cope with the legacy of such flawed heroes?
Should Pastors Today Care about the Reformation?
By D. A. Carson | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017Pastors devoted to their ministry have so many things to do. So why should they care about the Reformation?
Martin Luther: Reformer of Pastoral Counseling
By Bob Kellemen | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017Luther the pastor and shepherd inspired Luther the reformer.
Is the Reformation Just a White Man’s Legacy?: How the Reformation Addresses Social Exploitation
By Mika Edmonson | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017For many Christians, the Reformation has nothing substantial to say to racial and economic injustices. Are they wrong?
The Reformation’s Restoration of the Sacraments
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017The Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century restored the gospel to the sacraments and the sacraments to the congregation.
What Your Church Members Should Know About the Reformation
By Shawn Wright | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017A brief overview of important, Reformation-related people and events.
Four Ways the Reformation Changed Church History
By Alex Duke | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017Luther and his fellow Protestant reformers changed the course of church history. How so? Let me name four.
What if We Applied “For Better or Worse” to Church Commitment?
By Brett McCracken | 09.22.2017What if we took seriously our “for better or worse, till death do us part” vows in marriage and then applied them to church?
Don’t Speak Up: On the Spiritual Discipline of Silence
By Mark Dever | 09.15.2017Jesus teaches in Matthew 7:6 that loving others involves exercising discernment. And sometimes discernment results in prayerful silence.
Book Review: The Art of Turning, by Kevin DeYoung
Review by Sean DeMars | 08.28.2017Christians need to think more clearly about our innate moral calibration mechanism, and I’m confident this little book will help us do just that.
“But A Portion of Our Transgressions”: A Model Prayer of Confession
By Omar Johnson | 08.21.2017If You, O LORD, should mark iniquities, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, through Christ Jesus.
Book Review: Conversion & Discipleship: You Can’t Have One Without the Other, by Bill Hull
Review by Ben Wright | 08.18.2017This book is a mix of both pastoral usefulness and troubling ambiguity.
Christians Should Be Motivated to Minister to Homeless People
By Matthew Spandler-Davison | 08.14.2017Homelessness is always a crisis. But merciful, compassionate, and loving Christians can’t only and always walk the other way.
“What Do You Want?”: Pastoral Reflections on Faithfulness
By Aaron Menikoff | 08.07.2017We may share the gospel a thousand times, and never see a convert. It’s our job to be faithful. The rest is up to God.