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When was the last time you preached from an Old Testament narrative?
Please join us as Dr. Ryken provides encouragement and practical instruction in the proclamation of these stories that have changed lives for millennia. We pray that the plenary sessions, seminars, and mutual fellowship will be an encouragement to you, whether you are just beginning your ministry or are a veteran laborer in His Word.
Dr. Timothy Z. Witmer
Coordinator, Department of Practical Theology
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Speakers Schedule Directions
Registration for this conference is free, but it is required.
If you can't attend this conference, visit this page at the time of the event to watch it live online.
Click here to download a brochure for this year's Preaching Conference
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ATTENTION WESTMINSTER ALUMNI:
You are invited to Westminster Theological Seminary's Alumni Luncheon following the Plenary Address on October 24th. Please RSVP.
Alumni Luncheon:
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Time: Immediately following the 10:30 Plenary Address by Dr. Philip Graham Ryken
Place: The Carriage House (formerly the Westminster Bookstore)
RSVP: Please RSVP for luncheon by emailing Jeffrey Shamess at jshamess@wts.edu
The Alumni Luncheon is free, but an RSVP is required.
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Speakers
Philip graham ryken
is the President of Wheaton College, his undergraduate alma mater, where he majored in English literature and philosophy. Dr. Ryken earned a Master of Divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in historical theology from the University of Oxford. He returned from Englandto join the pastoral staff at Tenth Presbyterian church in Philadelphia in 1995, preaching there until his appointment at Wheaton in 2010. Dr. Ryken haspublished more than 30 books, including The Message of Salvation; Ryken’s; Art for God’s Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts; and expository Bible Handbook commentaries on Exodus, Jeremiah, Luke, and other books of the Bible. His most recent publication is: Loving the Way Jesus Loves. Dr. Ryken and his wife Lisa met during their undergraduate days at Wheaton and have five children; Josh, Kirsten, Jack, Kathryn, and Karoline.
carl trueman
Carl Trueman (M.A., St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge; Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) is Professor of Historical Theology and Church History and Paul Woolley Chair of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary. He also is a monthly columnist for Reformation21.com. He has authored numerous books, including, The Claims of Truth: John Owen’s Trinitarian Theology, The Wages of Spin: Critical Writings on Historic and Contemporary Evangelicalsim, Minority Report: Unpoplular Essays on Everything from Ancient Christianity to Zen Calvinism, and Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative: Histories and Fallacies, and most recently: Fools Rush In: Where Monkeys Fear to Tread. He is also an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
James M. Garretson
has pastored congregations in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian Church in America, and also served as a professor of practical theology at Knox Theological Seminary. His published writings include Princeton and Preaching: Archibald Alexander and the Christian Ministry; A Scribe Well-Trained: Archibald Alexander and the Life of Piety; Princeton and the Work of the Christian Ministry, 2 vols., and Pastor-Teachers of Old Princeton: Memorial Addresses for the Faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary 1812-1921.
steve estes,
Senior Pastor of Community Evangelical Free Church (CEFC) grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and began attending CEFC in 1979 while completing M.Div. and Th.M. degrees at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. His previous studies included Columbia International University and the American Institute of Holy Land Studies, Jerusalem. In 1987 he was called as CEFC’s senior pastor. Steve is the author of Called to Die (the story of slain missionary Chet Bitterman), and co-author (with Joni Eareckson Tada) of When God Weeps; and A Step Further. Steve serves on the board of directors for the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation in Philadelphia. He and his wife, Verna, who grew up in Elverson, have eight children.
Schedule
Tuesday, October 23
7:30pm Opening Meeting
I Kings 1:1-10
Mine is the Kingdom
Dr. Philip Graham Ryken
Wednesday, October 24
9:00am Plenary Address
Applying Old Testament Narrative
Dr. Philip Graham Ryken
10:00am Coffee Break
10:30am Plenary Address
Thirty-one Reasons to Preach the Old Testament
Dr. Philip Graham Ryken
12:00pm Lunch (in local restaurants) OR RSVP for the Alumni Luncheon in Carriage House
To RSVP, please email Jeffrey Shamess at jshamess@wts.edu
2:00pm Seminars (repeated at 3:30pm)
Seminar 1
Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind: Peter Taylor Forsyth's Classic Revisited
Dr. Carl Trueman
Seminar 2
An Able & Faithful Ministry: Samuel Miller and the Pastoral Office
Dr. James M. Garretson
Seminar 3
Ministering to Angry Sheep
Years ago in a Q&A session at this very October seminar, James Montgomery Boice was asked, "What is the
hardest thing about being a minister?" He did not need to ponder a reply. "Criticism," he answered
immediately. Before throwing in the towel at your church or shooting a church member, consider attending
this session.
Rev. Steve Estes
3:00pm Coffee Break
3:30pm Seminars (repeated from 2:00pm)
5:00pm Dinner (in local restaurants)
7:00pm Closing Meeting
Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
Hedonism, Meaningless and Otherwise
Dr. Philip Graham Ryken
If you can't attend this conference, visit this page at the time of the event to watch it live online.
