Preaching
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.
How Charles Finney (and other Overly Emotional Preachers) Made It Difficult to Preach the Gospel
By Johnny Lithell | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019How can a church in a secular setting work toward a culture where discussing God’s wrath and substitutionary atonement isn’t frowned upon but celebrated?
Did Jesus Affirm Penal Substitutionary Atonement?
By Bobby Scott | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019Did Jesus himself understand his death as a penal substitutionary atonement? Or did later New Testament authors make it up?
Nothing To Be Ashamed Of: Penal Substitutionary Atonement In Honor-Shame Cultures
By A. Samuel, A. Sequeira | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019Penal substitution offers a helpful corrective to those living in an honor-shame culture, and helps them rightly understand their status before God and what God has done for sinners in Jesus Christ.
Does Penal Substitutionary Atonement Rupture the Trinity?
By Kevin DeYoung | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019How do we preach the cross without communicating some kind of rupture in the Trinity?
Answering 4 Common Objections to Penal Substitutionary Atonement
By Stephen J. Wellum | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019At the root of every caricature of penal substitutionary atonement is a distorted doctrine of God.
“Jesus Died for Sinners”: Do Your People Know What This Actually Means?
By Conrad Mbewe | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019Some professing Christians don’t know what it means when we say “Jesus died for you.” Pulpits are to blame for this serious confusion.
On the Inexhaustible Riches of Preaching Christ and Him Crucified
By Jeremy Walker | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019Christ in his death and resurrection is the beating heart of the gospel. So preach penal substitutionary atonement in all its range and richness.
3 Reasons to Preach through the Gospel of Mark
By Justin Harris | 08.16.2019Preaching the Gospel of Mark as early as possible into my ministry may be the best advice I have ever received as a pastor.
4 Reasons You Should Preach through the Gospel of Matthew
By Raymond Johnson | 08.05.2019Matthew’s Gospel reveals the wisdom of the gospel message and the new way of life that results as disciples discover truth through encounters with Jesus.
