Andy Naselli has
posted an announcement about the upcoming
Mid-America Conference on Preaching, hosted by
Inter-City Baptist Church and
Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, October 18–19, 2007.
"Learning from the Past, Pressing toward the Future"This year’s speakers include
Doug McLachlan,
Mark Minnick,
Sam Horn,
David Saxon,
David Doran, and
the faculty of DBTS.
Here's some more information on the conference...
A Message to Pastors Dear Pastor,
We would love to have you join us for the 2007 Mid-America Conference on Preaching. Our theme for this year, Learning from the Past, Pressing toward the Future, is a reminder that we are runners in a relay race that began with the Apostles and will continue until our Lord returns. We can’t live looking backward, but if we don’t understand what has happened before us, we’re surely headed for trouble.
Our desire for the MACP remains the same: to equip and encourage those who serve Christ’s church as pastors. We count it a real privilege to serve the Lord and His servants in this way. These two days will be packed with great times in the Word and encouraging fellowship together. We are pleased to have Doug McLachlan, Mark Minnick, Sam Horn, and Dave Saxon join the DBTS faculty and me as speakers for this year. We are making some changes to the format that I think you will enjoy, and we have some special surprises for you that we hope will make the conference a special blessing to you. Dress for the conference is business casual.
The reality of our accountability to the Lord constantly motivates me to grow as a believer and a pastor. I am looking forward to how God will use this year’s conference in my own life. Please join us for two spiritually refreshing and refining days!
For the sake of His name,
David M. Doran
- Special discounts at Inter-City Christian Bookstore
- Shuttle service to/from airport and conference hotel
- Hospitality room: refreshments and fellowship
- Internet café available for e-mail service
- Wireless web connections for laptop users
Sample Workshop Topics
- Essential Qualities of God-Honoring Worship Songs
- A Model for Developing A God-Centered Ministry
- Shades of Evangelicals: Recognizing the Differences
- Conservative Evangelicals and Fundamentalists: Recognizing the Differences
- Are We Worried about Holiness or How We Look?
- Expositional Preaching from the Parables
- Designing Sermons for Effective Communication
- Weakness or Wisdom? Fundamentalism and Romans 14:1–15:13
- Are Baptists Protestants?
- In Defense of Penal-Substitutionary Atonement
- Evangelistic Calvinists Past and Present: Being What We Were Chosen to Become
- Is There a Present Form of The Kingdom of God/Heaven: A Case Study in Hermeneutics and Theology
- The Meaning of Fellowship in 1 John
- An Overview of Ecclesiastes
- Local Church Membership and the Practice of the Ordinances
Conference Schedule
Mid-America Conference on Preaching: Oct. 18-19, 2007
Let us be clear that we do not pay for our sins. The blood of Jesus Christ on the cross is the propitiation for our sins - not for ours only but for the whole world. The sins of all God's people of all ages are paid for in the blood of Christ. Yet in another sense a costly stand which hurts you and your family (such as maintaining the truth in a relativistic culture fiercely intolerant of truth-claims) can have a redemptive value because the cross you are experiencing becomes a doorway to let through the Lord's resurrection power into other lives. Paul seems to be speaking of this when he says in Colossians 1:24, 'I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.' Sometimes when you are feeling the nails, that may be the only way that others can see the glory.
Douglas F. Kelly, New Life in the Wasteland: 2 Corinthians on the Cost and Glory of Christian Ministry (Ross-shire: Christian Focus Publications, 2003), p. 26 (emphasis mine.
