The Gospel
A Final Reply to Scot McKnight and Matthew Bates
By Greg Gilbert | 05.04.2020This conversation is not new. It’s been going on for years, even decades.
A T4G 2020 Sermon: What Is and Isn’t the Gospel
By Greg Gilbert | 04.15.2020The cross and the kingdom are theologically inseparable because the only way into the kingdom is through the cross.
Expositional Imposters (Expanded)
By Mike Gilbart-Smith | 9Marks Journal: Expositional Preaching | 03.09.2020Here are 12 kinds of sermons that appear to be expositional, but actually aren’t.
10 Flavors of Works-Based Salvation
By Ed Moore | 02.10.2020And any work which you try to contribute to your salvation, your justification before God, annuls the grace of God and insults the God of grace.
Why Do Christians Need to Hear the Gospel Every Day?
By Cameron Smart | 11.22.2019Here are eight reasons we need to hear gospel truths each and every day.
What Does 2 John Have to Teach Us about Partnering with False Teachers?
By Sean DeMars | 10.18.2019We must not align ourselves with false teachers, apostate churches, or any of their ministries in any way that will confuse people about the truth of the gospel and the identity of Jesus.
Pastor, Don’t Waste Your Spiritually Dry Seasons
By Jeff Mooney | 09.09.2019Every Christian—and every pastor—has spiritually dry seasons. How do we handle them?
What Did the Cross Achieve?: The Logic of Penal Substitution
By J. I. Packer | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019The task which I have set myself in this lecture is to focus and explicate a belief which, by and large, is a distinguishing mark of the word-wide evangelical fraternity: namely, the belief that the cross had the character of penal substitution, and that it was in virtue of this fact that it brought salvation to mankind.
Pastoring Abuse Sufferers with the Doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement
By Mez McConnell | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019As a former victim and as a pastor to the abused, I wish to look at some of the practical implications of holding to PSA.
Ten Atonement Songs You Should Consider Singing
By Bob Kauflin | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019We will never have enough songs to extol the glory of the Lamb who was slain to purchase our salvation.
The Love Story of Penal Substitutionary Atonement
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019The entire storyline of Scripture, the history of redemption, is the story of God providing substitutes for his people to cover their shame and bear the judgment they deserved so that they might be accepted by him.
How to Explain Covenantal Headship to Your Members
By Harry Fujiwara | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019In explaining covenantal headship to your members, it will be helpful to walk them through three closely related biblical truths: total depravity, the virgin birth, and substitutionary atonement.
Explaining Penal Substitutionary Atonement in Our Personal Evangelism
By Elliot Clark | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019In our personal evangelism, to what degree should we explain PSA as we seek to make sense of the bloody cross, the vanguard of our Christian gospel?
Did Jesus Affirm Penal Substitutionary Atonement?
By Bobby Scott | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019Did Jesus himself understand his death as a penal substitutionary atonement? Or did later New Testament authors make it up?
How Does the Cross of Christ Make Sense of the Kingdom of God?
By Jeremy Treat | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019From the bruised heel of Genesis 3:15 to the reigning lamb of Revelation 22:1, the Bible is a redemptive story of a crucified messiah who brings the kingdom through his atoning death on the cross.
