The Gospel

What are the Essentials of the Gospel?

By Phil Newton | 02.26.2010

Unless Genesis 1:1 is true, then we will have problems convincing anyone that there is a problem with sin and a need for redemption.

What I Can and Cannot Live With as a Pastor

By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 02.26.2010

Something can be true, yet we can decide as pastors that our congregations are not ready to act tomorrow in a way they might be ready to act in a year.

Gospel Implications

By Mike Bullmore | 02.26.2010

In order for the gospel to have a functional centrality it must be connected to areas where people live their lives.

Give Me Doctrine or Give Me Death

By Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: The Emerging Church | 02.26.2010

If I want a Christianity that is authentic, real, textured, and alive, can I possibly have that within the narrow constraints of a structured system of doctrine?

Theological Triage

By Al Mohler | 9Marks Journal: Cooperation | 02.25.2010

The entire structure of Christian truth is now under attack by those who would subvert Christianity’s theological integrity.

Together for What?

By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Cooperation | 02.25.2010

We are justified by faith alone, but a justifying faith produces Christians who look more and more like the God they worship.

A Senior Saint on Unity

By Iain H. Murray | 9Marks Journal: Cooperation | 02.25.2010

The quest for unity around personalities and preachers . . . is never lasting, although it may seem to have short-lived success.

Fellow Workers For the Truth

By Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Cooperation | 02.25.2010

Our love for the gospel is most clear when we delight to see it prosper . . . when other people will be viewed as the human agents of its success.

God Helps Those Who Help Themselves?

By Brad Wheeler | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 02.25.2010

Salvation is of grace, from beginning to end.

Inerrancy of the Bible: An Annotated Bibliography

By Mark Dever | 02.25.2010

Behind the centrality of expositional preaching is the assumption of the authority and truthfulness of God’s Word.

Preach to the Ignorant, the Doubtful, and Sinners

By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 02.25.2010

I want to approach the topic of application slightly differently: not only are there different kinds of hearers, there are also different kinds of application.

A Conversational Approach: Will it Preach?

By Mike Gilbart-Smith | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 02.25.2010

My greatest fear for the removal of authoritative preaching from the congregation is that the Scriptures themselves will cease to be treated as authoritative.

The Gospel & Deliberate Complementarian Pastors

By C. J. Mahaney | 9Marks Journal: Marriage & Pastors' Wives | 02.25.2010

I am convinced that the complementarian position will strengthen the church in her God given-role to proclaim and protect the gospel.

The Therapeutic Gospel

By David Powlison | 9Marks Journal: The Gospel | 02.25.2010

In this new gospel, the great “evils” to be redressed do not call for any fundamental change of direction in the human heart.

How God’s Wrath Equals and Reveals God’s Worth

By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: The Gospel | 02.25.2010

Wrath and worth are perfectly matched together. The former takes the measure of the latter and expresses itself accordingly. One is as precious as the other.