What Should We Do?

Speakers: Conference Videos Year: 2016 Session: Voices From The Past

Harkening from all four “voices from the past,” this video calls pastors to guard their life, churches, and doctrine and to repent of forgetting their theology. This video closed out the T4G 2016 conference and testifies to how Christianity has made a massive departure from Scripture and how our churches might be revived again.

The Great Reformers

Speakers: Conference Videos Year: 2016 Session: Voices From The Past

There are three things the Reformers wrote in their confessions of faith that separated them from the Roman Catholic church against which they were inveighing: 1) The absolute sovereignty of the Bible 2) That a man is justified by the free grace of Christ alone 3) That the believer was his own priest. May we give God praise for his works.

On the Greatest Need at the Present Time

Speakers: Conference Videos Year: 2016 Session: Voices From The Past

In this video, Martyn Lloyd-Jones suggests that the greatest need at the present time is to return to God’s Word. He calls the church to recapture the principle that fired the men at the time of the Reformation, and we may recapture it by declaring God’s word, not judging it. May God give the church grace to return to her basic authority—the living word of God.

10 Years Together

By God’s grace, T4G has been able to call pastors to stand together for the same gospel since 2006. This video shows a testimony to the different voices and friends that T4G has garnered over the years. May the Lord give us grace to clearly proclaim the truth for our good and his glory.

On Sola Scriptura & Solus Christus

Speakers: Conference Videos Year: 2016 Session: Voices From The Past

We have derived a rich heritage from the Reformation—things for which the Reformers were ready to die, and many of them did die. Why is Christ’s death sufficient for the sings of all who trust in him? Why is God’s word greater than any of man’s tradition? In this video, James Montgomery Boice answers these questions and others.

On Christ Alone

Speakers: Conference Videos Year: 2016 Session: Voices From The Past

The death of Christ was an accomplishment, and our works cannot add to Christ’s death. In this video, Elder D.J. Ward, the late pastor of Main Street Baptist Church in Lexington, K.Y., powerfully reminds us of the sufficiency of Christ’s death for all who turn to him in repentance and faith.

On the 450th Year Anniversary of The Reformation

Speakers: Conference Videos Year: 2016 Session: Voices From The Past

At a time like this, with the world as it is and with its multiplicity of problems pressing in us on all sides, why turn back and consider The Reformation? There are two main objections to looking back. First, a general objection to looking back—a feeling that the past has nothing to teach us. Second, some protestants object that the Reformation was a tragedy. Why should we be unashamed of the Reformation? Why have we come together to demonstrate?

The Bondage of the Will, the Sovereignty of Grace, and the Glory of God

Speakers: John Piper Year: 2016 Session: Main Session

At the heart of Martin Luther’s theology is the conviction that human beings are totally dependent on God’s omnipotent grace to rescue us from the bondage of the will by creating and decisively fulfilling every inclination to believe and obey. Are the debates about the freedom of the will and the bondage of the will peripheral to the church? Were they during the Reformation? Is our working added to God’s working or is our working God’s working? Just how fallen and sinful are human beings? Piper explores something of the depths of human depravity in this talk.


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John Piper serves as founder and lead teacher at Desiring God and is chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, Piper served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church. He has authored more than 50 books, and more than 30 years of his preaching and writing are available free of charge at desiringGod.org. Piper resides in the Minneapolis area with Noël, his wife of 53 years, and they have five children and 14 grandchildren.

Christ’s Call to Reformation (Revelation 1-3)

Speakers: John MacArthur Year: 2016 Session: Main Session

In this talk, focusing on Christ’s call to the churches in the first three chapters of Revelation, John MacArthur challenges church leaders and pastors to call their churches to repentance if need be. “We all like calling the nation to repentance,” MacArthur suggests, “but what about calling the church to repentance?” Have you ever heard of a church—a whole church—that repented? Have you ever been part of a church that openly, genuinely, and contritely repented for sins against its head—the Lord Jesus Christ?


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John MacArthur is the president of The Master’s College and Seminary and featured teacher with Grace to You. In 1969, after graduating from Talbot Theological Seminary, John took the pastorate at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. The emphasis of his pulpit ministry is the careful study and verse-by-verse exposition of the Bible, with special attention devoted to the historical and grammatical background behind each passage. Since completing his first best-selling book, The Gospel According to Jesus, in 1988, John has written hundreds of other books and study guides, including Our Sufficiency in Christ and The MacArthur New Testament Commentary series. John and his wife, Patricia, live in Southern California and have four married children. They also enjoy the enthusiastic company of their fifteen grandchildren.

Endurance Needed: Strength for a Slow Reformation and the Dangerous Allure of Speed

Speakers: Mark Dever Year: 2016 Session: Main Session

Mark Dever speaks to why endurance is such a necessary virtue for the Christian minister. In this talk, Dever aims to exhort pastors to not miss out on the joys of ministry, such as the joy of resting in the sufficiency of Scripture, the joy of hearing others preach better sermons than you, the joy of seeing others converted, and other joys. These joys are part of the fuel God intends his pastors to have to continue in their service. Why are denominational growth awards paltry substitutes for healthy churches? What are the joys of the spotlight vs. the joy of the elder’s chair?


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Mark Dever serves as the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC. A Duke graduate, Mark holds a M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a Th.M. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Ecclesiastical History from Cambridge University. He is the president of 9Marks and has taught at a number of seminaries. Mark has authored several books and articles, most recently, Compelling Community, Baptist Foundations, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, What is a Healthy Church?, and Nine Marks of a Healthy Church. He and his wife Connie live and minister on Capitol Hill. They have two adult children.

Can We Be Glorified Without Being Sanctified? Good Works, Good News, and Christian Assurance

Speakers: Kevin DeYoung Year: 2016 Session: Main Session

What is the relationship between good works, assurance of salvation, and the grace of Christ? Kevin DeYoung aims to show from God’s Word, exploring the history and theology of the church, how good works, good news, and Christian assurance are not opposed to each other and how these things do in fact go together. Despite the fact that we live in a day with the resurgence of gospel-centered thinking and teaching, DeYoung maintains that, “the essential Christian life is filled with weakness, yes, but capitulation, no.”


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Kevin DeYoung is the senior pastor at Christ Covenant Church (PCA) in Matthews, North Carolina and Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary (Charlotte). Prior to the summer of 2017, he pastored at University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan (2004-2017). Kevin holds a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and received his Ph.D. in early modern history at the University of Leicester. He is the author of several books, including The Biggest Story, The Hole in Our Holiness, Crazy Busy, and Just Do Something. Kevin and his wife, Trisha, have nine children.