The Gospel

Complementarianism as a Worldview
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 03.19.2015Complementarianism has explanatory power on a range of major, life-shaping matters. But more than this, it has apologetic power, both in the living of this doctrine, and the speaking.

Four Truths About Complementarian Marriage
By Gavin Peacock | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 03.17.2015Here are four biblical truths pastors should teach with respect to marriage, manhood, and womanhood, not just for the sake of marriage, but for the sake of the gospel.

From Lesbianism to Complementarianism
By Jackie Hill-Perry | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 03.11.2015He was a man, and she was a woman. Similar, yet different—and she hated it.

A Complementarian Where You Least Expect Her
By Courtney Reissig | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 03.04.2015While not all Millennial women claim to be feminist—and some may even reject the label—you would be hard-pressed to find a woman under 40 who doesn’t have some form of feminism living inside of her. I was no different.

Book Review: Counter Culture, by David Platt
Review by Al Mohler | 02.26.2015In this book, David Platt decidedly does not sit down and stay quiet.

Life, Ministry, and Books with Tim Keller—Part 3: Books
By M. Dever, T. Keller | 02.25.2015In the last of a three-part interview,* Mark Dever interviews Tim Keller about his book-writing ministry, how he attempts to confront a secular audience with the gospel, and more.

Art, Beauty, and Complementarianism
By DW | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 02.24.2015The primeval account of the first man and woman has long inspired artists because the Garden’s themes of God, love, desire, and sin still dominate the drama of men and women today.

Preaching the Gospel at Funerals
By Brian Croft | 02.20.2015The most helpful advice I ever received about preaching at a funeral for someone I didn’t know is: “Don’t preach them into heaven. Don’t preach them into hell. Just preach the gospel for the people who are there.”

Book Review: Teach Us to Want, by Jen Pollock Michel
Review by Jenny Manley | 02.11.2015Michel’s book provides a guide for the believer as they figure out what to do with those desires that did not die when placed on a shelf.

Book Review: Oprah: The Gospel of An Icon
Review by Jonathan Baer | 12.15.2014Oproah can—and does—offer promises of temporal salvation, but it fails to deliver anything of enduring value.

Book Review: Hand in Hand, by Randy Alcorn
Review by Jason Helopoulos | 12.11.2014If nothing else, this book is a needed correction for angry Arminians and cranky Calvinists.

Book Review: Roman Catholic Theology and Practice, by Gregg Allison
Review by Leonardo De Chirico | 11.19.2014My hope is that this landmark book will re-orientate evangelical theology away from its attraction towards a shallow ecumenicity with Rome towards a serious dialogue based on the Word of God.

Cultural Opposition: Lie Down, Lean In, Lay Low, or Leave
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.11.2014Do we always have to fight to be faithful?

Left Behind in America: Following Christ after Culture Wars
By Russell D. Moore | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.28.2014The cultural tumult around us is no cause for either the clenching of the fists or the wringing of the hands.

Blessed Are the Persecuted
By Greg Cochran | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.28.2014As we contemplate persecution—and the persecuted—we realize that blessedness is something more than (and something strangely different from) what we had imagined.