Panel Members: Jenny Salt: Carrie Sandom: Colleen Gallagher: Deb Lorentsen: Kathleen Nielsen: Opening Thoughts: Charles Simeon Trust… Chicago. Training Bible Teachers. Proclamation Trust… UK. Reading the Bible out loud, long portions every day. Local churches that preached and taught expositionally. We are not good readers of anything today, and we need to learn how to [...]

Word-Based Ministry to Women with Nancy Guthrie   What is going to be your disctinctive quality in your ministry to women? Your consistent aim? The one thing that’s going to mark your ministry? Fun? More real and personal, relaxed… Love it, but not in the driver’s seat. Story? Is your testimony all you have? Is [...]

Carrie Sandom Psalm 40 Emily was a believer who found herself in an affair with an unbelieving, married co-worker. Her guilt was no longer as intense as it once was, and that scared her more than the fact that she was involved with a married man. She was ensnared, and she knew it. Joan was [...]

John Piper, Plenary Session Three Discovering a more adequate view of God. It happens to all those who seek him. Job’s suffering was mercy from God, who allowed Job to wrestle through his understanding of God to gain a greater understanding of Him. “Therefore I have uttered what I do not understand.’ Job knew Him [...]

Paige Brown Plenary Session 2 Through Moses, God introduced HImself to his people as I AM. The truth of who He actually is. I AM is saying I’M IN. I am in with my people. The I AM God who lovingly becomes I’m IN. 1 Kings 8. The Temple dedication The preceeding chapters talk about [...]

Tim Keller, Plenary Session One Exodus 19 We are here, not to think and talk about women, but to think and talk about God. As the various cultures of the world bring out different aspects of the Gospel and enrich the whole church, so too do the different genders. Women doing exegetical study enriches the [...]

Speaking from 2 Timothy 1:1-2:7 Preserving the Gospel We are tempted to think defensively, and start ministry to attack those who, we think, are drifting away. What is the Gospel that we are defending? Paul speaks of this preservation of the Gospel in these verses. “Preach the Gospel, if necessary, use words.” Yes, but when [...]

Tim Keller: The Culture needs to understand that love is a covenantal thing. God is a witness of the first marriage. Our culture doesn’t know about covenant, the counterintuitive combination of love and law. More intense than just a love relationship, more personal and binding than a legal contract. The “I’m committed for my whole [...]