Andy Naselli

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Mid-America Conference on Preaching: Oct. 18-19, 2007

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The annual Mid-America Conference on Preaching, hosted by Inter-City Baptist Church and Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, October 18–19, 2007. Dr. Claude Wiggins just emailed this (pasted below with his permission; hyperlinks added):

“We would love to have you join us for the 2007 Mid-America Conference on Preaching. Our theme for this year, ‘Learning from the Past, Pressing toward the Future,’ is a reminder that we are runners in a relay race that began with the Apostles and will continue until our Lord returns. We can’t live looking backward, but if we don’t understand what has happened before us, we’re surely headed for trouble.

“This year’s speakers include Doug McLachlan, Mark Minnick, Sam Horn, David Saxon, David Doran, and the faculty of DBTS. The schedule includes eight general sessions and opportunity to choose from two dozen workshops. Complete conference information, including workshop list, schedule and registration form, is available at http://www.dbts.edu/1-4/1-41.asp. For additional information please email macp@dbts.edu or call (313) 381-0111.”

Workshops include the following:

  • Essential Qualities of God-Honoring Worship Songs
  • A Model for Developing A God-Centered Ministry
  • Shades of Evangelicals: Recognizing the Differences
  • Conservative Evangelicals and Fundamentalists: Recognizing the Differences
  • Are We Worried about Holiness or How We Look?
  • Expositional Preaching from the Parables
  • Designing Sermons for Effective Communication
  • Weakness or Wisdom? Fundamentalism and Romans 14:1–15:13
  • Are Baptists Protestants?
  • In Defense of Penal-Substitutionary Atonement
  • Evangelistic Calvinists Past and Present: Being What We Were Chosen to Become
  • Is There a Present Form of The Kingdom of God/Heaven: A Case Study in Hermeneutics and Theology
  • Meaning of Fellowship in 1 John
  • An Overview of Ecclesiastes
  • Local Church Membership and the Practice of the Ordinances

Glenn Gould Plays Bach’s “Goldberg Variations”

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Glenn Gould’s (Wikipedia) recordings of the Goldberg Variations by J. S. Bach are among my all-time favorites. Amazon has excerpts of both his 1955 and 1981 recordings.

My favorite is his 1981 recording, which I’ve probably listened to more than any other piece in my music collection (over 200 times according to iTunes, but that doesn’t count years of listening to it on cassette tape and then CD prior to importing it to iTunes).

You can also watch him play on Google video (though I admit that he is eccentric!).

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6984208089899995423#

Brilliant. Masterful. Edifying. And as Bach would say, Soli Deo gloria.

The Gospel Coalition Workshops

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MP3 downloads of workshops given on May 24, 2007 at The Gospel Coalition Conference are now available here. I attended “Q and A on Preaching” with Crawford Loritts and Ligon Duncan, and it was very profitable. I haven’t heard any of the other workshops yet.

See also TGC articles (including an RSS feed for recently added articles), audio & video (including interviews and a panel discussion), foundational documents, and the e-newsletter sign-up.

The Gospel Coalition Interviews

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The Gospel Coalition now has dozens of short video interview clips available. Four men, at least in the interviews posted so far, answer various questions: D. A. Carson, Tim Keller, John Piper, and Mark Driscoll. I reserved a few hours today to watch these, and it was well worth the time—regardless of whether one completely agrees with every viewpoint expressed. Some of the clips are especially thoughtful and moving, especially those by Carson and Piper. (Cf. TGC’s articles, audio & video, foundational documents, and stakeholders.)