Biblical Theology
Week #7—What Christians Should Ask of Government: To Establish Peace
By Jonathan Leeman | 10.13.2016Government renders judgment to establish peace, order, and prosperity so that the church might do what God calls it to do.
6 Reasons to Confess Your Faith Corporately
By Gregg R. Allison | 05.19.2016These days, it’s hard to find churches with a strong and public commitment to their confessions of faith. That should change.
Book Review: The Whole Christ, by Sinclair Ferguson
By Paul Alexander | 05.18.2016This book is an instant classic—historical theology at its best.
Book Review: Beyond the Local Church, by Sam Metcalf
Review by Ken Caruthers | 03.15.2016If the thesis of this book is true, then it is entirely possible that the work of 9Marks and other church-strengthening organizations is in vain.
Debunking Stupid Statements about the Bible: An Exercise in Biblical Transmission
By Greg Gilbert | 11.09.2015We can be sure that the Bible we have is comprised of what the New Testament authors actually wrote. And because of this, we are compelled to trust it.
Re-Thinking Homogeneity: The Biblical Case for Multi-Ethnic Churches
By Aubrey Sequeira | 9Marks Journal: Multi-Ethnic Churches | 09.25.2015Does the Bible support homogeneity? Or does Scripture set forth a different vision for the local church?
Book Review: The Art of Prophesying, by William Perkins
Review by Andrew Ballitch | 9Marks Journal: Expositional Preaching | 06.18.2015Why should pastors today read The Art of Prophesying, a nearly 500-year-old book about preaching?
Dear New Seminarian . . . Sincerely, Your Anglican Brother
By Sam Allberry | 04.23.2015These years in seminary will provide what may be the greatest opportunity to read that you’ll ever get.
Dear New Seminarian . . . Sincerely, Your Baptist Brother
By Matthew J. Hall | 04.22.2015It seems virtually impossible to single out a handful of books from two millennia of Christian history for you. But you’ll find this sort of list to be commonplace among types like us.
Book Review: God’s Design for Man and Woman, by Andreas and Margaret Köstenberger
Review by David Schrock | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 02.23.2015In the last three decades there has not been a comprehensive and scholarly biblical theology of manhood and womanhood. Until now.
Is The Bible Too Complicated For Those Who Struggle To Read?
By Andy Prime | 01.01.2015The importance of the perspicuity of the Scriptures is the clarity of the Saviour.
Theology and Pastoral Ministry
By Graham Heslop | 12.10.2014Pastor, I plead with you: Don’t let your books become decorative and dusty testaments to your theological study. Theological study is not an academic hoop to jump through in order to get into the pastorate, but a vital aspect of any vital pastoral ministry.
Book Review: Making Sense of the Bible, by David Whitehead
Review by Graham Michael | 12.04.2014This book ultimately falls short of delivering a consistently reliable resource for beginning readers to achieve a balanced grasp of the overall form and content of the Bible.
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.
The Good News of the Father’s Conditional Love for the Son
By Jonathan Leeman | 08.28.2014At the very center of the universe, and the greatest love in the universe, is the divine Father’s conditional love for the divine Son. That should give us hope.