9Marks Lectures

9Marks at 9: Women and the Local Church — TGC's Women's Conference 2018

Equiping women to know what a healthy church looks like, and how they can work to build up the local church as members.

9Marks at 9: The State of the SBC 2018

9Marks, along with Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, present “9Marks at 9: The State of the SBC” during the 2018 Annual SBC meeting in Dallas, TX.

9Marks Q&A (before 9Marks at 9 - State of the SBC 2018)

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Above All Earthly Powers with David Wells

Mark 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. (July 2007)

Life of Carl F. H. Henry

From the archives: Mark Dever interviews Carl F. H. Henry, in 1997.

Theology and Books with R.C. Sproul (January 2005)

Posted January 2005: Ever wished you could sit and listen to one of Evangelicalism’s premier leaders and teachers talk about how his theology developed and why he penned his published works? Here’s your shot. Mark Dever takes RC Sproul for a coffee-house chat about biblical theology and the books he published.

Life and Apologetics with R. C. Sproul (January 2004)

Recorded January 2004: Ever wonder how theologians are formed? Join us as we talk with R.C. Sproul about the shaping of his life, theology, and ministry.

A conversation about missions with Andy Johnson | 9Marks

Our editorial manager Alex Duke sat down with author Andy Johnson to talk about his new book Missions and the importance of being intentional in our missionary endeavors.

Life and Preaching with Kent Hughes

Proud to be a Protestant? R. Kent Hughes, pastor emeritus at College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, discusses his 40 years of pastoral ministry with Mark Dever. (Recorded March 25, 2008.)

Music for the Church: Mark Dever Interviews Keith Getty

Mark Dever recently sat down with hymn writer and musician Keith Getty to talk about his hymn-writing, the effects of technology on church music, and more. Listen to their conversation below.

9Marks at 9 - ERLC 2017

At the 2017 SBC, Jonathan Leeman interviewed Russell Moore, Mark Dever, and Philip Bethancourt on building healthy churches in a confusing culture.

9Marks at 9 - SBC 2017

Church Mergers and Plants: Jonathan Leeman interviews Mike McKinley & Greg Gilbert

Church Mergers and Plants: Jonathan Leeman interviews Dave Russell & Ben Reaoch

Church Mergers and Plants: Jonathan Leeman interviews Bradley Aucoin, Mike Law & Bert Daniel

Race, Political Partisanship, and the Unity of the Church

Perhaps one of Satan’s greatest exploits in American church history is to keep the church divided along racial lines. These days the racial lines divide fairly consistently along partisan lines, with white evangelicals often moving rightward and minority Christians often moving leftward. At worst, this divide compounds fear and mistrust, and exacerbates our disunity. Is this an accurate assessment? If so, what can be done? Can unity in the gospel be achieved only by overcoming partisan differenc...

Mark Dever Interviews Jonathan Leeman about Don't Fire Your Church Members

Would you believe it if someone told you church structure actually plays a crucial role in your individual discipleship?

Western Missions and the Global Church: An Interview with Two International Christians

In this 9Marks interview, missions pastor Andy Johnson sits down with two international Christians—"Arnold" and "Vincent"—to discuss the role the Western church plays in the growth of Christianity abroad, particularly in the Muslim world and China.

Discipling: A Conversation Between Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman

"If you say you're a Christian, but you're not helping other Christians follow Jesus, I'm simply not sure what you mean."

The Shocking, Abysmal, and Embarrassing Failure of Churches to Pray

Prayerlessness is a problem in so many churches. What can we do about it?

Church Discipline: A Difficult and Necessary Task

Practicing church discipline is difficult. Perhaps this is why many churches seem to have neglected it.

Lessons for Fools: Mark Dever Asks Os Guinness about His New Evangelism Book

Christians should be persuasive, and with his new book Fool's Talk, Os Guinness offers a comprehensive presentation of the art and power of creative and distinctly Christian persuasion. How should this desire to be persuasive affect our evangelism? Does God expect us to know the answers to every question? And how can we do this while remaining humble, recognizing that salvation is all of grace? For our most recent 9Marks interview, Mark Dever sits down with Guinness to talk with him about these ...

Getting into the Weeds of Church Membership and Baptism with Bobby Jamieson and Jonathan Leeman

What is baptism? What does baptism mean? Is it simply an individual's declaration that they now belong to Jesus? Is it a sign and seal of the new covenant, just as God intended circumcision to be a sign and seal of the old? And what does all of this have to do with church membership? Is church membership for everyone? Only baptized believers? Baptized believers and their children?

The Pastor and Counseling—A Conversation with Deepak Reju & Jeremy Pierre

How do we apply the gospel to same-sex attraction? Why does a teenager struggling with self-cutting need to hear about justification by faith alone? How in the world can a biblical doctrine of God help a husband prone to anger?

Compelling Community—A Conversation with Mark Dever & Jamie Dunlop

If God the Holy Spirit left your church this weekend, what would happen next?

Elders: Raising Them Up & Keeping Them Together with Jeramie Rinne and Eric Bancroft

Where do elders come from? Is there a way to raise them up without trying to "reverse engineer" a man-made process? And once a church has elders, how can they stay unified? What does "unity" among elders even look like? Must they agree on every single thing?

Life, Ministry, and Books with Tim Keller—Part 2: Ministry

Mark Dever interviews Tim Keller about his pastoral legacy, what a typical Sunday morning looks like for him, his dichotomy-refuting "third way-ism," and much more.

Life, Ministry, and Books with Tim Keller—Part 1: Life

Mark Dever interviews Tim Keller about his conversion, what led him to New York City, why the cultural gap between generations has exponentially grown in recent decades, and much more.

Church Membership in Theory and Practice with Ligon Duncan

Should the everyday Christian care about something as old-fashioned and outmoded as church membership? Does its practice make sense in contexts without church discipline? Isn't it just a "Baptist thing"? Mark Dever interviews Ligon Duncan about all this and more in the latest 9Marks Leadership interview: "Church Membership in Theory and Practice."

On the Art & Practice of Preaching

Is expositional preaching the only kind of faithful preaching? Are personal illustrations useful or unacceptable? How can preachers encourage obedience without veering toward moralism? In this wide-ranging interview, Garrett Kell talks with Mark Dever on the art and practice of preaching.