How Does the Hope of Heaven Drive Missions?
By Wayne Chen | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020Every person on the planet will live forever. The sooner we accept that reality, the sooner we will pursue missions with urgency, focus, and perseverance.
Forum: Perspectives on Heaven from the Persecuted Church
By J. Mack Stiles, J. Folmar | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020We asked pastors around the world this question: “How have you encouraged Christians experiencing significant persecution with the hope of heaven?”
“What Exactly Should We Be Looking For?”: Reflections on My Recent Search for a Church
By Simona Gorton | 12.07.2020If you’re looking for a church, I invite you to ask some of the same questions we asked and to examine a few of the principles laid out in Scripture.
Episode 148: On How A Culture of Discipling + Lay Elders = Church Planting
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 10.20.2020Healthy churches plant churches. But how? What causes a church to “bubble over”? Here’s one way.
Preachers Talk, Episode 10: On Preaching the Gospel
By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 09.24.2020Must you preach it in every sermon? How do you prevent every sermon from sounding the same or flattening your text?
3 Reasons You Should Preach through Hebrews
By Bobby Jamieson | 09.14.2020Perseverance is a drum pastors can always afford to beat, especially during a pandemic. And Hebrews tells us how to persevere: look to Christ who persevered before us, and for us.
Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Movements, by Steve Addison
Review by Caleb Morell | 08.27.2020Addison’s proposal may create movements of “churches” that burn hot and fast, but I fear that they will not last.
What Do You Have that You Didn’t Receive?
By Brian Davis | 07.30.2020Christian, what do you have that you didn’t receive? Everything good you have, God says he gave you (1 Cor. 4:7). So why do you boast like you didn’t receive it from him?
Further Reflections on Recent Conversations about Christian Freedom
By Jonathan Leeman | 07.27.2020Why would 9Marks feel compelled to respond to Grace Community Church’s elders and raise these points right now?
Episode 139: Remembering J. I. Packer
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 07.22.2020Jonathan Leeman asks Mark Dever to reflect on his friendship with J. I. Packer.
The Danger of Sending Unqualified Missionaries
By John Folmar | 07.16.2020What does John Folmar — the senior pastor of United Christian Church of Dubai in the Middle East — want to say to American churches and missions organizations?
Send Missionaries & Inspire Senders
By John Folmar | 9Marks Journal: Shepherding: The Work & Character of a Pastor | 06.30.2020Here are three practical ways our congregations can be staging areas for gospel advancement into the unreached places of the world.
Do the Work of an Evangelist
By Jaime Owens | 9Marks Journal: Shepherding: The Work & Character of a Pastor | 06.30.2020Dear pastors, do the work of an evangelist. By the grace of God, those whom you are called to lead will fill up the tracks you’ve made.
Book Review: Against God and Nature, by Thomas McCall
Review by Stephen J. Wellum | 06.25.2020What is sin? And how does our answer to that question affect our understanding of the gospel itself?
Episode 134: On the Difference between Revival and Revivalism
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 06.23.2020In this episode of Pastors Talk, Jonathan asks Mark to take a brief tour of church history so that pastors and Christians today can discern the difference between revival—a good thing—and revivalism—a bad thing.
