The Gospel
How to Survive a Cultural Crisis
By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.24.2014Here are seven principles for surviving the very real cultural shifts the church is presently enduring.
Cheerful Confidence after Christendom
By Timothy Larsen | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.21.2014Who but Christians really believe that the story we inhabit ends as a comedy and not a tragedy?
Book Review: Shrink, by Tim Suttle
Review by Shawn Merithew | 10.20.2014This book has value insofar as it raises critical questions about churches’ love of pragmatism. But that’s about it.
Book Review: Ordinary, by Michael Horton
Review by Dallas Goebel | 10.15.2014God has given us some very ordinary means of grace through which he will do some extraordinary things.
Book Review: Homespun Gospel, by Todd Brenneman
Review by Matt McCullough | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.13.2014This book criticizes Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, and Max Lucado for their sentimentality. Is the critique convincing?
Book Review: Renaissance, by Os Guinness
Review by Zach Schlegel | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.06.2014The decline of the church in the West calls for a hope-filled and humble response.
Gospel-Centrality: A Warning and a Recommendation
By Bobby Jamieson | 08.21.2014Don’t let your gospel-centrality become gospel reductionism.
Book Review: Prepared by Grace, For Grace, by Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley
Review by Kevin Wilkening | 9Marks Journal: Biblical Theology: Guardian and Guide of the Church | 08.20.2014The Puritan doctrine of preparation underscores the central truth of conversion, which is that God saves guilty sinners by Christ alone.
Book Review: Does God Desire All to Be Saved?, by John Piper
Review by Robbie Hopkins | 9Marks Journal: Biblical Theology: Guardian and Guide of the Church | 08.20.2014This book offers an important lesson in doing theology: the importance of responsibly grappling with biblical truths that may appear at first blush to be mutually incompatible.
Book Review: All Things for Good, by Thomas Watson
Review by Joey Cochran | 9Marks Journal: Biblical Theology: Guardian and Guide of the Church | 08.20.2014All Things For Good was written nearly four centuries ago, but remains as relevant as if it were written yesterday.
Book Review: The Crucified King, by Jeremy Treat
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Biblical Theology: Guardian and Guide of the Church | 08.20.2014The heart of the book is summed up in Augustine’s saying, “He endured death as a lamb; he devoured it as a lion.”
