Keeping the Porch Light on in a Dark World
2 Timothy 4:3–4 (ESV)
3For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
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| TRINITY CHURCH STREETSVILLE IN MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO MAY 2-4, 2012 |
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| Sparky Pritchard is the senior pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia, where he has served since 1989. After earning his Master’s Degree in Bible, he did post-graduate work in New Testament. His 38 years of ministry include teaching at the university level and serving as an associate pastor in Denver, Colorado, for 13 years before moving to Richmond. Sparky and his wife, Kathy, have traveled extensively where he has conducted workshops and seminars for pastors and missionaries in Germany, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Albania, Paraguay, and far east Russia. His association with the Workshops on Biblical Exposition began in 1995. |  |
ABOUT About Workshops Other Locations Who Should Attend LOCATION Trinity Church Streetsville 69 Queen Street South Mississauga, Ontario L5M 1R8 (905) 826-1901 www.trinitystreetsville.org REGISTRATION Brochure [pdf, 383kb]
SCHEDULE Schedule [pdf, –kb] LOCAL HOTELS COST |
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| Michael Lawrence became Senior Pastor at Hinson Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon in September, 2010. Michael came to faith at an early age, but never understood that the Christian life was more than salvation until he was introduced to the InterVarsity campus ministry at Duke. Michael earned an M.Div. degree at Gordon-Conwell and a PhD from Cambridge University in 2002. He served as Associate Pastor for more than 8 years at Capitol Hill Baptist in Washington D.C. He is the author of Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church: A Guide for Ministry, co-author of It Is Well: Expositions on Substitutionary Atonement (with Mark Dever), and contributed to Perspectives on Christian Worship: Five Views. |  |
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| James Seward is Associate Pastor at the First Baptist Church of Lindale, Texas. James completed his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago, where he was also part of the founding core of Holy Trinity Church and served as a pastoral intern. He went on to complete a Masters in the Biblical Exegesis program at Wheaton College where he also served on the pastoral staff of College Church under Kent Hughes. James has traveled to Vietnam to train pastors and has been involved with the Workshops on Biblical Exposition for more than 10 years. | |||
Can a man who has been dead over 300 years have any relevance or significance to us now? Can anything in his life hold our interest? Although we know little of his life, we have many of his Biblical studies and theological works. These remain as some of the finest theology ever written. But one thing about his life, which stands out, we do know:
He was married 31 years. In that time, his wife bore 11 children, all but one of whom died as a child. The one who lived to adulthood herself died young and childless. In 31 years, John Owen saw the loss of 11 children and his wife. That is an average of one child’s death every three years through 31 years of his life.
His faithfulness as a Christian and as a minister of Christ, through a life of suffering makes him much more “relevant” to me than the “rock star” preachers making the circuit today. God still mightily uses his works today; will anyone a generation from now even know who Jakes, Meyers, Olsteen, Hagee, Crouch, Robertson, et al and ad nauseum were? Will they be found “relevant?”
I challenge anyone reading this to find John Owen’s works, abridged or unabridged, ebook or print, and dig in for some real soul-food. J. I. Packer (someone who will be remembered) credits Owen with saving his spiritual life. God might use Owen’s works for you, too.
