R.C. Sproul announces the 2009 Ligonier Ministries’ National Conference, whose theme is “The Holiness of God”:
When I was preparing to lecture on the holiness of God years ago, I came across this quote from John Calvin’s commentary on Isaiah 6:3: “The angels never cease from their melody in singing the praises of God, as the holiness of God supplies us with inexhaustible reasons for them.” I was reminded that the Protestant Reformers’ understanding of the Creator’s transcendent purity was crucial to their recovery of the biblical doctrines that had been all but lost in their day. Knowing the Lord’s perfect holiness drove them to Scripture, where they found that the righteousness of Christ is the only way anyone can be reconciled to God. In turn, God’s holy love, wrath, knowledge, power, and character gave them inexhaustible reasons to praise Him, as Calvin said. God’s holiness informed the Reformers’ teaching on His unsurpassable worth and motivated them to do all things soli Deo gloria — to the glory of God alone.
Speakers include Thabiti Anyabwile, Alistair Begg, Donald A. Carson, J. Ligon Duncan III, Sinclair Ferguson, W. Robert Godfrey, Steven J. Lawson, R. Albert Mohler Jr., R.C. Sproul, R.C. Sproul Jr., and Derek Thomas.
The Conference runs March 19-21, 2009 in Orlando, FL, and will include a mini-conference observation of the life and legacy of John Calvin, whose 500th birthday occurs in 2009.