I found out many years ago that as encouraging as Christian conferences might be....and I had attended many....there was an inherent problem if we were not careful. That problem is that we would look forward every year to a certain conference....get all hyped up as it approached....they usually involved some kind of travel and stay at a hotel....a mini vacation of sorts....and it would be a great time....and then it would be over.....and we would settle in to our previous daily routine....until the next conference. As I reflected upon this it appeared that to me that we were doing it for ourselves.....not that we might be mobilized to go out to proclaim Christ.....but that we might have something to soothe our doubts on what we were not doing for Christ.
Having said that....the above video is a conference talk. It is thirty-three minutes long. Please consider listening to it. Steven Lawson is the speaker.....George Whitefield is the protagonist....Jesus Christ is object of devotion. So yes....attend Christian conferences....but don't ever be fooled into permitting them into exciting you more than any one of fifty-two Lord's Day sermons in a year!
Well there's another problem....the preaching today....you might be fortunate to hear one sermon in an entire year in your church that stirs like this one conference talk. That is the sad situation today....and our prayers should be that God might awaken these otherwise faithful men in our pulpits.....and all to His glory....so until God might do that....you need to hear sermons from your iPhone or computer....from....preachers of the past....or preachers today who preach like preachers from the past! Charles Spurgeon or Martyn Lloyd-Jones from the past....or John Piper or R. C. Sproul from today or the recent past....would be a great place to start.
If you look to the Blog Archive at the left....you will see a post near the bottom titled....A Month Of Sundays....which is about thirty sermons easily available on your computer....that I highly recommend to you.
