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Mark Dever
Senior Pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist ChurchWashington, D.C.
Mark Dever serves as the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC. Since his ordination to the ministry in 1985, Dr. Dever has served on the pastoral staffs of four churches, the second being a church he planted in Massachusetts. Prior to moving to Washington in 1994, Dr. Dever taught for the faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University while serving two years as an associate pastor of Eden Baptist Church.
In an effort to build biblically faithful churches in America, Dr. Dever serves as the executive director for 9Marks Ministries (formerly The Center for Church Reform, CCR) in Washington, D.C. 9Marks Ministries encourages pastors of local churches look to the Bible for instruction on how to organize and lead their churches. Dr. Dever also teaches periodically at various conferences, speaking everywhere from South Africa to Brazil to the United Kingdom to Alabama. Feeling a deep burden for student ministry, Dr. Dever often addresses student ministry groups at campuses throughout the country. He has also taught at a number of seminaries, including Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, AL, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL. Dr. Dever’s scholarly interests include Puritanism and ecclesiology.
Dr. Dever currently serves as a trustee of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; he also serves as a member of the board, vice-chairman, and chairman of the Forum for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. From 1995 until 2001, he served on the steering committee for Founders Ministries, a pastoral movement for biblical teaching and healthy church life within the Southern Baptist Convention. As Guest Senate Chaplain for two weeks in 1995, Dr. Dever opened the daily sessions of the United States Senate in prayer. He is a member of the American Society of Church History and the Tyndale Fellowship. He also held the J.B. Lightfoot Scholarship at Cambridge University from 1989 to 1991.
He and his wife Connie live and minister with their son, Nathan, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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- Twelve Challenges Churches Face
- Mark Dever
- Crossway, 2008
- Wheaton, IL
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- In My Place Condemned He StoodCelebrating the Glory of the Atonement
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- Mark Dever, J.I. Packer
- Crossway, 2008
- Wheaton, IL
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- What Is a Healthy Church?
- Mark Dever
- Crossway, 2007
- Wheaton, IL
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- The Gospel and Personal Evangelism
- Mark Dever
- Crossway, 2007
- Wheaton, IL
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- Preaching the Cross
- Co-Author
- Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan, Albert Mohler, C.J. Mahaney
- Crossway, 2007
- Wheaton, IL
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- The Deliberate ChurchBuilding Your Ministry on the Gospel
- Co-Author
- Mark Dever, Paul Alexander
- Crossway, 2005
- Wheaton, IL
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- Nine Marks of a Healthy Church
- Mark Dever
- Crossway, 2004
- Wheaton, IL
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- A Display of God’s Glory—Basics of Church StructureDeacons, Elders, Congregationalism, and Leadership
- Mark Dever
- Center for Church Reform, 2001
- Washington, DC
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- Polity
- Editor
- Mark Dever
- Center for Church Reform, 2001
- Washington, DC
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- Richard SibbesPuritanism and Calvinism in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
- Mark Dever
- Mercer University Press, 2000
- Macon, GA