Discipleship
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.
Churches in Iran: The Significance of the Lord’s Supper
By Alan Davidson | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016If I were speaking to a room full of Christians concerned for the church in Iran, I tell them: “I intend to make the Lord’s Supper the key focus of my work with the local church.”
Churches in Myanmar: Fighting the Fear of Man and Glorying in God
By Justin Caudill | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Though they may never receive the fame of an Adoniram Judson, faithful workers across Myanmar are quietly laboring to build up the church.
Churches in South Africa: Hoping in the Word, Not the World
By Gustav Pritchard | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Despite unhelpful Western influences, over-spiritualized leadership, and even a struggling economy, the Lord is establishing his kingdom in South Africa through churches feasting on his Word.
Churches in Korea: The Gift and Challenge of Success
By Joel Yoon | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016The greatest blessing of the Korean church is also its greatest challenge: numerical success.
Churches in Spain: A Smoking Flax He Will Not Quench
By Andrew Birch | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Though many of the churches in Spain often confuse or lose the gospel in their preaching, there is a small and growing network of churches who love gospel clarity and church health.
Churches in the Philippines: Taking Seriously the Joy of the Lord
By Alvin Litonjua | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016The Philippines prides itself on being fun and happy, and so churches are often tempted by happy, superficial solutions. Yet churches are gaining humble, careful pastors who take seriously instructing their people in the joy of the Lord.
A Guide for Praying Nation by Nation
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016One of our hopes for this Journal is that it will spur you on in prayer for our brothers and sisters around the globe. To that end, we’ve compiled a list of prayer requests from our contributors.
A Young Man’s Reflections on J. C. Ryle’s Thoughts for Young Men
By Colton Corter | 12.08.2016Ryle would have us prepare for eternity, even as young men.
Book Review: Devoted to God, by Sinclair Ferguson
Review by Paul Alexander | 12.06.2016As we’ve come to expect, Sinclair Ferguson’s new book points us to the gospel, to our identity in Christ, and to all that Jesus is for us for the purpose of making us more like him.
Mailbag #43: Relationship to Excommunicated Members; Baptism & the Developmentally Disabled
By Jonathan Leeman | 12.02.2016— How does your church care for an excommunicated member when they show up at church? — Can a person who wants to be a member of the church but is functionally at the level of a child be baptized?
Week #12—What Christians Should Ask of Government: To Affirm and Protect the Family
By Jonathan Leeman | 12.01.2016The topics of marriage and family necessarily involve society in matters which the state will need to regulate.
Pursuing Racial Reconciliation by Walking Down the Street
By Nathan Loudin | 11.30.2016Our churches aren’t more than 300 yards from each other. One is a white church. One is a black church.
Raising up Leaders in Cross-Cultural Settings (Part 2)
By Todd Jamison | 11.29.2016Raising up Christ-like leaders―while primarily a work of the Holy Spirit―happens in the context of healthy churches full of loving relationships.
Raising up Leaders in Cross-Cultural Settings (Part 1)
By Todd Jamison | 11.28.2016Seminaries can provide much value to the church, but seminary-educated leaders aren’t a necessity for the advance of the church around the world.
