A PREACHING CONFERNCE WORTH ATTENDING!

JESUS IS LORD... PERIOD!

It's Wednesday afternoon, I've just returned (early I might add); from the 14th Annual E. K. Bailey Conference on Expository Preaching. This annual event, held at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Dallas and hosted this year by Rev. Bryan L. Carter and the Concord Missionary Baptist Church was great.

Like many of my preaching buddies, I've attended a variety of preaching conferences over the years, but let the record reflect this conference rings with a note of excellence.

From the venue, to the booths and most importantly the preachers and teachers... it was all just great.

If you're looking for one conference you can attend that will have a variety of solid, strong and stable gospel preachers, let me recommend this conference to you.

Speakers and teachers this year included: Dr. Joel C. Gregory, Rev. H. B. Charles, Dr. A. Louis Patterson Jr., Rev. Bryan L. Carter, Dr. James Massey, Rev. Tellis Chatman, Rev. Maurice Watson, Dr. Arturo Azurdia and Dr. Ralph D. West to name a few.

In addition to good preaching and provocative teaching, the E. K. Bailey Conference on Expository Preaching also offers a "track system"; whereby the attendee can have the classes they take tracked over a course of years and then receive a certificate once they've completed a particular number of classes.

All that said, the best part of the conference may not be the preaching and teaching. Equally important and precious is the time in fellowship, and the creation of new friendships that seem to take place at this conference.

If you're interested in CD's or DVD's from the conference you can obtain them via E. K. Bailey Ministries. Check them out online.

Finally, if you're a wonderful sister in CHRIST, the S.T.A.N.D. Conference, hosted by Dr. Sheila Bailey (the widow of Dr. E. K. Bailey); takes place simultaneously with the preaching conference. So ladies, you can go too.

Here's my online shout out to the leadership team at E. K. Bailey Ministries. Thank you for hosting a great conference, at a quality hotel, with good preachers and teachers.

Safe in CHRIST,
Sherman J. Fort