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Overview
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The modern church has nearly lost a sense of the Biblical doctrine and functionality of the family. At this conference, we plan to examine it in detail and seek its recovery.
Why did God create families? What is a family? How should families experience life together?
At this conference, you will see that God, who is the designer of family life, answers all of these questions in the Bible. The “Theology of the Family Conference” will give you reliable answers to these questions from Genesis to Revelation - the only sure foundation from which to understand and build your family.
It is no accident that the entire story of redemption is couched in family imagery. The Bible begins with the marriage of Adam and Eve and ends with the marriage supper of the Lamb, where the bride—the church—is married to her husband. The Bible begins with a heavenly family, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and it progresses to describe how God is gathering His family from the ends of the earth through the spread of the Gospel. Finally, God’s family is finally taken to a heavenly home marked by everlasting joy.
Join us at “The Theology of the Family Conference,” and you will not only walk away with a clearly defined doctrine of the family, but you will also understand how to apply that doctrine in your family and in your church.
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Speakers
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.
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.
Tom Ascol has served as a Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida since 1986. Prior to moving to Florida, he served as pastor and associate pastor of churches in Texas. He has a BS degree in sociology from Texas A&M University (1979) and has also earned the MDiv and Ph.D. degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas, specializing in Baptist Theology. He has served as an adjunct professor of theology for New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Reformed Theological Seminary, the Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary, and Reformed Baptist Seminary. He also served as a Visiting Professor at the Nicole Institute for Baptist Studies at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida, and Visiting Professor of Africa Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia. Tom serves as the President of Founders Ministries. He has edited the Founders Journal, a quarterly theological publication of Founders Ministries, and has written hundreds of articles for various journals and magazines. He has been a regular contributor to TableTalk, the monthly magazine of Ligonier Ministries. He has also edited and contributed to several books in addition to authoring From the Protestant Reformation to the Southern Baptist Convention, Traditional Theology and the SBC and co-authoring with Jared Longshore the forthcoming (2021) Strong and Courageous. Tom regularly preaches and lectures at various conferences throughout the United States and internationally. He and Donna have six children, three sons-in-law, and a daughter-in-law. They also have thirteen grandchildren who absolutely rock.
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.
Josh Buice is the founder and president of G3 Ministries and serves as the pastor of Pray's Mill Baptist Church on the westside of Atlanta. He enjoys theology, preaching, church history, and has a firm commitment to the local church. He also enjoys many sports and the outdoors including long-distance running and high country hunting. He has a weekly blog on the G3 Blog network (Delivered by Grace) and he’s the contributing editor to the book, The New Calvinism. He and his wife Kari have four children (two boys and two girls) and they reside in Douglasville, Georgia.
Gavin Beers, a native of Northern Ireland, is a graduate of the Free Church Seminary, Inverness, Scotland. From 2006 until 2018, Rev. Beers was the minister of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) congregation at Ayr, in the southwest of Scotland. Now, he is the minister of the FCC's first North Carolina, USA, congregation. He is married and is the father of six 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.
Jared Longshore serves as Associate Pastor of Grace Baptist Church. A born-and-raised-Floridian, he lived in Central Florida before moving to Southwest Florida to finish a BS degree at Florida Gulf Coast University. Having served in pastoral ministry since 2007, he has earned MDiv and PhD degrees from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Jared also serves as a board member and Vice President of Founders Ministries. He has edited and contributed to a book published by Founders Ministries, By What Standard? God’s World…God’s Rules. He and his wife Heather have seven children.
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.
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.
Kyle Reeder is the Pastor of the Solid Rock Baptist Church in Benton, Kentucky - a church plant that began in March of 2015. Before being called into full-time ministry, Kyle was a professional fingerstyle guitarist. He has won both national and international fingerstyle guitar competitions and was inducted into the International Thumbpicking Hall Of Fame at the age of 24. In 2010, Kyle gave all of that up for full-time Gospel ministry and now seeks to glorify God through the proclamation of His Son Jesus Christ. Kyle lives in Mayfield, Kentucky with his wife, Bethany, and their three daughters: Bella, Kyla, and Lydia.
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.
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.
Elizabeth Botkin is a daughter, sister, aunt, and author, striving to serve the Lord in her church, community, extended family, and family business. She's passionate about studying and teaching on the role of single Christian women in the body of Christ. She and her sister Anna Sofia occasionally write things on BotkinSisters.com.
One of Anna Botkin's biggest life passions is to encourage women to strive for a deeper understanding of the strength, competency, wisdom, and sound doctrine the Lord wants for all His daughters. Some know her as the co-author of So Much More and It's (Not That) Complicated and the blog Botkinsisters.com, but she aspires to be known as someone who never stopped growing and repenting, a faithful servant to her church, someone who labored in the gospel in her local community of Hickman County TN, and the auntie who helped her nieces and nephews uncover a complete triceratops.
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