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Overview
I have invited a number of men to call us to biblical order regarding family life. There is no more important issue in this matter than the power of the true gospel working in a family.
The problems in family life can almost always be traced to conversion. It is the reason children abandon the church and embrace worldliness. It is the main reason fathers do not obey the Lord’s commands for family life. It is the underlying reason that some families exist in a world of outward conformity and performances, yet are devoid of true affection for Jesus Christ and His kingdom.
This is why I have invited Paul Washer to speak. I have asked Paul to particularly address the young people in attendance on the state of their souls.
I have also asked Dr. Albert Mohler to address pressing issues on the family as a result of the sexual revolution and the most recent radical changes in our culture.
We have also invited many experienced pastors to minister to us. These men are Bible expositors. I have labored with these men for many years and I know that they clearly understand how families are to function according to scripture. They also have a keen understanding of how the evangelical world, is drifting away from the plain commands of God for family life. These men are experts in this subject and they know how to accurately handle the Word of God.
The speakers at this conference are well equipped to give your family a refreshing re-calibration from the Word of God alone.
At this conference, I want to inspire you to do two things. First, dissect and reject the worlds wisdom on family life and second, be filled with the Holy Spirit and plunge yourself into every part of the Biblical design for family life. It is the best thing you will ever do. We will be calling out the works of the devil and appeal to you to obey the Word of God. Trust the design. Love the design. Be a real dad and mom the way God designs. Be the children and the singles God desires. Love the Lord with All your heart, soul and strength, and get very clear on what the Bible says about family life. And then obey it out of love, under the power of the Holy Spirit. A consecrated life is the key to family life. But true consecration always comes before obedience and obedience comes before blessing.
At this conference, we are going to expose the chaos of rejecting God’s ways. This world will only give you harmful unworkable thinking and living regarding your family. We plan to explain and debunk the works of the devil and then explain God’s design – which is perfect – which is revealed in His Word.
I want to inspire you to make the biggest investment of your life in the two most important institutions God has established – the church and the family. When you invest your life doing the will of God in your family, you have entered into the most effectual and long-lasting work you will ever do
My desire at this conference is to preach the sufficient Word of God that we might govern our families according to the ways God has commanded.
As you know, this is a preaching conference. We believe that God has appointed preaching as His primary means of changing lives. I fully expect that at this conference you will hear some of the best preaching you will ever hear on these matters.
Our vendors provide one of the significant parts of our conference. They bring great resources and opportunities. Here are some of the vendors you will be able to meet. Some of these vendors will be launching, for the first time, some important resources at our conference.
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Speakers
Dr. Joel R. Beeke serves as President and Professor of Systematic Theology and Homiletics, as well as Academic Dean for students from the Heritage Reformed Congregations. He is currently a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a position he has held for 30 years. He is also 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 eighty books and contributed over two thousand articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. His Ph.D. (1988) from Westminster Theological Seminary is in Reformation and Post-Reformation Theology. He and his wife, Mary, have 3 children: Calvin, Esther, and Lydia.
R. Albert Mohler Jr. is the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is an esteemed authority on contemporary issues and has been recognized by such influential publications as Time and Christianity Today as a leader among American evangelicals. In addition to his presidential duties, Dr. Mohler hosts two programs: “The Briefing,” a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview; and “Thinking in Public,” a series of conversations with the day’s leading thinkers. He also writes a popular blog and a regular commentary on moral, cultural and theological issues.
Paul Washer became a believer while studying at the University of Texas. He completed his undergraduate studies and enrolled at Southwestern Theological Seminary, where he received his Master of Divinity degree. After graduating, he moved to Peru and served there as a missionary for 10 years, during which time he founded the HeartCry Missionary Society to support Peruvian church planters. HeartCry's work now supports over 100 indigenous missionaries in over 20 countries throughout Eastern Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. An itinerant preacher, Paul also frequently teaches at the new church plant in Radford, Virginia, and is the author of The One True God: A Biblical Study of the Doctrine of God. Paul serves as the Director and one of the laborers with the HeartCry Missionary Society. He lives in Radford, VA with his wife Charo and their children.
Dr. Carlton McLeod is the pastor at Calvary Reformation Church. Dr. McLeod earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Science from Hampton University; a Master of Theology and Doctor of Ministry from Andersonville Theological Seminary. He and his wife Donna have been married since 1992 and they have two beautiful daughters, Dori and Aryanna, and one handsome son, Jonathan. Dr. McLeod is relentless in his pursuit to compassionately teach with a biblical worldview. After spending his early years in ministry attempting to pull young people out of the kingdom of darkness with all the world’s methods, the Lord led Dr. McLeod back to the Bible to see the critical need for constant, fervent, and Spirit led biblical family discipleship. The D6Reformation.org was created out of this desire. His other passions in ministry include discipleship, debt free living, the covenant of marriage, the supremacy of Scripture, servant leadership with accountability, integrity, and obedience to God, family integration, biblical manhood/biblical womanhood, and missions.
Scott T. Brown is the president of Church and Family Life and pastor at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Scott graduated from California State University in Fullerton with a degree in History and received a Master of Divinity degree from Talbot School of Theology. He gives most of his time to local pastoral ministry, expository preaching, conferences on church and family reformation. Scott helps people think through the two greatest institutions God has provided — the church and the family.
By God’s grace, Jeff Pollard was converted to Jesus Christ from a career in rock music in the early 1980s. Though religious from his youth, his true conversion at age thirty brought him to understand and then to preach God’s sovereign grace. God’s Spirit and Word awakened him to his responsibilities as husband and father as well as to God’s vision for families. Jeff is now an elder of Mt. Zion Bible Church, Pensacola, Florida. He is the editor of the Free Grace Broadcaster and author of Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America and Do You Know Jesus Christ?
Sam was a pastor of the Reformed Baptist Church of Grand Rapids from 1977-2001 and taught at Trinity Ministerial Academy from 1981 to 1989. Leaving there in 2001, he pursued a Ph.D. at Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY. Having served as a pastor of Heritage Baptist Church in Owensboro, Kentucky from 2005-2013, in 2013 he became one of the pastors of Grace Reformed Baptist Church of Owensboro, Kentucky. He also serves as President, Academic Dean, and Professor of Systematic Theology of Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary.
Sam has been married to his dear wife Charlene since 1975. They have five children and at last count 15 grandchildren—all of whom they love very much. Sam enjoys reading, weight-lifting, walking, and spending time with his wife, children, and grandchildren.
Jason Dohm is a full-time pastor at Sovereign Redeemer Community Church in Youngsville, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992 with a B.A. in education and proceeded to a lengthy career in electronics manufacturing. Jason has been married to Janet for 30 years and has six children and four grandchildren.
Clarence Simmons labors at Chapel Library Publishers (a ministry of Mt. Zion Bible Church), which sends Christ-centered literature worldwide without charge. He serves as an elder in the church, preaches to a group of men in the local rescue mission, and encourages young people in a local Safe House to seek the God of the Bible. Passionate about the gospel of Jesus Christ, his goal in life is to live the truths of that gospel before his family and his community. He is husband to Candace and a father of seven children.
Dr. John Snyder prepared for the ministry at Blue Mountain College, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, and Reformed Theological Seminary. He then completed a Ph.D. on the Eighteenth-Century Welsh revivals at the University of Wales: Trinity St. David. He is a pastor at Christ Church in New Albany, MS. John and his wife Misty live in New Albany with their three children.
Pooyan Mehrshahi is the pastor of Providence Baptist Chapel, Cheltenham, England. He is a native of Iran, and was converted from Zoroastrianism when he heard the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in England. He is leading the Persian Bible translation project with the Trinitarian Bible Society. As the chairman of the Parsa Trust, he engages in translating, publishing and distributing Evangelical and Reformed literature throughout the world for Persian (Farsi) speakers. He is a trustee of the Bible League Trust, and was a contributor of the KJV Reformation Heritage Study Bible. He is married to Becky, and they are blessed with four children.
Mala Chindongo is pastoring Antioch Baptist Church in Blantyre, Malawi, where he has been laboring since 2008. ABC began as a Bible study with the help of an American missionary and has since developed into the only reformed Baptist church in Blantyre. Mala was married on June 15, 2013 and is now joined with his wife Rachel in Blantyre.
Anthony Mathenia was raised in Jackson, Tennessee and attended seminary in Memphis, Tennessee before serving as a full-time missionary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has pastored Christ Church-Radford for 9 years. Anthony lives in Christiansburg, Virginia with his wife, Hannah, and their 6 children.
Paul Carrington currently lives and serves with his family overseas. He has been married to his wife Melinda for 23 years, and they have six children. Previously, Paul has served as a pastor in the US, as well in Africa and the Caribbean.
Mike Davenport serves as one of the pastors at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He and his wife Judith have been married since 1992 and have five children - four boys and one girl. Mike currently works for an engineering firm in the Raleigh-Durham area and has spent more than 25 years in the architectural/engineering fields.
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Schedule
Schedule is subject to change.
Thursday
11:00 - 3:00 pm |
Registration |
12:00 - 3:00 pm |
Burnings in the Soul Luncheon |
5:30 - 6:20 pm |
Dinner |
6:20 - 8:00 pm |
Keynote #1 |
8:00 - 9:15 pm |
Keynote #2 |
9:40 - 11:00 pm |
Fellowship Hall Open |
Friday
6:15 - 7:15 am |
Men's Prayer Meeting |
7:15 - 8:15 am |
Breakfast |
8:50 - 10:10 pm |
Keynote #3 |
10:10 - 10:40 am |
Break |
10:40 - 12:00 pm |
Keynote #4 |
12:00 - 3:00 pm |
Lunch Break |
3:30 - 4:30 pm |
Keynote #5 |
4:30 - 6:20 pm |
Dinner Break |
6:20 - 7:30 pm |
Keynote #6 |
7:30 - 8:50 pm |
Keynote #7 |
8:50 - 11:00 pm |
Fellowship Time |
Saturday
6:15 - 7:15 am |
Men's Prayer Meeting |
7:15 - 8:30 am |
Breakfast |
8:30 - 9:30 am |
Breakout Sessions |
9:30 - 9:45 am |
Break |
9:45 - 10:45 am |
Breakout Sessions |
10:45 - 11:00 am |
Break |
11:00 - 12:00 pm |
Keynote #8 |
12:00 - 1:20 pm |
Lunch Break |
1:20 - 2:45 pm |
Keynote #9 |
2:45 - 3:00 pm |
Break |
3:00 - 4:00 pm |
Keynote #10 |
4:00 - 5:00 pm |
Keynote #11 |
5:00 - 7:00 pm |
Dinner |
7:00 - 10:00 pm |
Fellowship Hall Open |
Sunday
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Lodging & Food
Call the kind and helpful Ridgecrest Conference Center staff (800-588-7222) who will be able to walk you through the available rooming options and pricing choices. Rooms, which are currently available, range in price from $79 to $160 per night, many of which allow you to sleep as many people in the room as you like. Also, on-site RV parking sites are available, and tent sites are available.
Deluxe Room
Deluxe hotels, Mountain Laurel Inn and Rhododendron, offer comfortable hotel accommodations and amenities such as hair dryers, in-room irons and ironing boards, coffeemakers and complimentary wireless internet throughout the building.
Mountain Laurel
Type: Deluxe
Format: 2 queen beds or 1 king bed (5 suites)
Amenities: Wireless Internet, Telephones with voice mail messaging systems, Computer data ports, Hairdryers, Irons and ironing boards, Alarm clock CD/Radios, Coffee Makers, Fitness room, Fellowship rooms
Rhododendron
Type: Deluxe
Format: 2 queen beds or 1 king bed
Amenities: Large rooms, Wireless Internet, Telephones with voice mail messaging systems, Computer data ports, Hairdryers, Irons and ironing boards, Clock CD/Radios, Coffee Makers
Food
Meal tickets are available for eating in the Ridgecrest cafeteria. Please call Ridgecrest at 1-800-588-7222 for food selections and to purchase tickets.
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Pizza Hut - 2.5 miles
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McDonald's - 2.5 miles
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