Judged by the Lord
Mark Dever ·
Preaching the Cross
2008·01·29
In April, Deo volente, I will be attending the Together for the Gospel conference in Louisville. As a prelude to that, I thought it might be good to read Preaching the Cross, which is a collection of the addresses from...
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Do You Belong?
Mark Dever ·
What Is a Healthy Church?
2008·06·20
Can one belong to the church without belonging to a church? Not likely, says Mark Dever. Sometimes theologians refer to a distinction between the universal church (all Christians everywhere throughout history) and the local church (those people who meet down...
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The Flawed Church
Mark Dever ·
What Is a Healthy Church?
2008·06·23
My church isn’t perfect. I could write a medium-sized post listing the improvements I’d like to see. How about you? Does your church fall short of your expectations? Mark Dever has a word for us: Does a particular church fail...
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Dever on Preaching
Mark Dever ·
What Is a Healthy Church?
2008·06·26
Mark Dever on expositional preaching: The practice of expositional preaching presumes a belief that what God says is authoritative for his people. It presumes that his people should hear it, and need to hear it, lest our congregations be deprived...
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What Is the Gospel?
Mark Dever ·
What Is a Healthy Church?
2008·06·27
A Biblical Understanding of the Good News is, according to Mark Dever, one of the marks of a healthy church. What is the good news? Is it “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life”? Gospel BasicsThe...
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Healthy Church Discipline
Mark Dever ·
What Is a Healthy Church?
2008·06·28
Each local church has a responsibility to judge the life and teaching of its leaders and members, particularly when either compromises the church’s witness to the gospel (see Acts 17; 1 Corinthians 5; 1 Timothy 3; James 3:1; 2 Peter...
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