Mark Dever of 9Marks lists 9 things that make a church healthy.  Incidentally, I noticed his name came up in more than one list of people’s favourite preachers.
1.  Expositional Preaching  2.  Biblical Theology  3.  Biblical Understanding of the Good News  4.  Biblical Understanding of Conversion5.  Biblical Understanding of Evangelism  6..  Biblical Understanding of Membership 7.Biblical Church discipline  8.  Promotion of Christian Discipleship 9.  Biblical Understanding of Leadership

          

• Mark Dever on Expositional Preaching – The 1st of 9 Marks of a Healthy Church
• What makes a good preacher?
• "Preachers Are Modern Day Prophets" – Mark Dever
• Is American as Christian as she makes out?
• Why Baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and Church Membership Differences Exist
• What makes a good speaker?
• EdStetzer on How to do church
• Book review- The Deliberate Church, Mark Dever
• Lig Duncan On the Great Baptism, Church Membership, and Lord’s Supper Debate
• Pete Broadbent of Spring Harvest Makes a Statement About Word Alive
• Links for May 26, 2006
• On church membership
• What makes Terry Virgo tick? Relational, evangelistically relevant churches
• More on emergent church
• Hugh Hewitt Makes a Blooper and Adds an 8th Theologian!