Expositors' Conference 2009

It’s that time of year again! As we approach the fall of the year, the buzz here around Christ Fellowship Baptist Church starts to pick up as we look forward to hosting men from around the country and around the world for the Expositors’ Conference.

The conference this year will feature Dr. Steven Lawson and Dr. Joel Beeke, and is designed to strengthen church leadership’s committment to biblical ministry, model expository preaching, and be an encouragement through personal fellowship. In addition, it gives the attendees a unique opportunity to interact directly with Joel Beeke and Steve Lawson on a ministry and personal level. For more information and to register for the conference, you can contact Christ Fellowship Baptist Church at 251-461-2242 or visit their webiste at www.cfbcmobile.org .

Dr. Joel Beeke serves as President and Professor of Systematic Theology, Church History, and Homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He has been in the ministry since 1978, and has served as a pastor of his current church (HNRC in Grand Rapids, Michigan) since 1986.

Dr. Beeke is editor of the Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. He has written, co-authored,or edited sixty books, and contributed over 1500 articles to reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias.

Dr. Beeke holds a Ph.D (1988) from Westminster Theological Seminary. He is frequently called upon to lecture at reformed seminaries and to speak at conferences around the world.

Dr. Steven J. Lawson is the Senior Pastor of Christ Fellowship Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, having served as a pastor in Arkansas and Alabama for 28 years. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards, The Expository Genius of John Calvin, and Foundations of Grace. His books have been translated into Russian, Portugese, Spanish, German, Albanian, Korean, and Indonesian.

Dr. Lawson’s pulpit ministry takes him around the world, preaching in Russia, the Ukraine, Wales, England, Ireland, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, New Zealand, and throughout the United States.

Dr. Lawson is president of New Reformation Ministries, designed to bring about biblical reformation in the church today. He serves on the Executive Board of The Master’s Seminary and College and serves on the Advisory Council for Samara Preachers’ Institute and Theological Seminary in Samara, Russia.

Dr. Lawson and his wife, Anne, have three sons, Andrew, James, and John, and a daughter, Grace Anne.