Speaking Engagements Audio for Download

2017 Spring Conference, Christ Church (Cary, NC): Amazing Grace and Absurd Self-Righteousness

1. The Gospel vs. Common Sense: When God Goes Crazy (Luke 15)
2. A Tale of Two Brothers: The Prodigal and the “Presbyterian" (Luke 15)
3. Beating the Older Brother Syndrome: Creating a Church Culture of Scandalous Grace (Luke 15)
4. Declaring Victory When All Is Lost: Wrath Released, Wrath Absorbed (Mark 14:53-65). For sermon notes, click here.
5. The Kindness Revolution: Living Out What We’ve Been Given (Ephesians 4:25-32)

2016 Church of the King (Sacramento, CA) Summer Conference: The Gospel in the Gospels

Sermon: Wearing and Bearing the Curse: He Came to Make His Blessings Flow Far As the Curse Is Found (Genesis 3:1-24). Preached at Church of the King, Sacramento, CA, August 21, 2016.

1. Talk 1: The Gospel According to Jesus’ Birth: Jesus as the Embodiment of Israel and Israel’s God (Matt. 2:1-23)
2. Talk 2: The Gospel According to Jesus’ Meals: Jesus, Friend of Sinners (Luke 5:27-32)
3. Talk 3: The Gospel According to Jesus’ Most Famous Parable: Growing Young (Luke 15:1-32)
4. Talk 4: The Gospel According to Jesus’ Miracles: The Presence of the Absent Christ (John 9:1-41)
5. Talk 5: The Gospel According to Jesus’ Garden Prayer: The Passion of the Impassible God — Or, "And Can It Be That Thou My God Should Die For Me" (Mark 14:32-42, 15:33-39; Heb. 5:7-10)

2016 Reformation Covenant Church Family Camp

Twin Rocks, Oregon—June 13–19, 2016

1. Stop Making Jesus Boring! (Mark 4:21–22)
2. Hideous Sin and Beautiful Grace (Mark 5:1–20)
3. Jesus as a Model for Action: Patterns of Discipleship and Mission (Mark 1:16–20)
4. Redefining Greatness: How Jesus Transforms Our Pursuit of Glory (Mark 10:35–45)
5. What Does It Mean to Have a Baptized Wallet? Money, Mercy, and the Metropolis (1 Timothy 6:6–10, 17–19)
6. Blind Bartimaeus: Crucial Lessons in Messiahship and Discipleship (Mark 10:46–52) Q & A Session forthcoming.

2015 Cornerstone Reformed Church Spring Conference: "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life: Studies in Proverbs"

1. The Art of Living With Wisdom: Going with the Grain of Creation
2. Wisdom Comes Through Death: How Wisdom Masters and Matures Us
3. When Wisdom Became Human: The Ultimate Revelation of God’s Wisdom
4. Creating Wealth and Caring for the Poor: Money, Mercy, and Maturity
5. Partying With Wisdom: Wisdom and the Good Life
6. Wisdom and Dominion: The Liturgy of Vocation (abbreviated)
7. Question and Answer Session

2012 Trinity Family Advance (Valparaiso, FL): "Leadership in the Church"

Pastor as Father

Father as Pastor

2012 Summer Sanctus 5 Youth Camp (Piney Woods, TX): "The Seven Deadly Sins"

1. Pride
2. Envy
3. Anger
4. Sloth
5. Lust
6. Greed
7. Gluttony
8. First Q & A Session (with pastors Randy Booth and Jeff Niell)
9. Second Q & A Session (with pastors Randy Booth and Jeff Niell)

2011 St. Mark Reformed (Nashville, TN) "Living as the Church" Conference: Mission -- Its Meaning and Manifestation »

1. Pre-Conference Interview with Joe Thacker
2. Mission and the Home
3. Mission and the Poor
4. Mission and the Marketplace
5. Mission and the Gospel (Lord's Day sermon from Genesis 12:1-9)

2010 Trinity Family Advance: Christian Education (Valparaiso, FL) »

The Rhythms and Routines of Parenting: The Education of a Covenant Child (Deut. 6:1-9, 20-25)

2009 Church of the King (Sacramento, CA) Family Conference »

1. Church as Contrast Society (1 Peter 2:4-12)
2. Investing in the City: Money, Mercy, and the Church (1 Tim. 6:17-19)
3. The Lost Virtue of Hospitality (Heb. 13:1-2)
4. What Is Marriage For? (Part 1)
5. What is Marriage For? (Part 2)
6. The Blessed Family Man (Psalm 128)

2009 Trinity Family Advance: The Church-Friendly Family (Valparaiso, FL) »

1. What Is Marriage For?
2. Missional Parenting
3. Q and A Session (with Randy Booth)
4. The Blessed Family

2008 Ozark Theology Conference: Children in the Household of Faith »

1. Jesus and Our Children: Kids and the Kingdom
2. Our Kids and the Sacraments: Where Faith Begins
3. Paedotheology: Infant Faith, Infant Baptism, Infant Communion, Infant Salvation
4. The Model Father: Raising Covenant Children to Maturity
5. Parenting by Faith: What It Means to Be "Paeodeverything"
6. The Missional Family: Raising Missional Children

2007 Church of the King (Sacramento, CA) Family Conference: "The Church" »

1. The Visionary Church: Behold, the People of God!
2. Living In and As God's New Creation -- The Church as the New Jerusalem
3. Doing Church According to the Heavenly Blueprint: A Colony of Heaven on Earth
4. The Gates of the Mountain City: You Can See Heaven From Here
5. The Pentecostal Church: Life in the Spiritual Body
6. The Community of the Spirit: A Gospel Formed People
7. Reformed Catholicity -- A Project for Our Time

2004 Auburn Avenue Pastors Conference

Justification, Trinity and Catholicity

2014–2015 Knowing the Lord Through Israel's History
College/Young Adult Study

1. Introducing Old Testament Narrative: 1 Samuel 17 as a Test Case
2. Introducing the Book of Judges: Is There a King in Israel?
3. Judges as Action/Adventure Story (Judges 1:1-7)
4. Judges as Romantic Comedy (Judges 1:8–26)

Spring-Summer 2014 Growing in Wisdom, Part 2
College/Young Adult Bible Study

1. Wisdom's Resume: Does She Have the Credentials to Be Your Boss? (Proverbs 8)
2. Wise and Foolish Friendships: Wisdom and Community
3. The Gospel and Relationships: The Art of Spiritual Friendship
4. Drinking with Wisdom: A Look at Wisdom, Wine, and Beer
5. Wisdom and Wealth: Using Money the Way Wisdom Intends

Summer-Fall 2013 Growing in Wisdom Series
College/Young Adult Bible Study

1. What is Wisdom?
2. The Worth of Wisdom
3. Sexual Wisdom
4. The Seductress, Lady Folly
5. Pursuing Lady Wisdom
6. Wisdom and Character Formation
7. Song of Songs, Part 1 (Peter Leithart)
8. Song of Songs, Part 2 (Peter Leithart)
9. Song of Songs, Part 3 (Peter Leithart)
10. Wisdom and Work
11. Wisdom at Work: Wisdom, Dominion and the Common Good
12. Designed for Work: Serving and Being Served Through Our Daily Vocations (Handout: "Some Quotations on Work: Glorifying God on the Job")
13. Wise Words, Powerful Words
14. The War of Words: The Folly of Gossip
15. Words that Curse
16. Words that Bless

Bible and Bones Bible Study

Bible and Bones Bible Study: Culture Making, Part 1

Bible and Bones Bible Study: Culture Making Part 2

2016 Parenting Workshop

Parenting Workshop 101: Raising Children in the Discipline and Instruction of the Lord

Fall 2013 TPC Parenting Seminar

Shepherding Teens: An Interview with Phillip and Debbie Woods

Shepherding Pre-Teens: Miscellaneous Topics

Spring 2013 TPC Christian Parenting Seminar

Loving Little Ones

Shepherding Teens

The Mechanics and Methods of Discipline

Spring 2010 TPC Christian Parenting Seminar

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4