The Gospel
Racism as Favoritism
By Trillia Newbell | 9Marks Journal: Multi-Ethnic Churches | 09.25.2015Find freedom from anxiety and fear, and celebrate the unifying, favoritism-destroying power of the gospel.
Lessons Learned from South Africa about Multi-Ethnicity in Churches
By Gustav Pritchard | 9Marks Journal: Multi-Ethnic Churches | 09.25.2015Here are 7 suggestions for pastors so that they might shepherd God’s flock more faithfully in light of the diversity of his sheep.
Book Review: United by Faith, by Curtiss Paul DeYoung, et al
Review by Russ Whitfield | 9Marks Journal: Multi-Ethnic Churches | 09.25.2015Though it leaves much to be desired in terms of theological depth, United By Faith is a very welcomed contribution and a worthy read, particularly for American Christians.
Building a Multi-Cultural Ministry on Gospel Doctrine
By John Folmar | 9Marks Journal: Multi-Ethnic Churches | 09.25.2015Robust truth will keep churches and friendships together amid their diversity, whereas lowest-common-denominator theology promotes strife and feebleness.
Does the Asian-American Church Need an Adjusted Gospel?
By Jeffrey K. Jue | 9Marks Journal: Multi-Ethnic Churches | 09.25.2015Many say, “The ‘white Western gospel’ needs to be adjusted, or it will become obsolete.” Can this possibly be true?
Why the Race Conversation Is So Hard
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Multi-Ethnic Churches | 09.24.2015The race conversation is so hard, but shouldn’t our churches be the first places on the planet where we talk about these things, and listen to one another?
Book Review: The Juvenilization of American Christianity and From Here to Maturity, by Thomas E. Bergler
Review by Guy Prentiss Waters | 09.16.2015Christianity—and, in particular, Christian churches—have been unduly influenced by the youth culture. Is there a cure for this problem?
Connecting Church and Culture with Russell Moore and Mark Dever
By M. Dever, R. D. Moore | 06.19.2015Mark Dever and Russell Moore chat about the local church and culture at the 2015 Southern Baptist Convention.
A Gospel-Centered Sermon is a Gospel-Shining Sermon
By David King | 9Marks Journal: Expositional Preaching | 06.18.2015What exactly does “gospel-centered” mean in expositional preaching?
Compelling Community—A Conversation with Mark Dever & Jamie Dunlop
By J. Dunlop, J. Leeman, M. Dever | 05.21.2015If God the Holy Spirit left your church this weekend, what would happen next?
Book Review: Searching for Sunday, by Rachel Held Evans
Review by Ray Ortlund | 04.28.2015I am not confident that, if I took this book to heart and swallowed its Christianity whole, I would be ready to stand before God on that great and final day.
Mailbag #4: Gospel Culture, Elders and Porn
By Jonathan Leeman | 03.27.2015—My church is growing in number but not in grace. What can I do about it? —I struggled with porn five years ago. Am I qualified to be an elder?
Complementarianism as a Worldview
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 03.19.2015Complementarianism has explanatory power on a range of major, life-shaping matters. But more than this, it has apologetic power, both in the living of this doctrine, and the speaking.
From Lesbianism to Complementarianism
By Jackie Hill-Perry | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 03.11.2015He was a man, and she was a woman. Similar, yet different—and she hated it.
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.