An enormously heartfelt thank-you to everyone who helped put on our Fall Conference in Houston, TX: our friends at St. Thomas Episcopal Church for hosting, The Magills for playing such fantastic music (click here to check out their stuff on iTunes), Mark and David Babikow for being such lifesavers on the audio/visual front, Jim and Tricia Zucker for making the Slaid Cleaves connection, and many more. We are beyond grateful.
We’re once again making the recordings available at no charge; we only ask that those who were not able to attend this year *consider* making a donation to help cover the cost of the event. Download links are followed by an in-line player for each session. Everything was videotaped, and we’ll be rolling the clips out gradually over the next few weeks (some of the presentations won’t make much sense without the accompanying footage). At the bottom we have provided a link at the very bottom to download everything in one big file.
Friday October 17th
The Good News of a High Risk God – Aaron Zimmerman
Morning Breakouts
Grace in Parenting: I Have No Advice – Sarah Condon
Matthew, Mark, Luke and Judas: A Biblical Take on FOMO – Ethan Richardson
Sports: The Greatest Reality TV Show of All – Howie Espenshied
Risky Business: Jesus Meets a Control Freak – RJ Heijmen
Afternoon Breakouts
Living By Grace (and According to Frankenstein) – Matthew Fenlon
How I Learned to Love Grave Digging in Marriage – Matt and Megan Magill
The Lame Shall Enter First: Grace and Weakness in Flannery O’Connor – Will McDavid
The Risk of Grace, part 1 – Tullian Tchividjian
Saturday October 18th
The Risk of Grace, part 2 – Tullian Tchividjian
I Feel Like I Win When I Lose – David Zahl *The suicide stat is not 40 million, thank God – 40,000 is the correct number.
Download it all in one extra-large zip file (330mb)
P.S. Next event: Spring Conference in New York, April 16-18. Save the date!
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9 responses to “2014 Fall Conference Recordings: The Risk of Grace”
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Thank you so much for making these available for those of us who couldn’t make it!
Gold mine! I’m half-way through Aaron’s talk and am loving it!
such a great conference. thanks for sharing online
Sarah, thank you for reminding me that I’m normal! Our older daughter is named Sarah and our firstborn (age four like your son) is named Josh. And the youngest child is… Grace (intentional). This message was comforting and very timely – I just listened to it today and yesterday was one of if not THE worst day of parenting ever! I will insist that my wife set aside 40 minutes and hear this with me!
Another reflection on the parenting session: it seems to me that a majority of the parenting and marriage material the Christian realm produces sees our sin as the main problem, hindrance, obstacle to “getting it right”. But that can’t be since our sin is as Robert Capon mentions in one of his writings “a permanent irrelevancy” before God. We have a savior who ever lives to intercede for us and to declare our righteousness (which is really His righteousness) before the Father. So, our sin can’t be the main problem. Our perceived righteousness – i.e. self righteousness is the problem. Sarah indicated she has no advice… and as I heard that, what came to mind is that we desperately need deliverance FROM advice – or rather that “thing” in us that desperately craves to hear/receive advice. A.K.A. “life under the law”. Advice actually adds fuel to the fire and makes matters worse (and besides, we’re not really all that interested in keeping good advice even if we hear it – we just really want to know how we can get our way in parenting, in marriage). The law is the problem, not my sin. And the gospel comes to rescue me from MY good through the imputation of Jesus’ good for me! I truly believe the greatest hindrance to being a good parent is… being a good parent! The greatest hindrance to being a good husband is… being a good husband. Thank God the gospel sets us free from looking at ourselves and instead liberates us to ever look at God’s Son. It is so refreshing to read blogs and hear sermons from Mbird. This is truly the Christianity I never heard growing up in church. Can’t wait to listen to the rest of the sessions!