Culture
Book Review: Counter Culture, by David Platt
Review by Al Mohler | 02.26.2015In this book, David Platt decidedly does not sit down and stay quiet.
Complementarianism and the Next Generation
By Daniel Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 02.25.2015Most millennials have never heard of complementarianism. So how do we teach and model it to them well?
Art, Beauty, and Complementarianism
By DW | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 02.24.2015The primeval account of the first man and woman has long inspired artists because the Garden’s themes of God, love, desire, and sin still dominate the drama of men and women today.
Book Review: Oprah: The Gospel of An Icon
Review by Jonathan Baer | 12.15.2014Oproah can—and does—offer promises of temporal salvation, but it fails to deliver anything of enduring value.
Don’t Give Up Meeting Together
By Michael Kelley | 12.02.2014In an affluent and relatively free society, safe from persecution based on religious preference, what might keep us from continuing to show up?
Cultural Opposition: Lie Down, Lean In, Lay Low, or Leave
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.11.2014Do we always have to fight to be faithful?
The Vanishing Church? Lessons from “Down Under”
By Phillip Jensen | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.05.2014There is an honesty and a holy distinctiveness in being a Christian in Australia today that makes the work of evangelism and the reality of church so much easier.
Thank God for . . . Government?
By Bruce Kent | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.04.2014You honor God by paying your taxes. Did you know the IRS could be an agent of your sanctification?
Book(s) Review: Persecuted & The Global War on Christians
Review by Greg Cochran | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.03.2014Books like the two reviewed here will help keep Christians aware of the persecution being suffered in the wake of gospel discipleship.
Denominational and Cultural Decline and Pastoral Prayers: An Interview with Mark Dever
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.03.2014How does talk of denominational decline affect your pastoral prayers?
Contemporary America and a Call to Prayer
By John Piper | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.31.2014I appeal to all Christians: Let us move to a new level in our commitment to pray for the outpouring of God’s saving and sanctifying power in our day.
Colonial America and How (Not) to Pray Against Cultural Decline
By Thomas S. Kidd | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.31.2014There is an overwhelming sense among Christians in the West that we are not only in a time of cultural decline, but that it is gaining pace. If that’s true, how should Christians pray?
400-Year-Old Lessons from English Baptists and Persecution
By Michael A. G. Haykin | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.30.2014May these persevering lives in the midst of persecution and suffering instruct us, as perhaps even now we endure, or are preparing to endure.
Left Behind in America: Following Christ after Culture Wars
By Russell D. Moore | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 10.28.2014The cultural tumult around us is no cause for either the clenching of the fists or the wringing of the hands.
