Postmillennialism and Theonomy
By David Schrock | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.27.2023Christ is reigning, and he will accomplish his purpose on earth as it is in heaven. But that purpose is best seen in the beautification and building up of the church in the midst of nations, not a final golden era among the nations, where all the nations are made Christian by the church’s influence.
Book Review: Empires of Dirt, by Douglas Wilson
Review by Paul Alexander | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.27.2023Precisely here is where theonomy is in danger of becoming a new legalism: demanding of the church what Jesus does not demand and what the church cannot in any case do.
A Progressive Covenantal Perspective: Theonomy and Moses’s Law
By Jason S. DeRouchie | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.20.2023Theonomy fails to recognize that the New Testament applies Moses’s law through Christ only to the church and never to the state.
Relating Moses’s Law to Christians
By Jason S. DeRouchie | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.20.2023How does Moses’s law apply to believers today when so much has changed with Christ’s coming, not least of which is that we are part of the new covenant and not the old?
A Progressive Covenantal Perspective: Paul and the Tripartite Division of Moses’s Law
By Joshua M. Greever | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.20.2023Christians must call their governments to pursue and maintain a divinely-given, objective standard of morality. But Paul did not hold forth the law of Moses as this standard.
The Noahic Covenant’s Importance for Government
By David VanDrunen | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.18.2023Christians’ political thinking and conduct should always reflect the fact that our governments are in covenant with God through the Noahic covenant.
Three Building Blocks for a Christian’s Political Theology
By Kevin DeYoung | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.14.2023Every pastor desires to see his congregation formed theologically. Part of this theological formation involves thinking through a number of questions that relate to church and state.
Motivation for Pastors to Embrace the Challenge of Reading ‘Communion with God’ by John Owen
By Mike McKinley | 04.11.2023There is much gold to be mined from works that have stood the test of time and helped Christians for centuries.
Book Review: From Prisoner to Prince, by Samuel Emadi
Review by Trent Hunter | 02.24.2023Emadi has put his hand to the textual plough to combine his own exegesis with the best insights of others for a compelling case for Joseph’s typological function—what we all sensed but needed a scholar to demonstrate.
8 Principles of Faithful Pulpit Supply
By Alan Patrick | 02.08.2023The Lord instructs and equips his church through the preaching of his Word. Pulpit supply is no exception.
Recommended New Testament Commentaries for Evangelical Pastors
By Thomas R. Schreiner | 02.03.2023Tom Schreiner recommends what he thinks are the best New Testament commentaries for pastors to consult.
Book Review: On Worship, by H. B. Charles
Review by Matt Merker | 01.20.2023Charles’s book is a welcome addition to the growing number of accessible resources on corporate worship that are focused on the priority of the local church.
Book Review: Biblical Preaching, by Haddon W. Robinson
Review by Kevin DeYoung | 01.19.2023Kevin DeYoung reviews his former preaching professor Haddon Robinson’s renown textbook ‘Biblical Preaching’.
Book Review: Workers for Your Joy, by David Mathis
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 01.09.2023It’s far too easy to wait for a crisis to pay attention to your pastor. Mathis shows us a better way.
Book Review: Biblical Reasoning, by R. B. Jamieson and Tyler R. Wittman
Review by Kevin Vanhoozer | 01.04.2023Jamieson and Wittman dismantle the dividing wall of, if not hostility, then indifference and incomprehension, that often separates biblical studies and theology—a wall that serves neither the Scriptures, nor the church.
