Leadership Interviews with Mark Dever: Recent Episodes
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Join Mark Dever as he interviews church leaders from around the world on topics that will challenge you to be a better leader.
I’m not sure I know of another church that better exemplifies what I would like to see in churches than Tenth Presbyterian in Philadelphia. With these words, Mark Dever concludes his largely biographical interview with Phil Ryken, Tenth’s Senior Minister. From an average week in this busy pastor’s life, to his passion for ministry in the city, there is much to glean from this exchange.
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In this interview, Reformed evangelical statesman and British author Iain Murray assesses the state of evangelicalism in Britain and America. What’s the state of preaching today? Is hyper-Calvinism a threat? When do Calvinists become prejudiced in their thinking, and what does John Wesley have to teach them? Also, more Martyn Lloyd-Jones stories from this former Lloyd-Jones assistant!
Iain Murray gives a brief biography of the lives of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones and Charles Spurgeon, comparing them to each other.
Is the history of Evangelicalism a little blurry for you? Or are you a history buff who loves to talk about names, dates and changes on the historical scene? EitHow did The Great Awakening’s George Whitefield work with other denominations? Listen as Iain Murray lectures on Capitol Hill.
Mark Dever discusses the Puritans with his own associate pastor, Michael Lawrence, and with the Senior Pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS, Ligon Duncan. Each tells how he came to know of the Puritans and how he has been affected by them in life and ministry.
Mark Dever gives a topical sermon on a biblical view of Elders and Deacons in the local church.
Jonathan Leeman asks Hunter Powell and Mark Dever about authority in the church. What authority does the congregation have? What about the elders? And what did the congregationalists at the Westminster Assembly have to say about it?
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.
Have you ever considered the use of the title ‘elder’ or ‘deacon’ and how these titles might differ in their role in the church? Dr. Mark Dever, senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, discusses the roles of each in this interview. (Original date: Jan 15, 2002)
C. J. Mahaney asks Mark Dever why he did what he did and does what he does to build healthy churches. (Original date: Jan 31, 2008)
Author and evangelist Will Metzger, who helped shape Mark Dever’s understanding of evangelism, discusses the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to evangelism today. (Original date: May 31, 2007)
Mark Dever asks this one-time Welsh Baptist how he became a Presbyterian minister and seminary professor in Jackson, Mississippi. (Original date: Oct 31, 2007)
Pastor Eric Redmond recounts his own pastoral experience as well as some of the challenges of inter-ethnic and economic ministry. (Original date: Dec 9, 2007)
The long time pastor of Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland, describes his life and ministry in London, Hollywood, and now a busy Washington suburb. (Original date: Feb 24, 2008)
Mark Dever discusses the gospel and intellectual credibility. This message was delivered on October 4, 2011 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. (Original date: 10/26/2011)
The gospel. The cross. The kingdom. The church. Greg Gilbert and C.J. Mahaney discuss all this and more.
Original publication date: Jun 25, 2010
William Taylor, rector of St. Helen’s in London, discusses good preaching, bad theology, training pastors and more.
Original publication date: Mar 1, 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.
Original publication date: Feb 1, 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.”
Original publication date: Jan 1, 2010
Phillip Jensen attacks evangelical assumptions about ministry training, spiritual gifts, and more.
Original publication date: Dec 1, 2009
Iain Murray, one of evangelicalism’s premier biographers, points to several luminaries from church history you might have missed.
Original publication date: Nov 1, 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.
Original publication date: Oct 1, 2009
Darryl Hart discusses J. Gresham Machen, evangelicalism, and why Christians shouldn’t be afraid of secularism.
Pastor and Bob Jones University professor Mark Minnick presents the case for the Fundamentalist doctrine of separation.
Original publication date: May 24, 2008
John Piper offers his thoughts on the New Perspective and other prominent topics today. He also briefly interacts with Bruce Ware on the extent of the atonement.
Pastor and author Thabiti Anyabwile describes the beliefs and history of Islam, his own experience as a Muslim, the contradictions in the Koran, as well as the way for churches to approach evangelism with Muslims, which he calls an amazing, God-given opportunity the church has today.
Original publication date: Nov 30, 2006
How do you preach for change in a church with social gospel roots? Ken Jones, pastor of Greater Union Baptist Church in Compton, CA, takes the hot seat across from Mark Dever on the shape of reform in African-American churches.
Original publication date: Feb 29, 2004
What can a study of Baptist history bring to the modern church growth conversation? Join Mark Dever as he reflects on the Southern Baptist heritage with Greg Wills, Associate Professor of Church History at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Original publication date: Feb 17, 2004
How important is preaching? Listen as Fred and Elizabeth Catherwood (the daughter of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones) reflect on the centrality of expositional preaching for the life and health of the local church.
Original publication date: Nov 19, 2003
Pull up a chair as Mark Dever sits down for a warm conversation with C.J. Mahaney, pastor of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, MD. C.J.’s infectious tenderness as he recalls his conversion will encourage you to keep your own conversion experience near to your heart and in the front of your mind.
Original publication date: Feb 14, 2003
Drawing on decades of teaching Old Testament in seminary settings around the world, Dr. O. Palmer Robertson of Knox Theological Seminary in Ft. Lauderdale views Christ and the covenants, walking the listener methodically through God’s unfolding plan from a studied biblical-theological perspective.
Original publication date: Jun 25, 2002
Drawing on decades of teaching Old Testament in seminary settings around the world, Dr. O. Palmer Robertson of Knox Theological Seminary in Ft. Lauderdale views Christ and the covenants, walking the listener methodically through God’s unfolding plan from a studied biblical-theological perspective.
Original publication date: Jun 25, 2002
Dr. Michael S. Horton, fiery author, seminary professor, and editor of Modern Reformation, discusses the importance of the objective Cross-work of Christ over against the emphasis on subjective interpretation common in evangelical circles today.
Original publication date: Jun 18, 2002
What is expositional preaching? How do I know whether I’m preaching expositionally? Dick Lucas, best known for advocating expositional preaching, answers questions about his own background and ministry.
Original publication: 05.22.2002
With the variety of churches today, it would seem anything goes when it comes to the functioning of the church. But, is there actually a Biblical blueprint for church life? 9Marks discusses the book, Church Polity with the leaders of Capitol Hill Baptist Church.
[Original date: 10.31.2001]
A conversation between Mark Dever and J. I. Packer about life & ministry. (October 1999)
20 years ago, Rosaria Butterfield was a tenured English professor, an activist, and a lesbian. Now, she's a pastor's wife, a mom, and a Christian. What happened?
"If you say you're a Christian, but you're not helping other Christians follow Jesus, I'm simply not sure what you mean."
Practicing church discipline is difficult. Perhaps this is why many churches seem to have neglected it.
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 questions and more. We hope you'll find it useful.
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?
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?
In the last of a three-part interview,* Mark Dever interviews Tim Keller about his book-writing ministry, how he attempts to confront a secular audience with the gospel, and more.
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.
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, originally posted Jan 9, 2015.
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Mark Dever interviews four men ministering across four continents: South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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.
Mark Dever interviews CBMW President Owen Strachan on Chuck Colson, Carl F. H. Henry, and the state of the complementarian debate.
A Kenyan pastor reflects on the prosperity gospel, urbanization, biblical literacy, Islamic influence, meaningful membership, and more.
Mark Dever answers Jonathan Leeman's questions about his strategies for raising up elders in the church.
What does it take to plant churches among the urban poor? What role do women’s ministry and mercy ministry play?
Mark Dever talks to David Helm about training preachers, what makes good preaching, and what his new book adds to the mix.
What are good and bad ways to think about religion and politics? How should Christians work for the common good in a secularizing age?
How should a church’s elders address divorce, illegal immigration, substance abuse, in vitro fertilization, and more?
Prosperity gospel, persecution, changing cultural tides, a rising generation of convictional pastors, and more in this roundtable discussion on the church in America and abroad.
A roundtable discussion on the Great Commission, sending, calling, prayer, patience, and more with the leaders of the Cross Conference.
Mark Dever and Russell Moore discuss Moore’s new role, rap, relevance, and why “it’s even worse than it appears, but it’s alright.”
Zane Pratt discusses the strange dynamics of cross-cultural missions in a Facebook world.
Mark Dever asks Carl Trueman about holocaust denial, secularization, “no creed but the Bible,” and everything else under the sun in this far-ranging conversation.
How pushy should we be in our evangelism? Do we have to earn the right to share the gospel? Mack Stiles and a few friends share their wisdom.
What was Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ day-to-day ministry like? Find out in this interview with Iain Murray.
John Piper addresses racism, the gospel, obstacles to reconciliation, and white guilt in this discussion of his recent book Bloodlines.
Jonathan Leeman asks Hunter Powell and Mark Dever about authority in the church. What authority does the congregation have? What about the elders? And what did the congregationalists at the Westminster Assembly have to say about it?
Andy Davis, a pastor in North Carolina, recounts the stirring story of his church's revitalization.
Greg Beale gives a crash course on the discipline of biblical theology, assesses recent works on it, and explains what he’s written and why.
Five Christian workers from three continents discuss the power, challenges, and joys of cross-cultural ministry.
Darrin Patrick shares about the struggles of planting a church, leading his family, engaging culture, and more in this personal and wide-ranging interview.
Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert, authors of the new book What is the Mission of the Church?, examine key biblical passages on mission, the poor, and the kingdom of God.
In view of their new book, Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert discuss the mission of the church, social justice, and the gospel.
What does it mean to view a church like a business? Is it wrong to market your church? Mark Dever asks John Hardin these questions and more based on his recent doctoral work on church marketing.
Two founders of a bustling new church plant in the United Arab Emirates discuss how to create a culture for church planting, how to leave the sending church, and other lessons for new planters.
Mark Dever asks David VanDrunen for a tutorial on the complex but important topic of a church's role in political society.
Mark Dever explains why he prioritizes building relationships like he does--in the church, between Christians, and among pastors.
Mark Dever asks Jonathan Leeman and Shai Linne about the unique power of God's Word in giving life to the church.
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.
Matt Chandler discusses his past year, his approach to preaching, and what it takes to engage this generation with the gospel.
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.
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.
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.
Carolyn McCulley discusses feminism, ministering to singles, Christian social action, and what it means to be a "crush catalyst."
The gospel. The cross. The kingdom. The church. Greg Gilbert and C.J. Mahaney discuss all this and more.
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.
Os Guinness explores doubt, evil, modernity, the new atheism, evangelical obsession with the present, and more.
Don Whitney discusses busyness, praying through Scripture, the disciplines, mysticism, and more.
(Originally posted October 2008.) David Powlison shares about his conversion, his view of counseling, his quick take on multiple books, and more.
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Mark Dever asks church planter Mike McKinley about the travails of planting and why we should plant churches WITHOUT a vision statement.
Mark Dever asks author Os Guinness about life at L’Abri, Frank Schaeffer, American exceptionalism, the state of the church, and more.
Phillip Jensen discusses Australian Anglicanism, dealing with success, his lack of regard for the academy, training ministers, and more.
What does Randy Stinson say feminism is? Why does Russ Moore say most members of our churches are in “same sex” marriages? Why does Mark Dever think pastors should pay attention? Why does C.J. Mahaney think Mark needs to make a bigger deal of complementarianism vs. egalitarianism than he does?
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Despite the importance of worship, many churches today don’t know where to begin in defining its purpose and essential elements. Panelists J. Ligon Duncan, Bob Kauflin, and Carl Stam discuss the Bible’s teaching on God-pleasing worship, addressing everything from service times to music styles.
Recorded May 2000.
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