Posted in Al Mohler, Book Review, Christianity, culture shift on September 18, 2023| 38 Comments »
R. Albert Mohler Jr. Tell Me the Stories of Jesus. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishing Company, June 14, 2022. 256 pp.
4 out of 5
Purchase: Amazon
The parables of Jesus fascinates me. The more I learn about them the more I want to read more books about parables! Al Mohler, the president of Southern Seminary has written a helpful book on the parables of Jesus. It is helpful and insightful.
Posted in Al Mohler, Christianity, John MacArthur, mark dever, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Steve Lawson, Theology, tagged Albert Mohler, Christianity, John MacArthur, mark dever, Reformed, Shepherd's Conference, Steve Lawson, Theology on February 19, 2020| 14 Comments »
Every year there is a big Pastor’s conference where pastors and church leaders who believe in faithful expository preaching and the Biblical Gospel meet in Southern California call the Shepherd’s Conference. It will be on March 4-6.
I have been blessed in the past by the fellowship, preaching and good food in this conference in the past. I won’t be going to it this year.
Anyone on here that is going?
Here is the schedule:
Posted in Al Mohler, Christianity, John MacArthur, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Steve Lawson, Theology, tagged Albert Mohler, Christianity, John MacArthur, Reformed, Shepherd's Conference, Steve Lawson, Theology on February 24, 2019| 25 Comments »
Every year there is a big Pastor’s conference where pastors and church leaders who believe in faithful expository preaching and the Biblical Gospel meet in Southern California call the Shepherd’s Conference. It will be on March 5–8.
I have been blessed by the fellowship, preaching and good food in this conference.
This year theme will center around the theme, “Faithful.”
Anyone on here that is going?
Here is the schedule:
Posted in Al Mohler, Christianity, Church, Reformed, Theology, tagged Al Mohler, Christianity, Church, Reformed, Shepherd's Conference, Theology on March 8, 2018| 7 Comments »
I’ve been having a hard time taking notes from the Shepherd’s Conference. Here’s my rough notes from Al Mohler’s sermon.
Posted in Al Mohler, Christianity, John MacArthur, Reformed, Theology, tagged Albert Mohler, Christianity, John MacArthur, Reformed, Shepherd's Conference, Theology on March 6, 2018| 7 Comments »
Every year there is a big Pastor’s conference where pastors and church leaders who believe in faithful expository preaching and the Biblical Gospel meet in Southern California call the Shepherd’s Conference.
This would be my tenth year attending. I plan to blog some of my notes from the various sessions in the Conference. Anyone on here that is going?
The Conference starts tomorrow on Wednesday. Here is the schedule:
Posted in Al Mohler, Christianity, Reformed, ShepCon, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Theology, tagged Al Moher, Christianity, Reformed, ShepCon, Shepherd's Conference on March 3, 2017| 8 Comments »
This was my notes on Al Mohler’s message during Shepherd’s Conference. Shepherd’s Conference is a conference for Pastors and church leader at John MacArthur’s church.
John 15
We are seeing an increasing hostility to Christianity in the culture. The danger is that Evangelicals think if we are clever enough we as Christians can be at peace with the world.
We are going to see in this passage multiple temptations.
There’s a big assumption among people today that there can be neutrality.
Posted in Al Mohler, Christianity, John MacArthur, Ligon Duncan, Nathan Busenitz, Paul Washer, Reformed, Steve Lawson, Theology on March 17, 2016| 7 Comments »
The audio MP3s of the 2016 Shepherd’s Conference is now available online at Grace Community Church’s website! It seems like they just have loaded it up and there isn’t a one central link for the series for the 2016 Conference just yet.
Here are the links!
General Session 1 with JOHN MACARTHUR
General Session 2 with PHIL JOHNSON
General Session 3 with STEVE LAWSON
General Session 4 with LIGON DUNCAN
General Session 5 with NATHAN BUSENITZ
General Session 6 with AL MOHLER
General Session 7 with TOM PENNINGTON
General Session 8 – Q&A with JOHN MACARTHUR & LIGON DUNCAN & AL MOHLER
General Session 9 with PAUL WASHER
General Session 10 with JOHN MACARTHUR
Posted in Al Mohler, Christianity, expository preaching, John MacArthur, Ligon Duncan, Paul Washer, Preaching, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Steve Lawson, Theology on March 12, 2016| 6 Comments »
The Shepherd’s Conference is officially over. This was one of the most encouraging conference I’ve been to in the last 8 years. As people are waiting for the audios and videos to be uploaded online for now we’ll make do with the notes from The Master’s Seminary Liveblog of the Conference.
Here’s the list:
Conference Liveblog: Wed. Morning (MacArthur)
Conference Liveblog: Wed. Evening (Duncan)
Conference Liveblog: Thurs. Evening (Mohler)
Conference Liveblog: Fri. Morning (Pennington)
Conference Liveblog: Fri. Afternoon (Washer)
Conference Liveblog: Fri. Evening (MacArthur)
If you watch the conference, which sermons did you enjoyed?
Posted in Al Mohler, Christianity, John MacArthur, Reformed, ShepCon, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Theology on March 7, 2016| 11 Comments »
I normally don’t like attending conferences as a Pastor (there’s too many out there). But the one conference I look forward to as a Pastor is the Shepherd’s Conference. It is a refreshing time for me as a Pastor to hear biblical preaching (rare in our day today in pulpits of many churches), browse through lots of books, get free books from the Conference, enjoy good food and awesome fellowship. This year’s conference is on March 9-13.
As I’m looking forward to the conference where thousands of biblical preachers and pastors all over the US and the world head towards Los Angeles, I was also looking back at the last eight years attending Shepherd’s and asking myself, “Of all the sermons at the Shepherd’s Conference what were the most memorable messages?”
I know there’s a segment of “silent” readers of this blog who attend the conference every year who never comment, so here’s a good time to make your first comment and share your thoughts.
Here are the two messages that stood out to me:
Posted in Al Mohler, Calvinism, Christianity, John MacArthur, Paul Washer, Reformed, Theology on February 11, 2016| 4 Comments »
I’ll be attending this three days Pastor’s Conference next month. I look forward to it every year.
Here’s the schedule:
March 9th, 2016
| 10:00 am | General Session 1 John MacArthur |
| 11:30 am |
Lunch (2 hours)
|
| 1:30 pm | General Session 2 Phil Johnson |
| 3:00 pm | Break (30 minutes) |
| 3:30 pm | General Session 3 Steven Lawson |
| 5:00 pm | Break (30 minutes) |
| 5:30 pm | General Session 4 Ligon Duncan |
| 7:00 pm | Fellowship |
Posted in Al Mohler, Carl Trueman, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, Inerrancy, John MacArthur, Kevin DeYoung, presuppositionalism, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Theology on February 27, 2015| 11 Comments »
We’re trying to wrap our blog series on the Christian worldview, film and Comics soon because next week all three bloggers from Veritas Domain would reunite at The Shepherd’s Conference. This year’s theme is on Inerrancy and is the biggest ever. They have called it The Inerrancy Summit and have brought many different speakers that normally don’t come out but they are for this occasion such as Kevin DeYoung and Carl Trueman.
Lord willing we hope that next Tuesday through Sunday we would be able to blog our notes from some of the sessions along with recommended resources from the Bookstore and book sales.
Stay Tune!
Posted in Al Mohler, Apologetic Links, Apologetics, christian apologetics, Christianity, Dan Wallace, James White, Michael J. Kruger, Newsweek, Theology on January 4, 2015| 16 Comments »
Earlier in December I wrote a piece concerning the recent Newsweek article attacking the Bible titled “The Irony of Kurt Eichenwald’s Ending in His Newsweek Article Attacking the Bible.” Originally I was going to write a series of posts responding to Kurt’s hit piece but the Holiday season made it difficult. But alas, there is nothing new under the sun and fortunately there have been many Christian responses to the article already. Rather than be redundant, I thought I share in this post some of the responses out there available online already.
I think Christians responding to the article is good; it’s sad for me seeing how some people would only look up to these routine sensational pieces from Time and Newsweek and think it is serious scholarship against Christianity when there are scholarly responses out there. I think the ignorance and pseudo-scholarship is so bad it’s a sin.
1.) New Testament Scholar Dan Wallace’s Predictable Christmas fare: Newsweek’s Tirade against the Bible
2.) Apologist James White’s “Eichenwald and Newsweek Refuted” Videos:
3.) New Testament professor Michael Kruger’s “A Christmas Present from the Mainstream Media: Newsweek Takes a Desperate Swipe at the Integrity of the Bible Part 1 and (Part 2)
4.) Seminary President Al Mohler’s Newsweek on the Bible — So Misrepresented It’s a Sin
Posted in Al Mohler, Apologetic Links, Apologetics, apologetics methodology, Bible, bibliology, christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, doctrinal apologetics, free book, Matthew Scott Wireman, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Scripture, Self-Attestation, Southern Seminary, Theology, Van Til, tagged Dissertation on October 29, 2014| 17 Comments »
A doctrine of Scripture that has been under-utilized in apologetics has been the historic belief in the self-attestation of Scripture. There is a Doctoral Dissertation on the topic: “The Self-Attestation of Scripture as the Proper Ground for Systematic Theology” by Matthew Scott Wireman. Dr. Wiseman completed this thesis in 2012 through Southern Seminary, best known with its president Al Mohler.
Southern Seminary and Dr. Wireman has made the dissertation available as a PDF. You can download it by clicking HERE.
Here is the description of the dissertation broken down by chapters:
This dissertation examines the Protestant doctrine of Scripture’s self-witness of divine authority. Chapter 1 examines the current evangelical milieu. The doctrine has become nearly obsolete in the discussion of systematic theology. Consequentially, wherein lies authority has been greatly misunderstood in Protestant circles.
Chapter 2 surveys the doctrine through the history of the church. Particular note is made of Augustine, John Calvin, John Owen, and Herman Bavinck. This chapter evinces the near consensus of the church that the authority for the Church is found preeminently in the Scriptures.
Chapter 3 summarizes post-conservative, Stanley J. Grenz and John R. Franke, attempts to ground theology in Scripture plus culture and tradition. This chapter does not offer a critique as much as it aims to represent post-conservatives in their own words.
Chapter 4 looks at how the Old Testament viewed itself–particularly through the ministries of Moses and the prophets. YHWH chose representatives who would speak to the covenant community and write down the stipulations and history of YHWH’s relationship with Israel for posterity.
Chapter 5 looks at the New Testament, which follows the paradigm instituted by the Old Testament. In the person and work of Jesus Christ, God’s promises find their fulfillment, which foments his commissioning of the Twelve Apostles to be his spokesmen.
Chapter 6 ties together the threads that cohere in the two testaments of Scripture. It makes explicit the claims of Scripture that God is a se, he communicates with his creation, he uses spokesmen, and his written Word is its own witness for its authority.
Chapter 7 defines the doctrine of Scripture’s self-witness and applies it to tradition, culture, and the task of apologetics. The chapter explicates the thesis of the dissertation that Scripture’s self-witness must be the ground of systematic theology.
Posted in Al Mohler, Christianity, John MacArthur, Paul Washer, Phil Johnson, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Theology, tagged Shepherd's Conference on March 23, 2014| 4 Comments »
The audios for the 2014 Shepherd’s Conference Seminar Sessions are now online! There are some great topic on there!
Enjoy the Download!
Posted in Al Mohler, Christianity, John MacArthur, mark dever, Phil Johnson, Reformed, Sermons, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Steve Lawson, The Master's Seminary, Theology, tagged Grace Community Church on March 14, 2014| 2 Comments »
The Audios for the 2014 General Sessions of the Shepherd’s Conference has been uploaded online! I’m waiting for the Seminars to be put online.
I can’t wait for the 2015 Shepherd’s Conference already!
The Domain for Truth 