Articles by Mark Johnston
Preaching Ephesians
Article by November 2009
'What makes a preacher choose any book or passage of the Bible to preach on?' That's the sixty-four thousand dollar question I tend to ask myself on not a few occasions and feel I have to answer to my congregation (usually when I'm beginning a new series). I suppose there is a degree of similarity in that to the mountaineer's question and answer: 'Why climb that mountain? - Because it's there!' continue
That God Should Come As One of Us!
Article by June 2008
It is one of best-known facts of Bible; yet it is shrouded in mystery. Its details are rehearsed every year in preaching, reading and song; yet they defy our comprehension. The virgin birth - or, more accurately, the virginal conception... continue
The Nature of the Atonement
Article by March 2007
There's nothing like a good debate to stir the juices and make you think! To listen to a bunch of intellectual heavyweights slugging it out verbally is more than just spectator sport, it's a healthy exercise in personal mind-expansion. The... continue
- Tullian Tchividjian, Jesus+Nothing=Everything
- Herman Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics--Abridged in One Volume, John Bolt (ed.)
- K. Scott Oliphint, God With Us
- Review of Tony Reinke, Lit! A Christian Guide to Reading Books
- John MacArthur:
- The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way
- Review: Galatians (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the NT)
- Against the Tide
- J.I. Packer and the Evangelical Future
- The Elder
What John the Baptist Teaches us About the Gospel
Preaching through John's gospel, I have paused to meditate upon the person and work of John the Baptist. Here was one who came as a "witness, to bear witness about the Light" (Jn 1:6). Consistently (1:7, 14, 20) we are told that the Baptist was not the Light but a witness to the Light.
Preaching through John's gospel, I have paused to meditate upon the person and work of John the Baptist. Here was one who came as a "witness, to bear witness about the Light" (Jn 1:6). Consistently (1:7, 14, 20) we are told that the Baptist was not the Light but a witness to the Light.
Doubting on Your Part Does Not Constitute a Crisis of Faith on Mine
One of the amusing things I have noticed in the last twelve months or so has been a shift in the rhetoric used by members of the older generation (40 plus) surrounding what twenty- and thirty-somethings will believe. Five years...
One of the amusing things I have noticed in the last twelve months or so has been a shift in the rhetoric used by members of the older generation (40 plus) surrounding what twenty- and thirty-somethings will believe. Five years...
