9Marks Audio: Building Healthy Churches

Sub Title:  Leadership Interview with Hunter Powell 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?

Sub Title:  Leadership Interview with Andy Davis Andy Davis, a pastor in North Carolina, recounts the stirring story of his church's revitalization.

Sub Title:  Leadership Interview with Greg Beale 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.

Sub Title:  Leadership Interview with Thabiti Anyabwile Thabiti Anyabwile discusses how to recognize and cultivate godly church leaders

Sub Title:  A Message by Mark Dever Mark Dever proclaims what the church should be in this overview of 1 Corinthians.

Sub Title:  Leadership Interview with Mack Stiles and Friends Five Christian workers from three continents discuss the power, challenges, and joys of cross-cultural ministry.

Sub Title:  Leadership Interview with Darrin Patrick Darrin Patrick shares about the struggles of planting a church, leading his family, engaging culture, and more in this personal and wide-ranging interview.

Sub Title:  A Conference Message by David King "Your Old Testament sermon needs to get saved!" says David King in this conference message.

How should we as Christians view God's Word?  How does God's Word give life to a congregation?  Is God's Word really that important in the local church?  Jonathan Leeman recently had the opportunity to encourage and instruct some church members in Graham, Texas by considering these questions and more.  Jonathan spoke at Graham Bible Church, where he gave four talks on God's Word:

David Helm puts on a clinic on how to navigate the challenges of contextualization, exegesis, theological reflection, and application in biblical exposition. (Audio included below the video. Click the grey play button or right click "Download.")

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Ryan Fullerton proclaims three reasons why we must cling to God’s Word from Hebrews 2:1-4. (Audio included below the video. Click the grey play button or right click "Download.")

In this installation sermon, Mark Dever urges the new pastor to preach, pray, personally disciple, and be patient.

Leeman discusses our culture's idolatry of love, and what this looks like in the local church. Then he contrasts this with the Bible's own view of love.

God means to display all the attributes of his character, including his holy love, in the life of the church. This means that church membership is a commitment to such love and a witness of it.