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Steven Lawson
Dr. Steven J. Lawson is the Senior Pastor of Christ Fellowship Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, having served as a pastor in Arkansas and Alabama for 28 years. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards, The Expository Genius of John Calvin, and Foundations of Grace. His books have been translated into Russian, Portugese, Spanish, German, Albanian, Korean, and Indonesian.
Dr. Lawson's pulpit ministry takes him around the world, preaching in Russia, the Ukraine, Wales, England, Ireland, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, New Zealand, and throughout the United States.
Dr. Lawson is president of New Reformation Ministries, designed to bring about biblical reformation in the church today. He serves on the Executive Board of The Master's Seminary and College and serves on the Advisory Council for Samara Preachers' Institute and Theological Seminary in Samara, Russia.
Dr. Lawson and his wife, Anne, have three sons, Andrew, James, and John, and a daughter, Grace Anne.
opyright 2009 . All Rights Reserved.Joel Beeke
Dr. Joel Beeke serves as President and Professor of Systematic Theology, Church History, and Homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He has been in the ministry since 1978, and has served as a pastor of his current church (HNRC in Grand Rapids, Michigan) since 1986.
Dr. Beeke is editor of the Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. He has written, co-authored,or edited sixty books, and contributed over 1500 articles to reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias.
Dr. Beeke holds a Ph.D (1988) from Westminster Theological Seminary. He is frequently called upon to lecture at reformed seminaries and to speak at conferences around the world. C
Sunday September 27, 2009 Pre-Conference schedule coming soon! | |
| 9:00 A.M. | Dr. Joel Beeke |
| 10:30 A.M. | Dr. Joel Beeke |
| 6:00 P.M. | Dr. Joel Beeke |
| Monday September 28, 2009 | |
| 4:00 P.M. | Conference Registration Begins |
| 5:00 P.M. | Dinner |
| 6:30 P.M. | The Preaching of the Reformers: Martin Luther and John Calvin Dr. Steven Lawson |
| 8:00 P.M. | The Preaching of the Puritans (I) Dr. Joel Beeke |
Tuesday September 29, 2009 | |
| 7:30 A.M. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 A.M. | The Preaching of the Puritans (II) Dr. Joel Beeke |
| 10:30 A.M. | The Preaching of the Great Awakening: Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield Dr. Steven Lawson |
| 12:00 P.M. | Lunch |
| 1:30 P.M. | The Preaching of the 19th Century: Archibald Alexander and Charles H. Spurgeon Dr. Steven Lawson |
| 3:30 P.M. | Questions & Answers (Steven Lawson & Joel Beeke) |
| 5:00 P.M. | Dinner |
| 6:30 P.M. | The Preaching of the 20th Century: Martyn Lloyd Jones and James Montgomery Boice Dr. Steven Lawson |
Many New Year's resolutions don't last past the fireworks. Most of mine seem to go up in smoke. But lately I've been thinking on a Scripture passage that convicts me to not admit defeat but to try yet again: "Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness; for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come" (1 Tim. 4:7-8).Every great Christian leader has a master passion, an overruling ambition that dominates his life and drives his soul. It is that in which he most believes, that which most captures his mind and enflames his heart. Such a chief aim controls him and defines his very reason for being. This supreme sense of purpose becomes a motivation so strong that it empowers him to overcome all obstacles and override all adversity. For Jonathan Edwards, this passion was the summum bonum set forth in Scripture, the highest good in the universe--the glory of God. Edwards believed that God's ultimate end in all things is the manifestation of His glory. In his theological masterpiece, Dissertation on the End for Which God Created the World, penned near the end of his life (1755), he argued that God made the world for His own glory. "For it appears that all that is ever spoken of in the Scripture as an ultimate end of God's works," Edwards stated, "is included in that one phrase, the glory of God." That being the case, Edwards concluded that bringing glory to God must be his preeminent purpose. This pursuit was firmly established in him from the very beginning of his Christian walk.May God help all His people in their resolve to glorify Him in 2009. If our discipline weakens and our resolve crumbles, may we realize that God put the resolve in us to begin with: "We love because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19). He has called us to Himself, having predestined us to be "conformed to the image of His Son" (Rom. 8:28-39). He will not fail--and neither will we, because God is for us!
Lawson, Steven J. The Expository Genius of John Calvin. Lake Mary, FL: Reformation Trust Publishing, 2007. Hardcover, 142 pages. $15.00.
(Review copy courtesy of Reformation Trust.)
ISBNs: 1567690858 / 9781567690859
LCCN: BX9418 L37
DCN: 251.0092
Subjects: John Calvin / Preaching
Steve Lawson is senior pastor at Christ Fellowship Baptist Church (Mobile, AL). Dr. Lawson serves on the board of directors of The Master’s College and on the ministerial board for Reformed Theological Seminary. He also teaches with Dr. John MacArthur at the Expositor’s Institute. In addition, Dr. Lawson has written numerous books, including Foundations of Grace and Famine in the Land: A Passionate Call for Expository Preaching.
(Read the full review here.)
