{"id":789,"date":"2008-06-25T01:38:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T09:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/06\/25\/my-excellent-twelve-hour-bible-conference\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T04:29:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T12:29:15","slug":"my-excellent-twelve-hour-bible-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/06\/25\/my-excellent-twelve-hour-bible-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"my excellent twelve hour Bible conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
I am on my way to the Western Canada Baptist Fellowship annual meeting, this year featuring the preaching of Mark Minnick. The meeting will be held in Calgary, AB, Thursday-Saturday (although I have to beat it out of town on Saturday to make it home for our own services).<\/p>\n
On the way, I am going to spend a day with my parents in my quirky and beloved Alberta home town. I say quirky because my love for this town is mostly nostalgic. There is nothing special about the town per se, but there are excellent memories to be had on almost every street of the little burg… and it is on the prairies where you can see the sky. What more could one ask out of a home town?<\/p>\n
I had intended to get an early ferry and make it home before I rested my weary head, but certain family responsibilities meant I had to catch a noon ferry. So here I am, twelve hours after disembarking, still a couple of hours from home, and ready to sack out. But before I do, a few comments on preaching…<\/p>\n
When driving alone, I love nothing better than listening to sermons. With modern technology I do this with a PDA and an auxiliary plug in my CD player. In my twelve hours on the road, I managed to listen to 15 and a half sermons today! Kind of a soul-food pig-out session!<\/p>\n
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The preachers for my marathon personal Bible conference were Chuck Phelps, now president of Maranatha Baptist Bible College, Brian Fuller, bro Phelps’ successor at Trinity Baptist Church, Concord, NH, and Royce Short, Dean of the School of Religion at Bob Jones University.<\/p>\n
The Phelps\/Fuller messages are from last summer as Trinity Baptist Church went through the transition from the ministry of brother Phelps to the ministry of brother Fuller. You can access some of these messages here<\/a> and the rest here<\/a>. You will want to download the messages from late April 2007 through August 2007.<\/p>\n Chuck Phelps is a contemporary of mine, graduating from BJU one year behind me, but the Lord has given him a much wider ministry than mine. (Praise the Lord for that!) I can’t remember ever having much contact with him at school, I knew who he was, but that is about it. This spring, he spoke at our northwest regional FBF meeting. I was especially blessed by those services and through some of the things he said in conversation became interested in the period of transition for Trinity Baptist last summer. I was happy to discover the messages available online and made a project of listening to all of them. Today’s trip enabled me to finish the last eleven messages from that time period.<\/p>\n