Here is a summary of the messages from the SBFC-SW 2009, as well as a collection of photos from the conference and a video I took of the attendees singing “Be Thou My Vision”.
Sermon Poetry – “Lord Keep Me from Deficiency”
Preacher – Pastor Tom Ascol
Lord keep me from deficiency
Help me to preach theology
To tell of you, my Father Sweet
My kind and sovereign King
Lord keep me from deficiency
From apastoral mockery
In loving all your children sweet
And shepherding Your Flock
Lord keep me from deficiency
And help me in expositing
To preach Your Truth with clarity
A herald of Your Word
Lord keep me from deficiency
So sinners might your glory see
In Christ the Light our hearts are free
In Christ our souls are saved
Lord keep me from deficiency
With praying, reading, listening
To know Your Word, to know Your sheep
So I can preach the Word
Sermon Poetry – “We’re Preaching the Scriptures”
Preacher – Fred Malone
The preaching of God is stupidity to all the world and the people therein
A message proclaimed to a people in need, to a people all rotting in sin
It’s Grace of our God that He’s given to us all a message by which we are saved
We’re preaching our Savior, we’re preaching a Cross, we’re preaching the study of God
We’re preaching the whole of the Scriptures to sinners, the counsel of God as revealed
We’re teaching of Jesus, our Crucified Savior, the Son who the Father has sent
We’re preaching the Gospel, that Good Revelation, so sinners might glory in Christ
We’re preaching the Gospel, that Kind Revelation, so Christians might comfort in Christ
We’re sinners forgiven, our sins washed by Jesus, we’re living to glorify Him
We’re telling a message to worshipping sinners, that outside of Christ they are lost
But thanks to the Father, our Crucified Savior was sent to so that sinners might live
This news we are preaching, through all of the Scriptures, theology of God above