The Gospel
Three Reasons to Include a Concise Summary of the Gospel in Every Sermon
By Timothy Raymond | 03.02.2017Here are three reasons why you should include a concise gospel summary in every sermon you preach.
Book Review: When Heaven Invades Earth, by Bill Johnson
Review by David Schrock | 03.01.2017When Trinity-eroding, Christ-denying, gospel-subverting error is published, we ought not shy away from declaring a teacher or teaching as heretical.
Book Review: The Blessed Life, by Robert Morris
Review by David Schrock | 02.27.2017I don’t believe Morris is deliberately twisting Scripture, but his faulty, self-referential, story-telling, proof-texting approach leads him to doctrines and practices that are errant for the disciple, if not downright dangerous.
The Triumph and Tragedy of Anglicanism’s First African Bishop
By Hunter Guthrie | 02.22.2017What can we learn from Samuel Crowther, the Anglican Church’s first African bishop?
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.
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.
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 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 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 Singapore: A City on a Hill in Southeast Asia
By Eugene Low | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Singapore has been blessed by many gospel-preaching churches. Pray that they would not lose the centrality of the gospel, and would be used to build healthy churches in Asia and beyond.
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.
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 Church in an Undisclosed Location: Slowly and Waveringly Maturing
By Brother John | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Here is the story of one church in one of the least reached corners of the world slowly and waveringly growing into maturity by the grace of God.
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.
