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?
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 Review: The Community of Jesus, ed. by Christopher Morgan and Kendell Easley
Review by Andy Naselli | 10.30.2014This book wrestles with the key texts on the people of God throughout Scripture, shrewdly synthesizes the themes, and warmly applies it to God’s people today.
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.
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.
Complementarianism & Cultural Engagement
By M. Dever, O. Strachan | 10.23.2014Mark Dever interviews CBMW President Owen Strachan on Chuck Colson, Carl F. H. Henry, and the state of the complementarian debate.
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.
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?
Book Review: Shrink, by Tim Suttle
Review by Shawn Merithew | 10.20.2014This book has value insofar as it raises critical questions about churches’ love of pragmatism. But that’s about it.
Book Review: Ordinary, by Michael Horton
Review by Dallas Goebel | 10.15.2014God has given us some very ordinary means of grace through which he will do some extraordinary things.
On Being an “Ordinary” Christian: An Interview with Michael Horton
By Alex Duke | 10.14.2014If we were more serious about these ordinary means of grace, I’m convinced the church would have a much stronger witness in the world today.
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?
9Marks in Mindanao
By Matthew Spandler-Davison | 10.08.2014It felt utterly inadequate to come all this way to present a workshop on expositional preaching, biblical leadership, and meaningful membership.
