The Gospel
Book Review: Defining Deception, by Costi Hinn & Anthony Wood
Review by Johnny Lithell | 10.04.2018Does Bill Johnson and Bethel Church’s teaching fall within the bounds of Christian orthodoxy? Or do they harm the advance of the gospel of Jesus Christ?
4 Reasons You Should Preach through Ruth
By Jonathan Rourke | 07.20.2018There are dozens of reasons to preach through Ruth, but I’ll limit it to four.
Episode 56: On Pastoral Burnout
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 9Marks Journal: Pastoral Burnout: Its Causes & Cures | 07.17.2018Mark and Jonathan discuss the subject of burnout, particularly how it happens and what church leaders can do to avoid it in the first place.
The Greatest Cure for Pastoral Burnout Is Christ Himself
By Nick Roark | 9Marks Journal: Pastoral Burnout: Its Causes & Cures | 07.17.2018May the mighty promises of Christ fuel our faith until, at last, we see him face to face.
Waiting On the Lord to Renew Our Strength: Reflections on Pastoral Burnout
By Ray Ortlund | 9Marks Journal: Pastoral Burnout: Its Causes & Cures | 07.17.2018Burnout means something way down deep just collapses, and we can’t keep going.
A Parable of Endurance from the Mission Field
By Tim Keesee | 9Marks Journal: Pastoral Burnout: Its Causes & Cures | 07.17.2018Future hope fuels present faithfulness—both in pastoral ministry and on the mission field.
5 Reasons You Should Preach through Leviticus
By Juan Sanchez | 06.14.2018How can a holy God relate to sinful people? Leviticus provides us an answer to that question.
The Whole in Our Holiness
By Ligon Duncan | 04.18.2018The good news of the gospel is that we have a neighbor who loved us and laid down his life for us. And this neighbor didn’t lay down his life for his friends, but for his enemies. We can enjoy God’s blessing and know his grace because our Savior obeyed the first and second great commandments for us.
Why There’s No Such Thing as African Christianity
By Conrad Mbewe | 9Marks Journal: Church Life: Our True Political Witness | 04.17.2018Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as African Christianity or Asian Christianity or Western Christianity. The Christian faith is one, and it’s portrayed for us as such in the Scriptures.
More Christian than Black or White
By Isaac Adams | 9Marks Journal: Church Life: Our True Political Witness | 04.17.2018Phrases like “I’m more Christian than black or white” are gloriously true, but they’re often wielded in white culture to enable and encourage colorblindness.
More Christian Than American
By J. D. Greear | 9Marks Journal: Church Life: Our True Political Witness | 04.17.2018We serve America best when we don’t serve her first.
Church Life: Our True Political Witness
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Life: Our True Political Witness | 04.17.2018Where do we first beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks? Where should love of enemy first dissolve a nation’s tribalism? Where should Lincoln’s “just and lasting peace” first take root and grow?
Just A Spoonful Of Wilberforce
By Jonathan Worsley | 9Marks Journal: Church Life: Our True Political Witness | 04.17.2018We should tell the stories of successful Christian social advocates. But we should also tell the “unsuccessful” stories too, and explain how so many “unsuccessful” heroes pleased God through their faithfulness.
American Civil Religion and the Gospel Aren’t the Same Thing
By John D. Wilsey | 9Marks Journal: Church Life: Our True Political Witness | 04.17.2018Civil religion, when it remains unevaluated and unchecked by the Word of God, can easily run amok. It can present the nation as God, as the savior of the world, as the last best hope on earth.
The Church’s Most Powerful Political Word: The Gospel
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Life: Our True Political Witness | 04.17.2018Our gospel, the gospel of justification by faith alone, is profoundly political. It creates a new body politic, one where there’s no boasting. And it sends us as ambassadors with a message of peace for all who would look to King Jesus and live.
