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The death of my dad in March 2007 prompted the theme for this year's conference. After he died, and I began to think later that summer about who my biography would be about this year, it occured to me that I could do it on my dad.

I thought that I would tell the story of my father, and his ministry as an evangelist, and my relationship with him. And it hit me that maybe the whole conference should be built around fatherhood.

Then I remembered that Don Carson, a professor at Trinity, also lost his father recently. And I heard through the grapevine that he is writing a book about him (which should be ready for the conference) and I thought that he might come and be the keynote…

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One of the speakers at the Desiring God Conference for Pastors is Thabiti Anyabwile, the pastor of the First Baptist Church, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (90 miles south of Cuba). He has written a book entitled The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three African American Pastors. I wrote the foreword mainly because the book embodies so many of my values. According to the Crossway Books web site the book is due out March 12. Here is my Foreword in the hopes of enticing you to get the book.

In my preparations for Tuesday’s talk on Andrew Fuller, I came across this quote. It stirred up ten thoughts about heads being better than hearts and hearts being better than heads. Here is what Fuller said:

I perceived that men's characters were not always formed by their avowed principles; that we may hold a sound faith without its having such hold of us as to form our spirit and conduct; that we may profess an erroneous creed, and yet our spirit and conduct may be formed nearly irrespective of it; in short, that there is a difference between principles and opinions; the one are the actual moving causes which lie at the root of action, the other often float in the mind without being redu

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