Mark Dever

Biography

Mark Dever earned a PhD from Cambridge University. Dever has served as senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, and as president of 9Marks. Dever's books include The Message of the Old Testament (2025), The Message of the New Testament (2025), and What Is a Healthy Church? (2024).

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A Merciful and Faithful High Priest

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Martyn Lloyd-Jones was one of God’s special gifts to the church in the twentieth century.”

Basic Introduction to the New Testament

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is a marvelously concise, spiritually minded introduction that I highly commend.”

Budgeting for a Healthy Church

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Wow! This is not your father’s church budgeting book! Practical and concise yet biblical and theological with shading of good history, this book has it all. The writing is crisp. The chapters, and even subpoints and other sections, are clearly labeled and able to be used as standalones. A businessman with a theologian’s mind and a pastor’s heart. This book is a gift.”

Christ and Culture Revisited

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Don Carson here writes clearly, carefully, and helpfully about the timely topic of how Christians should engage culture. Well-suited to write such a volume, Carson exposes and explodes ‘egregious reductionisms' which he says too often afflict Christians. We can't reduce the relationship of Christ and culture to one model (Niebuhrian or otherwise). Reading this book has sharpened my own understanding. So buy the book you're holding. Read it. Pass it along to folks in your congregation. And reduce ‘egregious reductionisms'!“”

Church Discipline

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Leeman airs the dirty laundry of our lives and talks about how to clean it up. He ventures into the tough area of pastoral application, which is sure to rouse good discussions, but again and again I found myself convinced. You will not fail to be helped by this book. Brief and biblical, wise and practical—this is the book on church discipline we’ve been looking for.”

Church in Hard Places

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Two pastors from opposite sides of the Atlantic come together to share their stories of pastoring people in hard places. Mike McKinley and Mez McConnell care about what the Bible says, they care about people, and they care about the local church. Their stories communicate love, joy, humor, and wisdom. I pray that this convincing and compelling book encourages others to labor for the spread of the gospel where today there is no witness.”

Church Membership

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Brief, fresh, entertaining, and, above all, biblical. This is the explanation and defense of church membership you’ve been looking for.”

Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Beale and Carson have given us a volume that will certainly become a standard for all serious Bible readers, ministers, and scholars. We are in their debt. As a preacher, I would especially encourage other preachers to use this volume in honing their understanding of God’s Word and in leading their congregations to better understand the Old Testament, the same Scriptures that Jesus taught his disciples. I’m even planning on using this to help select appropriate Scripture readings for public services.”

Conversion

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Conversion is essential and misunderstood. Lawrence understands this and explains what the Bible teaches simply and compellingly. This small book is a big gift.”

Deacons

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Dear reader, this is an excellent book! It is more interesting and important than you probably assume. You think I just have to say this because this is a blurb? Take a moment, open to chapter 1, and read the first page—just the first page!—then come back to this blurb. There are lots of other pages that good! You should buy the book now and read it. Go on and get some more copies, and get people studying it at your church. They will be encouraged and your church will be helped to flourish!”

Dig Deeper

Christian Living

“Nigel and Andrew have written a great work on knowing God better, learning his will for your life, and reading your Bible. I like it. In fact, I think we'll start using it at our church.”

Does God Care about Gender Identity?

Christian Living

“In this book, Sam Ferguson engages basic questions facing many today. Is our identity as male and female fundamentally oppressive or creative? Should we change the body to heal the mind? What’s the answer to current hurts and pains? How does transitioning compare with the Bible’s promise of transformation? Whose voices are informing and shaping minds today on these issues? Ferguson addresses these questions and more with compassion, clarity, humility, respect, and helpful guidance.”

Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God

Evangelism & Missions

“I've often recommended this book to faithful Christians who are confused about how they are to think about prayer, missions, giving—any area in which our efforts could be wrongly pitted against God's own necessary action. Packer introduces us to clear truths, handles Scripture with exemplary care, and supplies us with just the right amount of illustrations and application.”

Experiencing the New Birth

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Martyn Lloyd-Jones was one of God’s special gifts to the church in the twentieth century.”

Expositional Preaching

Church Leadership & Ministry

“If I were teaching a preaching class and could assign the students only one book, this might be the one. It’s a rare find that both introduces a topic to the novice and instructs the experienced. David’s humility convicts, rebukes, instructs, and encourages me as a preacher. I pray it will do the same for you.”

God, Marriage, and Family

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Anything Andreas Köstenberger publishes is worthy of attention. His international education and experience, his teaching career, and his Christian character make him an author to be read with both care and anticipation. You may not agree with all his conclusions, but you’ll be better equipped for living and teaching about God, marriage, and Family. Sensible, balanced, and biblical, this is a sound and timely summary of the Bible’s teaching on some of the most basic and yet controversial topics in today’s world. I highly recommend it.”

God's Design for the Church

Church Leadership & Ministry

“This book is Conrad Mbewe’s equivalent of Paul’s pastoral letters. It is the wisdom of the Scriptures steeped in decades of personal experience. It is delivered in fresh African illustrations and applications that help even this North American pastor understand God’s Word better. Having known Mbewe for a quarter of a century, having been in his church and he in mine, I could not think of a better person to write such a volume. This book well reflects the teaching of the Bible in ways that both encourage and challenge today’s readers. Mbewe’s writing is clear and simple, elegant and gospel-celebrating. This book is delightful. Enjoy and be edified. The last chapter is gold.”

Gospel People

Theology

“Michael Reeves has written a simple explanation of Christian faith. Reeves considers the word evangelical biblically, theologically, and historically. Gospel People is written in the best tradition of Ryle, Stott, and Packer yet reaches back to include the Puritans and the early church fathers as well. This book is simple, clear, and clarifying. Read and profit.”

John 1-11 MacArthur New Testament Commentary

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Clear, reasonable, understandable, devout Â¬all these things and more can be honestly said about this generation's greatest single-author pastoral commentary set. The MacArthur New Testament Commentary series is a help to Christians and preachers. Forged in the study, fired in the pulpit, these comments on the whole New Testament are a gift from one who loves Christ, given to Christ's bride, the church.”