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Think! 2010 Desiring God National Conference
Okay, the Think! Conference was in October. It’s almost January and I haven’t posted anything about it. To be honest, I struggled with what I should and should not say about it.
Was it good? It was fabulous. Almost all of the messages were phenomenal: Piper, Sproul, DeYoung, Mohler, Anyabwile and Alcorn were very stong. This was also my first taste of Francis Chan and Tillian Tchividjian and I was very impressed and humbled by their messages. A load of great material from this conference.
The conference opened with Rick Warren, and this is where I struggled. Ricks message was great, in fact excellent, until he got to the end. He discussed the reality that spiritual warfare presents against thinking and the truth of God. But at the end it all seemed to implode. Rick Warren’s view of application is horrific, because it drives him to believe that churches are preaching and teaching believers too much. In his reasoning, the more we preach and teach the more “applications” people have to apply to their lives, and we can only really apply so much in a given week. A pseudo-therapeutic gospel? I also disagree with Warren’s view of “vision”, though that’s an unfair assessment since he didn’t have the platform to engage with Piper’s differing view of vision. Piper does engage these two things in the follow up discussion, which unfortunately Warren was not able to participate in, but I wish he had been much stronger on the application issue. I’ll leave it at that.
My recommendation: get these messages, including Rick Warren’s. The first part was a message I would have been proud to have preached.
How Unbelievers View the Church
Al Mohler, Kevin DeYoung, Ed Stetzer and Dan Kimbal discuss evangelism.
Why We Love The Church
Kevin DeYoung gave 6 sermons surrounding his book ‘Why We Love The Church’ , co-authored with Ted Kluck, at a Family Camp last summer for Harvest Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
Kevin DeYoung & Genuine Love for the Church
Russell Moore discusses issues of the church with Kevin DeYoung and Dan Kimball on the Albert Mohler Radio Program. The focus of the conversation is why the world likes Jesus and not the church, and what we can do about it.
DeYoung is author of Why We Love The Church and Why We’re Not Emergent.
Collections: Kevin DeYoung
Kevin DeYoung is pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing Michigan. He has written numerous books that have been lauded by many well known evangelical leaders. These books include Just Do Something, Why We’re Not Emergent, and Why We Love the Church.
If you enjoyed his message at the Next Conference you might be interested in more of his sermons that can be found at these sites:
University Reformed Church >>>
University Reformed Church (new site)>>>
2009 Next Conference
This year the New Attitude Conference became Next Conference. The subject this year was Jesus Christ, and a marvelous conference it was. Between Sinclair Ferguson and Don Carson you can’t go wrong.
One surprise speaker was Kevin DeYoung, pastor of University Reformed Church in Lansing, Michigan, and author of a number of books including Why We’re Not Emergent and Just Do Something. DeYoung gave us a wonderful picture of Christ as life giver, looking at portraits of him dealing the demoniac, Jarius’ daugther, the unclean woman, and the storm that threatened the disciples.
Here is the list of main sessions:
Preeminence, Josh Harris
Incarnation, Don Carson
Life, Kevin DeYoung
Death, C. J. Mahaney
Resurrection, Sinclair Ferguson
Return, Sinclair Ferguson
Panel with Dever, Ferguson, Taylor, DeYoung, Mahaney & Harris
