Book Day with the Shepherds

One of the things that really blesses us each year at the Shepherds Conference is the amount of good helpful books that are supplied here for the pastors to pick up. Not only do they make the best of the best available for purchase but each year they bless us with a small library of books for free. Right now my hotel room is a library from yesterdays book day.

Just a few highlights of the day as far as preaching is concerned:
Ligon Duncan showed us in great fashion how to preach from OT books like Numbers. His text on Numbers 5 was one we had never heard preached before and showed us that “all Scripture is God-breathed and useful.”

Steven Lawson did a biographical sketch on John Calvin and focused primarily on Calvin the preacher. It was masterful and helped challenge us in our preaching to work hard in the text.

Al Mohler hit the home-run of the day for us where he called preachers to know and to preach one thing: Christ crucified. This message went direct to my heart and God used to help focus me in what I would be spending my time preaching/teaching on this year. I praise God for Dr. Mohler’s message.

We are excited about today and what the Lord will bring. Another trip to the bookstore is in store, so that little library will probably increase by about 25-30 volumes this week. Now I have to find the time to begin reading them all, but you can be assured, the more I read, the more we at the Fellowship will find things to post.

One last note, this is our 100th post (it only took us a year and a half to get here!). Thanks for your patronage and support of the Fellowship. Look for more affirming theology in the next 100 posts (maybe it won’t take us more than a year and a half to get there).