Preaching
4 Reasons to Preach through Ephesians
By Clint Darst | 01.10.2020In the book of Ephesians, the Apostle Paul shows how the grace of God in Christ empowers the church to basic Christian living in a broken world.
Welcome Women Who Can Teach—Don’t Fear Them
By Adrienne Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism: A Moment of Reckoning | 12.10.2019Women who can teach might make you nervous for a myriad of reasons. But consider what might happen if you adopt an attitude of thankfulness rather than anxiousness.
The Conversation Behind the Conversation: How Ecclesiological Assumptions Shape Our Complementarianism
By Sam Emadi | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism: A Moment of Reckoning | 12.10.2019Behind many of our complementarian debates are significant differences about how we view the church.
Should Women Teach? Thoughts on Function, Office, and 1 Timothy 2:12
By Thomas R. Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism: A Moment of Reckoning | 12.10.2019Paul doesn’t merely say that women should not serve as elders. He also says that they should not preach and teach when the church gathers.
3 Reasons You Should Preach Through 2 Corinthians
By Travis Cardwell | 11.25.2019Our culture tells us to play to our strengths. But below the surface, the stubborn reality of our weakness remains. What will we do with it?
4 Reasons You Should Preach through 1 Corinthians
By J. Mack Stiles | 11.18.2019Let me give you four reasons why it’s worth it to preach through 1 Corinthians.
The Great Commission Is Guaranteed, So Let’s Get to Work
By Dayton Hartman | 11.01.2019Every church that takes seriously the Great Commission must take seriously the need to plant more churches that will make disciples who plant more churches . . . and this is the pattern until Christ returns.
10 Reasons Why You Should Preach through Romans
By Bob Johnson | 10.25.2019John Piper waited until the end of his pastoral ministry before he preached through Romans. I didn’t have that much wisdom, so I dove in.
Content Isn’t Everything — Or, Some Help for the Boring Bible Teacher
By Jamie Dunlop | 10.21.2019Here are three reasons why content isn’t everything—and four strategies to avoid boring teaching
6 Reasons You Should Preach through Acts
By Jeramie Rinne | 10.07.2019The book of Acts is the narrative of how God’s end-times promises have begun to be fulfilled by the risen Lord Jesus through the Spirit-empowered apostolic preaching of the gospel to all people and the establishing of local churches.
Why and How We Started a Sunday Evening Service
By Matthew Fletcher | 09.30.2019On the first Sunday of 2019, our church started a Sunday evening service. Here’s how and why we did it.
Two Kinds of Sermons that Seem Expositional But Really Aren’t
By M. T. Martens, T. D. Martens | 09.27.2019Too many sermons focus on the biblical text, but fail to exposit the main point of the scriptural passage under consideration.
4 Reasons to Preach through the Gospel of John
By Caleb Brasher | 09.20.2019Preach through this Gospel and bring your people to the feet of the Messiah to understand his identity, his power, his mission, and their own mission.
4 Reasons You Should Preach through the Gospel of Luke
By Phill Howell | 09.06.2019Even though Luke is the longest book in the New Testament, I want to encourage pastors to preach through the whole book.
What Did the Cross Achieve?: The Logic of Penal Substitution
By J. I. Packer | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019The task which I have set myself in this lecture is to focus and explicate a belief which, by and large, is a distinguishing mark of the word-wide evangelical fraternity: namely, the belief that the cross had the character of penal substitution, and that it was in virtue of this fact that it brought salvation to mankind.
