It has been confirmed and you may now officially mark your calenders. If the Lord wills, Friday & Saturday, June 2 & 3, 2006 will be the weekend of our 222 Summer Retreat (we're doing a summer retreat rather than fall, with the hopes of possibly doing a winter retreat as well).The guest speaker for the retreat is also confirmed, and is none other than Phil Johnson, aka "Pyromaniac" in the blogosphere. If you don't know anything about Phil...prepare yourself! Below are several links to his widely popular blog, his personal website, and his Spurgeon Archive - probably the most extensive Spurgeon resource on the web. Here's an excerpt from his own bio, with other links below.
Phil is the executive Director of Grace to You, a Christian tape and radio ministry featuring the preaching ministry of John MacArthur. Phil has been closely associated with John MacArthur since 1981 and edits most of MacArthur's major books. Phil is an elder at Grace Community Church in Panorama City, CA, as well as a trustee of The Martyn Lloyd-Jones Recordings Trust in England.Phil studied at Southeastern Oklahoma State University for one year, then transferred to Moody Bible Institute, where he earned a bachelor's degree in theology (class of 1975) . He also spent one year at a fundamentalist Baptist school in Tennessee, and took some courses in publishing and editing at the University of Chicago. He was an assistant pastor in St. Petersburg, Florida and an editor for Moody Press before moving to Southern California to take his current position in 1983.Theologically, Phil is a committed Calvinist—with a decidedly Baptistic bent. (That explains his love for Charles Spurgeon). Phil is also an inveterate reader and bibliophile. He once ran a marathon—but that was 1977. You wouldn't think it to look at him now.
Check out his other links:
Pyromaniac
The Spurgeon Archive
Full Bio Sketch
His Home Page
Oh, and you've got to check this one out!!
Phil's Helpful bookmarks & weblinks (the good, bad & ugly)
I know you're going to love getting to know Phil - just reading his online material will get you really acquainted with him. And he's a great proclaimer of God's Truth. So, mark your calenders now, for June 2nd and 3rd, 2006 for the 222 Summer Retreat.
*Location, Topics & other details TBA
2 comments:
have fun. ill be at a wedding. you know last summer the retreat conflicted with a wedding too... i wonder what the significance is?
Phil Johnson just announced that he is closing Pyromaniac for reasons he describes here. No despondency though, he and a group of other select bloggers have started Pyromaniacs.
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