Missions
Africa, the Prosperity Gospel, and the Problem of Unguarded Churches
By Ken Mbugua | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.02.2015Missionaries who labor in reached parts of Africa are today faced with a society that has been inoculated against the gospel. So what do we do about it?
9 Marks of Healthy Missions
By J. Mack Stiles | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 11.18.2015The best thing you can do for missionaries is to make sure you keep your church healthy. They can’t do the work there if churches are unhealthy here.
Book Review: Contagious Disciple Making, by David and Paul Watson
Review by Ed Roberts | 07.16.2015This book is primarily a recommendation of their experience as the way to engage in evangelism and discipleship that leads to new churches. Perhaps the authors could have suggested their experiences as one way, rather than as the only truly effective way.
Books and Discipleship: A Conversation across Five Continents
By K. Mbugua, M. Dever, M. McConnell, R. Denham | 12.03.2014Mark Dever interviews four men ministering across four continents: South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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: Dispatches from the Front, by Tim Keesee
Review by Alex Duke | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.10.2014Read this book if for no other reason than it puts flesh and bone on our prayers as it illustrates the faithfulness of God in keeping his promises.
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.
9Marks in Mindanao
By Matthew Spandler-Davison | 10.08.2014It felt utterly inadequate to come all this way to present a workshop on expositional preaching, biblical leadership, and meaningful membership.
Christianity in Kenya
By K. Mbugua, M. Dever | 08.04.2014A Kenyan pastor reflects on the prosperity gospel, urbanization, biblical literacy, Islamic influence, meaningful membership, and more.
Book Review: The Camel, by Kevin Greeson
Review by Doug Coleman | 07.01.2014According to Kevin Greeson, an IMB missionary in South Asia, God is doing a new thing, evidenced by unprecedented numbers of Muslims in a particular South Asian country dramatically turning to Christ.
