Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

Join Mark Dever as he interviews church leaders from around the world on topics that will challenge you to be a better leader.

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Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

Understanding the Bible and Ministry

By B. Winter, M. Dever | 01.01.2011

New Testament scholar Bruce Winter jumps into the fray over cultural contextualization in ministry, the importance of historical background for interpreting Scripture, and bad contemporary ideas of leadership.

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

Engaging Your Generation

By M. Dever, M. Chandler | 12.01.2010

Matt Chandler discusses his past year, his approach to preaching, and what it takes to engage this generation with the gospel.

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

Life and Ministry in the Southern Baptist Convention

By D. Akin, M. Dever | 10.29.2010

Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Seminary, talks about his conversion, the Great Commission Resurgence, easy believism, what he’s learned from Paige Patterson and Al Mohler, and more.

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

An Amazing Testimony of God’s Grace

By M. Dever, M. McConnell | 09.30.2010

Mez McConnell tells the riveting story of how God rescued him from a life of drugs and violence and sent him to preach the gospel in inner-city Edinburgh, Scotland.

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

Training Pastors

By D. Jackman, M. Dever | 08.27.2010

Can you “make” a preacher or is preaching simply a gift? Find out in this interview with David Jackman, founder of the Cornhill Training Course.

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

Women, Christianity, and Feminism

By C. McCulley, M. Dever | 08.04.2010

Carolyn McCulley discusses feminism, ministering to singles, Christian social action, and what it means to be a “crush catalyst.”

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

What is the Gospel? (with C.J. Mahaney and Greg Gilbert)

By C. J. Mahaney, G. Gilbert | 06.25.2010

The gospel. The cross. The kingdom. The church. Greg Gilbert and C.J. Mahaney discuss all this and more.

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

The Reformation, Then and Now

By M. Dever, M. Reeves | 05.04.2010

Is the Reformation over? Does it matter today? Michael Reeves unpacks the story and theology of the Reformation and exhorts Christians to study the Reformation for the sake of the gospel.

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

Evangelical Christians and Modern America

By M. Dever, O. Guinness | 04.08.2010

Os Guinness explores doubt, evil, modernity, the new atheism, evangelical obsession with the present, and more.

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

Life and Word-Centered Ministry (with William Taylor)

By M. Dever, W. Taylor | 03.01.2010

William Taylor, rector of St. Helen’s in London, discusses good preaching, bad theology, training pastors and more.

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

The Surprising Offense of God’s Love: Church Membership (with Jonathan Leeman and John Folmar)

By J. Folmar, J. Leeman, M. Dever | 02.01.2010

Mark Dever hosts a roundtable with Jonathan Leeman and John Folmar to discuss God’s love and church membership and Leeman’s new book which considers their connection.

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

The Story of Matt (with Matt Chandler)

By M. Dever, M. Chandler | 01.01.2010

A note from Mark Dever: “This past August, Matt shared an hour with us to talk about his ministry. In light of what has happened to Matt in recent days (cancer diagnosis), we contacted him about publishing this interview. He said he was very happy for us to present it, and that he was continuing to trust in God for the future. As you listen to this interview, thank God for our brother and pray for him.”

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

Pastoral Ministry and Training (with Phillip Jensen)

By M. Dever, P. Jensen | 12.01.2009

Phillip Jensen attacks evangelical assumptions about ministry training, spiritual gifts, and more.

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

Inspiring Lives (with Iain Murray)

By I. H. Murray, M. Dever | 11.01.2009

Iain Murray, one of evangelicalism’s premier biographers, points to several luminaries from church history you might have missed.

Leadership Interview with Mark Dever

Christian Rap (with Shai Linne and Voice)

By C. "Voice" Allen, M. Dever, S. Linne | 10.01.2009

Are “Christian” and “rap” mutually exclusive? Hardly. Shai Linne and Voice explain hip hop culture, rap music’s potential for the gospel, and why rap can’t replace preaching.