False Gospels
Do You Know What Your Missionaries Actually Teach?!
By Sean DeMars | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.15.2014Love the gospel, protect it, and guard it. And for the love of all things good and holy, please stop sending missionaries if they don’t.
Nine Marks of a Prosperity Gospel Church
By D. A. Horton | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.15.2014A prosperity gospel church is a purely anti-nine marks church.
5 Errors of the Prosperity Gospel
By David W. Jones | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.15.2014If the prosperity gospel is true, grace is obsolete, God is irrelevant, and man is the measure of all things.
Why Is the Prosperity Gospel Attractive?
By Sugel Michelén | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014The message of prosperity appeals directly to our native greed.
Why Has the Prosperity Gospel Prospered?
By Miguel Núñez | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014Why this heresy? And why now?
The Soil of the Prosperity Gospel
By Jonathan Baer | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014The prosperity gospel is the bitter harvest of an ancient seed planted in modern soil.
A Softer Prosperity Gospel: More Common Than You Think
By David Schrock | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014Five trademarks of a subtler strain of prosperity teaching.
The Prosperity Gospel in My Own Heart
By David W. Jones | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014It may be easy for you to spot the prosperity gospel on TV, but can you spot it in your own heart?
A “Gospel” that Almost Killed Me
By Sean DeMars | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014Jesus saved me from the prosperity gospel, and he can and will save more.
Three Post-Prosperity Gospel Testimonies
9Marks | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014A South African pastor interviews three Christian women about their experience in prosperity-preaching churches.
The Rise of a Parallel, Post-Biblical Christianity
By Grant Retief | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014The fact that South Africa is a churched nation doesn’t mean it’s a gospeled nation.
Book Review: Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven, by T.D. Jakes
Review by John Power | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014What if someone with bad ideas is really good at describing people—their struggles, fears, and desires? Unfortunately, I’m afraid that’s the case with megachurch pastor T. D. Jakes.
Book Review: Break Out!, by Joel Osteen
Review by Bob Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.06.2014Joel probably is America’s pastor. Sadly, Break Out! pastors people to be narcissistic, biblically illiterate, and theologically confused.
Christianity around the World
By D. Akin, J. D. Greear, J. Folmar, M. Dever, P. Williams, T. Anyabwile | 10.24.2013Prosperity gospel, persecution, changing cultural tides, a rising generation of convictional pastors, and more in this roundtable discussion on the church in America and abroad.
Book Review: Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, by Kate Bowler
Review by Jonathan Baer | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism - Part 1 | 09.09.2013In a thoughtful and engaging work, Kate Bowler unravels the origins and development of the prosperity gospel into a multi-billion dollar industry.