Austin Graduate School of Theology is pleased to announce the speakers and topics for our 34th annual Sermon Seminar to be held May 18-20, 2015.
Lynn Anderson, Ministry: Starting Strong, Staying Faithful, Finishing Well
Lynn
Anderson spent four decades in full-time ministry in churches from
Canada to Texas. He is the founder of Hope Network Ministries whose
purpose is to coach, mentor and equip Christian leaders.
Lynn has been well trained in the formal sense with a doctorate in ministry, but he is also trained in the informal sense,
through the school of hard knocks. Communicating the heart is his
strength. Lynn has preached in evangelism campaigns, workshops and
lectureships in several hundred congregations—rural, small town,
metropolitan—domestic and foreign—large and small.
For twenty-five years Lynn served as an adjunct
professor at Abilene Christian University, teaching missions, ministry,
and leadership courses. Through those years he was called on
increasingly by scores of ministers and numerous churches to provide
encouragement, resources, and counsel in the midst of the challenges of
church leadership.
Lynn has published numerous articles and several books including: They Smell Like Sheep (Vols 1 and 2); Longing for a Homeland; The Jesus Touch; If I Really Believe, Why Do I Have These Doubts?.
Lynn and his wife, Carolyn, live in San Antonio, Texas.
Lynn has published numerous articles and several books including: They Smell Like Sheep (Vols 1 and 2); Longing for a Homeland; The Jesus Touch; If I Really Believe, Why Do I Have These Doubts?.
Lynn and his wife, Carolyn, live in San Antonio, Texas.
Bruce Corley, Preaching Through Romans
Bruce Corley
is a graduate of Northeastern State University (Tahlequah, Oklahoma) where he earned a
BS Ed degree. He earned his MDiv and Doctrate in Theology in Fort Worth, Texas. He also studied at
Spurgeon's College in London and at the University of Cambridge, also in England.
Prior to his
appointment to B. H. Carroll Theological Institute and election as the Institute's first President
(2003-2013), Bruce was a professor of New Testament and Greek (1976-95,
1996-2003) and Dean of the School of Theology (1990-95) at Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary. He also served as Professor of Christian
Scriptures of the George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University,
Waco, Texas (1995-96).
Prior to his
teaching career at Southwestern Seminary, Bruce served churches in
Jonesboro and Breckenridge, Texas. He maintains an active schedule of Bible
conferences, interim pastorates. His
professional experience includes memberships in the Society of Biblical
Literature, the Institute for Biblical Research, and the National Association
of Baptist Professors of Religion where he has held elected offices and worked
on the editorial boards of two journals.
Bruce has lectured in Europe and the United States, delivering the annual lectures at four universities and two seminaries. He has presented nine academic papers in the scholars' guild as well as three series of studies for field missionaries. Among the 25 books and essays he has written, there are commentaries on Romans and 2 Corinthians. He is presently completing a commentary on Hebrews and a research book on Paul.
Bruce has lectured in Europe and the United States, delivering the annual lectures at four universities and two seminaries. He has presented nine academic papers in the scholars' guild as well as three series of studies for field missionaries. Among the 25 books and essays he has written, there are commentaries on Romans and 2 Corinthians. He is presently completing a commentary on Hebrews and a research book on Paul.
From a previous marriage to Lois Krause (deceased, 1978), Bruce has three children: Dana Ruth, Kerri Ann, and Christopher Scott. He and his wife Linda have a daughter: Elizabeth Rae.
Jeff Peterson, Preaching Mark's Gospel
Jeff
Peterson is the Jack C. and Ruth Wright Professor of New Testament at
Austin Graduate School of Theology where he has taught since 1993. He was born in
Houston and grew up nearby in Galena Park. Peterson holds the BA and MA
degrees from Abilene Christian University, the MDiv from
Princeton Theological Seminary, and the PhD in New Testament studies from Yale University.
Peterson has three children — Benjamin, Laura, and Brian — and is a member of the
University Avenue Church of Christ in Austin.
Charles Rix, The Ten Commandments
Jim Roberts, Preaching from Isaiah 1-39
He is a member of the Church of Christ where he has served churches both
as a minister and as an elder.
In addition to his work at Austin Grad, Peterson has taught
courses in New Testament and biblical Greek at the University of Texas at
Austin, the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Abilene Christian University
and the Institute of Theology and Christian Ministry in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Jeff is an active member of the Society of Biblical Literature,
and his scholarly publications concern the early development of Christian
theology, especially in the Pauline letters and the Gospels. He coauthored the
popular book Things That Matter: A Guide to Christian Faith, and has
spoken at the Pepperdine University Bible Lectures, the ACU Bible Lectureship,
the School’s own Sermon Seminar, Central Texas Bible Teachers' Workshop, and numerous churches.
Charles Rix, The Ten Commandments
Charles Rix came to Oklahoma Christian
from New Jersey where he taught at New Brunswick Theological Seminary and
served as the pulpit minister of the Monmouth Church of Christ in Tinton Falls,
New Jersey.
Charles is also a concert pianist and has given master classes and benefit recitals around the globe. As an artist, student, and teacher of Old Testament, Charles researches ways in which the scripture speaks to the issue of human suffering. He is published in a series of essays exploring connections between the Bible, the Shoah, and the artwork of post-Holocaust painter Samuel Bak.
Prior to entering ministry Charles worked in various financial positions with ExxonMobil Corporation both domestically and overseas. He holds graduate degrees in business, theology, and philosophy and completed his PhD in Hebrew Bible from Drew University.
Charles and his late wife Jenny (Alley) Rix have two children, Nathan Rix and Abby Rix Degge both of whom hold graduate degrees and work in the disciplines of public and social policy and practice.
Charles is also a concert pianist and has given master classes and benefit recitals around the globe. As an artist, student, and teacher of Old Testament, Charles researches ways in which the scripture speaks to the issue of human suffering. He is published in a series of essays exploring connections between the Bible, the Shoah, and the artwork of post-Holocaust painter Samuel Bak.
Prior to entering ministry Charles worked in various financial positions with ExxonMobil Corporation both domestically and overseas. He holds graduate degrees in business, theology, and philosophy and completed his PhD in Hebrew Bible from Drew University.
Charles and his late wife Jenny (Alley) Rix have two children, Nathan Rix and Abby Rix Degge both of whom hold graduate degrees and work in the disciplines of public and social policy and practice.
Jim Roberts, Preaching from Isaiah 1-39
Jim
Roberts is the William Henry Green Professor of Old Testament Literature
(Emeritus) at Princeton Theological Seminary, and has been for 25 years. Prior to
that he taught at the University of Toronto, Johns Hopkins University, and
Dartmouth College. He is a graduate of Abilene Christian University, Harvard
Divinity School, and Harvard University.
Jim
is an internationally known scholar who has lectured abroad at universities in
Israel, France, Austria, England, and Sweden, and in numerous universities in
the United States. Since his retirement, Jim served as a visiting professor at
Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth universities.
He
has published and co-edited five books, and published more than 100 articles and reviews on a wide variety of topics in the area of Old Testament
and Ancient Near Eastern backgrounds to the Old Testament, including a number
of articles in the New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible.
Jim served
on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biblical Literature, The
Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Bulletin of the American Schools of
Oriental Research, Horizons in Biblical Literature, Journal
of Northwest Semitic Languages, and Restoration Quarterly. He also
served two terms as editor of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Old
Testament dissertation series, and was a long-time member of the translation
committee that produced the New Revised Standard Version.