Culture
Life and Ministry with Os Guinness
By M. Dever, O. Guinness | 08.24.2008Mark Dever asks author Os Guinness about life at L’Abri, Frank Schaeffer, American exceptionalism, the state of the church, and more.
Anglicanism and Evangelicalism with Phillip Jensen
By M. Dever, P. Jensen | 04.29.2008Phillip Jensen discusses Australian Anglicanism, dealing with success, his lack of regard for the academy, training ministers, and more.
Pastoral Ministry with Eric Redmond
By E. C. Redmond, M. Dever | 12.09.2007Pastor Eric Redmond recounts his own pastoral experience as well as some of the challenges of inter-ethnic and economic ministry.
Above All Earthly Powers with David Wells
By D. Wells, M. Dever | 07.31.2007Mark Dever asks David Wells about going against culture, contextualization, postmodernism, how to do theology as preachers, urban ministry, and more. You’ll want to listen several times.
The Gospel and Islam (with Thabiti Anyabwile)
By M. Dever, T. Anyabwile | 11.30.2006Pastor and author Thabiti Anyabwile describes the beliefs and history of Islam, his own experience as a Muslim, the contradictions in the Koran, as well as the way for churches to approach evangelism with Muslims, which he calls an amazing, God-given opportunity the church has today.
Salt and Light In the Nation’s Capital: A Pastor’s Perspective
By Michael Lawrence | 07.03.2005As Christians, we are salt and light when we live as citizens of heaven, when we apply his Word to the responsibilities he has entrusted to steward in the city of man.
Modern Church Reform I (with Mark Dever)
By M. Dever, M. Schmucker | 04.13.2003Modern Church Reform I with Mark Dever
Book Review: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith, by Rob Bell
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: The Emerging Church | 03.03.2003Bell’s “questions” are not as innocuous as they first sound. They are the means by which he permits one to disconnect and throw away the springs one doesn’t like.
Book Review: Revolution, by George Barna
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.05.2002If Barna had ever been a part of a healthy, vibrant local church, perhaps he wouldn’t find it so easy to declare the local church expendable.
Book Review: The Younger Evangelicals, by Robert Webber
Review by Greg Gilbert | 12.02.2001If younger evangelicals intend to build biblical—and not just postmodern—churches, they must center them on the Word of God.
Book Review: Rethinking the Successful Church, by Samuel Rima
Review by Greg Gilbert | 11.11.2001There are questions about the very methods of the church growth movement that Rima does not address.
Book Review: Boiling Point, by George Barna
Review by Greg Gilbert | 05.05.2001Barna’s book certainly has some interesting statistics, and he makes some fascinating predictions—but that’s about it.
Book Review: ChurchNEXT, by Eddie Gibbs
Review by Greg Gilbert | 04.05.2001Cultural studies cannot determine or shape the primary methods and structures of the church. Those are found in the pages of the Bible.
Book Review: Your Best Life Now, by Joel Osteen
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: The Church's Mission | 03.08.2001If Joel Osteen wants to be the Norman Vincent Peale of the twenty-first century, he has every right to give it a shot. But he should stop marketing his message as Christianity, because it is not.
