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The Deliberate Church: Building Your Ministry on the Gospel

The Deliberate Church: Building Your Ministry on the Gospel

by Mark Dever and Paul Alexander

Dever and Alexander propose a model of complete reliance and submission to the Gospel when building a healthy church. Great resource for pastors, elders, and others interested in the vitality of their church. … Read more…

Affectionate Theology of Richard Sibbes

Affectionate Theology of Richard Sibbes

by Mark Dever

Richard Sibbes ministered during a time when the identity of the Church of England was at stake. Parliament asserted once again that the English monarch would be head of the Anglican church. The use of the Book of Common Prayer in church services was now mandatory. Ministers faced important questions: Would they refuse to conform to the new order? Or would… Read more…

12 Challenges Churches Face
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12 Challenges Churches Face

by Mark Dever

Narrated by Tim Dixon

Longtime pastor and leading authority on church health, Mark Dever draws from Paul's first letter to the Corinthians to tackle twelve major challenges facing the church today. As he presents each challenge, Dever provides practical ways for individuals and churches to respond biblically. Writing for both church leaders and laymen, Dever insists that the … Read more…

Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (4th Edition)

Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (4th Edition)

by Mark Dever

What Makes for a Healthy Church? You may have read books on this topic before but not like this one. Instead of an instruction manual for church growth, this classic text points to basic biblical principles for assessing and strengthening the health of you… Read more…

How to Build a Healthy Church (Second Edition): A Practical Guide for Deliberate Leadership

How to Build a Healthy Church (Second Edition): A Practical Guide for Deliberate Leadership

by Mark Dever and Paul Alexander

A Newly Updated and Rebranded Edition of  The Deliberate Church If churches are the dwelling place of God's Spirit, why are so many built around the strategies of man? Eager for church growth… Read more…

How Can Our Church Find a Faithful Pastor?

How Can Our Church Find a Faithful Pastor?

by Mark Dever

Many new believers have questions about what it means to live as a Christian in the context of a local church, and pastors are looking for resources to pass along to their congregations to help them think biblically about the Christian life. Church Questions is a series by 9Marks that seeks to provide Christians with sound and access… Read more…

La iglesia: El evangelio visible

La iglesia: El evangelio visible

by Mark Dever

Los cristianos tienen muchas preguntas prácticas cuando se trata de la vida en la iglesia local: ¿Cómo se muestra el evangelio en nuestras vidas? ¿Qué se supone que debemos hacer y creer? Diferentes seguidores responden de manera diferente, ¡incluso cuando predican el mismo evangelio! ¿Qué debemos pensar de ta… Read more…

Why Should I Join a Church?

Why Should I Join a Church?

by Mark Dever

Many new believers have questions about what it means to live as a Christian in the context of a local church, and pastors are looking for resources to pass along to their congregations to help them think biblically about the Christian life. 9Marks Church Questions is a new series that seeks to provide ordinary Christians with sound … Read more…

Understanding the Great Commission
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Understanding the Great Commission

by Mark Dever

Narrated by Dever, Mark

God means to fulfill the Great Commission through local churches.    How did the apostles and the churches of the New Testament obey the Great Commission? By gathering Christians together in churches. The church is God’s plan for evangelism, discipleship, and the Great Commission. This connection between the Great Commission and the church dr… Read more…

The Gospel and Personal Evangelism
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The Gospel and Personal Evangelism

by Mark Dever

Narrated by Dever, Mark

Evangelism is not only misunderstood, it is often unpracticed. Many Christians want to share the gospel with others, but because those Christians don't grasp the fundamentals of witnessing, they feel intimidated and incapable of sharing the truth of the gospel.Yet those believers fail to recognize that God has already established who and how we are to ev… Read more…

Revitalize: Biblical Keys to Helping Your Church Come Alive Again

Revitalize: Biblical Keys to Helping Your Church Come Alive Again

by Mark Dever and Andrew M. Davis

Church health is measured by more than just numbers, but declining membership is often a key symptom of a church in crisis. The pastor of a dying church doesn't need to be told it is dying; he needs to find the way forward--and he needs hope.Author and pastor Andrew Davis offers readers the lessons he's learned in his own journey of leading church tr… Read more…

Coming Home: Essays on the New Heaven and New Earth

Coming Home: Essays on the New Heaven and New Earth

by Mark Dever, J. Ligon Duncan, D. A. Carson, John Piper, Timothy J. Keller, C. Jeffrey RobinsonSr., Timothy Keller, Philip Graham Ryken, Voddie BauchamJr., Ligon Duncan, Augustus Lopes, Jeff RobinsonSr and Augustus Nicodemus Lopes

The Bible has a lot to say about Christ's return—it is mentioned more than three hundred times throughout the New Testament. We often downplay this doctrine because the precise details are debated. However, these passages are in Scripture to build our hope and joy in the here and now. This compilation of expository messages fro… Read more…


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