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Overview
Please consider coming to our national conference this year titled, “The Fear of God.” We will be developing the doctrine of the fear of God, as well as discussing the applications of this doctrine for our own hearts, homes, churches, and government.
There are astonishing promises spoken in Scripture to those who fear the Lord. One of those promises is found in the book of Proverbs: “By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches and honor and life” (Prov. 22:4).
You may be thinking, “Oh, I already know about the fear of God. Why do I need to go?” Let’s take a moment and think about the condition of our own hearts, churches, families, and nations in regards to the fear of God: There has never been another point in history where our nation has demonstrated less fear and honor toward God than it does now in our present time. We need to recapture this crucial doctrine.
As you depart from this conference, you will have experienced a thorough study of the fear of God from Genesis to Revelation. I hope that you will be able to join us!
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Speakers
Since moving to America in 1987, Australian Ken Ham—president and founder of Answers in Genesis-US, the highly acclaimed Creation Museum (well over two million visitors since it opened), and visionary behind the construction of a full-size Noah’s Ark—has become one of the most in-demand Christian conference speakers and talk show guests. He became internationally known for his 2014 creation/evolution debate with Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” which has been watched by an estimated 15 million people.
A biblical apologist, Ken gives numerous faith-building talks to tens of thousands of children and adults each year on such topics as the reliability of the Bible, how compromise over biblical authority has undermined society and even the church (which is seeing a massive exodus of young people), witnessing more effectively, dinosaurs, “races,” and so on. Ken cofounded AiG in 1994 with the purpose of upholding the authority of the Bible from the very first verse.
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.
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.
Kevin Swanson is a pastor of Reformation Church in Elizabeth, Colorado. Together with his wife Brenda, they have raised five children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord - Daniel, Emily, Rebekah, Bethany, and Abigail. Kevin is the author and editor for the Family Bible Study Guide Series and the Christian Classics Study Guides. He has served as an elder in the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ for 22 years. Over the years, he has taken the message of family discipleship to most of the fifty states, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Russia, and Japan.
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.
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.
Dennis Gundersen is President and owner of Grace and Truth Books, a Christian publisher of more than 60 books, with a primary focus on reprinting 19thcentury children's stories with a character building emphasis. Dennis has served as Senior Pastor at three Tulsa churches since 1984 and is currently devoting his time to writing, publishing, conference speaking and a role as a visiting professor at Tlapaneco Bible Institute in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. He is author of two books: "Your Child's Profession of Faith" and “Courtship or Dating: So What’s the Difference”, and he is a frequent speaker at church conferences, men's retreats and home education conventions. He and his wife Naomi have been married since 1976, and have four adult sons who were all homeschooled. For relaxation, he is an avid mountain climber, cyclist, and photographer.
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?
Gary Powers is an elder at Geneva Lakes Church, in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, the CEO of Ortho Molecular Products, Inc., one of the fastest growing dietary supplement companies in America, and a leading proponent of Lifestyle Medicine. Besides founding Ortho Molecular Products in 1989, Mr. Powers has recently started several new businesses with his oldest children. Each of these endeavors is centered in the natural products and organic farming industries. Gary and his wife Patti have been married for 27 years and have 10 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.
Michael John Beasley grew up in Southern California and later served in the United States Air Force. During most of this time he was a convinced Atheist, but in 1982 he was redeemed by the mercy and grace of Christ. He has a B.S. in Physics from California State University San Bernardino, and an MDiv from the Master's Seminary. He has served in the ministry since 1991 and presently serves as pastor of Peace Baptist Church in Germanton NC. Michael, his wife Sandra, and their six children live in Pfafftown NC.
Craig Houston has served as the pastor of Westside Baptist Church since 2002. Born and raised in Astoria, Oregon, he was privileged to grow up in a fourth generation Christian home. Saved and baptized at an early age, he surrendered to preach the gospel at the age of 19. A graduate of Bayview Baptist Bible Institute and Sound Baptist Bible College, he was ordained to the Gospel ministry in 1997 and sent out as a church planter in Oregon the following year. He married his sweetheart, Emily, in 1994 and the Lord has blessed them with thirteen children; Naomi, Anna & Derek Hase, Samuel, Daniel, Nathanael, Michael, Julia, Lydia, Abigail, Ezekiel, Selah, Tirzah, and Lemuel. Pastor Craig has a heart and passion for expository preaching, reaching the lost and restoring the Christian home. He enjoys spending time with his family, reading, and drinking good coffee. His sermons can be found at bibledirectionforlife.com.
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.
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.
Rob Ventura is one of the pastors of Grace Community Baptist Church of North Providence, Rhode Island and holds a Master of Divinity degree from Reformed Baptist Seminary. He is an author and blogger for Reformation 21 and has co-authored two books published by Reformation Heritage Books: A Portrait of Paul and Spiritual Warfare. He is the general editor of Going Beyond the Five Points, Covenant Theology, and Lectures in Systematic Theology and is a contributor to the Reformation Heritage KJV Study Bible. He and his wife, Vanessa, and family live in Rhode Island.
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.
Paul Thompson has pastored Eastside Baptist Church in Twin Falls, Idaho since 2001. Paul and his wife Renee have two adult sons. He founded both Wilderness Adventure Ministries and New Horizon Home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He enjoys gardening and is an avid reader. Paul served as president of the Utah/Idaho Southern Baptist Convention from 2008-2009 and was president of the Saudi Advocacy Network from 2006-2012. Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Paul and his church were among the ten Americans arrested in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. You can read his journal from those God-ordained days at www.paulthompsonblog.com
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.
Curt Daniel has been pastor of Faith Bible Church, Springfield, Illinois since 1995. He is a graduate of Central Bible College (BA, 1974), Fuller Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1976) and The University of Edinburgh, Scotland (PhD, 1983). He is currently writing several books on the history and theology of Calvinism and other subjects.
Don Hart is an elder at North Gabriel Christian Assembly. Don Hart is also the Founder and President of Heritage Defense, a national, non-profit legal advocacy organization and is a rancher and licensed Texas attorney. He holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from the University of Texas and a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Texas Tech Law School, where he was a member of state and national moot court teams and received the American Jurisprudence Award in Trial Advocacy. A significant part of Don’s practice involves fighting to defend Christian, homeschooling families against usurpatious government interference. Don is honored to serve as an elder in his local church. Above all, Don aspires to be a devoted husband to his bride D’Ann, faithful father to his seven children (Emalee, Katherine, Hannah, Valor, Victor, Jackson, and Faith), and a humble bondservant of the Lord Jesus Christ.
David Eddy is the Senior Pastor of Manchester Community Church, located in Washington State overlooking the beautiful Puget Sound. In 1993, he was given the opportunity to pastor at the church where he and his wife Carol had attended from childhood. That same year, they welcomed their first baby into their home. Since that time, they have had the joy and privilege of serving the church and home educating their ten children, who are now ages 7 to 22.
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Schedule
Thursday
11:00 - 3:00pm |
Registration |
12:00 - 3:00pm |
Burnings in the Soul Luncheon (Separate Registration Required) |
5:30 - 6:20pm |
Dinner |
6:20 - 8:00pm |
Keynote #1 - The Fear of God |
8:00 - 9:15pm |
Keynote #2 - Why Is Fearing so Important? |
9:40 - 11:00pm |
Fellowship Hall Open |
Friday
6:15 - 7:15am |
Men's Prayer Meeting |
7:15 - 8:15am |
Breakfast |
8:50 - 10:10pm |
Keynote #3 - Christ's Delight in the Fear of the Lord |
10:10 - 10:40am |
Break |
10:40 - 12:00pm |
Keynote #4 - Promises for Those Who Fear God |
12:00 - 3:00pm |
Lunch Break |
3:30 - 4:30pm |
Keynote #5 - The One to Whom I Look |
4:30 - 6:20pm |
Dinner Break |
6:20 - 7:30pm |
Keynote #6 - “That They May Fear Me Always” (Jeremiah 32:40) |
7:30 - 8:50pm |
Keynote #7 - Jonah, His Shipmates, and the Fear of God |
8:50 - 11:00pm |
Fellowship Time |
Saturday
6:15 - 7:15am |
Men's Prayer Meeting |
7:15 - 8:30am |
Breakfast |
8:30 - 9:30am |
Breakouts #1-7
The Trinity and the Fear of God in Bunyan
No Fear in Love
Leviticus 19 - How the Fear of God Changes Relationships
How the Fear of God Transforms Marriage and Family
The Fear of God and an Impoverished Church
The Fear of the Lord and the Education of our Children
How the Fear of God Protected Joseph |
9:30 - 9:45am |
Break |
9:45 - 10:45am |
Breakouts #8-14
Thought Leaders Unmoved by Godly Fear
The Fear of God: A Powerful Motivation for Evangelism
Falling into the Hands of the Living God
During the Time of Your Stay on Earth
Fear of the Lord, Faith in the Lord, and Understanding His Love
Job and the Sustaining Power of Fearing God
How the Fear of the Lord Is the Beginning of Ministry |
10:45 - 11:00am |
Break |
11:00 - 12:00pm |
Keynote #8 - Noah Moved With Godly Fear |
12:00 - 1:20pm |
Lunch Break |
1:20 - 2:45pm |
Keynote #9 - The Fear of God and the Knowledge of God |
2:45 - 3:00pm |
Break |
3:00 - 4:00pm |
Keynote #10 - Q&A Panel |
4:00 - 5:00pm |
Keynote #11 - Conclusion |
5:00 - 7:00pm |
Dinner |
7:00 - 10:00pm |
Fellowship Hall Open |
Sunday
10:00 -12:30pm |
Sunday Service |
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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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Black Mountain Bistro -2.4 miles
203 East State Street
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Fresh Wood Fired Pizza and Pasta - 2.4 miles
100 South Ridgeway Av.
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My Father's Pizza & Pasta - 2.5 miles
110 Cherry Street
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Pizza Hut - 2.5 miles
250 US Highway 9,
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Domino's Pizza - 2.5 miles
108 Broadway St,
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Taco Bell - 2.5 miles
530 NC Highway 9
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Subway - 2.5 miles
202 NC Highway 9
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McDonald's - 2.5 miles
500 NC Hwy 9
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