This coming Friday and Saturday (February 5-6) SEBTS will host its annual 20/20 Collegiate Conference. This year’s theme is A City Within A City: Church, Culture & Counter-Culture. A list of this year’s plenary speakers is below. In addition to the plenary sessions, breakout sessions will be led by SEBTS faculty members such as Bruce Ashford, David Nelson, Alvin Reid, Nathan Finn, Heath Thomas, Ed Gravely, Mark Liederbach, and George Robinson (among many others).
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A City Within A City: The 20/20 Collegiate Conference at SEBTS
A City within a City: Church, Culture, & Counter-Culture
We at BtT invite you to join us for our February conference, “City within a City: Church, Culture, & Counter-Culture (Feb 5-6, 2010). The conference features five plenary sessions (Danny Akin, Matt Chandler, David Platt, JD Greear, and Clayton King) and 30 breakout sessions (Chandler, Platt, McKinion, Reid, Finn, Ashford, King, Greear, etc.).
This is our annual collegiate conference and is focused on college-aged students, but we welcome seminary students, young professionals, and mature high school students. We expect … [Read More]
Remembering Richard John Neuhaus
Remembering Richard John Neuhaus
By Bruce R. Ashford and David P. Nelson
On January 8, 2009 Richard John Neuhaus passed from this life to the next. Neuhaus was pastor, author, commentator, and served as Editor in Chief of First Things, a journal of religion and public life. Given his deep influence on our lives and work, we want to present this as something of an “in memoriam.”Perhaps it is surprising to some that Southern Baptists would appreciate … [Read More]
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Mark Driscoll Unplugged
This is an interview for those who like their coffee strong. In light of the little fracas this past week surrounding Baptist Press and Mark Driscoll, BtT provides you an interview with Mark Driscoll. David Nelson interviews Mark on a variety of topics. If you would like to listen to the interview, click here.
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Mark Driscoll and Southeastern Seminary
Last weekend, Southeastern Seminary hosted our fifth annual 20/20 Collegiate Conference. The conference theme was “The Gospel Comes to Life.” The plenary speakers included Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church and the Acts 29 Network, C. J. Mahaney of Sovereign Grace Ministries, Bill Brown of Cedarville University, and Southeastern President Danny Akin. Between the Times contributor Nathan Finn live-blogged the plenary sessions, which you can read here, here, here, here, and here. We had more … [Read More]
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20/20 Conference, Plenary Session IV: Bill Brown
Bill begins with a story about the squalor of Calcutta: who takes care of these people? Hindus don’t-this is their lot in life. Muslims don’t-they are the scum of the earth. Only the Christians take care of these people.
Bill looks forward to the day when people don’t think of right-wing extremists when they hear Christian, but think of the gospel come to life. He’s talking to us about “Engaging the Culture for Life.”
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20/20 Conference, Session III: Mark Driscoll
Today Mark is picking up where he left off last night: his seventh point.
7. The doxological view of culture
Worship is not an event. It includes events, but it is all of life. Worship does not start and stop, like a church service. Worship is not reduced to music, but it includes music, because music is part of our life with God. Worship is not something done solely by Christians or religious people; all people worship … [Read More]
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20/20 Conference, Plenary Session II: C. J. Mahaney
After sensing the leading of the Spirit, C. J. is changing from his original plan and is now preaching from Mark 14: the woman’s anointing of Jesus’ head and feet with costly perfume. He wants us to meditate on the gospel that has so ably been applied by Mark Driscoll in the previous address. The title of C. J.’s message is “Extravagant Devotion.”
An insight from an article of Sports Illustrated written during the Clinton Administration: … [Read More]
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20/20 Conference, Plenary Session I: Mark Driscoll
Mark begins with his testimony.
Born in North Dakota in 1970, moved to Seattle as a young man. Lost when he went to college, knew nothing of the Christian faith, was in a fraternity for a couple of weeks, then left the frat because he loved his girlfriend Grace. He came to faith in Christ after reading Romans in his dorm room.
God speaks: “Marry Grace and plant a church.”
Stays in school, earns a degree in … [Read More]
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