How To Think
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?
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.
Left Behind in America: Following Christ after Culture Wars
By Russell D. Moore | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.28.2014The cultural tumult around us is no cause for either the clenching of the fists or the wringing of the hands.
Thank God for . . . Government?
By Bruce Kent | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.04.2014You honor God by paying your taxes. Did you know the IRS could be an agent of your sanctification?
How To Speak and Pray
Colonial America and How (Not) to Pray Against Cultural Decline
By Thomas S. Kidd | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.31.2014There is an overwhelming sense among Christians in the West that we are not only in a time of cultural decline, but that it is gaining pace. If that’s true, how should Christians pray?
Contemporary America and a Call to Prayer
By John Piper | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.31.2014I appeal to all Christians: Let us move to a new level in our commitment to pray for the outpouring of God’s saving and sanctifying power in our day.
The American Jeremiad: A Bit of Perspective on the Rhetoric of Decline
By Matt McCullough | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.23.2014We must guard against responses to cultural decline that appeal to a past that never existed or a future God hasn’t promised.
The Wilberforce Test: Preaching and the Public Square
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.18.2014The pastor who preaches for the transformation of his people is equipping them for service in this life that will echo into eternity.
Denominational and Cultural Decline and Pastoral Prayers: An Interview with Mark Dever
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.03.2014How does talk of denominational decline affect your pastoral prayers?
Cultural Opposition: Lie Down, Lean In, Lay Low, or Leave
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.11.2014Do we always have to fight to be faithful?
What To Make of Persecution
Blessed Are the Persecuted
By Greg Cochran | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.28.2014As we contemplate persecution—and the persecuted—we realize that blessedness is something more than (and something strangely different from) what we had imagined.
Blossoming Flowers Where Mao Wasn’t Looking
By Daniel Bays | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 12.03.2014It appears in retrospect that the Cultural Revolution, seen at the time as an unmitigated disaster for the church, was actually of great assistance to the growth of Christianity in many places in China.
The Vanishing Church? Lessons from “Down Under”
By Phillip Jensen | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.05.2014There is an honesty and a holy distinctiveness in being a Christian in Australia today that makes the work of evangelism and the reality of church so much easier.
400-Year-Old Lessons from English Baptists and Persecution
By Michael A. G. Haykin | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.30.2014May these persevering lives in the midst of persecution and suffering instruct us, as perhaps even now we endure, or are preparing to endure.
Book Reviews
Book Review: Dispatches from the Front, by Tim Keesee
Review by Alex Duke | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.10.2014Read this book if for no other reason than it puts flesh and bone on our prayers as it illustrates the faithfulness of God in keeping his promises.
Book Review: The Rise of the Nones, by James Emery White
Review by Derek Rishmawy | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 09.22.2014How good of an archer would you be if you didn’t know how to recognize a target?
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.
Book(s) Review: Persecuted & The Global War on Christians
Review by Greg Cochran | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.03.2014Books like the two reviewed here will help keep Christians aware of the persecution being suffered in the wake of gospel discipleship.
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?
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