Audio Highlights from the Desiring God Conference

Here are some audio highlights, short clips from the different speakers, on various topics at the Desiring God Conference.

David Wells

• Christ’s Supremacy in the New Testament
• Christianity Is Becoming De-Westernized
• Fear in the West Is Not of Being Unsafe, but Unsuccessful
• Risk in the West Is Not of Danger, but Distraction
• Contextualization and Foreign Missions
• Contextualization and Preaching
• What Christianity Has to Offer

Voddie Baucham

• Four Questions Everybody Asks
• Question #1: Who Am I?
• Question #2: Why Am I Here?
• Question #3: What Is Wrong with the World?
• Question #4: How Can What’s Wrong Be Made Right?
• The Supremacy of Christ in Education
• Argue for the Bible from the Bible
• The Risk in Racial Diversity
• Racism in Christian Cultures

Tim Keller

• All Theology Has To Be an Exposition of the Gospel
• If You Think You Understand the Gospel, You Don’t
• The Gospel Must Be Urbanized to Reach the Culture
• Contextualization Makes the Gospel Plausible
• We Must Confront Unbelievers with Compassion
• Argue Against a False Worldview Using Its Presuppositions

Mark Driscoll

• The Bible Is True for Everybody
• Without the Virgin Birth There Is No Jesus
• Christ’s Death Saves Us from God
• Jesus Is the Only Way to God
• We Must Stress Both Christ’s Humanity and His Divinity
• Everybody Believes in Hell
• Contextualizing the Theology We Contend For
• John Calvin’s Contextualization
• Relativism vs. Relevantism

D.A. Carson

• Encouragement to Press On When You Feel Unsuccessful
• The Value of Preachers Listening to Other Preachers
• How to Contextualize a Church Service
• Christian Unity Shows the World What God Is Like
• We Must Know Truth to Be Holy

John Piper

• Encouragement for Pastors of Small Churches
• Missions and Seeker-Sensitive Contextualization
• The Personal Effect of Writing What Jesus Demands from the World
• Affection for Emergents
• The Supremacy of Christ and Joy in a Postmodern World: Short Version
• Why You Should Be Happy that You Are Less Valuable Than God

Thanks to Justin Taylor.