Church History
Two Views on Church Discipline: Protestant vs. Roman Catholic
By Jeremy Kimble | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017How does a Protestant understanding of church discipline differ from Roman Catholicism’s?
What Your Church Members Should Know About the Reformation
By Shawn Wright | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017A brief overview of important, Reformation-related people and events.
Did the Reformation Recover the Great Commission?
By Michael A. G. Haykin | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017It’s well known that the Reformation entailed a recovery of core doctrines regarding salvation and worship. Did it also involve a recovery of the Great Commission?
Two Views on Church Authority: Protestant vs. Roman Catholic
By Gregg R. Allison | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017Think of a three-legged stool. Now imaginatively label one of those legs “Scripture,” label the second leg “Tradition,” and label the third leg “Magisterium.”
A Brief Look at John Calvin on Imputation
By Thomas R. Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017Calvin summarizes well the Protestant doctrine of imputation, a doctrine which has continued to be a great comfort and strength for believers and for those who are heirs of the Reformation.
Four Ways the Reformation Changed Church History
By Alex Duke | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017Luther and his fellow Protestant reformers changed the course of church history. How so? Let me name four.
The Five Solas: An Interview with Matthew Barrett
By Matthew Barrett | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017The Five Solas series is to help Christians understand the historical and biblical context of the five solas and how to live out the relevance of Reformation theology today.
Book Review: Church Order in the New Testament, by Eduard Schweizer
Review by Simeon Williams | 09.11.2017Schweizer’s arguments for a perpetually developing polity are unpersuasive because they depend on faulty arguments regarding differences among the apostles.
Book Review: A Brief History of Sunday, by Justo González
Review by Paul Alexander | 09.01.2017Should Sundays be more like a funeral or a festival?
Movie Review—Luther: The Life and Legacy of the German Reformer, by Stephen McCaskell
Review by Nate Keeler | 08.11.2017With the 500th year of the Protestant Reformation upon us we have a unique opportunity to pique the interest of our church members.
Lessons Learned from Church Planting by Peaceable Division
By Colin Clark | 9Marks Journal: Church Mergers and Plants | 06.20.2017Our three-year old church had 84 members. In order to plant a church, we split in half.
Book Review: The Crook in the Lot, by Thomas Boston
Review by Eric Beach | 06.05.2017This is an excellent book from a a pastor about the purposes and plans of God through hardships in our lives.
Lessons on Pastoring from Martin Bucer
By Eric Beach | 05.04.2017Martin Bucer (1491–1551) isn’t as well known as John Calvin or Martin Luther, but during the 16th century Bucer’s writings and reform of the church in Strasbourg influenced many
Book Review: Apostolicity, by John G. Flett
Review by Guy Prentiss Waters | 04.17.2017For centuries, Christians across generations have confessed they believe in “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.” Though these words professedly unite the church, there are profound disagreements concerning their meaning.
The Triumph and Tragedy of Anglicanism’s First African Bishop
By Hunter Guthrie | 02.22.2017What can we learn from Samuel Crowther, the Anglican Church’s first African bishop?
