Pastor, even if you don’t have anyone with a disability in your church yet, I encourage you to attend this conference on November 8: The Works of God: God’s Good Design in Disability. 

In case you are wondering about its value, here are six reasons:

1. The teaching will be remarkable. If you want to help your people see that suffering and God’s sovereign goodness go together, this will help prepare you. Four people who treasure Jesus and know their Bibles — and who have all suffered — will lead us into God’s word on this subject of disability, suffering, and the goodness of God. 
2. You can’t avoid disability. Someday your church will face it: the unborn child with Down syndrome, the tee…

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We invite you to join us for our first conference on human disability, November 8 in Minneapolis. Whether you are a pastor seeking ways to better care for the disabled, you live with disabilities yourself, or you serve as a caregiver to a disabled family member, this conference will help you better understand God’s sovereignty in human disability.

The conference — The Works of God: God's Good Design in Disability — will feature four speakers: Nancy Guthrie, Greg Lucas, Mark Talbot, and John Piper. Additionally, John Knight will emcee the conference and Kempton Turner will moderate a speaker panel.

"This is a very weighty, a very painful, and a very necessary topic," says Pastor John in t…

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The video and audio recordings, along with Pastor John’s 94-page slide presentation, are now online from the recent seminar on Future Grace. Here are the links:

• Session 1
• Session 2
• Slides (PDF download)
  

Registration for this event filled up quickly and we are grateful for each of you who attended. We are especially honored by those of you who traveled some distance to join us. We hope to see you again for our next scheduled seminar when Pastor John teaches The Pleasures of God (August 24–25, 2012). Keep an eye on the DG blog for future announcements.

In this one-minute video, John Piper introduces the theme of the 2012 National Conference:

Act the Miracle: God's Work and Ours in the Mystery of Sanctification

Save the date: September 28–30 in Minneapolis (more information about the conference is forthcoming).

On March 16-17 at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Pastor John will be giving a free, two-day seminar on the theme of Future Grace —

Details

Bethlehem Baptist Church
720 13th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55415

Day 1
Friday, March 16
7:00 - 9:00pm (two sessions, + Q&A)

Day 2
Saturday, March 17
9:00am - 12:00pm (three sessions)

Register

Update 3/9/12: Unfortunately, this seminar is now sold out — but the entire seminar will be live-streamed for free at http://www.desiringGod.org/Live.

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If you aren't able to make it Minneapolis this year for the conference, that doesn't mean you have to miss it. The entire conference will be live-streamed, for free. And this year in addition to English it will also be live-streamed in Spanish, Chinese and Russian.

Update 1/30: Regretfully, the Chinese live-stream is not available.

Live-Stream Schedule (EST)

Monday

8:30 - 9:30 PM
Doug Wilson
- "Father Hunger" in Leading the Home

Tuesday

10:00 - 11:00 AM
Crawford Loritts
- Lessons on Biblical Manhood Learned from His Father

11:30 - 12:30 PM
Darrin Patrick
- Being and Building Men for the Local Mission

2:45 - 4:00 PM
John Piper
- Biographical sketch of J.C. Ry…

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On January 30 we will welcome 1,700 brothers to Minneapolis for our 2012 Conference for Pastors. We're eager to see you and worship with you. We'll eat together. We'll pray for each other. We'll reconnect with friends.

And if you've thought about joining us, there's still time to register. If you bring a group of five or more from your church the cost is just $100 per person.

Conference speakers and topics :

• Doug Wilson, leading the home and leading the church
• Darrin Patrick, being and building men for the local mission
• Crawford Loritts, lessons learned from his father
• Ramez Attalah, pastoring with courage in hard places
• John Piper, biographical sketch of J.C. Ryle

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Darrin Patrick invites you to make an investment in your ministry by joining us in Minneapolis from January 30 to February 1 for our 2012 Conference for Pastors:

Darrin's topic at the conference is on how to be and build men for the mission of the local church. Register before December 30 for the early-bird rate of just $130. We also have a group discount of $100 (per person) when you bring five or more guys from your church.

Our 2012 Conference for Pastors (Jan 30 to Feb 1) is quickly approaching.

Senior pastors, given the theme of this year's conference, consider using this as an opportunity to build into the lay leaders and elders of your church. We have a group discount of $100 (per person) when you bring five or more guys from your church.

Conference speakers and topics (full schedule):

• Doug Wilson, leading the home and leading the church
• Darrin Patrick, being and building men for the local mission
• Crawford Loritts, lessons learned from his father
• Ramez Attalah, pastoring with courage in hard places
• John Piper, biographical sketch of J.C. Ryle

Register Now!

The theme of our 2012 Conference for Pastors is "God, Manhood and Ministry: Building Men for the Body of Christ" — being held in Minneapolis from January 30 to February 1. We encourage senior pastors in particular to take advantage of our group rate of just $100 (per person) as a great opportunity to build into your elders and lay leaders.

Register Now!