Pastor, Defend Christian Liberty
By Caleb Greggsen | 02.09.2017We trivialize the doctrine of Christian liberty when we focus on freedom to while neglecting the beauties of freedom from.
Mark Dever Interviews Jonathan Leeman about “Don’t Fire Your Church Members”
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 02.07.2017Would you believe it if someone told you church structure actually plays a crucial role in your individual discipleship?
What Preachers Can Learn from George Whitefield’s First Sermon
By Thomas S. Kidd | 01.12.2017In George Whitefield’s very first sermon, he exposed the spirit of nominal religion that was so debilitating to England, and to so much of America today.
Mailbag #47: Applying Paul’s “Able to Teach” Qualification; Confidentiality between Pastors and Members?
By Jonathan Leeman | 01.06.2017— How gifted does someone have to be in order to be considered “able to teach”? — Can church members appeal to a kind of “pastor-member confidentiality”?
Churches in Australia: The Lucky Country?
By Nathan Malpass | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Gospel unity and clarity is slowly growing in Australian churches, though confusion on the church and her mission persist.
Churches in Great Britain: Living with the Legacy
By Mike Gilbart-Smith | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Conservative evangelical churches in Britain benefit from the legacy of faithful expositors of the Word. However, clarity on the centrality of the gospel is accompanied by confusion on the importance of secondary matters.
Churches in India: A People “Formed for God”
By Aubrey Sequeira | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016As a result of a low view of preaching for many years, the health of churches in India has suffered. Yet through a growing number of faithful shepherds, faithful preaching, and your prayers, the Lord may bring to India the reformation its churches need.
Churches in Northern Pakistan: The Crucial Need for Conversion
By Steve | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Before churches in northern Pakistan can thrive, they must have a clear understanding of conversion.
Churches in Poland: Transforming under Faithful Preaching
By Tomasz Krazek | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Despite over a thousand years of Roman Catholic influence, the true gospel is being proclaimed in Poland. Churches are being transformed by faithful preaching of God’s Word, and eager for access to more biblical resources.
Churches in South Africa: Hoping in the Word, Not the World
By Gustav Pritchard | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Despite unhelpful Western influences, over-spiritualized leadership, and even a struggling economy, the Lord is establishing his kingdom in South Africa through churches feasting on his Word.
A Guide for Praying Nation by Nation
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016One of our hopes for this Journal is that it will spur you on in prayer for our brothers and sisters around the globe. To that end, we’ve compiled a list of prayer requests from our contributors.
Churches in the United Arab Emirates: Lights in the Desert
By J. Mack Stiles | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.09.2016Through the faithfulness of Christian doctors a generation ago, God gave churches favor in the eyes of the rulers of a nation in the heart of the Middle East. Through the recovery of one church, now many healthy churches are springing up in this desert country.
Preach About the Church to the Church
By Keith Collier | 11.16.2016But despite the trend of growing expository preaching, what if a blind spot—a byproduct of 20th-century evangelicalism—exists in our preaching?
Neither a Republican Nor a Democratic Church
By Mark Dever | 11.14.2016The Christ we share is more important to us than the politics we don’t.
Week #11—What Christians Should Ask of Government: To Tolerate True and False Religion
By Jonathan Leeman | 11.10.2016In a pagan culture, sexual freedom and abortive freedom is religious freedom.
