I’ve been waiting to access the audio and video from this past June’s TGC Women’s Conference.  I’ve heard wonderful things from my wife and about 20 ladies from the church who were able to attend.  Well, the wait is over.  If interested, you can grab the video of the plenary sessions and the audio of the workshops here.

A couple weeks ago, I had the privilege of speaking at the 10th New Life Fellowship Bible Conference in Vernon Hills, IL.  This is easily my favorite conference of all.  To know why, see here.  I mean, you can’t get much better than hanging out with and sitting under the word with Tony Carter, Reddit Andrews, Ken Jones, and Louis Love and all the saints and pilgrims who make the journey there.  Word.  Spirit.  Laughter.  Joy.  Love.  It’s an awesome time!

This year’s theme was “A God Like No Other: Expositions of the Book of Micah.”  The site and audio work best with Explorer or Firefox.  Here’s the line-up:

The Glory Comes Down: Micah 1 (Tony Carter)

The Present Darkness: Micah 2-3 (Ken Jones)

The Coming Glory: Micah 4 (Reddit Andrews)

The Shepherd Who Leads: Micah 5 (Thabiti Anyabwile)

The Holiness God Demands: Micah 6 (Ken Jones)

The God Like No Other: Micah 7 (Reddit Andrews)

What a great blessing to preach one of the best known passages (or at least verses) in the Christian world.  Check the audio.  Next year, check the conference itself.  You won’t be disappointed.  Next year’s theme: “Give ‘em Heaven: Expositions of Revelation 19-22.”

Well, that’s not really a T4G event proper, but it was organized in coordination with T4G.  Mrs. Mary Mohler led a panel of pastors’ wives in a discussion with wives at Southern Seminary.  My darling wife had opportunity to contribute to the conversation along with Jani Ortlund, Lauren Chandler, and two “p.k’s,” Katie Mohler and Ashley Smith.  Obviously, I wasn’t invited to attend.  I’m not bitter, really.  But I did hear it was a great discussion.  You can listen in to both part 1 and part 2.  I pray it blesses.

You can listen here.  From the 9Marks website:

Greg Beale gives a crash course on the discipline of biblical theology, assesses recent works on it, and explains what he’s written and why.

A two part 9Marks interview:

Part 1: In view of their new book, Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert discuss the mission of the church, social justice, and the gospel.

Part 2: Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert, authors of the new book What is the Mission of the Church?, examine key biblical passages on mission, the poor, and the kingdom of God.

The elders of FBC are currently leading about 40 members of the church through a discussion of The Trellis and the Vine.  As elders, we found the book so helpful and clear that we wanted to share its insights with our people.

I just learned that Tony and Col, authors of the book, are posting a series of podcasts discussing issues related to the book.  Thus far there are two discussions posted:

Trellis & Vine Talk 1–Not About Small Groups

In this first episode of Trellis & Vine Talk Tony and Col discuss—amongst other things— why the ideas in The Trellis and the Vine are not about small groups and one-to-one. Listen to it here, or download the file to catch up on it later.

Trellis & Vine Talk 2–Who Is Your Sheep?

This is the second episode of Trellis & Vine Talk, in which Tony and Col discuss discipleship gurus, what (or who) exactly is a lay pastor, a shepherds heart, and ministry of the word. Listen to it here, or download the file to catch up on it later.

Thanks to The Briefing for posting these!  Enjoy!

The good folks at Sovereign Grace Ministries have posted some of the audio from last week’s Worship God ’11 Conference.

Ray Ortlund, Jr, “Gathering to Behold” (2 Cor. 3:18)

Bryan Chappell, “Gathering to Rehearse the Gospel” (Isaiah 6:1-8)

Thabiti Anyabwile, “Gathering Around the Word” (1 Tim. 4:11-16)

I thoroughly enjoyed Ray’s and Bryan’s meditation on the greater glory of God in Christ and in grace.  Each arrived at that theme from their different texts and left us beholding the greatness of the Lord Jesus.  Well worth the listen.

I assume the audio from Bob Kauflin’s and Craig Cabaniss’ talks will be posted soon.

Update:

They’ve now added the final two plenary sessions.  Both were outstanding and practically helpful.

Bob Kauflin, “Gathering to Edify” (1 Cor. 14)

Craig Cabaniss, “Gathering to Commission” (1 Peter 2:9-10)

That’s the theme of the talks given at the Heidelberg Conference on Reformed theology. The audio is available for:

Sebastian Heck, “Convocation Address”

Dr. Derek Thomas, “The Church, Reformed According to the Word of God”

Dr. Carl Trueman, “The Confessing and Confessional Church”

Jon Payne, “The Church and the Means of Grace”

Dr. Carl Trueman, “The Heidelberg Catechism”

Jon Payne, “The Reformed Pastor”

Dr. Derek Thomas, “The Worship of the Reformed Church”

Sebastian Heck, “Planting Confessional Reformed Churches”

Looks like they’re in the process of putting up videos as well.  (HT: Feeding on Christ)

A week or so ago I had the privilege of joining Paul Tripp, Phil Johnson, Fred Zaspel and Kevin O’Brien as speakers at the Ocean City Bible Conference.  If you’re looking for a family friendly, spiritually refreshing, and recreationally rich time, you should consider the Ocean City Bible Conference.  What other conference organizes a sand castle contest during some of the family down time?  What a wonderful time with the saints there!

They’ve now posted a selection of audio from the conference.  You might be interested to hear:

Phil Johnson on “An Exhortation to Timid Souls” (Encouraging)

Paul Tripp on “The War: The Kingdom of God vs. the Kingdom of Self” (Very convicting)

Myself on “Living the God-Centered Life: Centered on the Word” (Heb. 1)

Or a “Coffee House Q&A” with Phil Johnson, Paul Tripp, Kevin O’Brien and myself. (a lot of fun)

The good folks at Peacemaker Ministries held their annual conference last week in Reston, Virginia.  The conference theme was “Forgiveness.”  They’ve made the audio from the conference available.  To download the following sessions, right click and save-as.

Josh Harris: ” Forgiven to Forgive” (Thursday Night Opening Session: Harris_Keynote.mp3)

Chris Brauns: “Focus on the Future in Order to Unpack Forgiveness Today” (Friday Morning Session:Brauns_Keynote.mp3)

Ken Sande: “The Most Forgiving People in the World” (Friday Evening Session: Sande_Keynote.mp3)

Thabiti Anyabwile: “Confession and Forgiveness Bring Freedom” (Saturday Morning Session:Anyabwile_Keynote.mp3)

Bishop Efraim Tendero: “When We Forgive: The Power of Forgiveness in Communties” (Sunday Morning Session: Tendero_Keynote.mp3)