Schedule

Christians belong to the world to come, making us strangers and exiles in this present order. This message will consider what it means for Christians to be strangers and exiles, encouraging us to maintain a distinct identity as the people of God.

A people united to Christ who participate in the love between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit has been God’s goal from all eternity. This session will consider the church in the scope of God’s eternal plan, looking particularly at how the Father elected His people in Christ from every nation, tribe, and tongue before the foundation of the world.

(Sinclair Ferguson & Joel Kim)

This seminar will cover several Christian doctrines that people commonly misunderstand, helping us to rightly understand our theology according to God’s Word.

From the very beginning of history, God has been on a mission calling a people to Himself. This message will examine the mission of God to build His church, looking at the biblical story of God’s mission from Genesis to Revelation and our role as the means through which our Lord advances His kingdom.

(W. Robert Godfrey, Ken Jones, Darrell Harrison, Stephen Nichols)

(J.D. Bridges, Sherif Fahim, Joel Kim, & Augustus Nicodemus Lopes)

This seminar will provide a look at the church around the world, helping us understand how God is moving to build His church in many nations and on many continents.

Paul tells the young pastor Timothy to “fight the good fight of faith” (1 Tim. 6:12). This message will look at Paul’s admonition to Timothy, explaining what it means for pastors and laypeople to fight the good fight of faith.

Christ builds His church through the ordinary means of grace: the Word, sacraments, and prayer. This session will explain the role of the ordinary means of grace and their necessity as the instruments Christ uses to save people and to build them up in faith.

The Nicene Creed, confessed by Christians for more than seventeen hundred years, states that the church is one, holy, catholic, and Apostolic. This message will explain the meaning and significance of these identity markers.

Although the church has many undershepherds—pastors and elders—the church has but one Chief Shepherd to whom all are accountable, the Lord Jesus Christ. This message will consider how Christ is the head of the church and how church government is related to His authority.

(Michael Reeves)

Jesus does not want His people to doubt whether they belong to Him but to know that they are citizens of His kingdom and adopted children of the Father. This seminar will address various subjects related to our assurance of salvation.

(Sinclair Ferguson, Joel Kim, Augustus Nicodemus Lopes, Michael Reeves, Derek Thomas)

Christ said that unbelievers would recognize His disciples by their love for one another (John 13:35). This message will examine Christ’s teaching on love as a mark of the church and of Christianity, exhorting us to love one another well.

(Sinclair Ferguson & W. Robert Godfrey)

Christians face trials and suffering on this side of glory. This seminar will discuss the Bible’s teaching on suffering and encourage us to remain faithful when we face difficulties of various kinds.

The church has long recognized the priority of worship, acknowledging that we are redeemed in order to become faithful worshipers of the one true God. This message will assert that worship is the end for which we are created and saved.

The church’s work includes evangelizing the nations and making disciples of all peoples. This message will remind us of the call to evangelize and disciple the nations, providing practical guidance for how we can fulfill this call.

Ultimately, the church cannot achieve the mission that God has given it without the empowerment and guidance of the Holy Spirit. This message will call us to depend on the power of the Spirit, helping us to understand the power that the Spirit grants and how we can avail ourselves of this empowerment for the sake of the church’s mission.