Dr. Sproul addressed the faculty and student body at the recent Westminster Seminary California commencement. His message was "The Power of the Gospel" and he took Romans 1:1-17 as his text.Listen to the message along with Dr. Robert Godfrey's introduction of Dr. Sproul here....

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Registration is now open for our 6th annual Pastors Conference to be held October 20-23 in Lake Mary, Florida. R.C. will be joined by Sinclair Ferguson and Steven J. Lawson, both great friends of Ligonier. Let me tell you a few stories about our two specially invited speakers. Over the...

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Registration is now open for our Pastors Conference. This is a unique 4-day event each fall where we purposefully put a cap of 350 attendees and strive to give them an experience unlike any other pastors event. Ligonier Ministries loves pastors and it's a pleasure to serve them along with...

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R.C. Sproul will be speaking this weekend at the venerable Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology at the historic Tenth Presbyterian Church in downtown Philly. The "PCRT" is probably the "granddaddy" of major Reformed Bible conferences in North America (as Keith Jackson might put it) and was founded in 1974 by...

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Like many others out there in the Reformed evangelical universe, I've been waiting for T4G. "Together for the Gospel" (for you anagrammatically challenged) is a bi-annual pastors/church leader's conference held in Louisville with the worthy goal of promoting the centrality of the Gospel in local church life. This great event...

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Christ has redeemed us to be a light that directs others to Him. Fulfilling this call requires us to be able to deal with the most difficult questions asked about the Christian faith. If we are unprepared for the darkness around us, it will be harder to counter it with...

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Together for the Gospel 2008 will be held in Louisville, April 15-17. Registration is almost full. It is our joy to see the revived interest in the historic Christian faith, particularly among young pastors and seminarians. Dr. Sproul is a guest speaker again this year and we know it energizes...

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Our thanks to all our students and ministry partners who attended last week's National Conference. It was a pleasure to meet so many new friends and catch up with old ones. The team at Ligonier benefits from hearing your encouragement and your testimonies about the effects of this ministry...

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The conference has come to an end, but we are just getting started with adding the videos to the web site. If you were not able to watch the webcasts of the sessions, you can watch them online for the rest of this week. Here are the links: Preconference Messages...

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Dr. R.C. Sproul's second and final conference message was entitled "Counted Righteous in Christ (Imputation)." He began by reading Genesis 15:1-6, where we learn that Abraham believed God, and God "counted it to him as righteousness." Dr. Sproul then read from Romans 4:1-8, where we see Paul hearkening back...

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In his second and final conference message, Dr. Sinclair Ferguson spoke on the theme "The Nature of Saving Faith." Dr. Ferguson took his text from Romans 3:19-4:2, but also read several verses on the results of saving faith from Romans 5. INTRODUCTION Towards the beginning of the third book of...

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As we approach the end of the second day of this conference, I would like to remind you that you can participate in the weekend's proceedings from wherever you are, even if you happen to be on the other side of the world. We are continually updating the conference photo...

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This afternoon we finally got to hear from R.C. Sproul. He chose to speak from a few verses in Galatians 1 and 2 and said that he has probably preached this message 100 times in the past. He provided a brief defense of the importance of the doctrine of justification...

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C.J. Mahaney is president of Sovereign Grace Ministries, which is devoted to the establishment and support of local churches. Formerly the pastor of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Md. for 27 years, Pastor Mahaney also currently serves on the council of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and on the board...

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Dr. Sinclair Ferguson is senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, S.C., and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Seminary. One of the most renowned Reformed theologians in our day, Dr. Ferguson is also a member of the Council of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. He is...

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Yesterday, in a preconference message, Joni Eareckson Tada shared "Good News in a Fallen World." She spoke again this morning and as she so often does, she prefaced her speech with a video and a song and concluded it with another song (in which she was joined by the...

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The second day of the conference began with John MacArthur's second and final sermon. His topic was "Simultaneously Righteous and a Sinner" (or, to use the Latin theological term, simul iustus et peccator). He turned first to the well-known story of the raising of Lazarus and on that basis titled...

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Dr. Steven J. Lawson gave his second and final message entitled "The Saving Power of God." Noting that this is the central theme of Romans, Lawson took his text from Rom. 1:1-18. INTRODUCTION That all power belongs to God is clearly taught in the Bible. We call this the...

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Mrs. Joni Eareckson Tada has for many decades traveled the world to remind people of the practical applications of the Gospel. She is the founder of Joni and Friends, an organization designed to evangelize and disciple in the disability community. She currently holds an appointment to the Disability Advisory Committee...

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R.C. Sproul Jr. followed Dr. Lawson with a message entitled "Evangelizing Your Children." R.C. Sproul Jr. is the founder of the Highlands Study Center in Mendota, Va., which seeks to help Christians live more simple, separate, and deliberate lives to the glory of God and for the building of His...

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Dr. Steven J. Lawson opened the conference with a dynamic message entitled "The Foolishness of Preaching" from the text I Cor. 1:18-25. Lawson is the senior pastor of Christ Fellowship Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama. He serves on the board of directors of The Master's College and Seminary and the...

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This year we are pleased to have Lukas VanDyke, photographer extrordinaire, serving at the conference. He has been wandering all over the campus with his cameras and we have just posted the first of many galleries of his work.You can view them here....

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The Ligonier Ministries 2008 National Conference is now underway. Please consult this post if you would like to enjoy the plenary sessions via free, live webcast. Also, be sure to check back over the course of the conference for daily photo galleries. And stay tuned here for live-blog updates from...

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"Hello I'm Mel Duncan. I'm with Ligonier Ministries and I work with pastors." It's something I've said hundreds of times the last few years. It's also something I never get tired of repeating because over the last three years I've encountered pastors from all walks of life serving faithfully in...

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We're just days away from the biggest Ligonier event of the year. We are pleased to announce the free, live webcast of our national conference. New this year is a Spanish language audio simulcast. See below for details.Last year we had more than 22,000 visitors enjoy the conference stream, many...

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