COVID-19 Has Helped Our Church to Pray More Fervently
By Matthias Lohmann | 04.13.2020God is good. He consistently uses circumstances that we might think are bad to bring about his glorious purposes among his people.
Opportunity or Accommodation? Thinking Through Cultural Practices in the Immigrant Church
By Geoff Chang | 04.10.2020Different cultural practices can create an opportunity for growth or lead to a compromise of the gospel. How can churches discern whether or not they’re on the road to compromising the gospel?
Why We Produced the Church Questions Series
By Sam Emadi | 04.09.2020The church isn’t just one aspect of the Christian life, it’s the context of our Christian life—it shapes all the other aspects of our Christian obedience.
Jonathan Leeman talks about his new book, One Assembly
By Jonathan Leeman | 04.01.2020Who is this book for?
Preaching to Different Kinds of Hearers
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: What's Wrong With Gospel-Centered Preaching Today? | 03.31.2020The preacher’s task is to hold up reality as the Bible presents it, and to ask how it compares to what his hearers have been calling reality. He asks if all the promises that sin has been making to them have turned out to be true.
Should You Preach Moral Lessons from Biblical Stories?
By Jason Hood | 9Marks Journal: What's Wrong With Gospel-Centered Preaching Today? | 03.31.2020The solution is not to jettison imitation but to look again at Scripture, letting Scripture’s own interpretation guide our proclamation.
Why Mature Christians Need Gospel-Centered Preaching
By Jeramie Rinne | 9Marks Journal: What's Wrong With Gospel-Centered Preaching Today? | 03.30.2020In my experience, mature believers not only need gospel-centered preaching, but in fact savor it. Here’s four things this type of preaching does for those grown-up in their faith.
Gone and Back Again: My Departure and Return to the Immigrant Church
By Jonathan Szeto | 03.27.2020I grew up in the immigrant church. I left the immigrant church. Now I pastor an immigrant church.
Why Complementarians Should Be “First Responders” Against Abuse
By Jonathan Leeman | 03.25.2020If we’re going to fight to preserve God-given authority, then we must also fight its abuses.
Biblical Manhood and Womanhood—Or Christlikeness?
By Jonathan Leeman | 03.20.2020It has become a common trope to argue that Bible calls us to Christlikeness, not biblical manhood and womanhood. This is a category error.
Episode 119: On When the Church Can’t Gather
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 03.17.2020Mark and Jonathan chat about COVID-19.
Quick Take: What Should Churches Do About Coronavirus?
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 03.12.2020In this Pastor’s Talk mini-episode, Mark Dever discusses what pastors and churches should do in light of the Coronavirus pandemic.
How DC Churches Responded When the Government Banned Public Gatherings During the Spanish Flu of 1918
By Caleb Morell | 03.12.2020The influenza of 1918 provides an example of how churches in Washington DC responded to a public health crisis and government orders to close churches
Why Do We Pray So Little?
By John Onwuchekwa | 03.11.2020Why does it seem like churches give themselves to prayer only in times of crisis? John Onwuchekwa reflects on this difficult question.
Does the Book of Acts Teach Spontaneous Baptisms?
By Caleb Morell | 03.10.2020The claim that Acts demonstrates a uniform pattern of spontaneous baptisms is overstated.