After a week away travelling to attend the Sovereign Grace Ministries Leadership Conference, Peter and I are back.

Bob Kauflin called it a “fire hydrant of grace, encouragement, truth, conviction and fellowship” which I think summed it up pretty good.

This year’s special guest was pastor and author, R.C Sproul who preached the first two evening main sessions on the Holiness of God (from Isaiah 6:1-8) and the Holiness of Christ. 

Next, David Powlison preached the third main session which helped us to apply the doctrine of sin without becoming morbidly introspective.

Then there was the annual mission update which covered various things going on among the churches that are part of Sovereign Grace, and also highlighted some of the exciting opportunites we have to serve pastors and churches internationally – in countries such as Cuba, South Korea, Thailand, Haiti, Bahamas, Burma, China, India, Philippines, Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil, Germany, Canada, Uganda and Sri Lanka!

In the final evening session, CJ Mahaney preached from 2 Corinthians 13:14 on ”Trinitarian Pastoral Ministry”.  You can download all the main session messages (for a small charge) from here, with the seminar sessions due for release at the end of April.

When you throw into the mix a choice of 2 seminars (from various Sovereign Grace Pastors and other guests – like Mike Bullmore and Mark Dever) you can see that it was a rich opporutnity to celebrate the gospel and learn how to apply it better in this local church!