This short booklet by pastor Sean DeMars addresses the dangers of the prosperity gospel and explains how it undermines the message of the true gospel. Part of the Church Questions series.

Does the Gospel Promise Health and Prosperity? (Church Questions)

Religion & Spirituality

DeMars, Sean

Christian Books & Bibles

Crossway

Review\nI am so grateful for this book by Sean DeMars and Michael Mckinley. It is a very readable and thoroughly biblical exposure of the complete theological bankruptcy of one of the most egregious distortions of the Gospel ever to disgrace the name of Christ. -- Justin Peters (Founder of Justin Peters Ministries )\n… insightful and humorous, wise and winsome, direct yet careful. I pray that God will cause your soul to prosper as you read this book. -- Mark Dever (Senior Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church and President, 9Marks.org, Washington, DC)\nSean and Michael have written an honest and illuminating book that uses scripture (in context!) to confront all the core tenets of the prosperity gospel. It is also written in a way that is conversational, speaking the truth with directness in love. I pray the Lord will use this work to graciously reveal the glory of the true Christ to those in deception. -- Brandon Kimber (Director of “American Gospel: Christ Alone”)\nHaving experienced its damaging effects, Sean DeMars and Mike McKinley set out to reveal the insidious toxicity found in the prosperity gospel. Naming and claiming promises of material blessing for those who believe enough may seem at first glance to be biblical but turn out to be a distortion of God’s truth. 
Beginning by countering claims made by the prosperity gospel with what scripture actually teaches, they highlight the places in scripture that stand directly opposed to prosperity teachings. They explore what the Bible teaches about whether people who believe false doctrine are eternally saved, and how to examine our hearts for a prosperity–style understanding of God.\nThe Heart of the Prosperity Gospel 
Excuse Me, but Your Bible is Upside Down 
Yeah, but What About Promises of Health and Happiness? 
Yeah, but What About Promises of Wealth? 
Do TBN Viewers Go to Heaven? 
Should We Pray Together? 
The Prosperity Gospel Among the Orthodox

Health, Wealth, and the (Real) Gospel: The Prosperity Gospel Meets the Truths of Scripture

McKinley, Mike

Christian Focus

"Hurt people hurt people. But those who have been called by grace become new creations." Emotional and raw, Sean DeMars tells his story of a life turned around. It is a tale of two families: one scarred by brokenness, another renewed by grace. In his storytelling, the tragedy and horror of his early years are punctuated with the beauty of restoration evident in the life he now leads. Abandoned by a father and abused by a mother, his search for a father finds a home with the King of heaven who graces him with love and sonship. Follow his journey through abuse, drugs and prison, across the battlefield and mission field and into marriage, family and ministry in this personal, engaging and honest testament to God's grace. As his life and his church are turned around, their stories become a platform to display how God chooses the nothings of the world.His story is the story of every sinner saved by grace: once a victim and rebel,now redeemed and reconciled.

Rebel to Your Will: A Story of Abuse, Father Hunger and Gospel Hope (Biography)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Why devote an issue of the 9Marks Journal to pastoring singles? One, it’s a growing demographic in our culture and therefore in our churches. Two, it’s a demographic that is particularly impacted by our culture’s removal of all barriers on sex; by the culture’s eroticization of all forms of intimacy, especially among same-sex friendships; by its delay of marriage; by its lies about the advantages of the self-indulgent and autonomous single life as well as the growing enslavement of consumerism; and, in turn, by the extra emphasis churches have given to marriage in order to counter the lies of the sexual revolution. In other words, a number of cultural and pastoral roads all collide in the intersection which is the single life. Why devote an issue of the 9Marks Journal to pastoring singles? To help pastors and members both grow in conscientiousness and wisdom and love for singles. That way, singles and marrieds both can grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Pastoring Singles | 9Marks Journal: Spring 2017

Leeman, Jonathan

Strachan, Owen

Johnson, Andy

Allberry, Sam

Shaw, Ed

Butterfield, Rosaria

YUAN, CHRISTOPHER

Gilbart-Smith, Mike

Willson, Mary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

It's good to pray and work for revival. But do you know the difference between revival and revivalism? One builds on God's Word and then waits for God to work, like a farmer who sows. The other builds on God's Word as well as our methods, like a factory engineer determined to increase quotas. Revival and revivalism represent two ways of approaching ministry. The goal of this Journal is to help you distinguish one from the other.\n9Marks 
At 9Marks, we help pastors, future pastors, and church members see what a biblical church looks like, and help them take practical steps toward becoming one. We believe every local church should be characterized by expository preaching, biblical theology, a biblical understanding of the gospel and of conversion, biblical evangelism, church membership, church discipline, discipleship, and a biblical model of leadership. In order to inform and influence churches, 9Marks creates a wide variety of practical resources including books, articles, podcasts, book reviews, and a quarterly Journal. We also host regular events around the world—almost all of them geared toward equipping and encouraging pastors.\nTable of Contents\nREVIVAL & REVIVALISM THEN Six Marks of Revivalism, by Andrew S. Ballitch What Can We Learn from Charles Spurgeon and the New York Revival of 1858?, by Geoff Chang Finney with a Twist: Elder Jacob Knapp and the Origins of Baptist Revivalism, by Caleb Morell Edwards, Revival, and the Necessary Means of Prayer, by Mark Rogers Revival Comes to Washington, by Caleb Morell Forgotten, Real Revivals of the Second Great Awakening, by Mark RogersREVIVAL & REVIVALISM NOW Pentecost: An Earthquake with Ongoing Tremors, by Sinclair Ferguson Don’t Walk the Aisle, Carry Your Cross, by Ben Lacey Can You Reverse Engineer Revival?, by Sean DeMars How Strong Trellises Promote Strong Vines, by Paul Alexander Pray for Revival—in the Other Guy's Church, by Andy JohnsonREVIVALISM AND MINISTRY How Movements Can Undermine Churches and Hurt Their Own Cause, by Jonathan Leeman Why Revivalism Causes Pastors to Burn Out and Job-Hop, by Phil A. Newton The Revival We Need and the Unregenerate Church Members We Have, by Jim Elliff Revivalism on the Mission Field, by Scott Logsdon Revival and Revivalism in Youth Ministry, by Mike McGarry The Worship Set: Today’s Sawdust Trail, by Drew HodgeELDER MEDITATION: "AN ELDER MUST BE ABOVE REPROACH" Is Being Above Reproach a Qualification?, by Jeffrey Jeffson What Does Being ‘Above Reproach’ Mean?, by Paul Alexander How ‘Above Reproach’ Lay Elders Saved My Ministry, by Gary Kirst Why Is Being Above Reproach Necessary in Hard Times?, by David Doran Why Does a Pastor Being ‘Above Reproach’ Matter?, by Peter HessBOOK REVIEWS Book Review: The Heart of the Gospel: A.B. Simpson, the Fourfold Gospel, and Late Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Theology, by Bernie A. Van De Walle Reviewed by Kevin Niebuhr Book Review: Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism, 1750-1858, by Iain Murray Reviewed by Bobby Jamieson

Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 9Marks Journal

ALEXANDER, Paul

Rogers, Mark

Ferguson, Sinclair

Ballitch, Andrew S.

Chang, Geoff

Morell, Caleb

Lacey, Ben

9marks

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