Episode 101: On Conversion (with Michael Lawrence)
By J. Leeman, M. Lawrence | 10.22.2019Your doctrine of conversion will affect your understanding of what a local church should be.
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.
A Church’s Witness in the Community
By Paul Martin | 09.25.2019If we focus on calling the unsaved out of sin without dealing with the sin in our own churches, then we will hamper our evangelism and our reputation in the community.
Pastor, Don’t Waste Your Spiritually Dry Seasons
By Jeff Mooney | 09.09.2019Every Christian—and every pastor—has spiritually dry seasons. How do we handle them?
Episode 94: On The Heart of the Gospel
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 09.03.2019In this episode of Pastors’ Talk, Jonathan chats with Mark about our new Journal—Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement.
Still Not Ashamed: A Response to Jackson Wu
By A. Samuel, A. Sequeira | 09.03.2019Since the publication of our article on penal substitution in honor / shame cultures, there have been some questions and concerns raised about our characterization of proponents of honor / shame contextualization.
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.
The Love Story of Penal Substitutionary Atonement
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019The entire storyline of Scripture, the history of redemption, is the story of God providing substitutes for his people to cover their shame and bear the judgment they deserved so that they might be accepted by him.
Explaining Penal Substitutionary Atonement in Our Personal Evangelism
By Elliot Clark | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019In our personal evangelism, to what degree should we explain PSA as we seek to make sense of the bloody cross, the vanguard of our Christian gospel?
How Does the Cross of Christ Make Sense of the Kingdom of God?
By Jeremy Treat | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019From the bruised heel of Genesis 3:15 to the reigning lamb of Revelation 22:1, the Bible is a redemptive story of a crucified messiah who brings the kingdom through his atoning death on the cross.
Four Questions to Ask about the Atonement
By Stephen J. Wellum | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019It is only in viewing Christ as our penal substitute that we truly understand the depth of God’s holy love for us, the horrendous nature of our sin before God, and the glory of our substitute—Jesus Christ our Lord.
20 Quotes from It Is Well: Expositions on Substitutionary Atonement
By M. Dever, M. Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.201920 quotes from It Is Well, a book by Mark Dever & Michael Lawrence.
Your Understanding of Salvation should Shape your Philosophy of Ministry
By Michael Lawrence | 08.14.2019If you believe God is totally sovereign in conversion, then that should affect your philosophy of ministry—how you preach, how you evangelize, and even how you structure your membership process.
Book Review: You Found Me, by Rick Richardson
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 08.08.2019You Found Me provides some healthy directives to churches which have grown stagnant in their evangelism. His book also left me with several important questions for Richardson that discerning readers need to consider.
What does the Reformation’s legacy look like today in Switzerland?
By Christian Schmidt | 07.17.2019Switzerland was once the birthplace of the Reformation. But what happens when we trade this legacy for liberalism? Swiss church leader Christian Schmidt explains.
