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Preach the Word

Pastors Conference

Expository Preaching - The Need of the Hour

September 11 - 12, 2008


Hughes Oliphant Old is the John H. Leith Professor of Reformed Theology and Worship at Erskine Theological Seminary and Dean of the Institute for Reformed Worship. He is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and completed a D. théol. at the University of Neuchâtel. His 18 years of pastoral ministry, combined with meticulous research, have informed his prolific publishing. Included among his many works are Worship: Reformed According to Scripture and seven volumes on The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. He and his wife, Mary, have 2 children.

David Jussely is Associate Professor and Chairman of Practical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. He teaches preaching and serves as Director of the D.Min. Program in Brazil and Director of Placement. He has over 25 years of pastoral experience and has filled pulpits in Centreville, Yazoo City, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi in Speech Communication with a dissertation entitled, The Puritan Use of the Lectio Continua in Sermon Invention (1640-1700). He and his wife, Andrea, have four children and two grandchildren.

Alistair Begg is Senior Pastor of Parkside Church near Clevelend, Ohio. He has been in pastoral ministry for 32 years. Following graduation from The London School of Theology he served eight years in Scotland at both Charlotte Chapel in Edinburgh and Hamilton Baptist Church. He has written several books and is heard daily and weekly on the radio program, Truth For Life. The teaching on Truth For Life stems from the week by week Bible teaching at Parkside Church. He and his wife, Susan, have three grown children.

Sinclair B. Ferguson is Senior Minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, South Carolina, and Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary. A graduate of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, he is the author of some two dozen books, has authored numerous articles and has contributed to various symposia. His writing interests have ranged from works of scholarship to books for children. He has served as minister of two congregations in Scotland, one on Unst, the most northerly inhabited island in the United Kingdom, and the other at the centre of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland. He and his wife, Dorothy, have four children and four grandchildren.

Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III is Senior Minister of First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississppi. He is a native of Greenville, South Carolina, born and reared in the home of an eighth generation Southern Presbyterian Ruling Elder. A 1983 graduate of Furman University, he received an M.Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary and studied Systematic Theology at the Free Church of Scotland College under Professor Donald Macleod. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1995. He and his wife, Anne, have two children.

Mark E. Ross is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Erskine Theological Seminary and Director of the Institute for Reformed Worship. Prior to joining the Erskine faculty in 2004 he served for twenty years as Associate Pastor for Teaching at the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh (B.A.), the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Keele University in England (Ph.D.). He and his wife, Connie, have two children and five grandchildren.