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January 5th-7th 2017

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See hbcshreveport.com For more information and registration forms

Registration costs covers two nights stay and five meals. The retreat starts Thursday at noon on Jan 5th and runs through

noon on Saturday Jan 7th.

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He holds a B.S. from Auburn University, an M.Div. from Reformed Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in New Testament from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the founding pastor and ministered for eleven years at Heritage Baptist Church in Mansfield, Texas, In 1993, he became the pastor First Baptist Church, Clinton, Louisiana. He has served on the board of Founders Ministries, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, ARBCA and the Institute of Re-formed Baptist Studies at Westminster Seminary in California. He has authored A String of Pearls Unstrung and The Baptism of Disciples Alone. He is also a contributing writer to Cove-nant Theology: A Baptist Distinctive.

Following his theological education, he labored as a church planting missionary for seven years in Utah, then pastored Trinity Reformed Baptist Church in La Mirada, California for twenty-two years, and now has been at Heritage Baptist Church, Shreveport, Louisiana since 2006. In the past, he served for eight years as Chairman of the Administrative Council of ARBCA and has recently become the current chairman. He edited and was a contributing writer to the book, Covenant Theology: A Baptist Distinctive and is the author of both Jesus Loves the Church and So Should You and John Chrysostom. His newest work is 50 World-Changing Events in Chris-tian History.

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