When: February 2-4, 2009
Where: Minneapolis, MN
Speakers: Mark Dever, Matt Chandler, Michael Oh, John Piper
Host: Desiring God
Website: 2009 Desiring God Pastors’ Conference

As I preached my way through a series on the new birth recently, I was gripped in a new way with the place of gospel-telling in the way people are born again. The key text was 1 Peter 1:23–25: “You have been born again . . . through the living and abiding word of God. . . . And this word is the good news that was preached to you.”

The implications of this are massive. People are born again through hearing the gospel. The God-wrought, sovereign miracle that no human can bring about does not happen where the gospel is not heard and known… (read more)