2024 Papers
Monday, July 29
- 3:00–5:00 pm – Registration
- 5:00 pm – Dinner
- 6:00 pm – Greetings from Mark Ward and MBU Representative
- 6:15 pm – Cory Marsh – “Urgency in the Mundane: Present Living in Light of the Parousia Texts in 1 and 2 Thessalonians”
- 7:05 pm – Phil Brown – “Integrity, Sin, and Saints: What does it mean to be a person of integrity who is both holy and confesses sin?”
Tuesday, July 30
- 7:30 am – Breakfast
- 8:15 am – Devotional: MBU President David Anderson
- 8:30 am – Mark Ward – “The Relationship of Sinaiticus to the Critical Text of John”
- 9:15 am – Andrew Goodwill – “The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Prophets: the implications of Deuteronomy 18:15–22 and the Transfiguration accounts to a positive interpretation of 1 Kings 19”
- 10:00 am – Break
- 10:15 am – Brian Collins – “Premillennial New-Creation Millennialism: A Response to Thomas Schreiner”
- 11:00 am – Neal Cushman – “Isaiah’s 2-Stage Restoration of Israel”
- 11:45 am – Group Photo
- 12:00 pm – Lunch
- 1:00 pm – Joseph Jo – “Romans 9:30–10:4: An Extended Proclamation of Paul’s Soteriological Justification”
- 1:45 pm – Leroy Hill – “Science Over Scripture? The Implications of William Lane Craig’s Approach to Adam’s Historical and Theological Identity”
- 2:30 pm – Break
- 2:45 pm – Mark Snoeberger – “The New Creation Model and the Believer’s Eternal Expectation”
- 3:30 pm – Glenn Kerr – “The Clean Animal Count in Genesis 7:2: A Cultural, not Primarily Exegetical, Question”
- 4:15 pm – Break
- 5:00 pm – Dinner
- 6:15 pm – Joel Arnold – “1 Timothy 2:9–15: A Hermeneutical Case Study in Reshaping Texts through Cultural Background”
- 7:00 pm – Troy Manning – “Overly Contextualized Bible Translations: The Products of Faulty Understandings of Linguistics, Translation Methodology, Exegesis, and Theology”
Wednesday, July 31
- 7:30 am – Breakfast
- 8:30 am – Devotional and BFS Comments: Mark Ward
- 8:45 am – Matt Shrader – “‘A Ministry of Enlarged Culture’: The First American Baptist Seminaries, 1811–1850”
- 9:30 am – Bruce Meyer – “Shattered By Betrayal: Using Psalm 35 as a Paradigm for Counseling a Survivor of Abuse”
- 10:15 am – Break
- 10:30 am – David Potter – “Mihaly Kornya: Peasant Prophet, Transylvanian Baptist Hero”
- 11:15 am – Lunch bags and dismissal