The Gospel

Book Review: A Brief History of Sunday, by Justo González
Review by Paul Alexander | 09.01.2017Should Sundays be more like a funeral or a festival?

Book Review: Conversion & Discipleship: You Can’t Have One Without the Other, by Bill Hull
Review by Ben Wright | 08.18.2017This book is a mix of both pastoral usefulness and troubling ambiguity.

Christians Should Be Motivated to Minister to Homeless People
By Matthew Spandler-Davison | 08.14.2017Homelessness is always a crisis. But merciful, compassionate, and loving Christians can’t only and always walk the other way.

Movie Review—Luther: The Life and Legacy of the German Reformer, by Stephen McCaskell
Review by Nate Keeler | 08.11.2017With the 500th year of the Protestant Reformation upon us we have a unique opportunity to pique the interest of our church members.

Don’t Be a Do-Gooder: Pastoral Reflections on Goodness
By Aaron Menikoff | 07.17.2017We need to grow not only in doing good, but in being good. We need the spiritual fruit of goodness. How can we grow in this?

12 Principles on How to Disagree with Other Christians
By A. Naselli, J. D. Crowley | 07.10.2017It matters how you treat those who disagree with you on disputable matters. When you welcome them as Christ has welcomed you, you glorify God.
VIDEO: How hard should a church work to reflect its surrounding neighborhood?
By Brian Davis | 07.04.2017It’s our job to sow—and God’s to convert. Churches should be careful not to require of themselves what they cannot produce.
Audio Interviews: 9Marks at 9 with ERLC; 9Marks at 9 with Mohler, Akin, and Charles
By A. Mohler, D. Akin, H. B. Charles, J. Leeman, M. Dever, P. Bethancourt, R. D. Moore | 06.23.2017Audio from two recent 9Marks events at 2017’s Southern Baptist Convention.

The Blessings and Burdens of A Church Planter’s Wife
By Gloria Furman | 9Marks Journal: Church Mergers and Plants | 06.20.2017There’s no way a finite heart can hold all the things a church planting wife will face in life and ministry. But Christ can, he does, and he will.

Planting Churches for Pleasure, Not for Profit
By Nathan Knight | 9Marks Journal: Church Mergers and Plants | 06.20.2017What’s needed to plant a church isn’t the wisdom of Jim Collins, but the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Episode 18: On Conversion
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 06.13.2017Mark and Jonathan chat about how a pastor’s doctrine of conversion will have massive effects on his philosophy of ministry.

Book Review: The Crook in the Lot, by Thomas Boston
Review by Eric Beach | 06.05.2017This is an excellent book from a a pastor about the purposes and plans of God through hardships in our lives.

Dear Wormwood . . .
By Sean DeMars | 04.24.2017I’m writing to you today because we’re concerned to see a steadily growing trend in America. It’s called “revitalization.”

Book Review: Apostolicity, by John G. Flett
Review by Guy Prentiss Waters | 04.17.2017For centuries, Christians across generations have confessed they believe in “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.” Though these words professedly unite the church, there are profound disagreements concerning their meaning.

Redefining Intimacy
By Ed Shaw | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.20.2017We live in a society whose only route to true intimacy has become the joy of sex.