
The schedule for the 2021 Bible Faculty Summit appears below. Presenters must send their papers to [email protected] at some point prior to their presentations. Papers will be posted to a password-protected page. Please click the button below to register for the 2021 Summit below so that our kind hosts at Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary can plan appropriately.

Tuesday, July 27
- 3 – 5 pm – Registration
- 5:00 pm – Dinner
- 6:00 pm – Greetings from Mark Ward and Ken Rathbun
- 6:15 pm – Scott Aniol • “Biblical Ordinances and Visible Signs: How Baptists Weakened Biblical Authority by Limiting Ordinances to Two”
- 7:05 pm – Ryan Martin • “Faculty Psychology”
Wednesday, July 28
- 7:30 am – Breakfast
- 8:15 am – Devotional by Keith Kobelia
- 8:45 am – Brian Collins • “Four Common Approaches to the Olivet Discourse”
- 9:30 am – Paul Himes • “Lectio difficilior potior and an Aramaic Pun: Beor vs. Bosor in 2 Peter 2:15 as a Test Case for How a Classic Rule Might Work”
- 10:15 am – Break
- 10:45 am – Andrew Goodwill • “Blessing and Curse: the Significance of Contrapuntal Structure to the Message and Exposition of 2 Kings 3:1–8:6”
- 11:30 am – Group Photo
- 12:00 pm – Lunch
- 1:00 pm – Tim Miller • “The Sensus Divinitatis in Calvin, Plantinga, and Romans 1”
- 2:00 pm – Break
- 2:15 pm – Jared Garcia • “Is David Overreacting? An Analysis of Ancient Near East Hospitality Code in 1 Samuel 25”
- 3:15 pm – Ryan Meyer • “‘This Generation’ in Matthew 24:34”
- 4:15 pm – Break
- 4:45 pm – Dinner
- 6:15 pm – Matt Shrader • “Theism, Atonement, and the State of Northern Baptist Theology in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Curious Interactions of Augustus Hopkins Strong and Alvah Hovey”
- 7:00 pm – Joel Arnold • “Is Historical-Cultural Background Critical for Interpretation?”
Thursday, July 29
- 7:30 am – Breakfast
- 8:30 am – Devotional and BFS Comments: Mark Ward
- 8:45 am – Keith Kobelia • “Romans 7 and the Self-Reliant Believer” (Chapter in Festschrift for Myron Houghton)
- 9:30 am – Jon Pratt • “Protestant Antinomianism”
- 10:15 am — Break
- 10:30 am – Tim Little • “Lady Wisdom”
- 11:15 am – Break and Lunch