Church History
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: The Original Bishops, by Alistair Stewart
Review by Benjamin Merkle | 02.23.2016Any serious treatment of church offices must interact with this work. And yet, in the end, this book’s flaws render it another theory that has been tested and found wanting.
Three Pastoral Reminders From Three Dead Guys
Review by Nick Roark | 01.25.2016Sometimes the lessons we need the most are the reminders of glorious truths that you already know (2 Peter 3:1). I am grateful to the Lord for his grace in the lives of men like Edwards, Newton, and Bavinck.
Book Review: Spurgeon’s Sorrows, by Zack Eswine
Review by Bob Johnson | 01.20.2016Zack Eswine is not a stranger to sorrow and it shows. The tenderness in his heart has spotted and exposed the tenderness in Spurgeon. May God use this book to help all of us pastor more like Jesus.
A Collection of Book Reviews on the Church in China
Review by Eric Beach | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015Here is a collection of several brief book reviews on the Christian church in China through the centuries.
Book Review: Guaranteed Pure, by Timothy Gloege
Review by Jonathan Baer | 09.04.2015Timothy Gloege’s history of Moody Bible Institute (MBI) from the 1880s through the 1920s, Guaranteed Pure, makes a signal contribution to the challenge of delineating modern evangelicalism.
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?
Has Preaching Changed since the Early Church?
By Peter Sanlon | 9Marks Journal: Expositional Preaching | 06.01.2015Preachers in the first centuries preached expositionally, too. So why does their form of preaching seem so alien to us?
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.
The Egalitarian Impulse in the Black Church
By Steven Harris | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 03.12.2015This present problem of gender roles in the black church is rooted in past pain.
Book Review: Jonathan Edwards & The Church, by Rhys Bezzant
Review by Tyler Durham | 01.12.2015Edwards’ approach, as illustrated in Bezzant’s book, tries to strike the right balance between the two extremes of out-and-out pragmatism and culturally deaf fundamentalism.
Book Review: Hand in Hand, by Randy Alcorn
Review by Jason Helopoulos | 12.11.2014If nothing else, this book is a needed correction for angry Arminians and cranky Calvinists.
Blossoming Flowers Where Mao Wasn’t Looking
By Daniel Bays | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 12.03.2014It appears in retrospect that the Cultural Revolution, seen at the time as an unmitigated disaster for the church, was actually of great assistance to the growth of Christianity in many places in China.
Book Review: Roman Catholic Theology and Practice, by Gregg Allison
Review by Leonardo De Chirico | 11.19.2014My hope is that this landmark book will re-orientate evangelical theology away from its attraction towards a shallow ecumenicity with Rome towards a serious dialogue based on the Word of God.
