MACP 2008 Audio

Inter-City Baptist Church and Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary in Allen Park, Michigan, host an annual preaching conference. I hope I can go someday. It is crammed full of helpful sessions. I have ordered .mp3 CDs of some past conferences and found excellent resources. They have made the latest one available online for free. Here are the links.

MACP 2008 Culture, Contextualization, and the Church

General Sessions

General Session 1 - David Doran

General Session 2 - Discussion Group

General Session 3 - Sam Horn

General Session 4 - Drew Conley

General Session 5 - David Doran

General Session 6 - Discussion Group

General Session 7 - Drew Conley

General Session 8 - Sam Horn

Workshops

David Doran

The Essence of Expositional Preaching - notes

Sanctification, Standards, and Slippery Slopes - notes

Contemporary Challenges for Biblical Separatism - notes

A Pastor's Guide to Contextualization/A Pastor's Concerns about Possible Contextualization Abuses

Making Wise Choices in a Wicked World

Drew Conley

Marks of Worldliness, Scripturally Defined (n/a) - notes

Ephesians 4:17-24 - New Life, Clean Break - notes

Sam Horn

The Character of an Effective Ministry in a Pagan Culture (n/a) - notes

Confronting Our Culture When the Culture Comes to Church - notes

Confronting Our Culture When the Church is in the Culture - notes

An Assessment and Response to Tim Keller's Theology of the City - notes

Applying Ancient Truth When Preaching to a Contemporary Audience - notes

Sam Dawson

A Review of John Frame's The Doctrine of the Christian Life (A Theology of Lordship), a Perspective on Culture (n/a) - notes

Pearson Johnson

Common Ground: The Quicksand of Evangelism and Missions - notes

Mark Snoeberger

Notes Toward a Definition of Culture - notes

A Review of D. A. Carson's Christ and Culture Revisited - notes

Robert McCabe

A Leading Challenge to a Literal Interpretation of the Creation Account: The Literary Framework Hypothesis - notes

Rolland McCune

Paul and Educated Unbelief - notes

Gerald Priest

When Church Historians Distort the Truth: The Problem of Cultural Agenda Dictating Interpretation - notes

R. Bruce Compton

Persevering in the Faith and the 'Sin Unto Death': Harmonizing Text (1 John 5:16-17) and Theology - notes

Ladies' Sessions

From Simon to Peter: Grow in the Grace and Knowledge of Christ (n/a) - Mary Ellen Conley - notes

Sheep that Bite - Mary Ellen Conley - notes

What is a Pastor's Wife? - Amy Johnson - notes

Lessons from the Life of Susannah Spurgeon - Amy Johnson - notes

Click here to download a copy of the MACP 2008 conference brochure. For any questions or for more information email macp@dbts.edu

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More links for Mid-America Conference on Preaching

• MACP 2008 “Culture, Contextualization, and the Church”
• MACP 2007 “Learning from the Past; Pressing toward the Future”
• MACP 2006 “Worthy of Double Honor: Feeding and Leading God's Flock”
• MACP 2005 “Guarding the Gospel”
• MACP 2004 “Church Growth that Glorifies God”
• MACP 2003 “The Ministry of the Holy Spirit”

Fearing God in a Hebel World: Dr. Bob McCabe

Dr. Bob McCabe is a scholar who teaches Old Testament at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, which is, from all I've seen, the finest self-identified fundamentalist seminary out there. Dr. McCabe staunchly supports (and rightly, I believe) a literal interpretation of the days of Genesis 1 as normal 24-hour days, and believes in a young earth (again, rightly, I believe). His excellent blog, Fearing God in a Hebel World, has some very helpful posts and links to more in-depth writings. I particularly commend the following two which have caught my eye recently: "Critique of the Framework Interpretation" "Evidence Incompatible with an Old Earth" See also his journal articles critiquing the framework hypothesis here, and check out "Defending the Foundation of the Gospel: Literal Days in the Creation Week"