Keynote address by Dr. Blair at connECtions
The 2016 Evangelicals Concerned Ocean Grove Preaching Festival Columbus Day Weekend October 7-9, 2016 “Five Centuries of Reformation Proclamation” “1516, 1616, 1716, 1816, 1916” John Foxe John Owen John Berridge Francis Asbury J. C. Ryle Eugenia Price Including Three Sermons by Dr. Ralph Blair “Our Sufficiency in The All-Sufficient One”, “Affirming The All-Merciful’s Affirmation of…
“Affirming The All-Merciful’s Affirmation of Us” “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version here) Along with Philippians 4:13, Tim Tebow’s favored eyeblack is John 3:16, the second most…
“Participating in His Providence” “ ‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’.” Jeremiah 29:11 (PDF version here) Each of the three top-tweeted Bible verses reveals that God initiates our relationship with Him and…
“THY Kingdom Come” by Dr. Ralph Blair Dr. Blair’s keynote address at connECtion 2016, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned at Kirkridge in the eastern Pennsylvania mountains. (PDF version here) Have you noticed how “un-Presidential” presidential campaigns can get? Instead of what we might assume befits a wannabe president, we get mere precedent and more…
by Dr. Ralph Blair This booklet is based on material presented by Dr. Blair at the two 1997 summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned held in Pennsylvania and California. Copyright 1997 Evangelicals Concerned, Inc. INTRODUCTION There’s way too much enthusiasm. And there’s also way too little. That’s because there’s enthusiasm and enthusiasm. So we’d better not…
Paul Who? by Dr. Ralph Blair This is an expanded version of Dr. Blair’s keynote address at connECtion87, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned. The section on homosexuality was also presented at the 199th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 1987. (PDF version available here) He was not the first Jew for Jesus….
Evangelism: Proclaiming God’s Good News—with every bad -ism crossed out by Dr. Ralph Blair This booklet is an expanded version of Dr. Blair’s keynote address at connECtion 1994, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned at Kirkridge in the eastern Pennsylvania mountains and at Chapman University in Orange, California. Introduction Have you ever seen the guy…
Jesus Who? by Dr. Ralph Blair This publication is an expanded version of Dr. Blair’s keynote address at connECtion86, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned, an organization he founded in 1976. Copyright 1986 (PDF available here.) “If you could spend an evening with any one person, living, deceased or fictional, whom would you choose and…
The following text, HOMOPHOBIA IN THE CHURCHES, was a keynote address delivered by Dr. Blair at the Strategy Conference on Homophobia in the Churches on May 5, 1979. Two other keynote addresses were given during the weekend conference by Joan Clark (a staff person in the Dallas office of the Women’s Division, Board of Global…
Evangelicals(?!) Concerned by Dr. Ralph Blair EVANGELICALS(?!) CONCERNED is an expanded version of Dr. Blair’s address delivered at both eastern and western connECtion82 summer conferences, July 1982, in Pennsylvania and California. (PDF version available here) Have you ever noticed that Grape-Nuts is neither? To evangelicals, Christian Science is neither. To most gay people, the Moral…