Prayer
Looking to the Past for Lessons about Prayer
By Thomas S. Kidd | 9Marks Journal: The Church Praying | 06.03.2016With all due regard to churches’ individual circumstances, it’s hard to justify the lack of congregational prayer in many of today’s churches, or the relegation of prayer to an obligatory sidelight.
Book Review: Pray for the Flock, by Brian Croft and Ryan Fullerton
Review by Bob Johnson | 10.29.2015As a whole, this book is more practical than profound, but that really is the point. We tend to talk a lot more about prayer than actually pray.
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.
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?
If You’re Thinking About Leaving a Church . . .
By Mark Dever | 09.30.2014Do everything within your power to reconcile any broken relationships.
Book Review: Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, by Don Whitney
Review by Chris Dendy | 09.12.2014This updated and revised book will continue to do what its predecessor has done for nearly a quarter-century: serve the church.
Book Review: Taking God at His Word, by Kevin DeYoung
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Biblical Theology: Guardian and Guide of the Church | 04.07.2014My faith was nourished and deepened by reading this book. Yours will be too.
What opportunities is a pastor missing by not praying a pastoral prayer of intercession every Sunday?
9MarksWhen a pastor does not lead a prayer of intercession, he misses the opportunity…
