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 Christianity, God, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, The Master's Seminary, Theology, tagged Christianity, God, John MacArthur, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, Reformed, Shepherd's Conference, Theology on March 6, 2019| 24 Comments »
Are you are at the Shepherd’s Conference? I have to go in and out of this conference given my ministry responsibilities. Its one of our nation’s top conference for those who are biblically minded and rally around sound doctrines of the Gospel.
Need book recommendations to use your 50 dollars gift cards on at the Conference bookstore? Let us help. =)
My favorite publisher is Presbyterian and Reformed.
Here’s the books I recommend with links to my reviews. If they are sold out my review also give links to how you can order them online.
Short Summary: Among the top book I read last year.
Purchase: Westminster | Amazon
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 capitol hill baptist church, Christianity, Church, mark dever, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Theology, tagged capitol hill baptist church, Christianity, Church, mark dever, Reformed, Shepherd's Conference, Theology on March 8, 2018| 10 Comments »
I’m here blogging at the Shepherd’s Conference. Mark Dever, Pastor at Capital Hill Baptist Church taught a seminar on how to build a healthy church. It was very edifying and helpful.
Here are the top 5 quotes form his message.
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 Christianity, Greg Bahnsen, John Frame, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Theology, tagged Christianity, Greg Bahnsen, John Frame, Presupposiitonalism, Presuppostional apologetics, Reformed, Shepherd's Conference, Theology on March 7, 2018| 11 Comments »
I love the amount of books from various publishers at the Shepherd’s Conference.
Here are the solid biblical books I recommend from the Conference that are deals but they fly below the radar of being publicized like in the Conference’s bulletins. Note these books can be purchased online as well and I have linked them online in case they are no longer available. Also I have linked to my book reviews.
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 Bible, Christianity, Christology, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Pastor, Preachers, Reformation, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Theology, tagged Christ, Christianity, Christology, Jesus, Shepherd's Conference on March 19, 2017| 10 Comments »
Shepherd’s Conference (a conference for Pastors and Preachers) was a few weeks ago with the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the theme of “We Preach Christ.” Some of you who were not there still was able to enjoy the General Sessions because the Conference graciously livestreamed them. However the various seminar sessions are what some people are looking forward to whether you were in the conference or not since they were more specific and occurred simultaneously with other seminar sessions. Since there are 19 of them they are something that’s going to take some to time for me to listen through!
I know the official Shepherd’s Conference website says “Media Coming Soon” but the Audio MP3s of the seminar sessions can be downloaded by clicking on the title of the sessions below:
Posted in Biblical doctrines, Christianity, Crossway, John MacArthur, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, systematic theology, Theology, tagged Biblical doctrines, John MacArthur, Shepherd's Conference, systematic theology on March 3, 2017| 6 Comments »
I’m at the Shepherd’s Conference right now where the most sold book in the conference’s history occurred this year with the new Biblical Doctrines edited by John MacArthur and Richard Mayhue. There’s talk of this book published by Crossway will be translated in many other languages. I’m looking forward to hear what God can do with this work to equip God’s Church to know God’s truth more accurately in a systematic fashion.
Now I know with every new systematic theology the question some would immediately ask would be “What are its strengths and weaknesses and how will the book present doctrines?” Systematic theology has also gotten more complex with works discussing or at least accounting for aspect of historical theology, biblical theology, philosophical theology, etc. While some have criticize systematic theology as “proof texting” I think the game has actually gotten more rigorous and more inter-disciplinary (at least with the various theologies). For example I think of Crossway’s Foundation Of Evangelical Theology Series and the most recent work I reviewed God the Son Incarnate by Stephen Wellum and how it has dimensions of apologetics, epistemology, biblical theology and historical theology.
So looking at this new work by MacArthur here’s my initial observation. I’ll be sharing first what I see is a big plus about the book and also one constructive criticism. I share the constructive criticism humbly, especially when I imagine the incredible amount of hard work that was put into the volume and I am just a lowly reader of theology.
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 Christianity, historical theology, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Theology, tagged Christianity, Preaching, Shepherd's Conference on March 1, 2017| 10 Comments »
Here’s my brief notes from the Shepherd’s Conference, a big conference for Pastors who are into accurate preaching of God’s Word.
Here are the notes from a session that was more from Church history:
Posted in Christianity, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Theology, tagged Shepherd's Conference on February 28, 2017| 4 Comments »
John 1:1-3
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was in the beginning with God. 3All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), Jn 1:1–3.
Dr. Michael Reeves gave a phenomenal message today at Shepherds’ Conference 2017. Some of the key exhilarating truths that lifted my soul were the titles of Christ: the eternal Word and the eternal Son. The Word shows the position of Christ. He is ontologically equal with the Father. The Son shows the unique relationship He has with the Father. As for the Word, He created the world. This is Christ’s world. Secular thinking is acidic to this thinking. The heavens can’t help but to exalt Christ because they are His craftsmanship. Instead of having wandering minds, our mind is harnessed when we depend upon God.
Posted in Christianity, John MacArthur, Pastor, Protestants, Reformation, Reformed, ShepCon, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Theology, tagged Christianity, Gospel, John MacArthur, Reformation, Shepherd's Conference on February 17, 2017| 15 Comments »
I’m looking forward to this year’s Shepherd’s Conference, a conference for Pastors and church leaders sponsored by Grace Community Church where John MacArthur is the Pastor.
They even made this neat trailer:
Seems like the theme would be on the Reformation in light of the Reformation’s 500 years anniversary. Lord willing I’ll be blogging through the sessions on February 28th-March 3rd.
Posted in Alister Begg, Bible, Christianity, Inerrancy, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Theology, Uncategorized, tagged alister begg, Bible, inerrancy, Shepherd's Conference on March 3, 2015| 5 Comments »
Notes from Shepherd’s Conference
Introduction: Spurgeon’s Defending Lion quote
Setting: Paul writes to young Timothy
1.) His Charge (v.1-2)
Note it is a solemn charge
It is a charge before God and we must live in light of the reality of God now
We must be conscious of God and this begins with the preacher before the congregation
We are to preach
Nots speaking with authority is culturally neutral in that every culture understand someone speaking with authority
Are you convinced that expository preaching will always do it’s work?
Even when it’s difficult, even when it’s dwindling
Do it with patience
2.) His Challenges (v.3-4)
Instead of abiding to their creator, some have become themselves creators of their own god
People don’t put up with sound doctrine
Not New but even back in Isaiah 30 we see
These people accumulate teachers
3.) His character (v.5)
5 imperatives:
Always be sober minded (note that much of worship today undermine the preaching of the gospel)
Suffering
Preach Gospel
Fulfill your ministry (fulfill can be understood in the Greek as paying a debt)
Let the Lion out
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Inerrancy, John MacArthur, Reformed, SHEPHERD'S CONFERENCE, Theology, tagged Bible, Christianity, inerrancy, Shepherd's Conference on March 3, 2015| 12 Comments »
Why an inerrancy summit?
1.) The scripture is under attacked and we are under obligation to defend it
The greatest threat is not from the outside but the inside
I submit there is no greater offense than to attack the Scripture
Jude tells us to earnestly contend for the Faith (v.3)
We see a long history attack of Scripture (Roman Catholicism, enlightenment, historical criticism, rationalism, cults, Pentecostals, experimentalism, third wave, New apostolic reformation, Christian psychology, church growth, etc)
Scripture reserve the harshest statements against this who lie about God’s Word; think of 1 kings 18 with Elijah and the false prophet
2.) Scripture is authoritative and we are called to declare it
2 Timothy 3:16_17
Jesus in John 10:35 says his weird cannot be broken which also shows he is GOD
John 3:33 says God is true
Bible is true because God cannot lie
New testament quote the old testament with divine authority
3.) Scripture is accurate and we are to demonstrate it
Law of thermodynamics, description of whether cycle, countless stars, Earth suspension on nothing confirmed in the bible
Think of prophecies such as Isaiah 53
4.) The Scripture is active and we are called to deploy it
It is the means which people are saved
It is the word that sanctifies (John 17:17)
There is only one book that will change your nature and your eternal destiny
The word is with power
You cannot be an expositor if you have a weak view of Scripture
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