National Founder's Conference Links

NFC Summary and Compilation

Read the following Live-Blogging posts from Timmy Brister at the National Founders Ministry conference.

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NFC I: Roy Hargrave on “Man’s Madness and God’s Mercy”
NFC II: David Wells on “Preaching the Truth of Christology for the Modern Age”
NFC III: Tom Ascol on “Founders Ministries, Theology, and the Current SBC”
NFC IV: Raymond Perron on “Preaching the Gospel in a Secular Culture”
NFC V: David Wells on “Preaching the Cross in the Modern World”
NFC VI: Bill Ascol on “Isaac McCoy: Pioneer Baptist Preacher to the Oklahoma Territories”
NFC VII: David Wells on “Preaching Heaven and Hell in the Modern World”
NFC VIII: Leadership Panel Discussion
NFC IX: Roy Hargrave on “Titus 3:1-8: Christian Faith and Conduct in a Godless Culture”
NFC X: Phil Newton on “Our Only Hope Is the Gospel”

Miscellanies:

Dr. David Wells and Me
TeamPyro at FCON
NFC Message Board on P&P

Photography:

NFC Photo Bundle 1
NFC Photo Bundle 2
NFC Photo Bundle 3
NFC Photo Bundle 4
NFC Photo Bundle 5

View all photos from 2007 National Founders Conference (in a slideshow)

Young, Reformed and Clueless?

Chad Knudson reflects on the danger of defining yourself by a Soteriological label.

As great as it is to see Calvinism make a resurgence among people, it should not define us. At times I fear that people and churches take pride in their Calvinism rather than the gospel. What should define us is the gospel. I realize that the Doctrines of Grace represent the gospel, but even our understanding of the these wonderful truths of God’s grace cannot be divorced from the greater plotline of Scripture.

Attack Of The Calvinists - Part 2

Mark Dever, pastor of Capital Hill Baptist Church is writing a series that explains where all the Calvinists are coming from. This is interesting on several levels as Calvinism has become a big issue in Baptist churches. He is exploring the issue historically by looking at major influences that is bringing this revival of reformed doctrine.

Where'd All These Calvinists Come From? Part 2 of 10 by Mark Dever

When Jim Packer is asked the question "who is the greatest man you've known" I have, on several occasions, heard him reply without hesitation "Martyn Lloyd-Jones."

Where'd all these Calvinists come from? Quietly, all over the world young Christians, young ministers have had their spiritual tummies rumbling after they've been reading many of the spiritual bestsellers, books that are full of jokes and life tips, whose height of profundity have been something like "Lighten up and Live!" And someone has turned them on to Lloyd-Jones. And, by God's grace, they have learned about the grace of God, and the God of that grace.

Divine Sovereignty versus Human Responsibility

What did Baptist Pastor Charles Spurgeon say about this question? Read Two Truths That Should Not Be Set Against One Another from Pyromaniacs by Phil Johnson

I believe that the two great doctrines of human responsibility and divine sovereignty have both been brought out the more prominently in the Christian Church by the fact that there is a class of strong-minded, hard-headed men who magnify sovereignty at the expense of responsibility; and another earnest and useful class who uphold and maintain human responsibility oftentimes at the expense of divine sovereignty.