How the Reformers Rediscovered the Holy Spirit and True Conversion
By Sinclair Ferguson | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017The Reformation featured a rediscovery of the Holy Spirit.
Connecting the Church and the Gospel: A Reformation Perspective
By Michael Horton | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017Despite varying emphases of different traditions, the ecclesiological presuppositions of the Reformation reflect distinct convictions concerning the gospel message.
Did the Reformation Recover the Great Commission?
By Michael A. G. Haykin | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017It’s well known that the Reformation entailed a recovery of core doctrines regarding salvation and worship. Did it also involve a recovery of the Great Commission?
The Reformation’s Legacy of Personal Evangelism
By Paige Patterson | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017Having rediscovered the doctrinal foundations essential to evangelicalism, the Reformers provided the legacy and sometimes the example for intense evangelism.
Don’t Speak Up: On the Spiritual Discipline of Silence
By Mark Dever | 09.15.2017Jesus teaches in Matthew 7:6 that loving others involves exercising discernment. And sometimes discernment results in prayerful silence.
What do you wish American missionaries knew about Christianity in Africa?
By Ken Mbugua | 09.14.2017The main thing I wish American Christians understood about African Christianity is that there’s no such thing as “African Christianity.”
A Conversation about Missions with Andy Johnson
By A. Duke, A. Johnson | 09.13.2017Our editorial manager Alex Duke sat down with author Andy Johnson to talk about his new book Missions and the importance of being intentional in our missionary endeavors.
Ignore Spiritual “Get Rich Quick” Schemes: A Call for Patient Evangelism
By Caleb Greggsen | 09.06.2017In our efforts to quickly mobilize churches in missions, I fear we’re unintentionally undermining the church’s ability to patiently invest for the spiritual long-term.
Book Review: The Art of Turning, by Kevin DeYoung
Review by Sean DeMars | 08.28.2017Christians need to think more clearly about our innate moral calibration mechanism, and I’m confident this little book will help us do just that.
“But A Portion of Our Transgressions”: A Model Prayer of Confession
By Omar Johnson | 08.21.2017If You, O LORD, should mark iniquities, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, through Christ Jesus.
Book Review: Conversion & Discipleship: You Can’t Have One Without the Other, by Bill Hull
Review by Benjamin Wright | 08.18.2017This book is a mix of both pastoral usefulness and troubling ambiguity.
Healthy churches are an antidote to the prosperity gospel
By Ken Mbugua | 08.17.2017If Africa were filled with healthy churches, the prosperity gospel would not be wrecking us the way that it is now.
What are the greatest needs in missions today?
By Mack Stiles | 08.15.2017Three problems facing missions today: —a misunderstanding of the gospel —a misunderstanding of the church —a misunderstanding of the “call”
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.
