Christ the Center is pleased to continue their coverage of the Gospel Coalition’s 2011 National Conference in Chicago, IL. On this episode, they speak with several guests including Doug Logan of Epiphany Fellowship. Doug is planting an urban church in Camden, NJ.

Chris Larson, Executive Vice President at Ligonier Ministries also checked in. Chris speaks about several new Ligonier initiatives including their Reformation Bible College and Ligonier Connect.

Finally, Mark Dever visits to speak about about pastoral searches and multi-site churches. Rev. Dr. Dever is senior pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church and the founder of 9Marks Ministries.

Participants: Camden Bucey, Chris Larson, Doug Logan, Jared Oliphint, Jonathan Brack, Mark Dever

Christ the Center comes to you from the floor of The Gospel Coalition 2011 National Conference in Chicago, IL. In this episode, the hosts welcome several guests to speak about a variety of issues. Bob Doll speaks about Christian business ethics. Bob Doll is Chief Equity Strategist for Fundamental Equities at BlackRock a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services. Mr. Doll will be a speaker at the upcoming business ethics conference organized by the Center for Christian Business Ethics. [0:48]

Chris Brauns speaks about his books Unpacking Forgiveness and When the Word Leads Your Pastoral Search. Chris is the pastor at the Red Brick Church in Stillman Valley, IL and writes frequently on his website. [12:40]

Pastor Scotty Smith visits to speak about the unique congregation at Christ Community Church in Franklin, TN as well as his interesting practice of writing daily prayers. [28:51]

David Powlison explains the deep connection between biblical counseling and Van Tilian apologetics. David is a faculty member at the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation, a board member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, and teaches courses at Westminster Theological Seminary. In this illuminating segment, Dr. Powlison helps to unpack the latent philosophical frameworks in secular psychology. [38:27]

Participants: Camden Bucey, Chris Brauns, Jared Oliphint, Jonathan Brack

Christ the Center comes to you from the floor of The Gospel Coalition 2011 National Conference in Chicago, IL. In the first segment of this episode, Jared Oliphint and Camden Bucey discuss biblical counseling and ecclesiology. [1:26]

Chuck Haddox of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Jeremy Kicklighter of Covenant Seminary, and Jonathan Brack of Westminster Theological Seminary join the panel to speak about trends in seminary admissions. [18:00]

Michael McKinley, pastor at Guilford Baptist Church in Sterling, Virginia. Mike is the author of Church Planting is for Wimps. Mike spoke about church planting at TGC11. [38:45]

Finally, Josh Harris, senior pastor of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, MD stops by to speak about the NEXT Conference. [44:12]

Participants: Camden Bucey, Jared Oliphint, Jonathan Brack

Reformed Forum brings you Christ the Center from the floor of The Gospel Coalition 2011 National Conference in Chicago, IL. Jared, Jonathan, Camden, and several Reformed Forum listeners speak about a variety of topics including denominations and ecclesiology. Though not published first, this was Reformed Forum’s first recording from the event. Three subsequent episodes will be released in the near future.

View all the published episodes from the conference on the TGC2011 page.

Participants: Camden Bucey, Jared Oliphint

Reformed Media Review speaks about pastoral searches and transitions from The Gospel Coalition 2011 National Conference in Chicago, IL. The conference held a panel discussion to treat the topic of pastoral searches and transitions. Ligon Duncan, Mark Dever, and Rick Thompson joined in on the panel as Chris Brauns moderated the discussion.

In addition to interacting critically with this session, Jared Oliphint and Camden Bucey speak with Greg Thornbury from BibleMesh, an online interactive course on redemptive-history. This new initiative is an exciting way of introducing people to the fullness of God’s revelation.

Follow all of Reformed Forum’s coverage from the conference by visiting our TGC2011 page.

Participants: Camden Bucey, Jared Oliphint